9/11 R+F 7 years ago

[Captain Rooster]

From a fan who learned of Ronnie and Fezzie when they were rockin' the WNEW back in the day, all I can say is THANK YOU, my buddays ... for ... literally ... helping so many of us SURVIVE the aftermath of 9/11.

I remember tuning in and hoping to hear the boys ... praying to hear the boys ...

and then the Clown Posse rolled in with the laugh and I ... on many levels ... knew everything was going to be OK. My buddays were still there.

Through truly cathartic phone calls ... to hilarious bits ... Ron and Fez kept so many of us together.

I still chat with GVAC, Jersey Rich ... and so many others ...

Tonight, I say a prayer for all of you who knew what I knew ... as I brushed off almost dying at the WTC ... only to come home and hear my friends ... and smile as we moved on.

[paulisded]

Does anybody have this audio?

[JerseyRich]

Love ya Rooster.

[donnie_darko]

9/11/01

ftp://ona:balloonknot@ftp.gardencity.spreadtheonavirus.c om/R&F%20Shows%202001/R&F%2009-11-2001.mp3

[mikeyboy]

Does anybody have this audio?

here (http://www.ronfez.net/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=2998)

[GreatAmericanZero]

im glad someone started this thread because something really funny happened during the show today

i have "Jim Norton" as a tuneselect artist on my inno

so when Fez was crying about how he wished he wasnt so "rah rah" about Iraq and how Iraq was a terrible thing and he wished he never supported it, up pops my tuneselect "Jim Norton - Fun in Iraq". I just found that so funny

[TheGameHHH]

i actually remember listening that night, both the buddays and O&A. it was intense

[JustJon]

I listened to WNEW all day that day. I remember having to sporadically turn off the radio and go read because it was so hard to listen to. I have my foggy memories of that day's show, but know I'll never listen to the replays, nor do I think I ever could.

But as Ronnie says, I've made some good friends in the aftermath because of R&F and the bonding everyone did during the "healing."

[Sarge]

I remember being at the World Trade Center that day, and in between assignments I would go to my radio car to take a break. While the whole day was surreal, hearing Ron and Fez just "talking" about it like regular people seemed to put us at ease. I remember officers, and firemen from all over sitting around our car listening with us.

[Caseyelan]

I remember listening that night and the days that followed.

Details are a mush. But I remember clearly driving and listening to the callers just vent.
But I mostly remember some guy calling in and saying "my kid was born today and I can't even think about it"

[Fallon]

It's weird going back to the original thread.
http://ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3841

Lots of misinformation, sadness and anger. :down:

[Tenbatsuzen]

Part of my coping mechanism with 9/11 has become not to look back, but to look forward. Seeing what I can only call "tragedy porn" on the news and Discovery and History channel really made me upset.

I compartmentalize a lot of my pain, either physical or mental. I can't fathom what people who actually lost loved ones and/or were first responders, but I can recall with full clarity a lot of things from that day and the mood I was in.

It's not a place I want to go back to. It's a dark, dark place.

I don't cry. I did have a little bit of a break after 9/11 but I sectioned it off. The stupidest damndest thing made me think about that anxiety earlier this summer and I lost it for a few minutes, which freaked out my wife because she didn't know why I was breaking down.

I was alone in my parents house the week after 9/11. My parents were stuck in Arizona, and my brother was stuck in Atlanta. All I had in my house was MSNBC, tequila, orange juice, breakfast cereal, and Ron and Fez.

I didn't want to leave the house (and I didn't.) I just sat there, watching wall to wall MSNBC hoping, praying, wishing that there would be some sort of baby Jessica miracle coming out of that rubble.

One of the memories I had was someone calling into Ron and Fez with poetry she wrote. Normally I would have mocked it, but I realized that it was her coping mechanism. that is how she dealt with the mass homicide we all witnessed that day.

It also said something about my own hatreds. There was someone in my life at the time that I didn't like very much. It was teetering on hatred. I WANTED to hate this person. But 9/11 changed it. I realized that some of my own prejudices were childish and worthless. And I learned to forgive. And now this person is one of the people I care about the most.

I prefer to look at the positive memories of 9/11 and the aftermath. You have to look hard to find them, but they are there. One of them is my niece. She's six years old now. She was born in July 2002. My brother was trapped away from his wife for a week.

Another positive memory is how that even drove us together as a group, as a community, as a family. The torch for this was lit by Staples, Sweet Melissa, and Ron and Fez. How I met Hosp and Missy during that bar crawl. Aya. Mikey D. Circus Boy, rest in peace.

At this point, I want to stop looking to the past... and build towards the future.

[GreatAmericanZero]

in all seriousness, i can't listen to a 9/11 show from either R&F or O&A.

I just can't

[Captain Rooster]

Tenbats ... you have me near tears. The tears, for many of us, don't flow as easily in the aftermath. Thanks for your honesty. 7 years ... feels like 7 days.

[Friday]

i threw myself into my work today... the company i am working for had a big ceremony and it was easy to desensitize a bit. until i got home and called my dad.

he lost a LOT of friends that day... all of whom were first responders. you know, the people going UP the stairs while everyone else was going down.

i can't count on two hands the number of funerals he went to in the weeks afterwards.
it seemed every time i called him he was on his way to or from a service at St Patricks.
9/11 was one of the reasons he was so glad to move to Las Vegas and out of the city.

but it doesn't protect him from the day. and i could hear it in his voice tonight as we talked.

i have my own memories of that day... and they were frightening in their own way.
but my heart goes to my dad.

i was lucky enough to have Ron and Fez that night to take me away from my own fears between phone calls.
he didn't.

[BoondockSaint]

Every year I am shocked by the level of anger that I feel.

[MIKEYDAKEN]

the wnew shows helped me out as a confused 17 year old kid realize that while it was probably the darkest day i would ever see these 4 guys tried there best to make us laugh inspite of all the bad shit that going down at the time and to help out the rescuers anyway they could. the fact that staples hid in a bathroom just to go to work to do his little bit showed the love they all had for the fans and honestly it is a big reason why i'm a fan to this day. so i guess i just wanna say thanks for making that time a little easier

[ahhdurr]

Thanks for posting the whole show Mikey - many thanks. It's going in the family historical archives for two reasons.

An infamous day in US history.

And it's Ron and Fez... Daddy's, Grandpa's, Great Grandpa's old favorite radio show from back when we used to die from cancer and live on earth.

It's also beneficial in that - prior to this?... no family historical archive.

In fact this may be the only entry.

Legend will develop and my dumb great grandkids will say "hey you want to hear my Great Grandpa's old radio show he used to do?"

[A.J.]

in all seriousness, i can't listen to a 9/11 show from either R&F or O&A.

I just can't

I can't either. Nor the Don and Mike show who were on live at the time when I was trying to get back into DC from the Pentagon that day.

At the time all the shows were helpful. Now, they just bring back bad memories.

[moochcassidy]

as somebody who found r&f years later ive never been able to get through that whole show. but im like that with pretty much anything 9/11 related.

the most negative event in my lifetime. and everything thats happened since. its depressing. as much as i love ron and fez, even presented to me in that old familiar way, i hate thinking about it.

[NewYorkDragons80]

I remember they were playing 1010 WINS when the hosts took breaks. Right in the middle of the newscast, the evil laughter that precedes Oddities started playing and completely freaked me out.

[JustJon]

Thanks for posting the whole show Mikey - many thanks.

I just want to point out that we do not post whole shows in the archive for multiple reasons, but this is the one exception. It means alot to alot of people and will never be replayed.

[ChrisTheCop]

Whenever I think of those weeks that were, I will always remember Ron and Fez being a huge part of it. I wasnt listening the night of, but in the coming days and weeks, during my breaks, when I got to take that damned mask off, I'd grab something to eat from those amazing volunteers, and retreat to a car or van to listen to The Boys. At first, I was selfish and used it as alone time, hiding from the reality outside, if only for a few minutes at a time. But eventually, I'd invite a van full of cops to break with me, and looking back, it's so odd to remember the laughter in that van vs the awfulness just steps away. If I only remembered the van, I would only smile on these anniversaries.

Last week, I was talking to one of the guys who was down there with me, about the upcoming anniversary, and during a sad moment, out of the blue, he says to me "WHOOOOOOOO!!!" ala Fez's Rick Flair. He's not an XM subscriber, but he just remembered that from the show, to lighten the mood, 7 years later. Ron was right, they made alotta lifelong friends 7 years ago, myself included; But there are so many more that youve not met who owe you thanks for just getting them through.

Thank you Ron. Thank you Fez.

[ahhdurr]

I just want to point out that we do not post whole shows in the archive for multiple reasons, but this is the one exception. It means alot to alot of people and will never be replayed.

It's huge. Absolutely huge and I should have my head checked for not backing it up yet. Let's get on that.

[Lady Resin]

here (http://www.ronfez.net/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=2998)

Thanks mikey. I listened that night. My husband couldn't get out of the city and I had 3 cousins and my neighhbor who worked at WTC. My husband came home the next day. I never got to see my cousins or neighbor again. I was home alone that night listening to the show and crying. It was so comforting to hear O&A and R&F.