What Happened to That Radio Show?

Our Radio Program

Today's November 18, 2013. Hardly momentous by most standards, of course, but I'm writing that to place this post within a time frame.

Last Wednesday, we were supposed to go live on our radio program aired on GoingBeyondRadio.com. Instead, when we tried to go on, what happened was nothing. It was really too bad, because our guest, Larry Hancock (who you've heard before if you've been a long-time listener) was all ready.

Larry is an author who's written about the JFK and MLK assassinations along with the secret wars of the CIA and he's a great guest. We and the audience always have a great time. He's very bright and the fact that he's also a really nice human comes through during our conversations.

In any event, when I tried to go the website of Going Beyond Radio, we found that the website couldn't be loaded (and I probably should've been). After a few days of this, and my e-mail not generating a response from our inimitable leader and producer, Chuck Manning, I'd assumed that my recent order of business cards had killed the station, just as sure as a car wash generates a rainstorm.

It appears that the truth is somewhat less melodramatic. I spoke to the station's other principal today, who said that Chuck had to be away and that the server went down, and no one else was around to bring it back up.

Therefore, we should be back up, shortly on Chuck's return.

That said, I was planning on not doing a show this coming Wednesday since it's my once a month Wednesday off, to attend a club meeting and I was also going to be dark (not just from the AZ sun) the following week because it's the night before Thanksgiving.

So, if all goes according to plan, we'll return to air on the first Wednesday in December and Larry Hancock is scheduled to join us then.

The above text has also appeared on our other blog: BushmanBooks.blogspot.com

Other Radio

I think I've used these pages previously,  to recommend Stitcher.com and TuneIn.com

If not, I do it now. When our show's back up, you can get our show on Stitcher as a podcast. You can do that at their site, or you can download a free app for your I-Phone or Android smart phone. You can also get many more radio programs through the Stitcher app, so no matter what you're interested in, e.g., politics, news, jazz or other music, education, etc., Stitcher's the way to go. The app and all the programs are the perfect price: free.

TuneIn also has a free app, and I like it for a lot of reasons. If a storm happens in Illinois, or a marathon is going on in New York City, you can use TuneIn to go to a station local to that area and hear local news reports. That you can do that on your phone, still amazes me. I recently listened to news on WCBS in NYC on marathon day, prior to the race and it was a lot better coverage than I could've gotten anywhere else. Similarly, a couple of years ago, when the storm hit Japan and was threatening a tsunami in Hawaii, I listened to the NPR station in Honolulu.

Same deal. As said, the app is free as is all the programming. If you don't have a smart phone (and that now makes you a minority), you can go to TuneIn's website, TuneIn.com

Two shows I'd recommend on Stitcher both involve politics, one left-ish and one right-ish. Rachel Maddow is very well informed, educational and entertaining. Morning Joe, hosted by a former Florida Congressman is more conservative, and equally entertaining (though a bit less educational because of its format).

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We'll part company for now, but thanks for visiting, and once the site's back up, we'll see you on the radio.