Bizarre turn of events on the air live today on Need to Know! While I, your host and Commanding Officer, was right in the middle of a pull-no-punches, over-the-edge, deep dive into some of the darkest and most controversial activities taking place in Iran today, the plug was pulled, mid-broadcast. Show just went dead and those of us in the studio were bombarded with a piercing, high pitched (AND LOUD!) tone through our headsets. My producer and engineer, Average Joe Weaver went to work on the boards like a battlefield surgeon trying to close a sucking chest wound. All to no avail; our broadcast was shut down hard. I and special guest, Mehran Riazaty, were in the middle of revealing the darkest truths of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the toxic behaviors of the Islamic Revolutionary regime in suppressing the Iranian people and endangering the region, when “eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!” and all went went dead. As soon as the Need to Know! Show hour concluded at 3:00 PM EST, the normal News Talk Radio 860 AM WGUL resumed! Joe who is anything but “average” on the boards, as well as our other engineers, had never experienced anything quite like it. Coincidence? Probably. A strange one, though, at best.
Thanks to our callers who got through and apologies to those who were casualties of our “event.” The boards were FULL today.
We will continue our deep dive into the faultines of the Islamic Revolutionary dictatorship of Iran, next week on “Need to Know!” Tune in!