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The Sunday show was about 2 hours in length. I have posted in the GS Radio forum, the first half hour. It is a very loose discussion with much laughter showing how talk shoe works. Enjoy.

In the loosest sense, this is a tutorial on how to use TalkShoe. Mostly fun with everyone learning the controls on May 6, 2007 talkshoetutorial

I don't want to even begin to think about how we are going to tip the light bulb changers!!!

The show is scheduled for this Sunday from 4:30pm est/edt to 6:30pm. You should be able to log in early if you so desire. If any of you, that are musically inclined, want to venture putting together a theme, feel free. I'd love to do a humorous story each week, so anyone so inclined let me know. Keep the ideas coming. If there is enough interest, we will do this weekly.

This is a normal phone call so if you have free calls anytime then yours will be free. I think that Recovery will be an ongoing topic with many subtopics and a great place to use as a jump spot

I enjoyed this immensely. I'd be interested in how many people were listening without logging in.

Suda, Try it now. I had to go in first so now it should work I will be in the GS chatroom if you aare having problems

All phones are muted by default and I unmute on the site. Today we are going to wing it. Make sure you download the talkshoe app. It is a safe site Suda. The talkshoe app has a built in chat room so you can type things as we go along. If you go to the list of upcoming shows, it is listed there

Alright. here is the quick and dirty for the show today. I would suggest that you register prior to the show. go to www.talkshoe.com The show is listed under Religion and Spirituality. Show #30770. To listen to the show, you have to register and be logged in. The show will start around 5pm est. I should be in the room around 4:30pm If you want to participate in the show, you must call talkshoe. When you connect with the show, you will be prompted with what to do. Basically you call the talkshoe number (724-444-7444) You will be prompted to enter the show number (30770) and then you will either be connected or prompted for your PIN number and then you can participate. I will be checking this thread if you have any questions.

The thread is a link to a video of a guy telling his story. PART of his story involves belonging to TWI. I am glad that Mark put the link up. I am also happy that he didn't just put the screenname up. If I was involved in something elsewhere on the web, I may not want it tied to my name. I was the one that brought up the fact that he was a poster here. Nota, you should be addressing any of your complaints to me. The video is the story of an individual's journey and his taking control of the path that was taken. Shouldn't the discussion be about that, rather than blaming the messenger for something rather meaningless next to the journey this video talks about?

I went to the midnight show on Thursday to see it. It is very good. The special effects were incredible. The views from the tops of skyscrapers was dizziing. This one resolved a number of things from the first two movies. It was really about relationships and the hardships that go with them. I would highly recommend the movie.

I've got an email into him now.

To hear it live and/or ask questions you have to register. The broadcast will be made available after the fact for listening as a "guest"

I'd like to try this out this weekend. It's a bit geeky in the setup. I will be using a site called www.talkshoe.com You have to register and download some software. Anyone interested should do the registration and download prior to the test. I was thinking about 5pm eastern Sunday (5/6/07)

He is a poster on GS

$145.00 !!!!!!!!! Do they tune up your car too? Are you voting for Edwards? That's close to my budget for a few years worth of cuts

I understand that. My problem is contrasting "good people" with people in South Central LA. South Central LA as well as other areas that have serious problems with crime and drugs STILL have a majority of "good people"

Didn't we do an interview while you were watching NASCAR?

Dot, I have to say that statement disturbs me. When I lived and worked in L.A. I knew quite a number of people that lived in South Central LA. They are good people. People that I trusted. And contrary to the beliefs held by closed minded people, the neighborhoods are immaculately kept. Don't believe the news that chooses to depict the worst of an area for sensationalizing.

I am toying with the idea with the idea of doing some GS Radio live episodes. This way people could ask questions of my guest. I'd like some feedback on WHEN would be the best time for you to listen to it live. There will also be a way to listen to it after the fact whenever you want.

Well Peter Wade is a poster on GS. You can look him up and go to his profile and pick posts and at least find threads that he is active on.

13 times the baker's dozen

There was a radio show in LA called, Mark and Brian. It was on the FM ABC station. Every year on either of their birthdays, they would throw these outrageous Birthday surprises. Both were Huge TAGS fans. One year, they took the company's back parking lot and recreated the main street of Mayberry. And recreated some scenes from the show. The topper was that either Andy Griffith or Don Knotts showed up for the event.

This place never ceases to amaze, amuse, delight and tick me off. I remember when it was coming up on the first anniversary of GS. I had been working feverishly on putting a site up. The only thing that existed was the forum and a few html pages of something called the GreaseSpot After Midnight Gazette. Groucho had written the first article about his marriage. It was a very touching article. Not to diminish the article, but that was basically it. I had been working on putting all the waydale articles into a cohesive form. I needed to put together some articles here and there. My dear friend, pamsandiego was helping me along with it. It was March and it seemed like everything would come together. Then on March 31st, I got a "Dear John" phone call. Just what I needed. I plugged away at the site and kept my mind busy. About a week later, I got a phone call from the police from my hometown to let me know that my house, which I was renting out, had burned down. Meanwhile, I get a call from Patrick Roberge and he wanted to let me know that he was putting up a site with the waydale docs also. I broke the news that I was weeks away from the same thing. I picked a fine time to give up sniffing glue!!! I flew down to take care of the house and all of that stuff. And the following weekend, pamsandiego said, "why don't you fly down here and we'll write everything up?" I took her up on it. She was house-sitting and caring for a talkative bird. We had fun and got most everything written. I then had to put it all up on the new site. Did I mention that I was keeping it a surprise? So at midnight east coast time, I was sitting at my computer, heart-broken; bad case of house-burn, and ready to unveil this labor of love. It was very well received and it was the site for about 5 and a half years. I've had many people helping in the background over the years. Most of them have resigned numerous times. Resignations at GS are the equivalent of notches on a cowboy's gun. Somehow this place has managed to stay afloat. And we've had fun. I remember going to the CFF get together one year. I wanted to get some recent pics of TWI for the site. So Igotout and I went on a photo shoot and got to meet John Linder and the waygb mobile unit. One weenie roast, I seem to recall dumping a bunch of alcohol at a campground to avoid a night in jail. (One person was drinking it as we were dumping). Another time, I thought that I was going to get a karate chop from one of our posters because she actually thought that I was MIKE! In my real life, I have a great love of music. I read and know alot about the 60's and 70's music. The late 60's was this magnificent quilt made up of patches of music from England, Canada, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and many other places, forming an unforgettable time in music. I look at what we have here in the same way. Over the past 7 years, everyone has contributed parts of themselves to make something that is greater than the sum of our parts. I am truly thankful for everyone that has passed through GreaseSpot for varying lengths of time. This past year has been particularly special for me. For the most part, people that were involved in my "way" life have not passed through here. One day it happened. I was approving some registrations and there she was, "paws-exwife"@yahooo.com (the names have been changed to protect the innocent). I had not been in contact with her for many years. And quite honestly, we had left an awful lot hanging when we divorced. I was somewhere between excited and terrified. A mutual friend that posts here had been the conduit to making this happen. My little world was being entered by someone that would probably figure out who the heck Pawtucket was. I thought of PMing her, but didn't want to put a stumbling block in her experience here. I had always wanted to be able to tell her about some of this stuff. As fate would have it, one day I got a PM from Paws-ex. She had no idea it was me. She simply said that she had been married to a fellow from Pawtucket and that maybe our paths had crossed. I was terrified!! What would I say? If she knew it was me, would she leave the site and never find out stuff that may be helpful to her? So as I usually do in moments of terror, I wrote an answer and even taped it for effect (just imagine this in your best Darth Vader voice). "EX-WIFE I AM that FELLOW". I was going into chat and telling everyone to behave, in case she came in. I PMed people for talking rudely to her!! Ultimately, I just PMed back to her and told her who I was and hoped that that wouldn't deter from her experience at GS. She stuck around and over a period of a few months, we went through a bunch of healing. Talked about stuff. She corrected me on some stuff that I had put on a podcast. But we got along and it meant alot to me. I still have to go in and straighten out the tables in the chat room every once in a while. Then we did a face lift. I had been wanting to do one for a few years. GreasyTech was instrumental in making that a reality. And the moderators (Doowap, Dishwasher, Austin, Modcat5) really jumped in and did the day-to-day as the site was coming together. Kit Sober, who hates taking bows, has been instrumental in organizing sections of the forums. And another dozen or so people that lend an ear to me when I need it are really appreciated. Ultimately, it is everyone here that knits this place into the funkiest quilt the ex-way world will ever see.

there didn't seem to be much interest. And the person doing the interview was not available