Sep 14, 2026 · 3 hr 46 min · 17 segments
Ace and Dean-O talk about the midterm convention, Houthi breakout, P(doom), The Fly, doxxing jurors, and more. Connect: Ace: @Ace\_Archist Dean-O: @PacingJouska Ace’s Substack TETC on Twitter and…
I've heard some people describe it, and I think this is correct, that even if it's not literally the case, 9-11 was the end of the 90s.
Yeah.
And then we went into the post-9-11 era, where it's a totalitarian police watchman state.
Yes,
yes.
He was like, I don't have this weird, somber, patriotic relationship with that date because I always think of it as the thing that turned my country into a giga nanny state it's never recovered from.
Right,
exactly.
And I have that exact same feeling.
It's like, this is one of the events.
This is the event that happened in my lifetime.
Because there's a lot of these events through history.
This is the event that happened in my lifetime that caused...
The or that was the precipitating event for everything that followed that.
Yeah.
And that I was that I was obsessed with when I was in like middle school and high school.
It all goes back to 9-11.
And, of course, it goes back further, but that's the event in my life that it goes back to.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
And, you know, it's interesting, too, because, like, when you think back on, like, the 90s, right, like in a historical context, the 90s was sort of like a liminal decade in the sense that it was like you had finally escaped the 20th century in some aspects.
Yes.
I've heard some people describe it, and I think this is correct, that even if it's not literally the case, 9-11 was the end of the 90s.
Yeah.
And then we went into the post-9-11 era, where it's a totalitarian police watchman state.
Yes,
yes.
He was like, I don't have this weird, somber, patriotic relationship with that date because I always think of it as the thing that turned my country into a giga nanny state it's never recovered from.
Right,
exactly.
And I have that exact same feeling.
It's like, this is one of the events.
This is the event that happened in my lifetime.
Because there's a lot of these events through history.
This is the event that happened in my lifetime that caused...
The or that was the precipitating event for everything that followed that.
Yeah.
And that I was that I was obsessed with when I was in like middle school and high school.
It all goes back to 9-11.
And, of course, it goes back further, but that's the event in my life that it goes back to.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
And, you know, it's interesting, too, because, like, when you think back on, like, the 90s, right, like in a historical context, the 90s was sort of like a liminal decade in the sense that it was like you had finally escaped the 20th century in some aspects.
Yes.
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