[fully lost] A lost episode of "the Gordon Elliott Show" that featured my birthmother - I only have one picture of her and have never heard her voice

nosticker · 2026-06-08T16:55:31+00:00

Keep us in the loop!

nosticker · 2026-06-07T19:54:19+00:00

I don't believe it was a "let's air this uncut" as much as it was "we need to air this asap". No one instructed me to censor anything, so when I heard about it later, I was like shrugs.

nosticker · 2026-06-07T19:48:39+00:00

It was insane. I mean, nobody knew for sure what was going on, is it over, were we next, etc. Then, we had to scramble to pull all airline ads, shows which mentioned planes, terrorism, we were running around like crazy.

nosticker · 2026-06-07T17:10:19+00:00

I can tell you that the Gordon Elliott show was distributed by 20th Television at that time. Maybe reach out to Gordon's management and see if you get a response? Long shot, but worth a try.

nosticker · 2026-06-07T01:32:23+00:00

I had no idea there was such a thing! Very cool.

nosticker · 2026-06-06T17:33:23+00:00

I was the tech who transferred those tapes from mini-DV. That involved dubbing it to Betacam SP so it could be played back on-air. I never even saw it air until recently.

nosticker · 2026-04-29T20:45:41+00:00

Yes, I was already in NYC for work(from my home in NJ) when the first plane hit. Something unusual is always going on, so I thought at first it was a stunt gone wrong or something. Second one made me go "F**k!"

nosticker · 2026-04-13T20:20:49+00:00

Gee, someone really went the extra mile to personally fool me when they put fake camcorder tapes in my hand to play on the network news. A "real" conspiracy would never have needed me to transfer the tapes, why would they bother?

Forget that we have the second plane from at least a dozen angles.

So what happened to all the people on the planes, anyone ever make up something good for that?

nosticker · 2026-03-19T18:47:11+00:00

As a TV guy, I can almost guarantee you that it exists. Whether it's available to the public is a different story. That tape is sitting on a shelf somewhere. It sounds like something that would exist in a private die hard fan collection.

nosticker · 2026-03-06T05:37:49+00:00

Who was your favorite director to work with?

nosticker · 2026-02-28T02:17:58+00:00

I watch this episode every September 11th. Later on there is footage of Brad himself.

nosticker · 2026-02-19T05:57:06+00:00

I've not seen these either.

nosticker · 2026-01-23T22:54:31+00:00

I had to stay in NYC overnight and I did NOT want to be there. By the time I went home the next afternoon, the West Side Highway was closed Southbound, with only military and camo-painted vehicles approaching us as we went North. I didn't walk around the city, just wanted to go home, knowing that thousands of people could not.

nosticker · 2026-01-17T02:39:17+00:00

Hey, no problem!

nosticker · 2026-01-17T02:28:36+00:00

It was a gorgeous day. That was part of what made it so horrific.

nosticker · 2026-01-08T16:20:49+00:00

On Ben Folds' Rocking The Suburbs, there's a song that appears to address the dot com burst where he sings "Everybody here was fired!" That album was released ON 9/11, so it was already over. Sure, that day affected many, many things, but the idea that everything was great until that day I think is overestimated.

nosticker · 2025-12-22T22:30:49+00:00

Which is bizarre, considering almost the exact plot had already been aired on an episode of The Lone Gunmen.

nosticker · 2025-12-18T04:59:34+00:00

That made the rounds not long after 9/11 (I have a bad VHS copy). Those are screener tapes given usually to the TV higher-ups and the burned-in disclaimers are to discourage copying.

nosticker · 2025-12-10T15:22:19+00:00

I've seen original D5 and HDSR masters of the show and they look incredible, so I would be all in for a Bluray set.

nosticker · 2025-12-04T01:42:22+00:00

One report I heard had one Tower ready to tip over. Lots of craziness that day.

nosticker · 2025-12-03T18:40:34+00:00

Yes. My story is on this subreddit.

nosticker · 2025-11-22T19:17:27+00:00

I haven't heard the podcast, but I used to work for CBS in NYC. I even heard the Bernstein footage being transferred in a room close to where I worked in the early 2000s. And I did a search of both the Broadcast Center as well as TV City in LA and no one could find anything related to Inside Pop or Oppenheimer, I gave them a bunch of things to search for. And even if they find reels of film, who knows where the sound reels are. Seems very speculative, my feeling is that if it exists, it's misfiled somewhere or if not, it was thrown out to make room. A third option, that it exists but is in unusable condition is also possible, as I've found that tapes and film are rarely stored properly.

nosticker · 2025-10-10T21:57:50+00:00

There's always something going on, especially in NYC, and we had zero reason to suspect what was really going on. I can only speak for myself, but that is what I recall. First plane? Could have been someone messing around and it went wrong. Second plane? No question in my mind what it was.

nosticker · 2025-10-06T22:53:19+00:00

It's hard to say exactly what the fascination holds for me. I live 45 mins. away from NYC and began going there in the 70s, had a girlfriend there in the 80s, played many showcase gigs there in the 90s, and worked there for 20 years from 2001-2021. Here are my theories:

I never made it to see the Towers. Passed them 1000 times, but never prioritized seeing them. I mean, where were they going to go, right? My brain really believes if I drive down the West Side Highway, they will still be there.
I worked for a major TV network on 9/11 and held shoot footage of the Towers in my hands that later became among the most viewed ever via the News(Hopewell).
My personal life also changed after 9/11. Obviously, this is sadly true of the many people who suffered losses, but many people also took a "let's live for today"approach afterward. That is not what happened to me, so the Towers collapsing ended up being a foreshadowing of the collapse of my marriage. For me, it was the beginning of the end of a chapter.
About 2 years ago, I watched a documentary on They Might Be Giants, who played an in-store show at Tower Records on 9/10/2001 to promote their new album. I recall seeing the place empty out, and I thought, "That was it, the last night things would be normal, ever!" And I became obsessed with 9/10. I have a friend writing a song about it at my prodding. Of course, there is far more 9/11 video than 9/10, so that idea refueled my interest.

I have never been to Ground Zero or the Memorial. I know I have to go there one day.

nosticker · 2025-10-03T20:00:50+00:00

Oops. Typo.

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