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And as I left my, my office in Brooklyn, the fire department headquarters, a pla- someone said a plane hit the World Trade Center.

I was just worried I'd get stuck in traffic.

I, I wasn't even thinking about the severity of it.

Yeah.

I just better get into Manhattan, uh, before I get stuck in traffic.

And I zoomed out of headquarters, and two blocks away, I was already on the Brooklyn Bridge going into Manhattan, and by the time I got to the Manhattan side of the bridge, it was all about 20 seconds, I looked to the left and I saw about 10 to 12 floors afire all around the top of the North Tower with, uh, with choking black smoke just seeping out.

And I'm saying to myself, "Oh, my God, this has to have been a commercial jet," but it doesn't make sense 'cause jets don't fly in that direction.

But we don't know much about her background.

However, we do know that eventually she immigrated to the United States to the Brooklyn, New York area.

From what I can find online, she did have an uncle that lived in the area around 2010.

We also know that she's married.

"Your friend okay? Are you okay?" No response.

So here it is.

It's July 7th, 7:35 AM, and Leah makes a phone call to a man named Ernesto Hodgson, and she's like, "Hey, Ernesto, how much is it gonna take for you to take me from Brooklyn to Brentwood?" Now, if you're from New York, you probably already know that this is a very long car ride, but I looked it up.

It's about a hour and 25 by car and a hour and 40 minutes by public transportation.

If it doesn't end up that way, it's gonna be, yeah, like, well, many super teams, right? Like a lot of different super teams.

We thought when James Harden joined the Brooklyn Nets, that it was a foregone conclusion that they were gonna win an NBA championship, and this would feel kind of like that if it doesn't work out for the Rams.

But the, the sleep science stuff and the idea that they could game the system by putting their guys on a 16-hour flight, have them show up, get to their hotel by 9:30 local time, and play a football game the next day against the San Francisco 49ers, and that it was gonna work out for them was crazy.

And so this guy, the sleep science guy and the people who bought it, boy, they got some explaining to do.

Mm-hmm.

"US Justice Department opens inquiry into Clippers' dealings with Kawhi Leonard.

The investigation by the US Attorney's office in Brooklyn is in its earliest stages, leaving it unclear whether criminal charges will ensue." Uh, pretty simple, what is your panic level at as far as the Kawhi trade happening?

So I poked around on this, and it really does seem as though that's all the Justice Department is doing in terms of criminal charges.

It had really, really scary, freaky symptoms.

And there were some doctors, whistleblowers, a fellow in Brooklyn who came out and said, it looks like they're suffering from oxygen deprivation, like they're in a plane and there's not enough oxygen, they're blue in their fingers, and the coagulation of the blood clots.

So that's consistent with all the evidence that it's a bioweapon that was funded and made in labs here and or in Wuhan.

Okay, we can parse that, but there's plenty of evidence that an honest person Judicial or agency that cared about our health and the truth would say we need an honest and open investigation to look into this because there's so much evidence there that that's what you said.

And so today what I'm going to do is I'm going to share a way that you can tap on those sorts of issues without having to stir up all of the details and what is going on.

This is Gene Montrastelli, and welcome to the Tapping Q&A podcast, recorded live to tape from Williamsburg in Brooklyn.

This is episode 725, originally aired September 11th, 2026.

Most of us are taught at the beginning, when we learn tapping, to be as specific as possible.

The New York Times reported Thursday, citing people briefed on the matter.

The criminal investigation led by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York and Brooklyn is in the earliest stages.

Now, that is on the Clippers' side of it, but I assume all of it is going to be involved in this, right? Like, somebody...

had to be paying money to someone or something that had to be documented somewhere, if this is all true.

My grandmother had a picture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt taped to her mirror.

Everybody in Brooklyn voted Democrat.

There were no Republicans.

If you didn't vote Democrat, you voted liberal.

Tara's husband, Timmy, was a great firefighter, even a legendary one.

After surviving a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn that burned 40% of his body in 1998, He spent three years recovering, learned to walk again and return to the job.

That's all he wanted to do.

He just wanted to fight fires.

And I had actually been up early in the morning.

I was already in Brooklyn at the polling places interviewing voters in the mayoral primary when we got news, when the news began to spread about the first plane and then the second plane hitting the Trade Center.

And So I sort of tried to head, leave the polling places and try to head to lower Manhattan.

But of course, all the subways were shut down.

All traffic on all the bridges into and out of Manhattan was shut down.

And there was total gridlock and panic, really, in the streets of Brooklyn.

But I eventually was able to run over the Brooklyn Bridge on foot.

And as thousands of people were fleeing, Manhattan.