Sep 11, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min · 14 segments
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Um, it would be, it would be rude and it would be, uh, it would be giving an important day short shrift to not at least spend a moment talking about nine 11, uh, Oh one that is, uh, 25 years ago, it seems impossible.
And just part of where I kind of thought I might go with this is just how unbelievably different the world was that day.
And sort of pick your reason why, uh, you know, the sort of unity that existed for a short time afterwards and, and the even sort of relative unity that, that kind of persisted, uh, for a while.
Um, the, the fact of it, uh, you know, kind of where we were, uh, all of that, it just, it's, it's, I can't believe it.
And I can't believe it in part because 25 years ago on this day, I was at work in an office in a big boy job.
It was my first big boy job, but it was a big boy job where I had to wear a suit and everything.
after we were made aware that things were happening because the senior level people had TVs in their office, which was amazing.
They actually rolled the TV and on a cart into the conference room and we all went in and then the TV stayed there.
So basically from 9-11 on, we started doing our work around a conference table while watching TV, which was sort of a harbinger of things to come.
And I offered to Allison in our conversation this morning that in part, I think the The combination of the Bush-Gore recount and all of that craziness, and then nine months later having 9-11, in no small part created or at least accelerated our addiction to moment-by-moment news.
Because for a full year, we were under unbelievable siege of huge events and then huge aftershocks and follow-ups from it.
But anyway, that's sort of my quiet observation on at least the first part of where we were on that day.
Some of them are running for office right now who don't, but that's not the point.
Um, it would be, it would be rude and it would be, uh, it would be giving an important day short shrift to not at least spend a moment talking about nine 11, uh, Oh one that is, uh, 25 years ago, it seems impossible.
And just part of where I kind of thought I might go with this is just how unbelievably different the world was that day.
And sort of pick your reason why, uh, you know, the sort of unity that existed for a short time afterwards and, and the even sort of relative unity that, that kind of persisted, uh, for a while.
Um, the, the fact of it, uh, you know, kind of where we were, uh, all of that, it just, it's, it's, I can't believe it.
And I can't believe it in part because 25 years ago on this day, I was at work in an office in a big boy job.
It was my first big boy job, but it was a big boy job where I had to wear a suit and everything.
after we were made aware that things were happening because the senior level people had TVs in their office, which was amazing.
They actually rolled the TV and on a cart into the conference room and we all went in and then the TV stayed there.
So basically from 9-11 on, we started doing our work around a conference table while watching TV, which was sort of a harbinger of things to come.
And I offered to Allison in our conversation this morning that in part, I think the The combination of the Bush-Gore recount and all of that craziness, and then nine months later having 9-11, in no small part created or at least accelerated our addiction to moment-by-moment news.
Because for a full year, we were under unbelievable siege of huge events and then huge aftershocks and follow-ups from it.
But anyway, that's sort of my quiet observation on at least the first part of where we were on that day.
Some of them are running for office right now who don't, but that's not the point.
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