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September 12th : The Day We Had to Keep Living · Murders to Music: Crime Scene to Music Scene (Streamline Events and Entertainment)

0:27
SPEAKER_00: The newspaper that I'm holding in my hand right now is a virtual time machine.
0:31
SPEAKER_00: It's dated September 12th, 2001.
0:35
SPEAKER_00: And the headline across the top says Standing United.
0:38
SPEAKER_00: There's a picture in the center of this paper, and that picture is George W.
0:42
SPEAKER_00: Bush standing in the middle of several hundred volunteers.
0:46
SPEAKER_00: They're surrounding him right in the middle of ground zero.
0:49
SPEAKER_00: There's firefighters, police officers, and just plain volunteers.
0:54
SPEAKER_00: They're chanting, their arms are in the air, and the headline below it says, chance of USA, USA erupt as rain turns ash to mud.
1:02
SPEAKER_00: You can see so much debris and particles in the air in this picture that it's tough to make out the sky crane in the background.
1:10
SPEAKER_00: We've all seen the sky cranes, and it's hard to make this out because of how much debris and dust is still floating in that air.
1:17
SPEAKER_00: September 12th, 2001 is a marker.
1:22
SPEAKER_00: It is a dividing point in our history.
1:26
SPEAKER_00: It's what were you doing before and what were you doing after?
1:29
SPEAKER_00: Because the day of was such a blur for everybody.
1:34
SPEAKER_00: If you were old enough to recognize that something was going on in our nation, then you were old enough to recognize that moment was going to be significant.
1:43
SPEAKER_00: And our children, our grandchildren, our great-grandchildren would be reading and studying what happened on that day for decades, years, the rest of American history.
1:56
SPEAKER_00: We were fortunate enough, unfortunate, depending on how you look at it, to experience and be a part of that historic day.
2:05
SPEAKER_00: This episode is not a primary history lesson on 9-11, but I do want to have a conversation about time and perspective and uncertainty and service and loss, the things that make up who we are, and the things that make up what we are given that makes the story time and the storyline of our life.
2:27
SPEAKER_00: As we look backwards now, we can see history.
2:30
SPEAKER_00: But people living on September 12th didn't know what the next 25 years was going to look like.
2:37
SPEAKER_00: And 25 years is what it's been since that historic day.
2:42
SPEAKER_00: People around America were grieving, they were frightened, they were trying to understand what had happened, who's responsible.
2:48
SPEAKER_00: Are their children safe at school?
2:51
SPEAKER_00: You know, what is happening to our world?
2:54
SPEAKER_00: Is America under attack?
2:55
SPEAKER_00: And it didn't take long before we recognize that's exactly what it was.
2:59
SPEAKER_00: History feels organized, I think, when we look backwards.
3:03
SPEAKER_00: But living through history feels like chaos.
3:07
SPEAKER_00: I've been sitting here looking at these newspapers, thinking about September 12th, 2001.
3:13
SPEAKER_00: And I'm not focusing on the September 11th.
3:16
SPEAKER_00: We know what occurred that day.
3:17
SPEAKER_00: That is the central idea, the formation of before and after, pre and post.
3:24
SPEAKER_00: But September 12th, 2001, when I think about that day, it occurs to me that every single person who sat down that morning, who survived the attack across the entire nation and across the world, sat down and read a newspaper just like the stack I have in front of me.
3:42
SPEAKER_00: And that morning, that morning, they didn't know how the story was going to turn out.
3:48
SPEAKER_00: They didn't know what the future was going to hold.
3:52
SPEAKER_00: Now, I know where I was 25 years ago.
3:56
SPEAKER_00: I know who I was, and I know that guy had absolutely no idea what the next 25 years was going to look like.
4:02
SPEAKER_00: But here's what I did know.
4:03
SPEAKER_00: I was a young man.
4:04
SPEAKER_00: I was working for Walmart.
4:06
SPEAKER_00: I was doing an inventory, living in Phoenix, Arizona, and I was standing in the middle of the electronics department surrounded by a wall of televisions.
4:15
SPEAKER_00: All of them were on the news.
4:17
SPEAKER_00: It was complete silence in a giant store.
4:22
SPEAKER_00: Everybody watched in awe as the second plane flew into the Twin Towers, as debris and fire fell from the sky, as we stood there and continued to watch as it crumbled to the ground, not knowing what was going on, but knowing that we could hear a pin drop across the nation because of the silence, the dead air, the grounded airplanes.
4:45
SPEAKER_00: Nothing was moving.
4:47
SPEAKER_00: I remember clearly my wife was a school teacher.
4:50
SPEAKER_00: And I remember before I left work that day, I thought I'm going to buy my wife a flag to bring to her classroom.
4:56
SPEAKER_00: And we couldn't find a flag to save our lives.
5:00
SPEAKER_00: There were no flags available.
5:02
SPEAKER_00: They were all there in the morning and they were all sold by the afternoon.
5:05
SPEAKER_00: That was the moment that America united as one.
5:09
SPEAKER_00: We forgot political lines, Democrat, Republican, Liberal.
5:13
SPEAKER_00: We forgot all of that.
5:14
SPEAKER_00: All we knew is we were Americans first and we needed to unite and stand together.
5:19
SPEAKER_00: And that is a moment in time like I have never experienced in my life.
5:24
SPEAKER_00: A moment where we forget color, race, creed, sex, all that nonsense, and we just come together to stand on one united front to stand up and defend our nation.
5:37
SPEAKER_00: That is my key takeaways and my moments of September 11th, 2001.
5:43
SPEAKER_00: I'm going to ask, where were you guys on that day?
5:46
SPEAKER_00: On that historic day?
5:47
SPEAKER_00: Where were you and what was your life like?
5:49
SPEAKER_00: Were you married?
5:50
SPEAKER_00: Did you have kids?
5:52
SPEAKER_00: Were your parents alive?
5:53
SPEAKER_00: Were your kids alive?
5:55
SPEAKER_00: What were you doing for work?
5:56
SPEAKER_00: Where were you going that day?
5:58
SPEAKER_00: What were you doing in that significant moment when you heard the news that America was under attack?
6:05
SPEAKER_00: It was an ordinary day when we woke up that morning.
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SPEAKER_00: And then within moments, nearly 3,000 people were killed in those attacks.
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SPEAKER_00: Every single person killed represented somebody who woke up that morning expecting there to be a September 12th.
6:22
SPEAKER_00: But instead they didn't make it.
6:24
SPEAKER_00: They weren't guaranteed tomorrow.
6:27
SPEAKER_00: And Ordinary Tuesday became the dividing line in American history.
6:31
SPEAKER_00: How did life for you feel before that?
6:34
SPEAKER_00: And how did life feel after that?
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SPEAKER_00: For me, I just explained the significance of that day for me and the unification that I saw across all political and parties and all that other stuff, the stuff that divides us, the stuff we argue about today, all that was gone.
6:54
SPEAKER_00: And we were Americans first.
6:55
SPEAKER_00: During that time, I was a young man who was looking, just married, and I was looking to start my career in law enforcement.
7:04
SPEAKER_00: I was applying with police departments down in the Phoenix, Arizona area.
7:08
SPEAKER_00: And I hadn't yet moved to Alaska.
7:10
SPEAKER_00: I was, I would move to Alaska within a few months of that experience.
7:14
SPEAKER_00: And I hadn't lived my life yet.
7:17
SPEAKER_00: Most of the stuff that you guys have heard about on this podcast, the experiences that would eventually shape who I became and who I am right now, I hadn't lived yet.
7:27
SPEAKER_00: I hadn't spent years investigating homicides and dealing with people and interviews and meeting people on their good days and their bad days.
7:34
SPEAKER_00: I hadn't seen all the stuff.
7:35
SPEAKER_00: I hadn't been shot at.
7:37
SPEAKER_00: My partner was still alive and hadn't been killed in the line of duty yet.
7:40
SPEAKER_00: And I didn't know that those things were coming.
7:43
SPEAKER_00: I was not sure what the next 25 years would look like.
7:48
SPEAKER_00: But in hindsight, history is clear when we can look back on it.
7:52
SPEAKER_00: But when we're walking through it, it seems like chaos.
7:56
SPEAKER_00: We all have days that we experience, and those days can be life-changing.
8:00
SPEAKER_00: And while they're not a September 11th, they are a defining moment in our lives and in our histories.
8:07
SPEAKER_00: And they may not be literal terrorist attacks, but they are life-changing days.
8:11
SPEAKER_00: It's the phone calls we receive, the deaths in the family, the diagnosis, the career-ending decisions that are made for us, with us, around us, the marital beginnings, the marital endings, children being born, children dying, somebody entering my life, somebody leaving my life.
8:29
SPEAKER_00: Those are the things we don't truly understand until life plays out.
8:34
SPEAKER_00: We all have days that divide us into the before and after, but we rarely know when those are coming.
8:40
SPEAKER_00: What was your life like before and after September 11th?
8:45
SPEAKER_00: How did things change for you?
8:47
SPEAKER_00: And just as you reflect back on your own 25-year history since that day, look at all the things that have occurred or changed or who you thought you were or where you thought you were headed, and the left hand turns and the right hand turns you didn't expect.
9:03
SPEAKER_00: When I think about it, I think that the next last 25 years of my life, man, I got married.
9:09
SPEAKER_00: I worked an amazing career.
9:11
SPEAKER_00: I had three beautiful kids that have now grown into adults.
9:15
SPEAKER_00: I've got one getting married.
9:17
SPEAKER_00: I have working with my son.
9:20
SPEAKER_00: We're doing weddings, we're making people's best days.
9:23
SPEAKER_00: I've got my own business.
9:24
SPEAKER_00: I'm no longer a police officer.
9:26
SPEAKER_00: I'm doing something I would have never thought I was going to do in my day-to-day job.
9:31
SPEAKER_00: I've got a successful band.
9:32
SPEAKER_00: I've got this podcast.
9:34
SPEAKER_00: I'm traveling, the relationships I've made, the people I've met, the places I've lived, the things we've survived, the laughter, the mistakes, the successes, retirement, entirely different chapters of life in the last 25 years than where I thought I was going to be.
9:48
SPEAKER_00: And if somebody had handed me a script for the next 25 years on September 12, 2001, I probably would have not wanted to read it.
9:59
SPEAKER_00: And I probably wouldn't have believed all the things that were in it.
10:03
SPEAKER_00: That script would have contained some very terrible chapters, some very dark moments, but it also would have included some things that were very bright and happy and exciting and chapters that I wish would live forever.
10:16
SPEAKER_00: In today's world, I feel like our world is upside down again.
10:22
SPEAKER_00: And while I'm not wanting to equate today's political and social situation with a mass murder of September 11th, that's not what I'm looking to do.
10:31
SPEAKER_00: But what I do want to compare is the human feeling of uncertainty that we have and the just looking around the world, it seems upside down.
10:41
SPEAKER_00: In this day and age, men become women, women become men, you can identify as a cat, you and people promote and support that, right?
10:50
SPEAKER_00: And it's the it's these things that the such a hard division between liberals and Republicans or Democrats, Republicans, however you want to say it, and the left and the right and the wars and you know, all of that stuff.
11:05
SPEAKER_00: It feels like the world is upside down.
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SPEAKER_00: It feels like there is no neutral middle ground.
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SPEAKER_00: Even when we get together with those that we love, sometimes the difference of opinions creates a divide amongst our own families.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, I don't want September 11th to happen again, but I would love for our nation to reunite, regroup, and become one again, where we put those things aside, and all we do is focus on one united front, and that is being Americans, being Christian, being good human beings.
11:35
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes I look around and wonder just where the hell are we going?
11:38
SPEAKER_00: Where is this world going?
11:42
SPEAKER_00: History feels organized again when we look backwards, but living through it continues to feel like chaos.
11:48
SPEAKER_00: I said that a moment ago, and I feel like our world is in chaos in this moment.
11:54
SPEAKER_00: The positive things that came out of September 11th, 2001 is while there was fear and anger and all that, there was extraordinary service and sacrifice and human connection.
12:05
SPEAKER_00: Firefighters and police officers didn't make fun of each other.
12:09
SPEAKER_00: They both ran towards danger together, helped carry each other when they were down.
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SPEAKER_00: Strangers helped strangers, people donated blood, neighbors were checking on each other, everybody bought guns, whoop whoop.
12:20
SPEAKER_00: And it was just a world where we saw things the same.
12:26
SPEAKER_00: Why does it take a catastrophic event for us to remember how much we have in common?
12:31
SPEAKER_00: But the bigger question, I think, would be: what would happen if we didn't need the buildings to fall first?
12:37
SPEAKER_00: What if we just think about this for a moment?
12:39
SPEAKER_00: What if we just decided to all get along and play nice with each other?
12:43
SPEAKER_00: It's a crazy perspective.
12:45
SPEAKER_00: It's a crazy thought, crazy idea.
12:47
SPEAKER_00: I mean, cats will be sleeping with dogs, and it's just a crazy thing, but it could happen.
12:52
SPEAKER_00: We don't need there to be a catastrophic event and 3,000 people die in order for us to unite and become one.
12:59
SPEAKER_00: As a first responder, I think that I have a different perspective than most people have.
13:06
SPEAKER_00: I spent mere years meeting people in their worst days.
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SPEAKER_00: I knocked on doors, investigated all the stuff they investigated, encountered sudden loss, and experienced loss for myself.
13:17
SPEAKER_00: But the lesson is not to be afraid that something terrible can happen while I'm seeing all of those things.
13:24
SPEAKER_00: In fact, it's the opposite.
13:25
SPEAKER_00: It's my the lesson is stop postponing your life as though every other ordinary day is guaranteed.
13:32
SPEAKER_00: We don't have unlimited ordinary days left.
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SPEAKER_00: Remember, September 11th, they woke up in the morning, ordinary day.
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SPEAKER_00: Within moments, their world has changed.
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SPEAKER_00: September 12th, it's the first day of the rest of their life.
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SPEAKER_00: They expected the world to continue to be ordinary and it didn't.
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SPEAKER_00: I challenge you, because we don't have an endless supply of ordinary days.
13:56
SPEAKER_00: Why don't you call somebody?
13:57
SPEAKER_00: Why don't you call somebody you love?
13:58
SPEAKER_00: Call your dad.
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SPEAKER_00: Forgive somebody.
14:00
SPEAKER_00: Take a trip that you wanted to take.
14:02
SPEAKER_00: Go get off work early.
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SPEAKER_00: Go to your kids' games.
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SPEAKER_00: I wish there were so many times.
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SPEAKER_00: I wish I'd have spent more time with my family.
14:09
SPEAKER_00: And I'm thankful by the grace of God I didn't die in my cubicle.
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SPEAKER_00: And now I have time to redeem myself and make up for lost time with my family.
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SPEAKER_00: Get off the phone.
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SPEAKER_00: Tell somebody you're proud of them.
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SPEAKER_00: Be nice to a stranger.
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SPEAKER_00: These are all just everyday things that cost us nothing, yet we never do them because we're so busy in the rat race of life that we're in.
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SPEAKER_00: And we need to do these things, not because there's some other kind of catastrophic event around the corner, but because today matters, even if catastrophic events never happen.
14:38
SPEAKER_00: Today matters because today matters.
14:41
SPEAKER_00: You know, as a father, the only thing I want is to spend time with my wife and my kids.
14:50
SPEAKER_00: And I want them to know that I love them.
14:53
SPEAKER_00: I want them to know that they mean the world to me.
14:57
SPEAKER_00: And that I would put nothing in front of them and that I would lay down my life and die for them.
15:03
SPEAKER_00: It's that kind of love.
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SPEAKER_00: It's that kind of willing to sacrifice that we saw on September 11th.
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SPEAKER_00: Strangers supporting strangers.
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SPEAKER_00: Strangers dying for strangers.
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SPEAKER_00: I am so thankful and blessed that my life has changed to the point, a new chapter in my 25-year history, where the new chapter is I can actually be a husband and a father and not have the stress and the weight of the world on my shoulders.
15:32
SPEAKER_00: And I am blessed to do that.
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SPEAKER_00: And I just challenge the listeners to this podcast to consider what life would look like if you put down the political divisions that you hold on to, if you put down the hard lines that are drawn in the sand, if you got out of the job that you feel stuck in and do something you actually enjoy.
15:55
SPEAKER_00: Life is too short not to enjoy our daily walks.
15:59
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't mean that things have to be perfect all the time.
16:02
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't mean that there's never going to be trials or tribulations.
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SPEAKER_00: It means that we have to do whatever we can do while we were here during the ordinary days to set ourselves up for love, success, happiness, and take care of those around us.
16:22
SPEAKER_00: But so often, myself included, we get caught into this race of working for an X or doing for X, and we forget about it and we draw these hard, divisive lines amongst our church, our state, our friends, our family, our Facebook, our the personas that we live because we want to put ourselves in a place where we look or we appear or we seem better.
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SPEAKER_00: And all of that is nothing but white noise, and it means nothing in the end.
16:53
SPEAKER_00: On September 11th, 2001, that white noise silenced.
16:58
SPEAKER_00: And I just encourage you guys to consider what white noise is in your life today, what white noise is out there that is distracting you from those around you, that is distracting you from the relationships that God intended you to have.
17:12
SPEAKER_00: What white noise is out there that is keeping you from your wife, keeping you from your kids, keeping you from your family, keeping you from the long-lost brother you haven't spoken to?
17:21
SPEAKER_00: What is going on in your world that you need to let go of?
17:25
SPEAKER_00: Put yourself back on September 11th, 2001.
17:28
SPEAKER_00: Remember the unity, the love, and the peace that we all had living together as one front.
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SPEAKER_00: Find that place in your heart because it is still there.
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SPEAKER_00: Find the place where you can love one another.
17:42
SPEAKER_00: You can love your neighbor.
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SPEAKER_00: It doesn't have to be noise and nonsense.
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SPEAKER_00: It can be love and peace.
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SPEAKER_00: Stop the Facebook arguments, stop the stupid conversations, stop antagonizing being a dick.
17:56
SPEAKER_00: Just be a good human being.
17:59
SPEAKER_00: That's all this takes.
18:00
SPEAKER_00: And I'm speaking to myself as much as I'm speaking to anybody else.
18:04
SPEAKER_00: But as we're coming up on this 25th year anniversary, and as I think about meeting people over the years that was at ground zero, I know of the stories.
18:15
SPEAKER_00: And everybody's got a story about it.
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SPEAKER_00: And as I think about it, it's just one of those places and times in history.
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SPEAKER_00: Every time that somebody says the national anthem, and we have that flag moment, and we're all supposed to be looking at it with our hands over our hearts, and the people next to you are chitting and chatting.
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SPEAKER_00: It pisses me off because that is the moment.
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SPEAKER_00: Look at that flag and think about all of those strangers who died on September 11, 2001, that was trying to save others, those first responders, the military, everybody, the civilians, the firefighters, the paramedics, the cops, the everybody, the people walking down the street, taking their kids to school, the children that died.
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SPEAKER_00: Think about all of those people and think about how bright and proud that flag was flying on September 11th, 2001.
19:03
SPEAKER_00: How I couldn't buy one at a single Walmart or Kmart or Walgreens or wherever else I went to try to find a flag for my wife's classroom because everybody was buying them, supporting them, and flying them in their yards and in their houses.
19:16
SPEAKER_00: That was a moment that we wouldn't have said a single freaking word during the national anthem.
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SPEAKER_00: We would have been dead silent, just like the nation was on that day when all the planes were grounded, when you could hear a pin drop across the entire city of Phoenix.
19:29
SPEAKER_00: We would be that quiet staring at that flag, reminiscing in those words.
19:35
SPEAKER_00: That's where we need to be today.
19:38
SPEAKER_00: Attack on America, the newspaper says.
20:39
SPEAKER_00: President Bush authorized the call of 50,000 military reserves and Congress approve a$40 billion package to be used in aid for the relief site.
20:50
SPEAKER_00: Afghanistan braces themselves.
20:54
SPEAKER_00: War is imminent as we take back our country.
20:59
SPEAKER_00: If somebody 25 years ago would have held this newspaper exactly like I'm holding it right now, they couldn't see 2026.
21:07
SPEAKER_00: And I can't see 2051 as I sit here.
21:10
SPEAKER_00: I can't.
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SPEAKER_00: And I've got no idea what history is going to play out in front of me.
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SPEAKER_00: What days are going to be ordinary and what days are going to be dividing lines in the historic timeline of my life?
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SPEAKER_00: But I'm going to ask, where will you be 25 years from today?
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SPEAKER_00: Who's going to be sitting around your kitchen table?
21:31
SPEAKER_00: What will the children remember about you?
21:34
SPEAKER_00: And what will actually matter?
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SPEAKER_00: What are you doing today that is actually going to matter and imprint and make your mark on this world for 25 years down the road?
21:44
SPEAKER_00: What are the things that you're furious about today that aren't even going to register tomorrow?
21:49
SPEAKER_00: And what are you going to wish for?
21:50
SPEAKER_00: Do you are you going to wish you worked more?
21:52
SPEAKER_00: Are you going to wish that you spent more time at the office and made a little bit more money and put a little bit more time into the career?
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SPEAKER_00: Or are you going to wish you spent more time with your family, with your loved ones, and doing the things that matter?
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SPEAKER_00: Is the white noise going to be so deafening 25 years from now that you can't make heads or tails as to what direction you're going, what political party you're going to follow, what right you're going to step into, sorry, peaceful protest, whatever nonsense you're going to get involved in.
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SPEAKER_00: Is that white noise going to be so deafening, or are you going to realize that it didn't matter one single bit?
22:31
SPEAKER_00: Last week my podcast was called Love is on the Tuesdays.
22:36
SPEAKER_00: And that is exactly right.
22:40
SPEAKER_00: Love, the moments to live, or in every single day.
22:45
SPEAKER_00: In the ordinary days, in the extraordinary days, in the moments when the white noise is gone and you are actually living for the human.
23:01
SPEAKER_00: September 11th taught us how quickly the world can change.
23:05
SPEAKER_00: Maybe September 12th taught us something equally as important.
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SPEAKER_00: Eventually you have to get up the next morning.
23:13
SPEAKER_00: You have to love people.
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SPEAKER_00: You have to raise your kids.
23:16
SPEAKER_00: You have to go back to work.
23:17
SPEAKER_00: You have to laugh again.
23:19
SPEAKER_00: You have to build something new and you have to keep living.
23:22
SPEAKER_00: Twenty-five years later, the world feels pretty upside down right now in 2026.
23:28
SPEAKER_00: And maybe that's worth remembering.
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SPEAKER_00: We don't know what happens next.
23:33
SPEAKER_00: And neither do people on September 11, 2001.
23:37
SPEAKER_00: So perhaps our job isn't to know what is happening.
23:40
SPEAKER_00: Maybe that's not what God intended plan for us is to be able to look into a crystal ball and determine what it's going to be out in the future.
23:50
SPEAKER_00: Maybe our job is to simply decide who we're going to be while it's happening.
23:55
SPEAKER_00: September 18th, 2001.
24:10
SPEAKER_00: America will regain its footing.
24:12
SPEAKER_00: America will survive.
24:26
SPEAKER_00: I want to leave you with this.
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SPEAKER_00: We cannot know what the next 25 years is going to contain for us, for our family, for our loved ones, for our job, for our career, what the world is going to look like, what noise is going to be out there, what political differences there's going to be.
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SPEAKER_00: But we can decide how we're going to live the ordinary days inside of that 25-year period.
24:47
SPEAKER_00: As we remember those who were lost, we honor those who served, and we learn from what happened, but also use this anniversary as a mirror to look at the person you were 25 years ago, and now the person you became and the person you were choosing to become now while this world is upside down.
25:06
SPEAKER_00: Ladies and gentlemen, that is a Murders to Music podcast.
25:10
SPEAKER_02: Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
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SPEAKER_02: Were you in the yard with your wife and children?
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SPEAKER_02: Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke rising against that blue sky?
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SPEAKER_02: Did you shout out in anger and fear for your neighbor?
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SPEAKER_02: Or did you just sit down and cry?
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SPEAKER_02: Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones?
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SPEAKER_02: Pray for the ones who don't know.
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SPEAKER_02: Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble?
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SPEAKER_02: And sob for the ones left alone.
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SPEAKER_02: Did you burst out with pride for the red, white, and blue?
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SPEAKER_02: And the heroes who died, just doing what they do.
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SPEAKER_02: Did you look up to heaven for some kind of answer?
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SPEAKER_02: And look at yourself, and what really matters.
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SPEAKER_02: I'm just a singer of step of stones.
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SPEAKER_02: I'm not a real political man.
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SPEAKER_02: I want to see an end, but I'm not sure I can tell you the difference in I rock and I ran.
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SPEAKER_02: But I know Jesus did not talk to God.
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SPEAKER_02: Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us.
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SPEAKER_02: And the greatest is love.
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SPEAKER_02: Where were you when the world stopped turning?
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SPEAKER_02: On that September day, teaching a class full of innocent children or driving down some coal interstate.
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SPEAKER_02: Did you feel guilty?
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SPEAKER_02: Cause you're a survivor.
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SPEAKER_02: In a crowded room, did you feel alone?
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SPEAKER_02: Did you call up your mother and tell her you loved her?
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SPEAKER_02: Did you dust off that Bible at all?
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SPEAKER_02: Did you open your eyes?
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SPEAKER_02: Hope it never happened.
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SPEAKER_02: Close your eyes and not go to sleep.
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SPEAKER_02: Did you notice the sunset?
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SPEAKER_02: First time in ages.
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SPEAKER_02: Speak to some stranger on the street.
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SPEAKER_02: Did you lay down at night?
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SPEAKER_02: Think of tomorrow.
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SPEAKER_02: Go out and buy you a gun.
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SPEAKER_02: Did you turn off that violent whole movie you're watching?
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SPEAKER_02: And turn on all of Luci runs.
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SPEAKER_02: Did you go to a church and hold hands with some strangers?
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SPEAKER_02: Stand in line and give your own blood.
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SPEAKER_02: Did you just stay home and cling tight to your family?
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SPEAKER_02: Thank God you had somebody to love.
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SPEAKER_02: I'm just a singer of simple stones.
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SPEAKER_02: I'm not a real political man.
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SPEAKER_02: I watch DNA, but I'm not sure I can tell you the difference in my rock and my band.
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SPEAKER_02: But I'm a Jesus and I talk to gone.
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SPEAKER_02: I remember this from when I was younger.
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SPEAKER_02: Faithful, some good things to give us.
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SPEAKER_02: And the greatest is a lust.
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SPEAKER_02: I'm just a standard of a step of stones.
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SPEAKER_02: I'm not a real political man.
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SPEAKER_02: I want to see, but I'm not sure I can tell you the difference in a rock and I read.
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SPEAKER_02: On that September day,