Sep 11, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min · 11 segments
We began this episode with a clip from a 1972 press conference in which Gloria Steinem protested an abortion reform bill passed by the New York State Legislature designed to circumvent the feminist…
Claire PotterHost
Neil J. YoungHost
And tomorrow we have the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks on the Pentagon and Manhattan's World Trade Center.
A New York Department of Health study has revealed that That actually, when New Yorkers were told that the air was okay to breathe, the air was not okay to breathe.
But they've also revealed the results of a long-term health study from toxins that were released almost as soon as the first plane hit.
They have revealed that although New Yorkers were actually told it was okay to be downtown, 10 months later, officials were still finding asbestos up to half a mile away from the site.
Well, half of the people, which there's 54,000 people in the Ground Zero study, like lots of them were obviously rescue workers.
people who are involved in the recovery, half of those 54,000 people have been treated for cancer, which is just a stunning statistic.
There's also, they've been under care for respiratory and mental health as well as for dementia.
But I mean, I think, you know, a big name in this list is Rudy Giuliani himself, mayor, of course, of New York City at the time who, you know, basically lived at the site for Weeks, if not months.
But you do have to wonder how he was changed by the trauma of that moment and how getting all of those toxins in his body may have actually affected his capacity to think straight, right?
I mean, I doubt we'll ever have conclusive evidence around that or that it would be made public or anything like that.
But it's information like this that I do think feels... highly relevant if it's not, you know, actually definitive.
I think there's a way to understand his behavior as a sort of development of a personality that was always there.
And yet, I think this sort of, like, medical information, this scientific information that's been released provides certainly a different context that... makes a lot of those aspects of him that we've seen in the last couple of years.
And tomorrow we have the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks on the Pentagon and Manhattan's World Trade Center.
A New York Department of Health study has revealed that That actually, when New Yorkers were told that the air was okay to breathe, the air was not okay to breathe.
But they've also revealed the results of a long-term health study from toxins that were released almost as soon as the first plane hit.
They have revealed that although New Yorkers were actually told it was okay to be downtown, 10 months later, officials were still finding asbestos up to half a mile away from the site.
Well, half of the people, which there's 54,000 people in the Ground Zero study, like lots of them were obviously rescue workers.
people who are involved in the recovery, half of those 54,000 people have been treated for cancer, which is just a stunning statistic.
There's also, they've been under care for respiratory and mental health as well as for dementia.
But I mean, I think, you know, a big name in this list is Rudy Giuliani himself, mayor, of course, of New York City at the time who, you know, basically lived at the site for Weeks, if not months.
But you do have to wonder how he was changed by the trauma of that moment and how getting all of those toxins in his body may have actually affected his capacity to think straight, right?
I mean, I doubt we'll ever have conclusive evidence around that or that it would be made public or anything like that.
But it's information like this that I do think feels... highly relevant if it's not, you know, actually definitive.
I think there's a way to understand his behavior as a sort of development of a personality that was always there.
And yet, I think this sort of, like, medical information, this scientific information that's been released provides certainly a different context that... makes a lot of those aspects of him that we've seen in the last couple of years.
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