Sector 5 Radio Interview | Bill Housley

Sector 5 Radio Interview

It went well, and we had some fun. Some of you have emailed me and said that you couldn’t stream the show live, that the server was busy. That’s ok, I’ve uploaded it to archive.com so you can listen to it there. below is the link. I would have posted it sooner, but I needed time to work out the technical problems getting it to work with WordPress.

http://www.archive.org/stream/Sector5Radio…may.08.2011…hours.1-3

Into the Dark on Sector 5 Radio (bhousley.wordpress.com)

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~ by Bill Housley on May 16, 2011.

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