The 26 minutes Toronto stood still
Last Saturday afternoon life ground to a halt all over southern Ontario for 26 minutes. Traffic on the 401 was at an eerie standstill. Major airports were shut down. And everywhere you look people were listening to something. But what? Come join me in my time machine and let’s find out. * There we are. We’re on Yonge Street. Everybody is standing, listening with a ferocious intensity, almost trance-like. Some are in their cars. Others have headphones. Ahh, here is a group of youth huddled around a crackling vintage transistor radio. What is it they are listening to? Come, let’s listen in too.
Tags: The Drew Marshall Show, You're not as crazy as I think
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toryninja says:
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 5:32pm
At first I was like “Strange, I never heard about this. Normally if anything wrong happens in Toronto all the news networks drop everything local and go to Toronto….” I still had no clue once I finished reading the paragraph. Then I saw “The Drew Marshall Show” and I laughed for a good mintue.
randal says:
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 6:09pm
Maybe I could have a career in marketing…
The Atheist Missionary says:
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 7:14pm
I have a whole new respect for Randal now that I know he has followed in the footsteps of former Drew Marshall guests Kathy Ireland, John Tesh and Rick Warren.
On a serious note, thanks for the link. I was surprised that those shows are not available on iTunes. However, I managed to download the episode from Drew’s site and transfer it to my iPod.
randal says:
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 7:16pm
I’d prefer to point out that I was interviewed by the same guy who interviewed Alice Cooper. “School’s out for summer. School’s out forever…”
AJ Smith says:
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 8:10pm
A great introduction. You completely drew me in! Thanks for challenging my thinking.
randal says:
Friday, March 11, 2011 at 4:37am
Thanks AJ.
The Atheist Missionary says:
Friday, March 11, 2011 at 1:14am
Great interview.
I like the “this is me in grade 9″ reference.
I thave tweeted this but people will be much more likely to do that if you add share icons to your posts. It is very easy to set up and they will auotmatically appear on all your posts. Just a suggestion.
randal says:
Friday, March 11, 2011 at 4:36am
Thanks. I’m going to follow up with your advice too. I’ve been thinking about doing that for awhile.