409 - The Presidential Debate & Eating Cats

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Speaker 44 It's so short.

Speaker 45 Kamala Harris, Donald Trump faced off in a debate last night.

Speaker 32 Seemingly the polls say she

Speaker 46 has won it.

Speaker 47 I don't know where they get these polls.

Speaker 49 I would also agree that she won, but not because she did great.

Speaker 32 Trump was a little unfocused, a little angry, a little, you know, he was kind of rage-filled, which is

Speaker 24 fine, but he missed some layups where he could have gone after her.

Speaker 53 And I think he missed some of those layups.

Speaker 49 I think what happens is when you get angry,

Speaker 51 you're not thinking strategically.

Speaker 50 And I think he could have hit her on a few

Speaker 56 things.

Speaker 58 I don't know whether migrants are eating cats and dogs, but I do know that there are immigrants that roasted guinea pigs in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.

Speaker 59 I saw that and I didn't care about it.

Speaker 34 Because a guinea pig is sort of like a, you know, like a fat little rodent.

Speaker 18 It's probably tasty.

Speaker 59 It's got a lot of meat.

Speaker 41 and i don't care

Speaker 59 i don't care that people's cats and dogs are being stolen as you know that's not what i think we need a border right show them grilling the guinea pig

Speaker 18 Jackson Heights, they eat anything over there.

Speaker 54 And you know, I'm for that, though.

Speaker 28 I'm not really against that.

Speaker 69 I just,

Speaker 22 I don't really want to get hit in the head with a bike lock.

Speaker 53 That's my issue with some of the people coming over.

Speaker 11 My friend, a guy I hadn't seen in a long time, there was a migrant breaking into a car.

Speaker 70 He said, don't do that, or get out of there.

Speaker 68 And then the migrant attacked him.

Speaker 71 And my friend was in the hospital.

Speaker 72 The migrant had been caught and released six times.

Speaker 8 He'd been in the country a year.

Speaker 45 And now they're finally charging him with attempted murder.

Speaker 10 But I think that's the stuff you want to go at, not the dogs and the cats being eaten.

Speaker 74 You want to kind of say, this is creating a very big problem for law-abiding citizens.

Speaker 34 A group that

Speaker 23 should

Speaker 45 matter in the country is people that live here are citizens, pay taxes, and follow the law.

Speaker 53 Those people don't seem to matter as much as they should.

Speaker 10 And Donald Trump needs to make the election about those people and not so much.

Speaker 35 But let's see. Let's see.

Speaker 70 This is a fun clip here from the debate.

Speaker 77 In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in. They're eating the cats.

Speaker 77 They're eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what's happening in our country.
And it's a shame.

Speaker 77 As far as rallies are concerned, as far as the reason they go is they like what I say. They want to bring our country back.
They want to make America great again.

Speaker 77 It's a very simple phrase, make America great again. She's destroying this country.
And if she becomes president, this country doesn't have a chance of success.

Speaker 77 Not only success, we'll end up being Venezuela on steroids.

Speaker 78 I just want to clarify here. You bring up Springfield, Ohio, and ABC News did reach out to the city manager there.

Speaker 78 He told us there have been no credible reports of specific claims of pets being harmed, injured, or abused by individuals within the immigrant community.

Speaker 79 I've seen people on television.

Speaker 78 Let me just say here, this is the.

Speaker 77 The people on television say my dog was taken and used for food. So maybe he said that, and maybe that's a good thing to say for a city manager.
I'm not taking this from the city.

Speaker 77 But the people on television say my dog was eaten by the people that went there.

Speaker 78 Again, the Springfield city manager says there's no evidence of that.

Speaker 25 I mean, let's be honest here.

Speaker 40 In other countries, people do eat different things.

Speaker 8 I mean, let's be very clear.

Speaker 73 Let's be honest about it.

Speaker 10 You go to Scotland, they have Haggis.

Speaker 26 Haggis is like a sheep's stomach, and the sheep's stomach is

Speaker 81 they they make a casserole out of it they they take they stuff the sheep stomach with uh like oats and uh herbs and it's it's kind of gross it's not good but my point is that

Speaker 22 is this a guy complaining that his dog and his cat were taken this is a springfield oh resident talking about well let's hear him out he's alleging what david muir said well let's yeah

Speaker 90 Well, David Muir is full of shit.

Speaker 91 And David Muir is in love with himself.

Speaker 42 And I would be too if I look like David Muir.

Speaker 53 He's like this fucking hot guy who just wants attention.

Speaker 18 He didn't let that other bitch speak.

Speaker 58 That other bitch, Evan was like, it's a big deal.

Speaker 18 It's a big night for Lindsay, whatever her name is.

Speaker 17 And he didn't let her speak.

Speaker 94 She said one thing.

Speaker 95 He shot her a look.

Speaker 34 So David Muir spoke the whole time.

Speaker 13 Let's hear this guy.

Speaker 96 Because here's the thing:

Speaker 97 people do

Speaker 58 roast guinea pigs

Speaker 18 in the parks in New York.

Speaker 27 And some people get offended by that.

Speaker 99 I don't really care.

Speaker 86 But that's the thing.

Speaker 13 I understand if you have a cat or a dog and someone kidnaps it.

Speaker 45 But I just watched Selling Sunset

Speaker 8 and this dog was dying.

Speaker 27 And I laughed at it because

Speaker 84 I hate the idea that animals have replaced children.

Speaker 49 in the country. It's kind of sick.

Speaker 13 You should have dogs and cats and love them.

Speaker 51 They should not be your children.

Speaker 12 And there's something really disgusting about pushing a dog or a cat around in a stroller and thinking that this is your children and you're a fur.

Speaker 101 Oh, these are my fur babies and I'm a cat mom or whatever.

Speaker 26 You know, that's just, it's unhealthy.

Speaker 93 And JD Vance is kind of right about this.

Speaker 52 Go to my story.

Speaker 10 Go to my story.

Speaker 39 And can I play my own story?

Speaker 74 Or will YouTube come and

Speaker 22 play it? Yeah.

Speaker 65 Play my story.

Speaker 103 And he's famous.

Speaker 103 yeah, you don't have

Speaker 103 that long within

Speaker 103 like

Speaker 104 days.

Speaker 91 And here's my point about that,

Speaker 105 because I know that seems heartless.

Speaker 106 What I am saying by laughing like that,

Speaker 107 there's something really wrong.

Speaker 37 All the people on this selling sunset show, okay, they either have, they will not have children or, or, and I'm not kidding, the only ones who have children is all by Nick Cannon.

Speaker 93 Nick Cannon has impregnated like three of the women on this show.

Speaker 94 So

Speaker 76 these people don't have children and they are.

Speaker 53 self-involved narcissists and live in Los Angeles, which is completely fine, completely okay.

Speaker 10 Some people would say I fit that description.

Speaker 20 And that's fine.

Speaker 62 But when you see them crying over this little chihuahua, and I'm sure this is very sad that the thing is going away,

Speaker 64 but when you see,

Speaker 22 but that's what's happening.

Speaker 52 When you see them crying over this chihuahua and bawling their eyes out, there's something really wrong.

Speaker 10 And I'm not saying J.D.

Speaker 7 Vanch is always,

Speaker 74 he doesn't have the right pitch when he speaks all the time about this issue.

Speaker 45 It's not, he doesn't nail it, you know, but he's also, I guess, you know, he's trying to please all different parties.

Speaker 83 I'm saying

Speaker 65 that there's something deeply unhealthy, and it's actually uncomfortable to watch.

Speaker 18 It's uncomfortable to watch a woman and a guy who are unmarried, but sharing custody of a Chihuahua, who is dying, bawl their eyes out on the couch about the Chihuahua.

Speaker 94 There's something wrong with it, and there's something about it that is disturbing.

Speaker 7 I'm sorry.

Speaker 102 I respect this show.

Speaker 95 I respect those two midgets and the whores that pretend to be real estate agents.

Speaker 18 I think it's good.

Speaker 23 I watch it.

Speaker 85 The midgets and these whores do a decent job of pretending to sell real estate in one of the worst cities in America.

Speaker 94 But my point is, there's something

Speaker 43 eerily

Speaker 76 disconcerting about watching these adults, unmarried adults with no children, ball their eyes out about this Chihuahua who doesn't care anymore.

Speaker 115 The Chihuahua wants to go.

Speaker 35 This is the way I feel.

Speaker 13 And I'm just,

Speaker 20 so my point is that

Speaker 40 That doesn't mean that a migrant should eat him.

Speaker 10 If that's what's happening.

Speaker 11 I don't know if it is.

Speaker 22 It doesn't mean that, but I will tell you this, if a migrant from Venezuela ate the Chihuahua from Selling Sunset,

Speaker 116 I would watch the show every day, Nico.

Speaker 102 They get tattooed. Now, I believe they do a funeral episode for the dog.

Speaker 18 I'm not sure, but they do, right?

Speaker 74 They do a whole funeral for the dog.

Speaker 58 These people are sick,

Speaker 58 but they tattooed the dog in the thing.

Speaker 20 And this is what happens, by the way, as you get older.

Speaker 27 I'm 39 now.

Speaker 22 Look, look at this.

Speaker 90 Go up there.

Speaker 112 Go up.

Speaker 85 Selling Sunset fans left in tears over a funeral held for Jason Oppenheim and Mary

Speaker 42 Fitzgerald's dog, Nico.

Speaker 62 It's like losing a child.

Speaker 34 They should be in jail.

Speaker 15 I don't know what else to say about these people other than that they should be in jail.

Speaker 118 I mean, this is a funeral.

Speaker 75 Make that so people can see it.

Speaker 84 This is a funeral for this Chihuahua that these two losers are having.

Speaker 98 i mean

Speaker 52 what how great would it have been if a venezuelan migrant grabbed that chihuahua and barbecued it and ate it in front of these two narcissists who are addicted to themselves

Speaker 26 play this gentleman

Speaker 8 Let's see what's going on here at this Springfield, Ohio City Council meeting.

Speaker 10 I don't know what's happening.

Speaker 80 And I don't even want to like seem like I'm coming down on the immigrants because it's the people that's bringing them down here because wherever they're at, that's what they're used to, bro.

Speaker 80 They're in the park grabbing up ducks by their neck and cutting their head off and walking off with them and eating them. Like

Speaker 80 y'all get the Highway State Patrol down here every week and then y'all get like a task force for the Highway State Patrol.

Speaker 80 And they look for guns and they look for dope and this and that and the fourth.

Speaker 80 That same people that y'all got riding up and down limestone doing U-turns, pulling people over for blinkers and pulling people over for like going left to center and like a couple miles over, like y'all can take them same people, the Highway State Patrol, and you can take them and every single one of their silver chargers and Dodge Durangos and y'all can take them to Sunset and y'all can park them right over there and y'all can teach people how to drive since the Highway State Patrol knows so much how to know so much about traffic laws and know what to do in traffic.

Speaker 80 They need to, y'all pay them. They can go over there and teach these Haitians how to drive because it's getting a, bro, I'm getting thousands of views on these.

Speaker 80 And it's going to get bigger and it's only going to get worse. And y'all sitting up there in these chairs.

Speaker 80 All y'all need to get out here and do something. Y'all making hundreds of thousands.
Y'all need to put on a t-shirt and some crocs. And then y'all need to come out here in these streets.

Speaker 80 And y'all need to go out here. And I'm out here before the police is.

Speaker 33 Okay.

Speaker 9 Well,

Speaker 71 that is a gentleman claiming that he has firsthand

Speaker 12 knowledge of the immigrant community in Springfield, Ohio, grabbing ducks by the neck and then

Speaker 49 cooking them in the park.

Speaker 106 And this is what is disturbing him.

Speaker 119 And, you know, listen, I get it.

Speaker 17 I get it.

Speaker 43 Whose fault is that?

Speaker 28 I mean,

Speaker 45 I don't know what to say.

Speaker 49 I'll say this.

Speaker 81 Trump looked

Speaker 120 He was a bit off his game.

Speaker 10 I think there will be another debate.

Speaker 122 I don't think she really hit him on abortion.

Speaker 52 I think if the swing voters are largely female

Speaker 7 and I think abortion will hurt them, hurt Trump in the general.

Speaker 54 However,

Speaker 4 he did not do as good of a job as he could of nailing her on the border because that's her biggest vulnerability.

Speaker 57 I don't believe it's the economy.

Speaker 49 I know everybody's like, it's the economy stupid.

Speaker 93 But I'll tell you this, I don't believe the biggest issue in the world right now is the economy, however good or bad it may be.

Speaker 8 I don't believe the biggest issue in the world is

Speaker 22 Vladimir Putin.

Speaker 42 I don't believe the biggest issue in the world is even China.

Speaker 59 I believe by looking at the political situation in Europe and the UK and the Netherlands and America, that the biggest issue over the next 50 or 100 years will be mass migration of people from one place to another.

Speaker 45 How to assimilate those people into an existing economic and cultural space.

Speaker 85 That is the biggest issue all over the world.

Speaker 21 Every single person you talk to, it is a visible issue when you walk outside and you genuinely see people from other countries or other places camping, living on the street, waiting for someone to give them somewhere to go, a place, a job, anything.

Speaker 15 And I'm sure a lot of those people are desperate and from bad situations.

Speaker 10 It's not meant to make light of that, but how many immigrants, migrants, refugees, whatever you want to call them, can any society absorb at any given time?

Speaker 31 This is the biggest issue in the world.

Speaker 112 This is the issue that Trump should spend the majority of his time talking about because on that issue, his views are closer to the views of the American people than Kamala and Tim Walt.

Speaker 82 And that's just a fact. That's just the truth.

Speaker 48 And that doesn't mean that he's perfect on those issues either.

Speaker 22 I'll tell you this too.

Speaker 102 Fact check, Ohio woman accused of eating cat is from Canton, not from Springfield.

Speaker 20 Now, what is this?

Speaker 129 This woman ate a cat?

Speaker 88 This lady in August did a bunch of drugs and ate a cat in a driveway in Ohio.

Speaker 110 And where, and okay, well,

Speaker 6 let's watch this now because this is the biggest issue in the race right now.

Speaker 115 And that issue is cats, dogs,

Speaker 130 who's eating them?

Speaker 13 Because think about this.

Speaker 52 And maybe this was smart that Trump brought it up.

Speaker 13 Our country is so diseased at its current moment that they're having a, on the biggest show on Netflix, selling Santa, they're having a funeral for a Chihuahua because it's, quote, like losing a child.

Speaker 13 Trump is maybe correct to say,

Speaker 90 well, what if your child got eaten?

Speaker 62 Let's watch this woman eat a cat in Canton, Ohio.

Speaker 62 I'm sorry.

Speaker 131 I just was watching a live video of my cousin on Facebook, and she's down at her house. She killed a cat and is eating it.
I need

Speaker 131 police and

Speaker 132 medical. Why do you need medical?

Speaker 131 I don't know what she took, what kind of drug she's on. You're doing a live video eating a fucking cat.
So you're saying

Speaker 132 does she have like mental issues or?

Speaker 133 Baby, she's doing drugs, baby.

Speaker 132 I'm just going to keep it 100.

Speaker 131 She's doing drugs.

Speaker 132 Like I said, I don't know what she has has took.

Speaker 131 I just know I just seen like just right, like not like you know, a couple minutes ago online on Facebook.

Speaker 132 She was

Speaker 25 can we get a video of her eating the cat?

Speaker 22 It's right here. Yeah, there was just the nine.

Speaker 4 Let's get the video up of a woman in Can't No Higher eating a cat.

Speaker 24 Now, again, we don't want to blame a migrant for this.

Speaker 22 This is the news.

Speaker 13 I don't want to blame a migrant for this because this woman is probably a citizen, correct?

Speaker 4 Yes, American citizen.

Speaker 24 Okay, this is an American citizen eating a cat.

Speaker 64 So who's on drugs?

Speaker 22 Allegedly.

Speaker 7 So I don't know who wins this point, Trump or Kamala, because I, if I was Kamala, would have said the woman eating a cat was a citizen.

Speaker 90 No, literally, I would have said that because this is an issue in our life.

Speaker 72 This is our election.

Speaker 52 This is democracy.

Speaker 86 I would have said, I understand.

Speaker 58 I would have said, if I was Kamala,

Speaker 39 they cook guinea pigs in the park, but very few people have guinea pigs as pets.

Speaker 13 The cat that was eaten was eaten in Ohio by a woman who is a citizen of this country who was on bath salts and ate a cat.

Speaker 112 That's a different story.

Speaker 6 That's a completely different thing.

Speaker 42 Let's watch this woman eat the cat, please.

Speaker 80 Rob of her

Speaker 135 and the cat.

Speaker 118 Can I ask a stupid question?

Speaker 73 Let me ask a stupid question.

Speaker 28 Obviously, if it's someone's cat, it's no good.

Speaker 74 Is it illegal to eat a cat?

Speaker 9 Yeah. Is it?

Speaker 22 Yeah, because it's animal cruelty.

Speaker 41 Animal cruelty.

Speaker 45 Interesting.

Speaker 28 Now, this, we're seeing for the people that are listening on audio, and we need you to keep listening on audio.

Speaker 93 That's a lot of our ad money comes from audio. However, we are doing very well on video as well.

Speaker 59 But this is a woman who's squatting in the middle of a,

Speaker 90 it doesn't look like a great area.

Speaker 39 It looks like an area of,

Speaker 10 I I don't know if I want to say the word projects because that might not be, but it looks kind of government housing, right?

Speaker 54 Am I wrong? You're right.

Speaker 36 And this woman is squatting, and there looks like a beheaded cat or a bloody cat, and she's eating the cat.

Speaker 55 Let's watch this woman eat a cat, please.

Speaker 13 She is an American citizen.

Speaker 136 What did you do?

Speaker 80 Why'd you kill the cat?

Speaker 80 Stand up.

Speaker 80 She said she killed two kids. Stand up.

Speaker 80 Put your hands behind your back.

Speaker 80 Someone got rubber gloves. She's covering blood.

Speaker 80 You got gloves.

Speaker 80 You got rubber gloves. I'm going to check other ones.

Speaker 80 I need to have those two.

Speaker 80 5-5.

Speaker 41 Who do we think this woman's voting for?

Speaker 31 That's a real interesting thing. These are the citizens.

Speaker 99 These are the people out there voting.

Speaker 94 Well, that's unfortunate.

Speaker 9 A woman who ate a cat at her home, but she's a citizen.

Speaker 100 So if you are a citizen.

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Speaker 95 Starbucks CEO

Speaker 10 is now saying he wants to make Starbucks a coffee shop again.

Speaker 10 And Starbucks

Speaker 9 is

Speaker 65 Starbucks is maybe the greatest success story

Speaker 73 of any coffee-centric concept ever.

Speaker 37 It comes out of Seattle.

Speaker 45 Starbucks has been on the decline in shrinking sales as it moved from a traditional sit-down coffee shop into one where people place orders on their phones and grab a drink from the counter.

Speaker 53 Its new CEO has a plan to fix it all and it starts with comfortable chairs.

Speaker 90 So they want people to come back into Starbucks because by the way, that's the way I grew up.

Speaker 73 That's what Starbucks was.

Speaker 93 There's a shared sense that we have drifted from our core, he said.

Speaker 45 We're committed to elevating the in-store experience, ensuring our spaces reflect the sights, smells, and sounds that define

Speaker 95 Starbucks.

Speaker 10 Because Starbucks was always the nicer one to hang in.

Speaker 53 Dunkin' Donuts was always kind of a dump.

Speaker 168 And there was always a homeless guy in Dunkin' Donuts or a homeless woman.

Speaker 4 And there's nothing wrong with it, but that was the deal.

Speaker 53 There was always a woman or a gentleman in Dunkin' Donuts wearing like six coats and sitting there.

Speaker 37 And,

Speaker 108 you know, Starbucks was the one that was for yuppies and people that had a little bit more money, people that appreciated coffee.

Speaker 53 And Dunkin' Donuts was always kind of for,

Speaker 128 you know, people that were, I guess, in between shifts at the pet store.

Speaker 128 And they would come, you know, they had all the tarantula, you know, because the tarantulas, what they do is they actually, it's a defense mechanism.

Speaker 17 The tarantulas with their legs will scrape the hairs off their back, their thorax, and it'll fling them.

Speaker 62 You'll get them in their, in your nose and your eyes.

Speaker 20 And so a lot of times people would walk out of pet land with tarantula hairs in their eyes.

Speaker 62 Our eyes would all be bloodshot. And then they would go to Dunkin' Donuts to have coffee and sit there with the homeless woman.

Speaker 108 But Starbucks was always kind of a little nicer.

Speaker 61 When I was a kid,

Speaker 45 my parents got me a cappuccino machine at Starbucks and I used it.

Speaker 8 But now I guess homeless people are in Starbucks because junkies and homeless people are going into Starbucks.

Speaker 90 But by the way, I like, I think that's okay

Speaker 76 because the people that hang out in New York City coffee shops are the ones that vote for this. So I think it's kind of fun.

Speaker 10 It is fun if you're in a Brooklyn coffee shop.

Speaker 49 Like I, I live in downtown Manhattan occasionally, sometimes part-time.

Speaker 27 And there is a coffee shop and there's a homeless guy and he comes in and he's got a big blanket on.

Speaker 76 And it's all very progressive young white people with their glasses and their laptops and they're all writing very important things and some of them have moleskin notebooks and usually this big homeless guy comes in and he's got a big blanket on and he just kind of walks around and it does and everybody's kind of on edge and uncomfortable because

Speaker 62 we all know that a lot of the people that are homeless are suffering from mental problems

Speaker 53 but it's good to be kind of confronted with that if you're one of these people if you're in your 20s and you're sitting there and you're just on your laptop you know, trying to write your spec script.

Speaker 94 And then some guy walks in and he's got a few blankets on and the smell isn't ideal and he's kind of moving in a direct, you know, in a physically unpredictable manner.

Speaker 64 And you get a little, I see them, they get a little shook.

Speaker 7 They just try to keep their eyes on their own paper.

Speaker 59 When the homeless guy's in a coffee shop, eyes on your own paper.

Speaker 35 That's the way it feels.

Speaker 43 It feels like when you're a kid at school, keep your eyes on your own paper.

Speaker 7 Don't look around.

Speaker 67 And it's people, they just stay right on their laptop and they just type on their laptop.

Speaker 13 And the homeless guy kind of, you know, go to Deuteronomy from Katz.

Speaker 62 The homeless guy at my particular coffee shop looks like Deuteronomy from Katz.

Speaker 37 And

Speaker 59 he does, if you get the image of him.

Speaker 93 And Deuteronomy from Katz.

Speaker 13 Yeah, he's kind of like this guy.

Speaker 95 And he comes in and he's got a shaggy blanket and he just walks around the car and they and they have to give him free coffee.

Speaker 35 So whatever he wants, they have to give him a free thing.

Speaker 27 So they give him a free thing and then he just hangs because they can't really say anything and then everybody at the coffee shop just kind of sits there and waits for him uh and then when he leaves there's always like a collective like

Speaker 50 everyone kind of relaxes again but no one would admit that no one will admit that no one will say

Speaker 98 um

Speaker 59 hey this isn't great

Speaker 34 no one will say that everybody just goes hey

Speaker 93 hey so the starbucks ceo is trying to get people to come back into starbucks to hang out again is this the guy who's commuting via plane yeah from orange county he's flying every day where is he going seattle yeah irvine to seattle every day in a plane in a jet he's required three days a week to be in the office that's right he doesn't want to live there i wouldn't want to live in seattle either it's fucking raining

Speaker 102 So what he's basically saying, he's going, get people into Starbucks again to sit down and hang out.

Speaker 83 We've lost, when I grew up in the 90s, people would sit in coffee houses and they'd have big fishbowl-sized cappuccinos and mocha chinos, cafe mochas, and they would sit around and they'd drink coffee and no one cared about anything.

Speaker 28 Nobody cared about anything.

Speaker 121 It was such a lovely time.

Speaker 27 People just kind of drifted in and out of things.

Speaker 62 Look at the show Friends.

Speaker 68 It was like an actor and a waitress and they all were able to live in Manhattan somehow.

Speaker 58 Lived in fucking Manhattan.

Speaker 37 And it was a great example of just, it was the 90s was like we could just, the 80s were over, the cocaine and empire building, and we're all going to get rich, and the me generation that was all kind of, it had subsided, and we're all wandering around in this kind of Gen X wasteland of nothingness.

Speaker 45 But it was so nice, we just didn't know.

Speaker 11 We didn't appreciate how nice it was until 9-11 happened and it ended all that.

Speaker 126 We were at the end of history, the whole Fukiyama thing.

Speaker 27 And then 9-11 happened.

Speaker 3 9-11.

Speaker 3 I love 9-11.

Speaker 11 So 9-11 happened.

Speaker 4 And I remember where I was when it happened.

Speaker 114 I was sitting in Mrs.

Speaker 62 Rice's history class in Holy Trinity Diocese in High School in Hicksville, New York.

Speaker 114 I was sitting there and I was in 11th grade.

Speaker 121 It was 2001, September 11th, 2001.

Speaker 37 I might have been in 10th grade.

Speaker 68 I might have been in 10th grade.

Speaker 46 2001.

Speaker 28 I might have been in 10th grade.

Speaker 93 10th or 11th grade.

Speaker 149 Maybe 10th grade.

Speaker 138 Could have been 11th grade.

Speaker 53 It was either 10th or 11th grade, 9-11, 2001.

Speaker 73 There was a Miss Rice came in.

Speaker 7 They called her outside, and she said they're going to be making an announcement soon.

Speaker 10 There was an attack on the World Trade Center in New York and an attack on the Pentagon.

Speaker 50 And the World Trade Center had been attacked before, and it was a small bomb, and nobody knew that the buildings had fallen.

Speaker 43 So it was pretty wild.

Speaker 53 And Miss Rice was like, hey, there was an attack and some children might be going home early.

Speaker 8 They might be dismissing some children.

Speaker 98 And

Speaker 149 then

Speaker 101 there was a big announcement at school and we were all like, oh, the Pentagon, this seems serious.

Speaker 18 And a couple of my friends were at the library.

Speaker 7 They were in study hall.

Speaker 112 They watched the second plane go into the towers.

Speaker 24 This was nuts.

Speaker 76 This was nuts.

Speaker 98 And

Speaker 59 everybody didn't know.

Speaker 27 We were all kind of,

Speaker 75 we saw a few of our friends really crying because their parents were dead, but they didn't know it yet.

Speaker 87 Their parents were gone.

Speaker 4 And

Speaker 49 nobody had heard from their parents.

Speaker 37 Nobody knew who made it out, who didn't.

Speaker 98 And

Speaker 96 it was weird.

Speaker 10 It was a feeling that we had never had, this weird vulnerability you had as a person.

Speaker 82 Like, oh, shit can go wrong here in America.

Speaker 13 Dismissal was regular time.

Speaker 48 And then

Speaker 140 I think we might have had, I think we

Speaker 53 did go to school the next day, but maybe we didn't.

Speaker 37 I don't know.

Speaker 5 I don't remember.

Speaker 98 And

Speaker 55 in the immediate aftermath of 9-11, there was a feeling of community that we had never had in my lifetime.

Speaker 50 There were candlelight vigils.

Speaker 69 There were

Speaker 76 all kinds of

Speaker 34 memorials that would spring up.

Speaker 108 Some were local, some were very big.

Speaker 53 And President Bush gave that amazing speech.

Speaker 45 Get Bush up at the towers, please, when he said

Speaker 47 the people who did this are going to be hearing from us all.

Speaker 8 Like, this was the greatest moment.

Speaker 13 It was all downhill from here, by the way.

Speaker 31 This thing that Bush did,

Speaker 6 this was the best it got in terms of, yeah, this, this thing right up there.

Speaker 93 And this was the best, by the way, after this, it all went downhill.

Speaker 94 This was the best.

Speaker 57 I'm not kidding.

Speaker 17 That's why I have to say it.

Speaker 90 And I don't want people to get offended.

Speaker 3 I love 911

Speaker 7 because I'm not saying I love the death.

Speaker 94 I'm saying that this is the best it ever got.

Speaker 20 This was inspiring and it was beautiful.

Speaker 39 And this is George W.

Speaker 30 Bush speaking to a man who I imagine has probably died from mesothelioma because they did kind of lie about what was going on, what was in the air.

Speaker 45 Doesn't the guy who owns the stand said he was rescuing people in this?

Speaker 113 I think he might have been.

Speaker 84 Anyway, let's watch this.

Speaker 38 It's a very inspiring speech.

Speaker 7 And I remember seeing this as a high school kid, going,

Speaker 42 Wow, we live in the greatest country in the world, and we are going to go

Speaker 108 and we are going to do.

Speaker 10 And I mean, we are gonna,

Speaker 20 we're gonna win because I thought you could win.

Speaker 63 I thought there was

Speaker 36 such a thing as winning, and it would be in our grasp.

Speaker 130 How quaint.

Speaker 17 Let's watch.

Speaker 17 Thank you all.

Speaker 17 I want you all to know.

Speaker 17 We can't go any loud.

Speaker 17 I want you all to know

Speaker 17 that America today,

Speaker 104 America today

Speaker 104 is on bended knees in prayer for the people whose lives were lost here.

Speaker 104 for the workers who work here,

Speaker 80 for the families who mourn.

Speaker 104 This this nation stands with the good people of New York City and New Jersey and Connecticut

Speaker 104 as we mourn the loss of thousands of our citizens.

Speaker 104 I can hear you.

Speaker 104 I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you.
And the people

Speaker 104 and the people who knock these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

Speaker 11 We need another 9-11.

Speaker 37 We need it.

Speaker 11 We need another 9-11. I'm sorry.

Speaker 108 I'll be the one to say it with a platform.

Speaker 48 We need a 9-11 like now

Speaker 10 because it was the most beautiful time.

Speaker 41 I'm choked up.

Speaker 42 This was the most beautiful time in our country's history.

Speaker 28 This country doesn't work without 9-11.

Speaker 160 It only works if there's a 9-11.

Speaker 97 And you got to explain this to your children.

Speaker 13 Please explain this to your kids that this country really only works with 9-11.

Speaker 36 The idea that there could be a 9-11, that there is a 9-11, that there was a 9-11, that more 9-11s are coming,

Speaker 14 that anywhere at any time there could be a 9-11.

Speaker 29 That's when America is at its best, when 9-11 is every day.

Speaker 97 Every day should be 9-11

Speaker 13 because that was the only time we felt that way, that special way.

Speaker 13 People were hugging each other.

Speaker 45 And listen, would it be nice to get there without a 9-11?

Speaker 11 Yes.

Speaker 31 I mean, that great Bill Hicks joke.

Speaker 73 Who needs a war to feel good about themselves? May I suggest sit-ups?

Speaker 31 Well, we don't do them here, Bill.

Speaker 18 Sorry, we love you.

Speaker 57 But 9-11 was it.

Speaker 23 You know?

Speaker 7 And it sucks.

Speaker 19 Starbucks needs another 9-11 because people would be in Starbucks drinking coffee, talking about 9-11.

Speaker 56 We need it.

Speaker 112 A terrorist attack will set this country on the right course.

Speaker 102 An amazing course.

Speaker 34 A course of beauty.

Speaker 129 People eating cats and dogs isn't enough.

Speaker 95 It's not enough.

Speaker 129 Migrants eating cats isn't making people feel great.

Speaker 34 You know, Trump imagine that Trump in the middle of that park in Ohio with a megaphone

Speaker 9 saying

Speaker 171 and and we hear you and the migrants who are eating these cats are gonna stop

Speaker 81 it's just not the same anymore is it the same

Speaker 16 and the migrants who eat these cats and dogs are not going to do it anymore

Speaker 25 It just doesn't feel.

Speaker 39 Now, play the USA chant.

Speaker 52 Just keep playing this.

Speaker 54 I mean,

Speaker 54 the nation.

Speaker 54 The nation sends its love.

Speaker 4 No, it's already over.

Speaker 93 This is, by the way, there's nothing worse when you have a great closer trying to go back.

Speaker 27 It's like you get the big laugh and then you keep going.

Speaker 14 The nation sends its love.

Speaker 4 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 18 But I'll tell you this.

Speaker 86 Being a kid and growing up at that time, we were all told that the people who did this hated us for our freedom because we had shopping malls and we had amusement parks and we had cool shit.

Speaker 7 like video games, like Tekken 2 with the bear.

Speaker 20 Now,

Speaker 18 a lot of, they didn't have Tekken 2.

Speaker 34 Get Tekken 2 up, please, and show people.

Speaker 9 People

Speaker 169 didn't have this.

Speaker 112 You see, we had Tekken 2.

Speaker 92 We had Tekken 3.

Speaker 124 I'm not even going in.

Speaker 86 I'm just saying

Speaker 169 they didn't have it.

Speaker 112 And that's why they attacked us on 9-11.

Speaker 57 Then you grew up.

Speaker 95 And then the only way to fix this was to go into their countries decapitate the leadership of those countries and then encourage democracy because these people in these countries really wanted democratic pro-Western leaders oh

Speaker 39 well we found out that that wasn't true was not true

Speaker 18 wasn't true but we believed it i believed it i thought it was a great idea give them tekkin too who would fly a plane into a building if they had Tekken 2?

Speaker 3 So

Speaker 39 that was the Bush doctrine.

Speaker 13 We were going to preemptively attack and invade countries that may or may not or may in the future harbor terrorists that could get access to weapons of mass destruction.

Speaker 34 We could no longer wait till the war came to our shores.

Speaker 86 It was

Speaker 100 the

Speaker 93 prerogative of the United States government to preempt any threat that would come and get us all when we were all on the subway heading to a Yankee game.

Speaker 90 If we didn't invade Afghanistan and Iraq, the subway cars would fill with sarin gas and you would

Speaker 65 choke and die.

Speaker 102 Or there'd be a suitcase nuke.

Speaker 56 A little nuke and a little Roland.

Speaker 94 Terrorism all over the place unless we did these things.

Speaker 34 Unless we solved the problem of the Middle East.

Speaker 7 Well, how are we going to solve it?

Speaker 58 Well, they want Tekken 2.

Speaker 115 Then we learned that actually, they actually didn't really want Tekken 2.

Speaker 169 They didn't, or Tekken 3.

Speaker 18 That the country of Iraq was three warring groups of people who hated each other and wanted to kill each other.

Speaker 13 And the only person that could really keep these three groups in check was Saddam Hussein,

Speaker 22 a dictator who, when one of them tried to kill the other one, Saddam said, I'll kill everybody if you don't.

Speaker 18 Have you ever seen a mother at the end of her wits driving her kids around in a minivan and the kids are all fighting with each other and the mother turns around and says some version of, I'm going to kick everyone's ass?

Speaker 7 That was Saddam Hussein.

Speaker 159 Okay.

Speaker 21 And yes, he was a brutal dictator and his sons, Uday and Kuse, had rape rooms and torture rooms and all of the rooms.

Speaker 54 All of the rooms

Speaker 95 that you can have when you have ultimate power.

Speaker 97 But we had imagined that if we just took Saddam Hussein out, then the people in Iraq were going to say, great, thank you, and become Western.

Speaker 73 It just wasn't real.

Speaker 112 The term for this was neoconservatism for those of you who are dummies.

Speaker 10 Neoconservatism was about a new international

Speaker 27 rules-based order that was going to be primarily enforced by the United States military or coalition with the U.S.

Speaker 84 and Britain.

Speaker 84 They advanced the unilateral promotion of democracy and interventionism in international affairs together with a militaristic and realist philosophy of peace through strength.

Speaker 23 Long story short, it's our job to remake the world in our image so they don't fuck with us.

Speaker 4 Now,

Speaker 147 the only thing that that, of course, leaves out is remaking remaking the world in our image is one of the reasons some of these people wanted to fuck with us.

Speaker 10 And then we had to come to a very uncomfortable place where we kind of lost both those wars.

Speaker 101 We withdrew from Afghanistan 20 some odd years later.

Speaker 54 And I don't know what the fuck's going on in Iraq, but it's certainly not what we wanted to happen.

Speaker 41 So now we've realized that this experiment, this grand experiment that we went on failed.

Speaker 8 We spent like $8 trillion on these wars.

Speaker 27 We killed like a million Iraqis.

Speaker 38 Lots of U.S.

Speaker 45 servicemen and women died.

Speaker 122 And we don't feel any safer than we were.

Speaker 67 So

Speaker 34 the legacy of 9-11

Speaker 19 and what happened afterwards was the permanent distrust

Speaker 98 of

Speaker 10 the United States federal government when it came to matters of war and peace for people in my generation.

Speaker 90 COVID,

Speaker 10 the permanent legacy of COVID is the complete distrust in our government when it comes to domestic issues.

Speaker 115 And that's all the issues, foreign and domestic.

Speaker 13 So in my lifetime, I've seen the two of the biggest disasters.

Speaker 95 I'm not saying this can't be reversed at some time in the future, but the legacy of 9-11, the wars that bankrupted America, that did nothing to advance us,

Speaker 7 and all these people that were so dangerous, that were

Speaker 82 subscribed to this ideology of radical Islam that was very destructive and dangerous, all have to be allowed into America now.

Speaker 35 We spent billions and billions of dollars to try to eradicate these philosophies and ideologies, and it doesn't work.

Speaker 18 It actually doesn't work.

Speaker 22 The Taliban's committed.

Speaker 35 They're true believers.

Speaker 45 They waited 20 years and now they're back.

Speaker 93 They're back.

Speaker 22 And we have to give Israel all this money, billions and billions of dollars, because Israel says, and I'm sure there's elements of truth to this and a lot of bullshit as well, that the philosophy that animates Hamas cannot, you cannot reason with people.

Speaker 59 that believe this, right?

Speaker 84 I don't know that that is true, but

Speaker 34 the big inconsistency here for people that are my age is that now all of the people who are supposedly so dangerous that subscribed to this murderous ideology that again, it was not Islam.

Speaker 18 We're not talking about the religion.

Speaker 34 We're talking about this kind of perverted political fusion

Speaker 93 of Islam

Speaker 45 kind of have to be allowed into the United States of America.

Speaker 43 They have to be allowed here.

Speaker 74 And if you oppose it in any way, you're some type of racist or you hate people or you're

Speaker 7 but you might just be wondering how this all works.

Speaker 54 You know,

Speaker 64 how is this all going to work?

Speaker 93 That's what people in Europe wonder and that's what people in the UK wonder.

Speaker 10 But that's the legacy of 9-11.

Speaker 13 It's buffoonery

Speaker 5 from

Speaker 56 all sides.

Speaker 95 And realist truths about what different people in the world value and actually want.

Speaker 62 Not everybody wants shopping malls.

Speaker 10 Not everybody wants amusement parks.

Speaker 18 Not everybody wants Tekken 2.

Speaker 56 There are people that simply want to kill people that disagree with them.

Speaker 27 And those are cultural beefs that have existed forever that are not my business and they're no one's business.

Speaker 13 And they're not going to be solved by a McGriddle.

Speaker 38 You're not going to solve this by giving everyone a McGriddle.

Speaker 96 That's the issue.

Speaker 129 We thought we could.

Speaker 95 We thought we'd go in there with American capitalism and then everybody who had been warring forever, Sunni and Shiite and Kurd and all this,

Speaker 95 it was all going to be good.

Speaker 128 It was all going to be okay if we just went in there and injected some good old-fashioned American capitalism.

Speaker 11 That's why a lot of people in my generation have become sort of,

Speaker 62 they've embraced this kind of, isolationist foreign policy.

Speaker 10 We don't get excited about the war in Ukraine.

Speaker 15 We We don't get excited about an unending commitment to whatever Israel is doing in Gaza, which is terrible.

Speaker 57 We don't get excited about that stuff because we know what happened.

Speaker 13 We're old enough to remember what happened 20 years ago.

Speaker 64 And we're old enough to remember what happened

Speaker 74 whenever we withdrew from Afghanistan.

Speaker 7 We've seen it.

Speaker 25 We've watched this movie, America Will Tire of Helping the Ukraine.

Speaker 168 This is going to happen.

Speaker 93 America will tire of it.

Speaker 10 America, someone explained it to me, and I thought this was a very smart thing that this person said.

Speaker 45 They said, like, interest rates go up and down.

Speaker 8 Interest rates as a guy in his job, you know, Jerome Powell at the Fed.

Speaker 45 Let's tick the interest rates up.

Speaker 84 Let's take them down.

Speaker 73 There is someone who does that with war.

Speaker 37 We need a little more war.

Speaker 170 We need a little less war.

Speaker 53 We need to get rid of some of these weapons we made.

Speaker 8 We need to cool things down.

Speaker 50 Things are getting a little too hot.

Speaker 173 It's hurting some of our other investments.

Speaker 42 And of course, we don't like to think about war like that, but that is what it is.

Speaker 67 People go, we need a little more, we need a little less.

Speaker 3 And I'm telling you right now, we need 9-11 again. We need 9-11 again

Speaker 172 because

Speaker 22 it at least contextualized our lives.

Speaker 108 We understood it.

Speaker 90 But that is the legacy.

Speaker 41 The permanent legacy.

Speaker 62 of that event until all of us disappear is that when everybody starts talking about the Ukraine and everyone, and we're going to do the,

Speaker 82 and they start to start saying Putin's this guy and we got to do this because he's that.

Speaker 153 And we all remember, we all remember it.

Speaker 37 We remember it.

Speaker 8 Because when we do this, we have to forget about the Ukraine and how corrupt it is and how,

Speaker 107 you know,

Speaker 82 all of these things we have to forget about the Ukraine.

Speaker 116 I'm not saying the Ukraine, I don't feel bad for people that live there, but we have to forget every negative thing about the Ukraine, every documentary, every article, everything.

Speaker 34 And we have to pretend that they are perfect allies.

Speaker 65 The same way we had to forget every single person who said, when you go into Iraq, the people are not, you will not be greeted as liberators.

Speaker 10 It's not going to work.

Speaker 45 You don't understand the culture.

Speaker 8 You don't understand how any of this works.

Speaker 58 And I don't even know if it was meant to work.

Speaker 76 I know that people made a lot of fucking money.

Speaker 10 And I think maybe that was ultimately the goal was chaos, where a lot of fucking money disappeared, and a lot of people got contracts, and there was a lot of oil rights and mineral rights and all that stuff.

Speaker 43 And that's what it really comes down to.

Speaker 58 So, when Kamala Harris is up there talking about allies and our commitment to our allies, and our commitment to what she's talking about is our commitment to permanent, unending, ceaseless war for profit.

Speaker 98 And

Speaker 13 ultimately, that will come back here,

Speaker 11 and we will another 9-11.

Speaker 87 But maybe

Speaker 140 that's good.

Speaker 121 Am I joining the K-Hive?

Speaker 119 If she, I would be in the K-Hive if she came out and said, do you remember 9-11?

Speaker 170 Do you remember how good it felt to get a hot cafe mocha after 9-11?

Speaker 108 And you sat with people and you looked at people and you looked in their eyes and you were really with them.

Speaker 107 You were present. You were present when they talked.

Speaker 119 You know?

Speaker 121 And she goes, and wouldn't it, wouldn't it be nice, wouldn't it be nice if we had another 9-11 in this country?

Speaker 121 Wouldn't it be nice if we could all come together again

Speaker 46 with 9-11?

Speaker 42 And then we all saw the movie Lose Change.

Speaker 173 Which was, you know, had left over some weird stuff.

Speaker 72 some of it made sense some of it didn't there was a big movement to uncover the truth about 9-11 people still ask me what do I think I don't know what I think I don't know it's all weird Saudis were involved that's coming out but it's also coming out in the Atlantic magazine and if the Atlantic magazine is telling you something is it true I don't know

Speaker 41 I don't know what happened.

Speaker 113 I know 19 hijackers trained, some of them in America and flew these planes into building.

Speaker 5 I don't know who trained them or why.

Speaker 37 You know, I don't, I don't really know.

Speaker 118 And the 9-11 report, 9-11 commission, people came out and said this commission was set up to fail.

Speaker 43 Bush and Cheney testified together, sitting next to each other.

Speaker 37 You know,

Speaker 97 nobody really can tell you exactly how anything went down that day.

Speaker 111 There are great accounts of it for sure.

Speaker 31 But the larger story and the bigger issue to me is

Speaker 18 what exactly

Speaker 159 happened in the years following 9-11 and how much it damaged the credibility of this idea that the United States military was going to make the world safer for Americans.

Speaker 83 It just doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 34 Didn't make any sense.

Speaker 37 But some of the greatest moments I've had in my life were running around a mall after 9-11 in Long Island

Speaker 106 and getting Starbucks, getting Starbucks after 9-11 in a mall.

Speaker 124 Sorry.

Speaker 154 Does that make me a piece of shit?

Speaker 62 Does it make me a piece of shit that some of the greatest moments in my life were drinking Starbucks coffee in a mall after 9-11 and being happy and enthusiastic about the war in Iraq?

Speaker 8 Because I was very excited about the war in Iraq.

Speaker 7 I was.

Speaker 86 I was.

Speaker 43 I loved it.

Speaker 36 I loved the idea of it.

Speaker 71 We were going to make that country into a great place.

Speaker 116 Get up, Baghdad.

Speaker 148 Get up the picture of Baghdad right now. See what's going on over there.

Speaker 86 Maybe it's better than I think.

Speaker 16 Maybe I'm wrong.

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Speaker 76 Hit image, What's going on in Baghdad?

Speaker 40 Some YouTubers in Baghdad?

Speaker 116 What happened there? Yeah, I'll go to him.

Speaker 64 Go to this YouTuber who's in, is Baghdad safe?

Speaker 84 By the way, there's all these YouTubers that just travel around the world.

Speaker 48 There's like a white guy who goes and hangs out with the Taliban.

Speaker 19 Is that why we did the war?

Speaker 13 Is that why we did these wars so that YouTubers 20 years later could go hang out with the Taliban in Afghanistan?

Speaker 92 He'd be like, yo, like and subscribe.

Speaker 22 I'm here with the Taliban here in Afghanistan.

Speaker 64 Drinking a mango lassie or whatever they fucking have.

Speaker 9 You guys hungry?

Speaker 103 Kebab Sleman.

Speaker 9 Kebabs.

Speaker 103 Last time I checked, the best kebab was Yassin. Yassin?

Speaker 9 No, not Yassin.

Speaker 70 We just made every country into just a fat, disgusting pig, pig, big trough.

Speaker 83 The best kebab is Yassine.

Speaker 74 Like every, we just made the whole world county Yelpers.

Speaker 48 That's That's what we did. That's the American legacy.

Speaker 118 We've made every country into just Kanti Yelpers.

Speaker 39 The best kebab is Yassin.

Speaker 116 The other kebab is not as good.

Speaker 133 Very serious.

Speaker 103 Welcome back to Kurdistan. So excited that we're starting with a kebab.
Best way to start a trip like this.

Speaker 103 This is what I'm talking about.

Speaker 67 That looks good.

Speaker 103 I think they go to the palace. You want me to skip to that?

Speaker 22 Go to that.

Speaker 18 Go to the palace.

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 117 Whose palace is that?

Speaker 9 Saddam.

Speaker 9 Eerie

Speaker 69 this is why we did the war to make youtube videos

Speaker 103 this is the whole reason we did the war by the way only inhabitants of this palace now

Speaker 103 is a handful of pigeons living in the giant chandelier at the top this is actually in better condition with all the woodwork still here than i thought most of the other woods

Speaker 9 completely right now

Speaker 47 Who is it, Tulsi Gabbard?

Speaker 62 Who's the president of Iraq right now?

Speaker 37 Who's running Iraq?

Speaker 12 Iraq president.

Speaker 33 Okay.

Speaker 88 Abdul Latif Rashid.

Speaker 33 Okay.

Speaker 33 All right.

Speaker 22 What's his deal?

Speaker 89 He's a king.

Speaker 33 Oh, they're back to that, huh? Oh, yeah. That's right.

Speaker 81 What is the politics of Iraq?

Speaker 88 He ratifies the death sentences.

Speaker 47 I like that.

Speaker 109 Exercising random presidential powers.

Speaker 88 He calls together the Council of Representatives.

Speaker 93 Yeah, yeah, okay, okay.

Speaker 18 But what is like the,

Speaker 114 yeah, I mean, who knows? But here's the deal.

Speaker 8 It's just,

Speaker 99 you know, what are you going to do?

Speaker 119 This is what we, you know, we went in there. We made a bunch of money.

Speaker 121 This is what happened.

Speaker 17 You can't get a perfect result.

Speaker 70 You're never going to get a perfect result.

Speaker 130 People are having kebabs.

Speaker 173 They're eating kebabs. It's fine.
It's fine.

Speaker 107 But I'll tell you that, you know, you know what we're eating in this country?

Speaker 22 Dogs and cats.

Speaker 7 Our citizens are eating cats.

Speaker 53 Is that a problem, by the way?

Speaker 71 Is that a problem to anyone that our citizens in a fentanyl haze are eating cats?

Speaker 107 Does this bother anyone?

Speaker 42 Does this bother anybody that this woman, by the way, this is worse than her being a migrant?

Speaker 69 She's a citizen.

Speaker 25 Trump should have said that. It's worse.

Speaker 22 The citizens are eating cats.

Speaker 169 The citizens.

Speaker 22 This is a major issue in our presidential election is who's eating cats in our country.

Speaker 53 Is it natural-born citizens or illegals?

Speaker 93 And I'll tell you this.

Speaker 33 God, I miss 9-11.

Speaker 22 I do.

Speaker 27 Not the death, not the dying,

Speaker 10 but just the beautiful, sweet, town vibes.

Speaker 118 Like all these country singers, they all sing about small town vibes.

Speaker 22 They don't know what the fuck

Speaker 11 they don't know nothing about a small town vibe.

Speaker 61 Right after 9-11, you don't know what a small town vibe was.

Speaker 108 You would just see someone in the deli and they'd be crying after 9-11.

Speaker 109 And you would just go up and hug them and say, I'm so sorry.

Speaker 68 You know?

Speaker 11 You know, that's what it felt like.

Speaker 74 They would just, you would just walk around

Speaker 121 9-11.

Speaker 121 It was different.

Speaker 71 I remember a few, like a month later, me and my friends went into New York City to get fake IDs and try to go drink and buy drugs.

Speaker 71 And our parents were like, you shouldn't go into the city because of 9-11.

Speaker 62 And we're like, we're not going to let the terrorists win.

Speaker 9 And all of our parents, all of our Long Island parents were like, we're so proud of our kids.

Speaker 106 They said, we're so proud of our kids.

Speaker 108 And we went into New York City and we did cocaine.

Speaker 6 But the bigger point

Speaker 108 is that

Speaker 99 we were right to go live our lives the way that we should have.

Speaker 37 You know?

Speaker 84 And I think today, because I have to leave for my shows in Tampa early, we had to record the episode early, and I'm kind of glad we did because

Speaker 18 I just feel like we've lost the thread with 9-11.

Speaker 10 It feels like it's gone away and we don't appreciate it anymore and what it was.

Speaker 54 And the love, the outpouring of love, and the food.

Speaker 9 Ooh, the food.

Speaker 45 Oh, the feasting after 9-11.

Speaker 54 Just the good food after 9-11, the holidays.

Speaker 162 You were eating for the people who passed after 9-11 when you went to a Thanksgiving.

Speaker 4 You were eating.

Speaker 37 I didn't know anyone who died personally.

Speaker 87 My father

Speaker 120 used to go to that restaurant windows on the world because he was a wine salesman.

Speaker 53 However, he wasn't there that day.

Speaker 32 But I mean,

Speaker 115 I just want to, I wish I could call someone who could back me up on this.

Speaker 42 Like who could literally back me up on,

Speaker 5 do you remember

Speaker 47 what 9-11 was?

Speaker 8 Because so few people do.

Speaker 8 So few people do.

Speaker 10 My favorite post-9-11 story was my mother was friends with someone who said a family of Arabs, Saudis, somebody

Speaker 37 disappeared the day of 9-11

Speaker 62 or the day before, and their house, they left everything the way it was.

Speaker 109 We knew this. It was a family in Oceanside, and there was also a family in Florida who did this.
And my mother said that to us.

Speaker 62 She told that to me and my friend who were really fucking high.

Speaker 173 And she came back and she goes, there was a family of Middle Eastern people and they just disappeared a few days before 9-11 and all their stuff is still in their house me and my friend were like that's fucking nonsense

Speaker 21 and we were high in our backyard but that's true that's true that happened

Speaker 83 she is a schizophrenic but that was true you see

Speaker 45 Now, you listen, there were some Yahoos that did stuff against the Arabs and that was not nice.

Speaker 83 That wasn't right.

Speaker 141 But for the most part, it was kind of like,

Speaker 33 I don't know.

Speaker 22 I didn't feel like, I mean, obviously, I wasn't, you know, nobody was targeting me.

Speaker 90 But

Speaker 38 I felt like there was not as many hate crimes as you think.

Speaker 11 There was a few, but there were not as many hate crimes as you think against

Speaker 71 people from the Middle East.

Speaker 83 I think, you know, obviously it wasn't perfect.

Speaker 68 It was not perfect.

Speaker 115 Okay.

Speaker 45 but we did a lot we came out and we said hey this isn't a religious war

Speaker 37 you know

Speaker 68 hate crimes against arabs and muslims rose post 9-11 while other groups showed decrease well yeah of course of course it rose of course it rose but you know what by how much

Speaker 10 By how much was it such a big deal?

Speaker 7 Was it such a big deal?

Speaker 22 Maybe it was, and I'm wrong, but I don't think I'm wrong.

Speaker 18 Pull up a hate crime.

Speaker 67 Go to one of them.

Speaker 64 No, go to one of those examples.

Speaker 12 Sure. Okay.
Make it bigger.

Speaker 32 James Herrick pled guilty to pouring gasoline on the wall of a Pakistani-American rat.

Speaker 22 Well, that's not great.

Speaker 33 And lighting it on fire.

Speaker 9 Well, all right.

Speaker 126 There was a

Speaker 18 Few people got carried away.

Speaker 116 That's the 48-hour rule.

Speaker 102 That should be like the five-second rule where you drop a cheeseburger, you can still pick it up.

Speaker 13 That 48-hour rule is if you burn down a Pakistani restaurant within 48 hours of 9-11, it should not be held against you.

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Speaker 174 I have decided to bring back something about the 90s that I always loved and I miss.

Speaker 84 And we are very excited to show it to you.

Speaker 83 I will say this: I'm very happy with it.

Speaker 22 I'm very proud of it.

Speaker 7 I'm not always happy with everything I do, and I always, I'm always honest about it, right?

Speaker 18 But this, I am particularly happy with how it came out.

Speaker 73 It's exactly what we wanted.

Speaker 84 And if we end up doing more of them, we think we can go to some really cool, crazy places with this show that we did.

Speaker 8 That's very interesting.

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