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Handel’s 9/11/2001 Broadcast · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM640, the Bill Handel Show on
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  Speaker 2: September 11th, 25 years to the day when the attack
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  Speaker 2: on the World Trade Centers happened in 2001. It was
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  Speaker 2: the worst attack on our homeland, certainly on our soil
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  Speaker 2: in the history of the United States. Now, a couple
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  Speaker 2: of things we're looking at in terms of stories. Diesel
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  Speaker 2: prices have hit another record. And so you idiot truck
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  Speaker 2: drivers who think diesel prices are high, they're going down.
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  Speaker 3: Diesel prices are going down.
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  Speaker 2: Don't argue with me on that. And then we just
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  Speaker 2: had the hottest month ever, this past month, on record, August.
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  Speaker 2: Average global temperature, 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels.
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  Speaker 4: Big, big, big deal.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Now, it is time for Foodie Friday with Neil Saavedra.
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  Speaker 2: And Foodie Friday happens here every Friday. And tomorrow, it's
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  Speaker 2: the Fork Report. Neil from 2 to 5. Neil, let's
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  Speaker 2: start with, of course, an offshoot of 9-11. That morning,
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  Speaker 2: restaurants were open or sort of And we talked about
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  Speaker 2: where we were, where the station was, where other businesses,
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  Speaker 2: where they were, not physically, but what they were in
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  Speaker 2: terms of their business life.
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  Speaker 4: What happened with restaurants?
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know, what's interesting is we tend to think
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  Speaker 5: of the Twin Towers and stuff, and we think about
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  Speaker 5: people being at their desks and working at that time
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  Speaker 5: of day, right? But one of the affected locations on
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  Speaker 5: September 11th was Windows on the World. This is a
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  Speaker 5: massive restaurant complex on the 106th and 107th floors of
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  Speaker 5: the World Trade Center's North Tower. So there were people
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  Speaker 5: in there and they were eating. You had the Hijacked
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  Speaker 5: plane hit the North Tower just below the top floors.
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  Speaker 4: Total of 79.
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  Speaker 5: Employees, 91 guests died inside that restaurant alone.
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  Speaker 4: There were other eateries there.
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  Speaker 5: The top floor space also held a smaller dining room
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  Speaker 5: called Wild Blue and a bar, get this, that was
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  Speaker 5: named the greatest bar on earth. So there were people
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  Speaker 5: that were dining or prepping for the day.
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  Speaker 4: There were workers in there.
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  Speaker 5: One of the things, many different cafes in there, Skydive
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  Speaker 5: Cafe was in there, the Greenhouse Cafe, all these places
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  Speaker 5: that were inside those towers as they fell as well.
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  Speaker 4: But what we don't think about is how.
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  Speaker 5: There's great restaurants in New York, and they're all over
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  Speaker 5: the place, and they're neighborhood favorites. They became not only Nino's,
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  Speaker 5: for instance, Nino's restaurant is there in Staten Island. It
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  Speaker 5: became a place for recovery, a relief effort. They turned
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  Speaker 5: the space into this massive command kitchen, chefs, volunteers, all
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  Speaker 5: coming there, serving free meals to rescue workers, ground zero
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  Speaker 5: for 10 straight months, 10 straight months they were doing that.
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  Speaker 5: Union Square Cafe, this is an uptown eatery, became a
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  Speaker 5: safe haven. A lot of people that were running from
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  Speaker 5: the disaster as it was happening were running into local
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  Speaker 5: eateries that became these places to welcome people in from
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  Speaker 5: the debris and stuff. And some of the videos we
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  Speaker 5: saw were the security videos inside these eateries as people
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  Speaker 5: rushed And the owners and the people working there were,
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  Speaker 5: you know, welcoming them in and shutting the doors to
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  Speaker 5: get people away from these things and how these places became,
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  Speaker 5: you know, normally your watering holes or your eateries or
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  Speaker 5: these places where you're going to breakfast and you're hanging
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  Speaker 5: out with people. They became kind of these welcoming arms
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  Speaker 5: during the disaster.
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  Speaker 4: Which is a really neat story.
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  Speaker 2: Also, the moment of the attack and you saw that
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  Speaker 2: huge plume of, It was almost like one of those
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  Speaker 2: mid-eastern dust storms.
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  Speaker 4: And everybody was running from that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and if you could dive into a building, you
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  Speaker 2: obviously were safe from at least that plume of dust
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  Speaker 2: that was coming. Okay, so that's New York. That's ground zero.
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  Speaker 2: And a lot of heroics. How about restaurants around the country?
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  Speaker 2: You know, how did they react? Because now you have
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  Speaker 2: a morning where all of a sudden this attack happened.
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  Speaker 2: We are all thunderstruck. And let's say I was going
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  Speaker 2: to go to lunch that day.
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  Speaker 4: What did I do? Were restaurants open? In New York? No, no, here,
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  Speaker 4: here in the rest of the country. New York is. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 4: there were.
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  Speaker 5: But I think in that time, you know, people gathered
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  Speaker 5: almost like a sports activity in that sense. There were
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  Speaker 5: places that were open that had multiple TVs. But keep
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  Speaker 5: it in mind, on the West Coast, it was still
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  Speaker 5: 6 a.m. So you're looking at breakfast places and the like.
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  Speaker 5: But any of those 24-hour places, any place with a TV,
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  Speaker 5: were gathering places for people to hear in L.A. for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I asked that question wrongly. How were restaurants affected?
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  Speaker 2: How in terms of the habits that people have in
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  Speaker 2: terms of going out, eating at restaurants, was that affected?
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  Speaker 4: Everything was, of course.
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  Speaker 2: And to what extent?
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  Speaker 5: You know, there were all kinds of things. There was
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  Speaker 5: something called the Persian Room. It was a notable venue
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  Speaker 5: on Melrose that shut down during post 9-11. There were
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  Speaker 5: people that weren't going. It wasn't quite the pandemic but
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  Speaker 5: yes people were not going out people didn't feel like
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  Speaker 5: they could go enjoy themselves or do those things and
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  Speaker 5: there was a place in beverly hills um uh that
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  Speaker 5: remained open but many places i think it was called
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  Speaker 5: uh mistral um but there were many places that closed
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  Speaker 5: because people weren't going in um ed de bevics you
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  Speaker 5: remember that retro oh i do remember ed de bevics
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  Speaker 5: That was also listed for sale amidst the post 9-11
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  Speaker 5: economic slump. So there was a downturn here, even in
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  Speaker 5: Los Angeles, of people going out. Remember, Ed DeBevics was
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  Speaker 5: about fun. You had the interaction, the music. And I
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  Speaker 5: think there was, for a while, people even here on
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  Speaker 5: the West Coast didn't want to celebrate, didn't want to
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  Speaker 5: enjoy themselves. And places closed, restaurants closed.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to remember, and I don't remember that
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  Speaker 2: part of it going out. And in those days, I
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  Speaker 2: used to go out all the time, and I don't remember.
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  Speaker 2: It was so busy following the news and having done
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  Speaker 2: that broadcast, which we're going to replay at the bottom
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  Speaker 2: of the hour, the broadcast that happened here on KFI
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  Speaker 2: as the attack on the Twin Towers happened. Okay, we'll
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  Speaker 2: do something a little bit different. And Trader Joe's. which
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  Speaker 2: I happen to like very, very much. I'm a big
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  Speaker 2: fan of Trader Joe's. They have a new fall bakery
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  Speaker 2: item or many. So would you talk about that.
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  Speaker 4: For a moment?
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  Speaker 5: We'll combine a couple of these two stories. First, Trader
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  Speaker 5: Joe's has this new fall bakery item. And a lot
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  Speaker 5: of people are just going, let's do this.
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  Speaker 4: Take my money. I want this. And it actually sounds
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  Speaker 4: quite interesting.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 5: They just dropped a new sliced pumpkin sourdough bread. So
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  Speaker 5: sourdough is, you know, came into vogue again when COVID hit,
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  Speaker 5: people were making it home. And it's actually a bread
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  Speaker 5: that's pretty good for you if done right. And this
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  Speaker 5: probably is a little more on the sugary side, but
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  Speaker 5: it is insanely good from what people are saying, saying that,
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  Speaker 5: you know, apple cinnamon type fall treats are their jam.
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  Speaker 5: And now this pumpkin is, puree cinnamon nutmeg ginger all
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  Speaker 5: the things that you would assume are in this loaf
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  Speaker 5: and uh it the sweetness of the pumpkin the sourness
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  Speaker 5: of the sourdough people are saying are a great combination
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  Speaker 5: on yes oh.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry uh i didn't know you're gonna go from
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  Speaker 2: uh Forward with more, but it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 4: I love interrupting you anyway. Please do. I am and
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  Speaker 4: I will. No, I love it. I know you do.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not interrupting you. No, I'm saying that. That's fine.
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  Speaker 2: So in terms of Trader Joe's, I would think that
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  Speaker 2: the higher inflation hits us. The better Trader Joe's is
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  Speaker 2: going to be because Trader Joe's, when you look at
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  Speaker 2: the market vis-a-vis other markets and what it offers, is
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  Speaker 2: very reasonably priced. I'll say it's inexpensive relative to other
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  Speaker 2: stores in terms of what you get. Do you happen.
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  Speaker 3: To know the figure?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fair.
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  Speaker 4: No, they've always done well in those times.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you're not going to find name brands in
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  Speaker 5: there per se, even though some might be made in
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  Speaker 5: the same factories as name brands, some of the items.
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  Speaker 5: That's part of their charm is they don't tell you that.
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  Speaker 5: But certainly, one of the things that people hate the
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  Speaker 5: most about Trader Joe's is one of the things that
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  Speaker 5: helps keep that price down. They buy small buildings. They
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  Speaker 5: don't want massive, massive stores. They want small stores. And
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  Speaker 5: in California, especially, the stores, a company, if it's a
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  Speaker 5: small location, comes with a small parking lot.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: And that's why people always go, how come they just
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  Speaker 5: don't get bigger parking lots? Because they don't want to
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  Speaker 5: be a massive grocer. They want to be a small
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  Speaker 5: neighborhood grocer that just happens to be beloved. And that's
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  Speaker 5: why um you know there are some rules that go
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  Speaker 5: along with the size of the building as to how
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  Speaker 5: many parking stalls you get and so that's why people
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  Speaker 5: get frustrated here in california especially.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you find it ironic that you can't get in
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  Speaker 2: the parking lot. Parking lots are a nightmare at Trader Joe's.
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  Speaker 2: They purposely do that. They design parking lots to be
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  Speaker 2: a nightmare.
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  Speaker 5: Well, they're buying, very rarely are they building structures, at
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  Speaker 5: least here in a lot of places I go to.
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  Speaker 4: Trader Joe's has purchased a building in that area.
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  Speaker 2: Right, and I understand, but here's the irony here, is
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  Speaker 2: that in terms of the checkout counters, and they don't
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  Speaker 2: have self-checkout, you don't wait. It's the fastest lines in
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  Speaker 2: the world because they have enough clerks out there in
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  Speaker 2: front at the various counters that you're not waiting more
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  Speaker 2: than three minutes.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you're waiting 20 minutes to get into the parking lot,
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  Speaker 2: but you are waiting no time to check out. A
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  Speaker 2: little ironic, to say the least. But I love their food.
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  Speaker 2: They're Indian food, and people don't appreciate this. If you
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  Speaker 2: like Indian food— which I love. They have a brand,
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  Speaker 2: their brand of Indian food, and it comes out of Canada, actually.
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  Speaker 2: Frozen Indian meals that you pop in the microwave oven
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  Speaker 2: for three minutes, and it's spectacular.
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  Speaker 4: It is so good.
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  Speaker 5: They're now going to cost you four times as much
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  Speaker 5: because they're from Canada.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yes, that's true.
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  Speaker 2: Or they're going to put in the ingredients you don't
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  Speaker 2: want to see or hear or taste of.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. It's going to be called Tariff Joe's.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. KFI AM 640. Bill Handel here on a Friday morning,
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  Speaker 3: September 11th. 25 years ago.
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  Speaker 2: I was sitting here behind the mic. In those days,
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  Speaker 2: the broadcast was 5 to 9 in the morning. Ken
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  Speaker 2: Gallagher was my news guy. He was the old Amy
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  Speaker 2: for Amy, and a bunch of other news people came aboard.
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  Speaker 2: And as this was happening, there I was watching the monitors,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm going to play you a sort of six-minute–
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  Speaker 2: six minute version of the five hours that I was
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  Speaker 2: covering it.
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  Speaker 3: So these are the highlights.
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  Speaker 2: And for those of you that remember 9-11, which I do,
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  Speaker 2: take a listen as this was literally unfolding before mine,
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  Speaker 2: your very eyes.
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  Speaker 6: A plane crash into a New York landmark. I'm Ken Gallagher.
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  Speaker 6: Smoke is pouring from the upper floors of the north
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  Speaker 6: building of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
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  Speaker 6: And then we have reports now that a second plane
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  Speaker 6: has struck the other tower. We'll have confirmation on those
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  Speaker 6: details just as soon as we can.
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  Speaker 1: It's fairly obvious now, Ken, that a second plane has,
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  Speaker 1: in fact, struck the tower.
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  Speaker 4: You can see that now. We now have both buildings
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  Speaker 4: on fire.
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  Speaker 1: And it's hard to say at this point, but that
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  Speaker 1: cannot be an accident. And I think it's safe to
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  Speaker 1: say that we've got a situation going on where we've
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  Speaker 1: got a terrorist attack upon the World Trade Center. They're
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  Speaker 1: looking at a lot of damage and probably a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people being killed. Both airplanes are being reported as
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  Speaker 1: hijacked by the FBI. If this is the case, we've
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  Speaker 1: got an extraordinary, extraordinary criminal act going on.
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  Speaker 4: This is out of a movie. The airplane was aimed
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  Speaker 4: for and was.
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  Speaker 1: Timed to do the maximum amount of damage and to
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  Speaker 1: hurt and kill and maim the most number of people.
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  Speaker 4: We don't think in terms of attacks on us.
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  Speaker 1: This one is the alarm clock going full blast at
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  Speaker 1: 110 decibels, screaming in your ear.
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  Speaker 4: Wake up, this happens. This is a whole new world.
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  Speaker 6: Bill, we do have a bulletin from Associated Press that
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  Speaker 6: says a plane has now crashed into the Pentagon.
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  Speaker 1: This is the worst nightmare for American security forces and
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  Speaker 1: the people of the United States.
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  Speaker 4: This is war.
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  Speaker 1: It appears some group or another has declared full-scale war
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  Speaker 1: on the United States. At this point, we're just sitting
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  Speaker 1: back and wondering when the next one is going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: One of the World Trade Center buildings just collapsed. The
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  Speaker 1: entire building collapsed. There is nothing left of it. The
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  Speaker 1: whole thing just came down. The whole building is now down.
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  Speaker 1: You can't even imagine the number of people that have
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  Speaker 1: died and have been hurt. And they're going to be
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  Speaker 1: pulling people out of there for the next several months.
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  Speaker 1: Second building now collapsing. This is unbelievable. If you look
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  Speaker 1: at the skyline of New York, you will not see
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  Speaker 1: major monuments of the World Trade Center. We don't know
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  Speaker 1: how far this will go. All we can assume is
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  Speaker 1: that there is no building that is safe at this point.
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  Speaker 1: We in Los Angeles, LAPD, on tactical alert. The anti-terrorist
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  Speaker 1: division has been mobilized, and we're assuming an attack will
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  Speaker 1: come here. We do know that Somerset County Airport outside
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  Speaker 1: of Pittsburgh, a plane did go down just north of
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  Speaker 1: the airport, and that is a 747.
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  Speaker 4: Let me tell you, we're in it together. We are
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  Speaker 4: in it together. We have been attacked as a people.
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  Speaker 4: Complete chaos, and he said he saw the explosion, and
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  Speaker 4: he saw the.
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  Speaker 6: People, he said, were actually jumping from the building.
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  Speaker 1: Now, what is the outcome of this? How is this
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  Speaker 1: going to affect the business of the United States? How
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  Speaker 1: is it going to affect the business of commerce? We
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  Speaker 1: have absolutely no idea. We don't know. All we know,
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  Speaker 1: we can safely say, that today, war has been declared
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  Speaker 1: on the United States of America.
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  Speaker 6: It may have actually been molten metal that was pouring
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  Speaker 6: out of the building.
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  Speaker 1: Debris falling, I'd say, at least three quarters the height
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  Speaker 1: of the building.
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  Speaker 6: People in the entire perimeter began to run.
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  Speaker 4: For our lives.
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  Speaker 6: L.A.
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  Speaker 4: International Airport. Closed. Simply closed down.
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  Speaker 1: All our local amusement parks, including Disneyland, Six Flags, Magic Mountain,
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  Speaker 1: Knott's Berry Farm, closed. The major movie studios, including Sony Pictures,
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  Speaker 1: Warner Brothers, are closed, including tours and production of TV
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  Speaker 1: and motion pictures. The second annual Latin Grammy Awards scheduled
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  Speaker 1: to be broadcast live. Tonight from the Staples Center, postponed.
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, all games canceled today, postponed.
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  Speaker 6: Afghanistan's hardline Taliban rulers are rejecting any suggestions that Osama
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  Speaker 6: bin Laden was behind today's attacks. Taliban's ambassador to Pakistan
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  Speaker 6: says bin Laden does not have the facilities to carry
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  Speaker 6: out such well-orchestrated attacks.
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  Speaker 3: Well, of course, the Taliban would be expected to say that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, frankly, we have been spoiled.
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  Speaker 1: We have been spoiled by the freedom that we have
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  Speaker 1: in this country, the fact that we have a totally
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  Speaker 1: free society, people come and go as they.
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  Speaker 4: Want, and we have not been visited upon. like this.
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  Speaker 1: The only analogy I can make is now we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be beginning to feel like the Israelis feel. You
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  Speaker 1: simply don't know. You simply don't know when it's going
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  Speaker 1: to come, how it's going to come, and how many
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  Speaker 1: people are going to die. Thousands of Palestinians have gone
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  Speaker 1: out on the street celebrating the attack on the World
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  Speaker 1: Trade Center towers and the rest of America and are screaming,
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  Speaker 1: God is great. Probably the worst day, one of the
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  Speaker 1: worst days in our collective history. This will be one
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  Speaker 1: of the days you remember for the rest of your life.
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  Speaker 1: One thing I promise you, it will never be the
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  Speaker 1: same in this country again.
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  Speaker 7: Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very
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  Speaker 7: freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and
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  Speaker 7: deadly terrorist acts. The victims were in airplanes or in
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  Speaker 7: their offices. secretaries, businessmen and women, military and federal workers,
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  Speaker 7: moms and dads, friends and neighbors. Thousands of lives were
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  Speaker 7: suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. America was
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  Speaker 7: targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for.
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  Speaker 4: Freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will
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  Speaker 4: keep that light from shining.
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  Speaker 7: Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings,
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  Speaker 7: but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts
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  Speaker 7: shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the things that comes to mind as
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  Speaker 2: I listen to it, and keep in mind that was
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  Speaker 2: sort of a very short compilation of, what, six, eight
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  Speaker 2: hours that I was on the air. As Amy was
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  Speaker 2: on the air at her country station, she was there for, what, eight,
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  Speaker 2: nine hours, 12 hours, I think, is when the Pakistani ambassador,
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  Speaker 2: and he said that Osama bin Laden didn't have the facilities,
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  Speaker 2: couldn't put it together, this well-planned out attack.
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  Speaker 3: He did it with some box cutters.
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  Speaker 4: He did it with box cutters.
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  Speaker 2: 25 years to the day when the attack on the
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  Speaker 2: World Trade Center towers took place. Also, the Pentagon was,
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  Speaker 2: of course, attacked by one of the hijacked teams, one
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  Speaker 2: of the hijacker teams. And the airplane, I think the
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  Speaker 2: United Airplane, went down in Shanksville or near Shanksville, Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 2: when a few of the passengers, knowing they were going
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  Speaker 2: to die, by the way, there was no... Didn't have
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  Speaker 2: any doubt they were going to die, where the people
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  Speaker 2: in the other airplanes really didn't know what was happening.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you.
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  Speaker 4: Did hear, and you did hear.
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  Speaker 2: there were voicemail messages left I love you I love
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  Speaker 2: you because as the plane was flying at basically at
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  Speaker 2: the level of the buildings before it went into the
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  Speaker 2: trade in one of the two towers there were people
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: that looking out the window and can see how low
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: they were and knew something was dreadfully dreadfully wrong But
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: in terms of saving, it was probably going to be there.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to go after, I think, the either.
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  Speaker 2: If I remember correctly, that last United flight was probably
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: going to go into the capital and was saved by
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: the passengers aboard the airplane. And we just played a
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  Speaker 2: compilation of the six minutes, a compilation of about six
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  Speaker 2: minutes of the entire broadcast day. Amy and I, of course,
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  Speaker 2: remember because we were on the air live. She was
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: at a country station. I was here on KFI and
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: watching it happen in real time. I mean, I was
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: watching TV when this was happening and talking about that.
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  Speaker 3: Neil, you were about to say something?
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  Speaker 5: You know what hit me? Is Palestine celebrating people dying
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  Speaker 5: in America.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: And 25 years later, young people have no idea and
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  Speaker 5: think they are the oppressed people.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: And how different it is, regardless of where you sit,
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  Speaker 5: how different it is that Palestine celebrated people dying in America.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that was along the West Bank. And in Gaza,
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  Speaker 2: you had the Palestinians cheering.
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  Speaker 4: It's no different now. They'd be cheering for our deaths.
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  Speaker 3: That's true.
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  Speaker 2: Although their argument is what Israel has done subsequent to.
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  Speaker 4: The war is very different. That was 25 years ago.
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  Speaker 4: But you're right.
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  Speaker 2: And this was why there was so much anti-Muslim feeling
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: and hatred. were a member of the Muslim population here, man,
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: it was not easy for you. And, you know, keep
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: in mind that you have, for example, Iraq.
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  Speaker 4: Remember the Iraq War? Of course you do.
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  Speaker 2: And the Iraqis, how much they were hated. Oh, my God,
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  Speaker 2: you come from Iraq. We, therefore, can't stand you. Keeping
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: in mind that near Dearborn, Michigan, there are 100,000 Iraqis,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: all of them having fled Iraq. and are Americans and
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: want to become American citizens, but it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 3: But that's what happens.
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  Speaker 4: That was equally as horrible.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's horrible. And what does end up happening and
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: did when there was a terrorist who went into Israel
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  Speaker 2: and blew himself or herself up and took a few
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  Speaker 2: people with them, the families of those people, the mothers
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: would hand out candy and they would be considered martyrs
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: and people would come over to their houses and and
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: say how wonderful their son or daughter was having committed
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: this act because they were martyrs. I mean, it's a
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: very different world. And when we broadcast that morning, and
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: here it were bits and pieces. We didn't really know
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: what was coming in at what time. And it was
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: all kinds of misinformation. Originally, I immediately, of course, went
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: into history. And at the first tower going down, I
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: was talking about maybe this was simply a plane off course.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: And maybe it went into the tower as a result
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: of an accident. During World War II, there was a
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: bomber that went into the Empire State Building.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: And it was an American bomber.
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  Speaker 2: And it was an accident. And I think 13 people
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: or so died. And it was right in there. And also,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: we thought at first it was a smaller airplane. Because
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: relative to the size of the building, these are little
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: tiny airplanes that went in.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: It was a 767 that went in.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, these were jumbo planes that went into the tower.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: And we didn't know at that point. We knew pretty
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: early that it was Osama bin Laden. I mean, that
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: came up. As a matter of fact, you heard the
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Pakistani ambassador say, oh, no, Osama bin Laden couldn't do this.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: He didn't have the facilities to do this. Well, it
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: turned out they did it with virtually very little planning.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: And we missed a lot of it. We did.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: And as a result of that, we're much, much more
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: cognizant in terms of security, particularly at airports, because that's
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: what happened. And it was.
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  Speaker 3: Just an incredible, incredible feeling.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: For those of you that are younger and you're looking
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: at this just as history, believe me, for those of
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: us who were there and watched this happen, it's something
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: we're never going to forget. And we all know exactly
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: where we were. Ask the people that survived Pearl Harbor.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: They knew exactly where they were the moment that it happened.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Ask people who were there when the assassination of JFK happened.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: They knew exactly where they were.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: I was at home.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: I was at home.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: I was watching TV. I was a really young little guy.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: I was watching CBS. I don't remember what was on,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: but I remember Walter Cronkite coming on and saying the
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: president has been shot. And of course, we remember 9-11,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: those of us who were old enough to, although as
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: I did a story earlier, 100 million Americans have no idea.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: They know, but it's just a little bit of history.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: That's all it is. much more involved and much more
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: engaged in what happened in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Persian Gulf War.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: All right, we're done, guys. So we commemorate today, and
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: I'll be seeing it all day long, as it should be,
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: the various remembrance ceremonies. Tomorrow morning, it all happens at
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: 8 o'clock in the morning for me. Handle on the law.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Marginal legal advice. Neil comes on at 2 o'clock, 2
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: to 5. Rich DeMuro in between us. He is sandwiched
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: between me and Neil. And Monday morning, it all comes back.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: When Will and Amy start the broadcast at 5 o'clock
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: with wake-up call. Neil and I until right about now
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: at 9 o'clock. Kono and Ann always there. staring at
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: me and wondering what horrible things I'm going to say
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: about them today.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: Okay? Calendar this. Okay?
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go off script for a moment.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: They really are that bad.
• 25:57
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