9/11 - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 9/11/20

George Noory and an open lines caller share their memories of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11, 2001, and how the attacks permanently changed life in the United States.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Mike and Denver, Welcome to the show, Michael. Good to
have you with us. Hey, good morning, George. How are you.
I'm good, so so great to talk to you tonight.
I had in comment actually tonight. So obviously this is
the anniversary of nine to eleven, And you know, it's

(00:24):
kind of interesting because when I was a kid, I
really didn't comprehend when nine to eleven happened. What was
going on? You were five years old, right right? It
was just so crazy, and we were our school was
actually evacuated and we were taking to kind of a
hole being area for our parents to pick us up.
But you know, nine to eleven has always been something
that's fascinated me ever since I was a little kid,

(00:46):
and specifically the events surrounding nine to eleven, the anthrax
um you know, epidemic that happened. And you know, there
was this doctor Bruce Evans that they blamed this whole
anthrax being on, and ten years later we come to
find out he had nothing to do with it, and
he ended up, you know, going through a lot due

(01:09):
today I had almost destroyed him, right right, But you know,
I wanted to kind of ask you to take kind
of take me back if you could tell me where
where you were on nine to eleven and kind of
what your experience was. Well. I was back in Saint
Louis and my daughter Wendy called me and she said,
the Dad, you got to turn on the television. And

(01:30):
I said, Wendy, why, She said, planes are crashing into
the World Trade Center in New York, And I said what.
So I got up. I started watching and I saw
the second plane hit because that was broadcast all over
the place. I saw the second plane hit one of
the towers, and then of course we saw the buildings collapse,

(01:52):
which I still having a mind boggling time understanding. Right,
I mean, clearly the planes hit the buildings, but something
else happened there. Oh yeah, they just went down just
like a controlled demolition. It was just bizarre. Well, and
you know the Pentagon as well, I mean we Pentagon.
They didn't find all the plane debris that this plane

(02:15):
supposedly hit the Pentagon, but obviously something hit that. I
did see a video that looked like a missile. It
went through so fast it could have been the plane.
And then of course, did you hear the top of
the show, the Flight ninety three tape that I played, Yeah,
it was very emotional for us, it was, And you know,

(02:36):
I definitely think we've come a long way since nine
to eleven. But you know, we look at all the
things that have happened since nine to eleven, like privacy wise,
I mean, all the Patriot Act, of course set the
kind of set the bar for all the implementations of
increased surveillance by the NSA, and that kind of opened
the door right too for them to say, well, this

(02:57):
is in the matter of national security, we have a
right to spy on you. We have a right to
listen to your phone calls. And you know, it's just
kind of an interesting parallel. But you know, I definitely
also just wanted to extend my thoughts and prayers to
all the victims of the fires going on. And I
really hope this intention experiment works tonight. George. I hope
so you keep thinking you alone could do this, Michael,

(03:19):
with your intent. It's so strong. Just keep thinking of
rain out in those areas a right to it. And
then Colorado had some fire issues too, didn't that we did.
We had actually the largest fire on record here in
Colorado this year. It burned I forget how many, hundreds
of thousands of acres, but it was very bad. We've
had a number of fires and they've really took their

(03:41):
toll on this state. And you know, I think that
it's all about unity and coming together through this, much
like we did on nine to eleven, right to get
through these hard times. Absolutely, you know, this is an
unprecedented year, George, but I think it's people like you
that kind of restore my faith in our humanity. So well,
we're going to be here as long as it takes.

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