I don’t think anybody listens to your daily Lex for like really Thoughtful commentary and deep insightful analysis on things And I’ve been struggling with what I was going to do today Because I’ve seen you know, I could just not do anything or I could say that Oh people just listen for this show to be funny, but I don’t know if that’s even exactly true I think people’s in the show to hear what it is nice to say and it’s it’s it’s my show So I just I think I got to just do whatever it is on my mind And obviously it’s yet another September 11th.

They seem to keep coming every single year I Don’t think people need I mean I don’t think there’s anything wrong with people sharing their remembrances of the of the day 2001 and all those things but What was really hitting me today that I think is easy to either forget or To not know if you weren’t if you weren’t alive then or if you were too young then to really get it all but what’s what’s what I was thinking about today with the 9-11 anniversary was Besides all the terribleness of it for every Actual victim of which there were obviously thousands But it was it was so traumatic that actual day as soon as you started watching the news You were tuned in to live real-time trauma, and I think the entire Nation and modern world probably suffered varying degrees of post-traumatic stress disorder that went Post-traumatic stress disorder that went largely untreated for most of us But what I’m trying to get at that I’m not even doing a good job of because I don’t know I’m feeling funny Not literally fun.

I’m feeling funny about doing a serious or daily legs, but it’s like first you had the stories breaking in of a plane hit the World Trade Center and people didn’t know if it was Intentional accidental or what like most people assume some horrible mistake and boy What a terrible thing that has happened to this very top Obviously not knowing all the things are gonna come you watch the second plane hit live on TV if you’re on early enough and Now you have like there were one or two theories that you can hear some people talk about on the news I was watching which of rebroadcast this morning where they’re like Maybe there’s something going wrong with air traffic control, but most people quickly realize We’re under attack then you get these reports that another plane crashed into the Pentagon and Obviously you also start to see the towers fall But as traumatic as it was to watch the towers fall knowing that there were people inside them That the one two three punch I would say of I think I was at 9-eleven is often synonymous with the twin towers Oh, yeah I think the people feel like then they say accurately, you know right that the the Pentagon’s been Christian the Pentagon’s been attacked by another plane and then you get the reports of that other plane crashing in Pennsylvania and There were lots and lots of reports some of them were accurate like the White House was evacuated the Capitol was evacuated The Stock Exchange was evaluate evacuated all which made sense to do But you got you had the chaos of live news happening live As it is want to do and you had like reported.

Oh, there was a car bomb on the On the mall in Washington DC that exploded that didn’t actually happen But once you had the three of both towers and the Pentagon You’re like like I was watching some people’s home movies, right?

Well, because this is basically pre smartphone But you had home movies that people were shooting where?

They’re you know, just recording smoke building out of Tower one and they catch Tower two getting struck and then Like when they see that second way you can hear the abject absolute understandable terror in their voices because they’re like what else is gonna be attacked in New York and That I think that part is forgot like I think nobody has forgotten who was around the horror of the day but the idea that you didn’t know what it was and that the The the literal hits kept on coming was really I think terrifying and like I say traumatic I think that’s part that sometimes people Forget, I don’t know.

It was I was I was reminded today just how powerfully terrifying every next minute was I Was I had just turned on the news that morning before even the the first planes Hitting was reported because I like to watch the news the morning my senior year of college But it was uh, you know, it’s just just just an awful Reality shaking experience and the point of terrorism is to cause terror and They did right like And I think we I mean I’m not gonna get overly political don’t worry, but we still operate as a nation pretty afraid of bad guys Which is horrible But man that there’s I really do think that there was Was and is lasting trauma for folks who experienced it in a way that is hard to convey like my kids learned about September 11th in school as they should But it’s not the same thing and they know that whenever they talk about with us like we get Weird about it.

It was I can’t imagine because I wasn’t being alive when JFK was assassinated I Was alive for a couple, you know nationwide tragedies of ours, but none obviously bigger than than 11 but it really was like Immediately people started suggesting.

Hey, maybe this is terrorism.

You can immediately on some of your people say hey Maybe this is Osama bin Laden.

You get it all right away But what you didn’t know is when would it be over right when they say hey We’re all flights in the US are grounded.

All airports are closed.

All world is shut down.

Like it was a lot and I Think I think people who were around remember How awful it was but I don’t know if people always remember how Traumatic it was good thing.

It’s a different thing.

Anyway, that’s what I think about today.

What a fun uplifting episode of this show The rare theme song list version, but anyway, that was my depressed thoughts of the day and Hey We’re here.

Let’s make the most of it.

Enjoy your day as best you can.

Goodbye