Kevin and Sarah go back 23 years, 11 months, and 6 days to talk about the surreal first seconds, minutes, and hours of 9/11, specifically from the perspective of live broadcast news on that day.

Music by Rrrrrose Azerty.

Recorded August 17, 2025 in South Slope, Brooklyn.

Kevin and Sarah discuss "The Falling Man," the haunting, historic photograph by photojournalist Richard Drew, taken 9:41:15, 9/11/01.

Music by Rrrrrose Azerty.

Recorded August 12, 2025 in Astoria, Queens.

Kevin and Sarah discuss the barely coherent, very not good, made for TV biopic of New York City Mayor Rudolph "Rudy" Giuliani, released in 2003, starring James Woods. They also thoroughly discuss the rather quite good book by journalist Wayne Barrett on which the film is very loosely based, as well as Kevin's memories of growing up in the vicinity of Rudy's NYC, up to and including the events of September 11, 2001.

Intro / Outro by Rrrrrose Azerty.

Recorded August 1, 2025 in South Slope, Brooklyn.

Nested within an American history of routine, careless mistreatment of workers and the dispossessed, Kevin and Sarah discuss the chronic health problems faced by the first responders, victims, and survivors of 9/11.

Exposed to dangerous conditions at the crime scene and during disaster cleanup, these volunteers, workers, and people in proximity to contaminated zones contracted illnesses which set in quickly and persist to this day.

Amidst lofty rhetoric about their selfless heroism, city, state, and federal officials conspired to deny causes, declaim responsibility, and smear reputations in the name of CYA.

It is a saga of official stonewalling, legal jockeying, and fury from an indignant public which leads to, but does not end with, the passage of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010.

Please support single-payer. Health care is a human right.

Intro/Outro songs by Rrrrrose Azerty.

Recorded July 19, 2025 in Astoria, Queens.

On December 22, 2001, the worst aviation-related terrorist attack in world history almost got a little brother. And that little brother was way more sophisticated than the media may have led you to believe. With a recreated timeline and contemporary reporting as to-the-minute and accurate as we could make it, Kevin and Sarah are proud to bring you the true story of the attempted "shoe bomber," Richard Colvin Reid.

Intro/Outro music by Loyalty Freak Music/Rrrrrose Azerty

Recorded July 19, 2025 in Astoria, Queens.

All the stars are here! On the night the US bombed Iran in an extraordinary act of aggression, Kevin and Sarah coped the only way they knew how — discussing actors and artists who went really out of their way to make sure everyone knew that they knew what a building demolition looks like.

AA911T archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20101116145455/http://actorsandartistsfor911truth.com/index.htm

Recorded June 21, 2025 in South Slope, Brooklyn.

Kevin and Sarah compromise a vacation to spend time together rediscovering a strange day in post-9/11 America.

Recorded July 4, 2025, in Hampton Bays, NY.

Intro by Benjamin Griffin
Outro by Olov Brändström

It's a beautiful lie? In this episode, Kevin and Sarah discuss one of the foundational texts of what would come to be known as 9/11 trutherism: 2002's "L'effroyable Imposture," aka "The Horrifying Fraud," aka "9/11: The Big Lie" by French author Thierry Meyssan. Were they impressed? Were they... horrified? There's only one way to find out — because you'll defintiely never guess.

Some information about the collapse of WTC 7 was read verbatim from a slide in a presentation given by Professor Brian Wagner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRrcAYSdQmM Episode art thumbnail of plane debris at the Pentagon was sourced from the same presentation.

One note: we briefly mention the diesel tanks in Building 7 as a potential contributor for the collapse, and while that was once theorized as part of the problem, the NIST final report on the collapse minimizes the role any fires specifically caused by those tanks may have played.

Additional sources:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/09/27/white-house-drops-claim-of-threat-to-bush/81acd479-1596-4fca-b6e9-dca0172053c7/

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/13/opinion/essay-inside-the-bunker.html

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/were-the-only-plane-in-the-sky-214230/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-presidents-story-11-09-2002/

We cavalierly said we'd leave a link to the book in the episode description, but that violates copyright! And we don't do that here.

Recorded June 21, 2025, in South Slope, Brooklyn.