35 Burst results for "World Trade Center"
AP News Radio
'Powder keg' for 9/11: 1993 trade center bombing remembered
"30 years after terrorism first struck the World Trade Center, victims relatives survivors and others remember the deadly 1993 bombing that foreshadowed 9 11. A solemn ceremony was held at the 9 11 memorial a date senator Chuck Schumer says has become an inflection point for American history. But that doesn't make what happened here 30 years ago on February the 26th. Any less important, any less tragic, any less worth remembering. The deadly 1993 bombing by Muslim extremists in an underground parking garage at the World Trade Center killed 6 and injured more than a thousand. Governor Kathy hochul. We will always stand to defend our democracy, always, always, always, and that is the message that those who look to do a term from around the world should take the heart. 6 people, including the mastermind, went to prison, the victim's names, photos, and stories are now part of the 9 11 memorial and museum. Julie Walker, New York
The Officer Tatum Show
How Damar Hamlin Brought the Country Together
"I got to read kind of revisit what I was saying. I said there's a silver lining, I believe, and what happened to the more Hamlin, and it's not dead, I think he deserved it, or maybe he wished for it. But God works in mysterious ways. The country came together like I had never seen before. Probably the only other time I've seen a country come together like this was 9 11. Where people were praying for what happened to the World Trade Center or what happened at the World Trade Center and the other planes that it crashed. People were praying all over the country. People that didn't agree with each other people that don't like each other people never talk to each other. People that are in all walks of life all aspects of life were praying. In the same thing happened with demar, it's I seen people that don't watch football. They're not involved in the NFL. They know nothing about the NFL, but they were praying for tomorrow. People on every walk of life, all sides of the aisle, conservative, liberals, CNN, Fox. I mean, you go down the list, everybody's speaking about praying for this young man. And it was beautiful to see that no matter what you are, who you are, where you're from, you know where to go. You know where the source is when something hits the fan what you need to do, and that is pray. And that is pray to the only one true God.
AP News Radio
NY Saint Nicholas Greek ChurchSt. Nicholas Greek Church reopens after 9/11
"A Greek Orthodox church that was destroyed in the September 11th attacks is reopened to the public at the World Trade Center site in New York. Parish council member Olga pavlos says the reopening of saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox church and national shrine is very emotional. It's been a long time coming. 21 years, a lot of hardships, a lot of ups and downs, but we finally made it. The church now overlooks the trade center memorial pools and an elevated park. Michael Soros with the Friends of saint Nicholas says the shrine completes the Trinity at ground zero. You have the museum. You have the reflecting poles, but now faith has been restored to ground zero. People from all faiths are invited to pray and meditate. I'm Ed Donahue
Stephanie Miller's Happy Hour Podcast
Oath Keepers Founder Stewart Rhodes Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy
"Talk to us first about this conviction because this seems like, according to all the legal experts, this is kind of a big deal as Joe Biden would say. It is hard to prove seditious conspiracy, and this was a good day for the government. Yeah, it absolutely was a great day and for those of you who actually read the book they want to kill Americans, you probably would have had most of the details of the indictment against Stewart road written out in that long narrative form showing he had started this conspiracy way back in 2020. And I've mentioned several times on this show that the reason I wrote that book was the things we were seeing that were happening between the oath keepers and the Proud Boys in August of 2020. And by September, they were exhorting all of their followers to start buying body armor, weapons, equipment, to go out and get tactical training and to be prepared for the post election period. And that's when the true conspiracy began that they were intending to act as a militia for Donald Trump personally. And to affect the overthrow of the government of the United States. So seditious conspiracy with the last time that anyone had been convicted of that was in 1992, 1993 with the guy who blew up the first World Trade Center bomb. Yeah. Um, Abdul Rahman in New York City. Conspiracy to attack the United States. So now Stuart roads is in the exact same position as Al-Qaeda.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
The Markles Have Three Emotional Support Animals
"I'm sorry to talk so much about Meghan Markle. But what can I say? She does stupid shit every day. On today's Patreon, I had some examples of why she believes her mental health is such that Harry got her someone to talk to on a weekly basis. I mean, life is tough for a Hollywood actress who goes on to marry a prince, right? And then live in a mansion in montecito. She actually said on her podcast the other day that there was a time where she didn't know if she could go on anymore. And that time wasn't too long ago. But wait, there's more. So now, sources say prince Harry and Meghan rely on their furry friends to get them through the hard times. 'cause Harry just admitted that he and his wife have three. Emotional support talks. Three. One is not enough. These pricks have to have three. Is that how screwed up they are? What would you think of a person walk by you and had three emotional support animals? There are people who survived the World Trade Center, collapsing, and don't have one emotional support dog.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Remembering 9/11 Through the Eyes of Rudy Giuliani
"Knew the city was under threat from bin Laden. No doubt about that. And we had done exercises and plans for how to deal with it, and even the differences between his people and the people we normally dealt with, which Islamic extremists in New Jersey who had brought about the first World Trade Center attack. And then when the second impact occurred where were you and what was the second impact occurred, I was less than a mile away, less than a minute away. I had just been on the phone with I just felt I was holding my deputy mayor Joe voter. Who told me how bad how bad it was and I told him and with the police commissioner and I told him when I got there, I wanted us to have secured a building where we had a hard launch. Telephone lines because the cell phones were erratic. Some were working, some weren't working. I said, Bernie, we got to get hard lines. Just grab a building and let's set up a right there. And with Joe, I said. We got to get the get Rudy Washington, and make sure Rudy's there because we got to get the transportation laws open right away. Because I realized it was going to be an incredible amount of equipment going in and out of there. And that could block the ambulances. And Rudy was an expert on transportation. And there were a lot of other conversations, but I can't remember. And I said, has anybody been able to get through to The White House and the answer was no, I said, well, I've tried three times, and I haven't gone through. Do we have air cover? We've already been hit by two planes. It could have been three. Four. Could have been 8. And they said, no, we haven't been able to. Shifted about that time. I hung up the phone. I heard a tremendous explosion, we look up, this is tremendous explosion in the sky. Jenny and I and the police were not sure whether it was a secondary explosion from the first one. Or a new something that looked more like a new something and almost as we're thinking that Bernie Carrick called and said, boss, it's a second plane. This is a terrorist attack.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Rudy Giuliani Remembers the NYC Threat Assessment Pre-9/11
"By the time you were mad, you shared something very interesting about the threat assessment is the targets for terrorist attack in New York. When it comes to Washington, it was clear The Pentagon military power, you're thinking of Congress for flight 93. But the World Trade Center wasn't the top ranked target, was it, mister mayor. No, it was actually. The stock exchange. And if you think about it, the World Trade Center, the World Trade Center was not the center of trade. I think they thought it was. We don't really do a lot of trading in the World Trade Center. If you wanted to hit the center of trade, you would hit the New York Stock Exchange. It's an office building and a big office building. And an important enough is building with very critical functions, but it's not much different than another office building in New York. Where it was a, from their point of view, a good target is it was a transportation hub. So it really, really for a long period of time made a major dent in transportation. Also, any place down there would be a tough place to hit, but because of what was across the street, which I don't even think they knew, the major electric lines all Lower Manhattan because AT&T was there. And the AT&T building was collaterally hit with a big hole in the center of it. So it would put out electricity in all of Lower Manhattan. And finally, the part of the city that they hit. They may have known this is literally underwater. So there was a danger there that never happened, thank God that that whole area could have been slowly. Because the slurry walls that keep out the Hudson River were damaged. So let's say we had had even a mild hurricane. We could have flooded out all of our Manhattan. So the first thing we did was furiously put those story walls back together and just pray for no rain.
The Officer Tatum Show
Encouragement From the Aftermath of 9/11
"I did an event yesterday. Me and Terrence Williams at a facility in Phoenix Carrie Lake was there. It was a tremendous, tremendous event we were there to support the men and women who were in law enforcement first responders military and to show love and respect for those who were there on 9 11 or who have a connection with people who were there on 9 11. It was such an amazing event packed house. It was a little bit of a comedy slash patriotic skit. It was amazing. Carrie Lake was amazing. Terrence William was amazing. I mean, people literally stomach was hurting. Cramp their stomach was cramped and they were laughing so long. So much so long. I mean, it was our shows with multiple hours. And people were laughing all the way to the very end of the show. And so I know that the forgotten man, my producer, we were talking about 9 11 yesterday and he, you know, he was telling me how hard it was, a difficult, it was on him, you know, having that experience being there, being in those buildings before, everything hit the fan. And it really triggered me to realize, I don't like these word trigger. It encouraged me to realize that there are some people that had such a tremendous effect on 9 11. I remember when I first saw 9 11. And it is ignorant I was and how I was in a bubble. I had no idea what the world trace in his work. I had no idea. I had never been out of Fort Worth Texas. And so I saw it on television, I was in middle school. I think I was in like the 8th grade. And I remember the World Trade Center was a hit at first I thought it was a movie. Then, you know, I started to realize it was actually the news report, and I thought that it was in another country. I was like, oh, man, that's crazy.
AP News Radio
9/11 terror attacks reverberate as US marks 21st anniversary
"September 11th was marked on Sunday with memorials at The Pentagon in a field in Pennsylvania and in New York City where most of the nearly where most of the nearly 3000 people were killed that day 21 years ago Charles J morrow Dorsey Mara At the World Trade Center memorial there was on and off rain while the reading of the names of those killed on 9 11 took place Right now I feel like they haven't a crime Family and friends like Deborah Burton came bearing pictures of their loved ones She also brought flowers to place where her friend Joyce Carpenter's name is inscribed I promise J Solomon who lost his brother Wayne says 21 years later and there's still no place else he'd ever be on this day I've always been down here at ground zero from the time the first time we were allowed down you know And it's just something you begin to live with You always still somewhat expect that you're going to see you know he's going to appear one day you know what I mean Even though we were one of the lucky ones that he was identified At the World Trade Center memorial I'm Julie Walker
AP News Radio
US marks 21st anniversary of 9/11 terror attacks
"Americans remembered 9 11 on Sunday with tear choke tributes and pleased to never forget 21 years after the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil Bells told and names of nearly 3000 victims were read at 9 11 tributes starting at the World Trade Center memorial in New York where benina mentis remembers her sister who was 25 when she was killed It's hard for me to talk About it She wore necklace with a photo of siobhan Has been 21 years but it's not 21 years for us It seems like just yesterday The ones that are still fresh At The Pentagon President Biden said America is committed to rooting out terrorists 21 years and we still kept our promise Never forget we'll keep the memory of all those precious lives stolen from us In shanksville Pennsylvania tree of life rabbi hazan Myers remembered those who fought the terrorists for control of the plane averting attack on Washington The sacrifice of 40 air travelers who epitomized the home of the brave so that we can live in the land of the free At the memorial in New York I'm Julie Walker
The Dan Bongino Show
Brian Birdwell: Brian Birdwell: Watching 9/11 Happened From the Pentagon
"And turn TV on see the World Trade Center that first the north tower with the antenna mask huge gaping hole in the smoke pouring out and the commentators describing it as an accident and on live TV will watch and just short order flight one 75 crash into south tower And that would confirm that neither were accidents There was no thought that we were next at about 9 35 I would step out sandy and Cheryl is going to go hit the men's restroom And those are the last words that I would speak to my two coworkers I step out and go to the men's restroom and if your listeners recall that portion of the Pentagon the E ring the outer ring of The Pentagon that receives the initial impact of flight 77 that portion of the crumbles my window where my desk was was just to the left of where the building shares off cleanly But when I step out and go to the men's restroom I walk through the impact point of what would be the impact point and what would eventually crumble go to the men's restroom So I take care of business come out I'm now about to turn right to go back through the portion of the building that has impacted and crumbles when flight 77 makes impact So I'm 15 to 20 yards from an 80 ton jet making impact with a building at 530 miles an hour and it is not by the army making me the toughest guy in that building that I survived That's a toughest man to ever walk us or 2000 years ago that still sits at the right end of the father and still in your seats in our lives on our behalf And I would be horribly burned It was a gruesome experience Dan and I don't want to be gratuitous to your no they need to hear it Senator they need to hear it We need to be reminded Please And so I'll experience a number of pains and emotions You know the physical pain of the burns I was burned on 60% of my body with about 40% being third degree burns I am 40% in the IM skinned alive
The Dan Bongino Show
Brian Birdwell: Getting a Purple Heart for 9/11
"When you're leaving the bathroom in The Pentagon and this happens do you have any idea I mean you know the buildings were struck in the World Trade Center but you said before you didn't think it was going to happen in The Pentagon Are you saying to yourself I mean what's going through your head Do you have any ideas you say to yourself Was that another plane I mean what's going through your head The first thing I thought was bomb because while The Pentagon was being renovated there were construction sounds you know jackhammers and things like that Having been around I was an artillery officer mostly heavy artillery and nothing this out I mean I mean I heard that and it was not a normal sound but in the next nanosecond as I'm as I'm taking that step thinking bomb then I'm blown across the hallway So as I'm in there struggling I wasn't putting two and two together but after I'm taken out I'm not to the hospital yet but I'm actually outside the building on that gurney And there are police officers that are saying get away from the building there's a fourth plane knowing the first two had hit New York there's a fourth one coming In that moment I could go okay It wasn't a bomb It's an aircraft But we knew that we were part of whatever was happening that day with the attack that was on the country So in some ways it's funny Dan And I've met many men and women that got a Purple Heart either in Afghanistan or rock I've met folks that clear buildings and Fallujah back in O four And when they asked me what was I doing when I got my Purple Heart my response is a rather a meek and nearly humiliating I was coming out of the men's restroom So the lord is a trip to the men's restroom for his glory and so I've got a I've got a Purple Heart for that reason and I'm glad it's only one You know I don't
The Dan Bongino Show
Brian Birdwell: When American Flight 77 Crashed Into the Pentagon
"My uniform that day was just leather shoes my polyester pants the belt the short sleeve button up shirt Name tag and access badge And before the moment of impact I'm in a 72° hallway and immediately after impact I am blown across the quarter set ablaze most of my pants and most of my shirt gone as I struggle to survive I came to that moment that I came to the recognition that I was no longer struggling to survive but it was in fact this is how the lord's calling me into eternity And I did what we in the military are never trying to do and that surrender quit give up collapse the floor and wait to die Thought about melon mat that morning my wife and my son that that morning when I said goodbye just like you know there were in fact Mel and I got the opportunity to meet the widow of the one Secret Service agent that was killed at the World Trade Center that was doing the I guess the pre work that is normally done for presidential and that that was that morning was the last I was going to speak to them until they joined me in eternity and by the large grace that's not what happened I did not decease I did survive the reform in Bill McKinnon Roy Wallace John Davies and carton on block that came out of a B ring door to be ring is the next innermost ring of The Pentagon the 5 rings 8 to E B is the second inside ring And they came out of that door came across me and I'd staggered about 25 30 yards in the condition of being skinned alive There's chunks hanging off of me my face has already beginning to swell shut just like the rocky in the first rocky movie my eyes are already beginning to swell shut but
The Dan Bongino Show
Brian Birdwell: Everybody Worked Their Own Lane on 9/11
"I mean you're such an inspirational human being Again after that speech I remember the moment I mean seriously like it happened 5 minutes ago grabbing the microphone and just I mean as you can laugh about is if they're telling that story because I just remember thinking what the hell could I possibly be saying Like oh folks how's the chicken I mean it was a Lincoln dinner Like what was I going to say And I swear it took me about three minutes to get my druthers together and just say anything Like hello is this thing on I mean your story is just so inspirational And the way your gift with words to tell it is just it's a really it makes me wonder why I don't do more in my life No no please stay up look You served in your capacity Look the people that are out there making their businesses work and pay the taxes that pay for our military It's training Look everybody has their lanes that they're working Look I'm just an old I was a heavy forces guy most of my life You know big tanks big artillery I wasn't a special operator So I wasn't the toughest guy in that building that day We all work our respective lanes and you were working your line that day I mean look we've got to meet the family that there was one Secret Service agent killed that day at the at the World Trade Center That's right He's interred at Arlington national cemetery in the Columbine there And he was working his lane that day just like you were I mean I heard you a few days ago talking about the floor that the Secret Service and your first day there and the like And you're working your lane buddy You were paying the price just like the rest of us So don't ever sell your service short
The Mason Minute
Teaching History (MM #3985)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason. There's been lots of discussion about critical race theory and teaching history in general across the U.S. and it made me realize something. A lot of people are concerned when they talk about the Holocaust. But if you think about it, since the war ended World War II in 1945, somebody born that year would be 77 years old. So anybody who experienced World War II would have to be over 77 years old. So what happens in those 77 plus years? More history happens. So what should be important gets lessened every year with more history. September 11th, in 2001, the bombing of the World Trade Center, every one of those kids, born in 2001, 21 years old this year. So think about that. It's going to be more important in the history books, but what's going to happen in another 50 years, how important will it be? I don't know, but the one thing about history, we keep adding to it. And that means there's not enough time to teach everything. And that's concerning to a lot of people, including me
The Mason Minute
Teaching History (MM #3985)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason. There's been lots of discussion about critical race theory and teaching history in general across the U.S. and it made me realize something. A lot of people are concerned when they talk about the Holocaust. But if you think about it, since the war ended World War II in 1945, somebody born that year would be 77 years old. So anybody who experienced World War II would have to be over 77 years old. So what happens in those 77 plus years? More history happens. So what should be important gets lessened every year with more history. September 11th, in 2001, the bombing of the World Trade Center, every one of those kids, born in 2001, 21 years old this year. So think about that. It's going to be more important in the history books, but what's going to happen in another 50 years, how important will it be? I don't know, but the one thing about history, we keep adding to it. And that means there's not enough time to teach everything. And that's concerning to a lot of people, including me
The Mason Minute
Teaching History (MM #3985)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason. There's been lots of discussion about critical race theory and teaching history in general across the U.S. and it made me realize something. A lot of people are concerned when they talk about the Holocaust. But if you think about it, since the war ended World War II in 1945, somebody born that year would be 77 years old. So anybody who experienced World War II would have to be over 77 years old. So what happens in those 77 plus years? More history happens. So what should be important gets lessened every year with more history. September 11th, in 2001, the bombing of the World Trade Center, every one of those kids, born in 2001, 21 years old this year. So think about that. It's going to be more important in the history books, but what's going to happen in another 50 years, how important will it be? I don't know, but the one thing about history, we keep adding to it. And that means there's not enough time to teach everything. And that's concerning to a lot of people, including me
NBC Nightly News
Americans Reflect on 9/11 and Its Aftermath
"This september eleventh the nation pauses at remembers what happened here twenty years ago across the country. Americans gathered in groups large and small at the world trade center the pentagon a field in pennsylvania in parks and at fire houses celebrating those who ran toward the danger and remembering those who lost their lives while the marshalls dc. Ross amancio robert as legal. Donald freeman klavan. Deaf new presidents past and present paying tribute. Today we remember your loss. We share your sorrow george bush's emotional call for a return to civility. The new developments today in the war fought in nine eleven's wake and the new divisions in the country as we face a new threat to decades after we all united in the face of another one a nation forever change by that day tonight the country fulfills its promise to never forget
Everything Everywhere Daily
"world trade center" Discussed on Everything Everywhere Daily
"There were fifty nine load-bearing columns on each side for a total of two hundred and thirty six this technique which was new in the nineteen sixties allowed for very open floor. Plans another consequence is that the building had very narrow windows which were only eighteen inches wide. I should know that. During the design of the building in the nineteen sixties. The architects actually did consider the possibility of an airplane colliding with one of the towers. This had actually occurred back in nineteen forty-five when a b twenty five bomber accidentally hit the empire state building in the fog. Their scenario was for a boyne 707 lost in the fog trying to land at newark or jfk. Airports there was a fair amount of resistance to the design of the towers. Aesthetically many architects were against the modernist design and claimed to look like a giant filing cabinet. Many of the building owners in manhattan objected to the government being involved in such an enormous increase of commercial real estate which would depress prices. The city of new york also had objections. Believe it or not because this was a port authority project which was a state agency. The city had no say or control over what was happening and this included not being subject to new york city building codes. Construction of the north tower began in august of nineteen sixty. Eight and construction of the south tower began in january nineteen sixty nine over one point. Two million cubic yards of fill was removed from the world trade center site. All of that material was used to reclaim land and expand the south west of manhattan. Due to the prefabricated nature of many of the components of the building especially the aluminum exterior. Construction went quickly. Tell her one topped out. In december twenty third nine hundred seventy and tower topped out on july nineteenth nineteen seventy-one. Both buildings were dedicated on april fourth nineteen seventy-three and by that point tenants had already been in both buildings for quite some time. The first tenants on tower one had actually moved in before the building topped out the world trade centers distinction of being the tallest building in the world and last very long. It only held the record for two years until the sears tower in chicago surpassed it in nineteen seventy four over the next fifteen years. Five more buildings were built at the world trade center complex. The last of which was the forty seven story building seven which was constructed in the mid nineteen eighties. One of the first noteworthy events that happen at the world trade center occurred on august seventh..
Everything Everywhere Daily
"world trade center" Discussed on Everything Everywhere Daily
"Of television shows and podcasts about the events of september eleventh. Two thousand one and the destruction of the world trade center. That's an enormous topic. That would take a lot of time to dissect and besides there are plenty of other outlets. That'll be focusing on that instead. I wanna put my own spin on things. By focusing on what happened beforehand. How these buildings came to be and what made them special. If you go back far enough to before the dutch. I arrived on the island of manhattan. The spot where the world trade center was located was actually near the hudson river. The southern tip of manhattan used to be much smaller than it is today all of the area around the edges of the island today are reclaimed land during excavations at the site in two thousand ten they actually found the remains of an eighteenth century ship. Not far from where. The towers stood analysis of the woods. Shows that are probably came from philadelphia beginning in the nineteen twenties. The location where the world trade center was located was known as radio row. It was a district focused on the sale of radios and electronic equipment that was centered on cortlandt street. Even the lower manhattan was the original location of the first settlement on the island and even though the stock exchange was on wall street by the mid twentieth century most of the economic growth on the island was in midtown. Closer to where time square was located. The idea for a world trade center in new york was first floated in nineteen forty-three based on a project in new orleans. Here i'll take a small detour to explain the idea of a world trade center. New york is not the only city that has the world trade center. Actually there are currently three hundred and twenty three world trade centers located in ninety countries around the world. There is eight world trade centers association which serves as the organizing body for them. The idea of a world trade center is pretty simple. It's usually just a single building or a collection of buildings we're companies and government agencies can operate under one roof that all seek to facilitate international trade due to the sheer size of the building in new york and it's prominent on the skyline. If you generically said the world trade center it usually just referred to the one in new york in most cities. The world trade center is usually just a normal sized office building and not necessarily.
Feast of Fun
"world trade center" Discussed on Feast of Fun
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Feast of Fun
"world trade center" Discussed on Feast of Fun
"Fun subscribe. honey now. This is the part of the show. You guys really want to hear what where mark. And i have hooked up for sex public space while i have and you have in different places throughout our lives. My favorite story is hooking up. The max ernst exhibit in berlin germany. In the summer of nineteen ninety-seven the berlin wall had just come down two years ago. And people as as hedwig hand wigan. The inch said we don't know who we are anymore. And so i was. You know we been there with my to gal pals kirti fix from teen mom and karen lewis the visual artist and we were watching looking at these artworks. And i'm like i was very familiar with max. This is work a surrealist. You've seen that the body of the woman with a fan ahead you know and i was kinda struck by how little the paintings are And i was like this is kind of boring you know. It's like a very seen been there done that. Just kind of around. And i see this guy and he comes up to me like he is in a one thousand nine hundred ten laurel and hardy film any kind of winked. Sent me like hey sailor what you do. But he didn't speak in english. And i certainly speak any german. So he's like a penis. And i'm like what so. He just kind of like me follow him and you follow them and i was like well. There's a will. there's a way. And so he. I followed him down this long staircase into the basement of the the museum and then down this hallway into this row of bathrooms and he had like some bags with him. And i didn't understand what the bags were four. But he basically put the bags in the stall in such a way that you can tell there's one or two people in there and he whips out this magnificent cock that i was just like it was bigger than this microphone. And i'm talking to you on right now. And i was just like i don't know what to do with it. I don't know what to do with it. Well was the height of the crisis. It was one of the first times ever done anything like this. And i'm just like trembling scared. I'm like i'm going to get thrown out of germany forever. I'm to get arrested. What will happen to me. In the german prison system probably get healthcare a good meal venus sinful. Yeah lots of interest in it. So and and so we struck stroked and had a good time and made out and hot about the The you know the the bathroom action and using the shopping bags from the gay guys that i worked with in college you know they. They taught me. I wasn't out yet and they would. They would tell me these stories. I was always fascinated. 'cause they're like yeah you can go to the department store and what you do is you have one of your shopping bags. And the guy comes in. He stands inside the empty shopping bag. Or you have to shopping bags. You know you have to shopping bags..
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"world trade center" Discussed on Feast of Fun
"Take care bye-bye hooker adam. Baron lives in new york city trade center. You can watch through the links on fees to fund dot com or. Just if you're subscribe to the podcast on google podcasts or or apple podcasts or spotify forgetting places you can subscribe to wherever find. Podcasts are found. If you scroll down to the show notes. They'll be a link to so you can watch the short with it really is fascinating and it's really interesting. Documentation documentary short documentary film about capturing the sex lives of people that are may no longer be here or took place in this very complicated spot world trade center. Yeah it's really fascinating to hear people's stories people talking about a how active this spot wasn't how active new york was and these big cities and how much of that has changed the internet security You know everybody watching us. Security cameras everywhere. Were missing something. i think. Well you can always make it happen. All it takes will power. That's for a guy named will guy named willpower. Get him on..
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"world trade center" Discussed on Feast of Fun
"And it's real pleasure talking to you today. It's it's you know you guys are like heroes to me. So it's really exciting. Well your your theory continuing on that work and so it's really important what you all are doing. I'm really thrilled to be able to talk with you for the first time and we can do it again and it's please time darling. We could make a What is a collaboration if you come to chicago. We'll try and show you some cruising shots. Where is still open. And they're still because right now. It's like chicago really soon. I haven't been there for years. I was there for but magazine. Tribute the The guy who runs the bijou vishu now. What's her name minutes. You can manage. Not who's the actress from chicago actress. I gotta say anything from the addams family values. also thank joan kusak. Men has shop on the first four of the bijou. Joan cusack have has a store. She's such an eccentric. He sells merchandise and wait. Joan cusack related merchandise or is it just like nick. It's knickknacks there might be some is there might be. I should go down there and see the she works in the store sometimes like say that she sees her and her from what i understand. I believe her brother lives upstairs. So you know. And i'm sure you've been to the bijou. We actually used to go because sometimes see actual live performances with drag queens like little theatre there and And then there was also parties that they would throw their sometimes too. And there's little nooks and crannies places for hooking up but The woman who runs the lgbt film festival here in town reeling she told me in the seventies she and her friend dressed up as men so they can go in and explore the plates they one of the see them so they dressed in male dragon. Got in share. Not sharon. it's some. I don't wanna say today but i don't think she really might. So i mean it's a funny story to tell but yeah these places they're changing the changing losing ground getting case sex to junkies. Yeah maybe we should just all hook up and joan cusack bathroom. And what are you doing over there ex gift shop that next gay cruising spots. Well does it. Remind glock in the bathroom door. This reminds we also win. Man's country closed. They had a final farewell party where anybody could go. And a lot of lesbians came to this britain wanting to see gay men out in action hooking up for settings and people were like a little bit self conscious and they were like and the lesbians are like come on fellas. Do something about was a dance party more than any right. I mean so. There was a little bit of action. But let's we're like amateurs right you don't sense to the public sex you know there. Shouldn't i know me inside. People think that cruising culture. It's just all all gay to know for sure. Oh no i had one friend. She was a ballet dancer in a very well known ballet dance company and she actually sought treatment for it because she was addicted to picking up men etta park. She wouldn't even share. It was a beautiful woman with amazing body and she her thing was ben wa balls and they were like expecting to have sex and all she wanted to do is get stuffed with these balls and pop up pop them out and she will flavor king and she would love to tell me about the store. It's like oh..
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"world trade center" Discussed on Feast of Fun
"And it's real pleasure talking to you today. It's it's you know you guys are like heroes to me. So it's really exciting. Well your your theory continuing on that work and so it's really important. What you y'all are doing. I'm really thrilled to be able to talk with you for the first time and we can do it again. And it's please time darling. We could make a What is a collaboration. If you come to chicago we'll try and show you some cruising shots. Where is still open. And they're still because right now. It's like chicago really soon. I haven't been there for years. I was there for but magazine. Interview th the The guy who runs the bijou bijou. Now what's her name minutes. You can manage not. Who's the actress from chicago actress. I gotta say anything from the addams family values. also thank joan kusak. Men has shop on the first four of the bijou. Joan cusack have has a store. She's such an eccentric. He sells merchandise and wait. Joan cusack related merchandise or is it just like nick. It's knickknacks there might be some is there might be. I should go down there and see the she works in the store sometimes like say that she sees her and her from what i understand. I believe her brother lives upstairs. So you know. And i'm sure you've been to the bijou. We actually used to go because sometimes see actual live performances with drag queens like little theatre there and And then there was also parties that they would throw their sometimes too. And there's little nooks and crannies places for hooking up but The woman who runs the lgbt film festival here in town reeling she told me in the seventies she and her friend dressed up as men so they can go in and explore the plates one of the see them so they dressed in male dragon. Got in share. Not sharon. it's some. I don't wanna say today but i don't think she really might. So i mean it's a funny story to tell but yeah these places they're changing the changing losing ground getting case sex to junkies. Yeah maybe we should just all hook up and joan cusack bathroom. And what are you doing over there ex gift shop that next gay cruising spots. Well does it. Remind glock in the bathroom door. This reminds we also win. Man's country closed. They had a final farewell party where anybody could go and a lot of lesbians came to this britain wanting to see gay men out in action hooking up for settings and people were like a little bit self conscious and they were like and the lesbians are like come on fellas do something about. Was the dance party. More than any right. I mean so. There was a little bit of action. But let's we're like amateurs right sense to the public sex you know there. Shouldn't i know me inside. People think that cruising culture. It's just all all gay to know for sure. Oh no i had one friend. She was a ballet dancer in a very well known ballet dance company and she actually sought treatment for it because she was addicted to picking up men etta park. She wouldn't even share. It was a beautiful woman with amazing body and she her thing was ben wa balls and they were like expecting to have sex and all she wanted to do is get stuffed with these balls and pop up pop them out and she will flavor king and she would love to tell me about the store. It's like oh..
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"world trade center" Discussed on Feast of Fun
"So then it's showing you alaska instead of. You know the masons or about you know jeff stryker with whoever else is in the fell. Always good to see jeff. After all these years that was really fascinating to see him being interviewed about that he He was great. He he he's you know he's like a family dude he just lives on his. You know sort of a state and Has all has sex dolls itself and You know i mean. He was the first person that i knew her or heard about who had a giant dick and porn like i was like sixteen years old and kids at school like well. You know jeff stryker like like kids who jeff stryker. Was my mother my bags the called bisexual and it was with jeff stryker on some dude and a woman. She founded so the kids at your school. Were comparing you to jeff stryker decks. And everybody's like you don't have a dig. Its biggest jeff stryker. Were like because. I think the name really stuck in people's heads and import rico in the eighties. Nobody knew jeff stryker is or was you know it's it was but the name kind of stuck it out there you know and so when i you know many many years later here in chicago at one of the last gay bath houses man's country. He came to perform their right and the performances. There were literally like them walking out. Like a male striptease show only they whip out their dicks and they're stroking it in front of an audience and the ones who for the vip section got a up close and personal and interactive. got rained. On got rained was at the gaiety in new york. Where a misleads featured in madonna's sex book it's worth you know with all the case strippers and stuff but that was the same retain they come out. They strip they dance. They go backstage. Someone gets them hard and then they come back out with a big bar right and this is a lot of ways i think turning to full circle here to trade center. You know. it's like this film of starts to scratch the surface or open a discussion. About how much in just twenty years. The gay experience the lgbtq experience especially when it comes to public spaces and sex and sexuality has been transformed and in some ways not for the better rate. I agree yeah it's Book certainly touched on that too. You know the closure a porn stores the closure of places physical spaces where you can meet you know it impacts lots of different people who you know. Who aren't internet savvy who aren't You know who might be just used to another way of interacting Certainly closed in the mid two thousand. That was part of the whole clean up by you. Know that was continued from giuliani to bloomberg. You know cleaning up the times square so it could be this big you know massive billboard festival or whatever and you know..
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"world trade center" Discussed on Feast of Fun
"So then it's showing you alaska. And instead of you know the masons or about you know jeff stryker with whoever else is in the fell. Always good to see jeff. After all these years that was really fascinating to see him being interviewed about that he He was great. He he He's you know he's like a family dude he just lives on his. You know sort of a state and has all has sex dolls themself and You know i mean. He was the first person that i knew her or heard about who had a giant dick and porn like i was was like sixteen years old and kids at school leg. Well you know. Jeff stryker like like kids who jeff stryker. Was my mother my bags. The called bisexual heat and it was with jeff stryker and john some dude and a woman. She founded so the kids at your school. Were comparing you to jeff stryker decks. And everybody's like you don't have a dig. Its biggest jeff stryker. We're like because. I think the name really stuck in people's heads and import rico in the eighties. Nobody knew jeff stryker is or was you know it's it was but the name kind of stuck it out there you know and so when i you know many many years later here in chicago at one of the last gay bath houses man's country. He came to perform their right and the performances. There were literally like them walking out. Like a male striptease show only they whip out their dicks and they're stroking it in front of an audience and the ones who for the vip section got a up close and personal and interactive. got rained. On got rained was at the gaiety in new york. Where a misleads featured in madonna's sex book it's worth you know with all the case strippers and stuff but that was the same retain they come out. They they'd strip they dance. They go backstage. Someone gets them hard and then they come back out with a big bar right and this is a lot of ways i think turning to full circle here to trade center. You know. it's like this film of starts to scratch the surface or open a discussion. About how much in just twenty years. The gay experience the lgbtq experience especially when it comes to public spaces and sex and sexuality has been transformed and in some ways not for the better rate. I agree yeah it's Book certainly touched on that too. You know the closure a porn stores the closure of places physical spaces where you can meet you know it impacts lots of different people who you know. Who aren't internet savvy who aren't You know who might be just used to another way of interacting Certainly closed in the mid two thousand. That was part of the whole clean up by you. Know that was continued from giuliani to bloomberg. You know cleaning up the times square so it could be this big you know massive billboard festival or whatever and you know..
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"world trade center" Discussed on Feast of Fun
"Tweets everything was just around the world all of a sudden everyone at the same time watching it and you know we ended up getting nominated for an emmy for best writing so just to have something like this and i think it's a testament to both to netflix's but also just kind of that culture even though some aspects of Are getting more conservative. Like we're actually progressing in how we're able to talk about sex and sexuality and show topics about sex and sexuality that don't you know that are immediately vilified by the million moms or what have you seen the The film leprechaun from nineteen ninety-three. It stars jennifer aniston course before she got cast on friends and originally the the box and the poster didn't have jennifer aniston's name in it and so when she became a big star. Basically jennifer aniston's leprechaun and it was kind of that same thing with alaska like alaska's we'll nestle exhausted did that with Too long food. Thanks julie newmar. Normally patrick swayze on the cover. Now it has rupaul on the covers. Don't they do what's popular right. Yeah they i think they have a million different. You know screens for all those films. And then they just pop them up in a different way. It might be based on what i've watched already. It might be actually. It might be just like that. Their algorithm knows that you are rupaul. You drag race on repeat every night. So then it's showing you alaska. And instead of you know the masons or about you know jeff stryker with whoever else is in the fell always good to see jeff again after all these years. That was really fascinating to see him being interviewed about that he He was great. He he He's you know he's like a family dude he just lives on his. You know sort of a state and Has all has sex dolls himself and You know i mean. He was the first person that i knew her or heard about who had a giant dick and porn like i was like sixteen years old and kids at school leg..
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"world trade center" Discussed on Feast of Fun
"So i i i i. I'll just sort of say no comment because part of me is like i really love original that. I kind of want it to be tainted by the remake. Y- yeah and so part of me is like i want to kind of keep it far away from me because it's like i love that scene like i if i have to smokable grass before it. I showed my face the world. It's nobody's goddamn business on my own and how you doing. And there's just wonderful little lines and quotes and seeing that sort of like stolen by the people i do feel like there's a sense of ownership by the actors who originated on broadway and the fact that they were able to successfully turn it into a film to me. Feels like it's unfair to give that to saccharine quinto to ream. You know what. I'm saying like his he's famous. He's spark like he's got money. Why are you taking this tie. Some fine i find that the new version of whatever that that's fine fine fine community. That's neat that needs a boost. You know the way we did back then and give out the you know the bump but yeah i know what you mean reboots the whole kind of. Let's do it again and didn't wasn't it wasn't the whole idea that it didn't it didn't he. It was sort of like a shot for shot which i thought was so strange like why not just take you know why not. Just take your own interpretation of the material create something new we saw version of it and immersive theatre here in chicago just before the shutdown happened. They had disclosed production because of the quarantine interest and like flap you. You're sitting you're sitting in swank you know one thousand nine hundred sixties apartment in new york and they're serving you cocktails and you're getting little or derby's and the actions happening all around you. I mean there's a camp factor to it because you're part of the action and they tell you don't interact with the actors..
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"world trade center" Discussed on Feast of Fun
"Men's imagery part of that was really tied as a response to the aids crisis and now the reason the advocate and a lot of gay newspapers and out magazine and you know Had a certain look in a certain message. You can trace it back to one person. His name is todd evans and his advertising agency ribbon del media so he For four forty years man basically convince a lot of big name advertisers and pharmaceutical industries and automobile advertiser soda pop and the big bucks that lgbt audiences had disposable income because they didn't have any kids and so it was worth putting your money into advertising into these publications but it was interesting the kind of the bargain that took place because in in doing so and successfully doing so all. His publications felt pressure to have a very narrow view of the lgbt q. World that was very white affluent and very thin and shaved plucked and manicured and grossly. Misrepresented are the true community right. Well you know it was. It was a as a response to the aids crisis. It was like this is how we survive by. Bringing in large amounts of money to fund these lgbtq publications with the ultimate goal of increasing visibility empathy and ultimately helping to drive forward our healthcare system to address aides. And you know in that deal with the devil to to survive. We also had a compromise. And i think but magazine came in two thousand one at a time period. Where you know. That wasn't as urgent. And it was a response to the events of september. Eleventh and the changing world. We were seeing anything but magazine really took this. Very diametrically opposed approach. And said you know sex. Positivity is what we're fighting for and the you know in this part of the reason you guys were like subscription driven as opposed to advertising driven byles wondering like how did the toilet. The magazine was available at american apparel stores. Yes how did that change. Was there any kind of tension in the editorial content or the dench influence that mainstreaming magazine to some degree. Influence it or impact it. No i would say that our partnership with american apparel was extremely positive and they their support was extremely crucial for our business model and you know they were. There was an incredible woman there on named. Irs who was our main points of contact you and she was our friend so there was never any there was never any you know. Oh you can't publish this. You can't do that. I mean we ended up making Michael bullock my co editor at the time Spearheaded this whole campaign to do Magazine beach towels which you can still find. I see each all the time. Exactly with arpad miklos on them and you know doll. Different bodies body types. You know on the towels and You know with their with their naked and things like that so they were then. They sold those openly in the stores. You know and i think it gave them a cool kind of credit of it brought in like you said it brought in a whole different crowd of people into their stores and i really miss american apparel has all american peril t shirts and they last forever and fitting t shirt. That's for sure and there were there. Were the t shirt. You use a lot of our early tee shirts that we sold were printed on american apparel. Yes exactly and part of that was the way that were manufactured. They were very tight in the chest area but a little bit looser in the mid section to flatter american physiques day were still fluttering..
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"world trade center" Discussed on Feast of Fun
"Yeah i think you're right. I think it became you know by the end of its run. It almost became there was like a type which was like you know kind of harry not necessarily in shape a little bigger you know. Knock on the mirror. And i think that's great because i think like that's that's more real and that that impact is more More concrete than something. Like i dunno the bear the bear movement. Or or. what have you. Because i feel like a lot of a lot of different subtypes in body types and things. It's just like we just have one body type and you know that's how you should look. But i think that by really really did a good job of showing bodies from around the world. That were different. It's interesting that when they saw a public doing the publication that they've been quoted in a couple of different interviews saying that You know thought about you know we wanted to represent these different types of guys and now we feel like we don't need to anymore with tumbler. And everything else. There's enough representation out there. How do you feel about that. I think that's absolutely true. I think there was a point when i left by In the loop early two thousand twenty towns That it just kind of felt like well you know. Everyone is creating their own little mini but magazine you know sights on their tumblers and and and you know then that progressed to twitter in that progress to other you know spaces and the i two felt like we. It kind of became ubiquitous. And okay so then once it. Does you know you don't want to repeat yourself. You just want to find the next thing. You know. Girton yup To their credit. I think they they did they. They moved onto something else that really interested them Which is Their magazine fantastic man. Which is totally different but also has the same level of care and is doing something interesting in regards to its take on the fashion magazine..
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"That is still going on just like you know as older attacks that are based on highs and You know we're going to use it to demonize a whole population of people more than whole population of people. Were going to suddenly start kind of making our culture one of surveillance and spying and passing things like the patriot act and so a lot of people's interior lives. And the you know the the things that i did. And then also in the city you know that got used by mayor bloomberg to kind of further a whole program of like downtown gentrification and you know making be made right exactly disaster capitalism and. There's a lot of money being made off of having sex in a bathroom. That's correct right but you know in in a lotta ways like queer people do sort of Help to transform communities for the better and so you know we sorta get criticized for being early gentrifying forces yes that. That's that's often the case. Get the gays in our neighborhood rundown and they all sort of set up some cute shops and then all of a sudden we can raise rents and we can drive. The people who've lived there for you know much longer out and so you know it's all kind of tied up there and the world trade center was like you said was a symbol of finance and You know capitalism and and you know american possibility success and you know greed and all these kinds of things and so you know Let's talk about the sex again. Okay sorry a lot of ways. It is an act of revolution. And it's an act of resistance to have sex place. You're not supposed to like. I think about the liza minnelli's song in cabaret the song. Cabaret she's laying as for me. I made up my mind back in chelsea. When i go i'm going like elsie having sex and drugs in public and you know to me. It's it's really fascinating and kind of a beautiful idea of thinking of somebody like the sex was so important or so strong that that force that they were like that was their destiny to some degree is to die having sex and a place. They're.
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"world trade center" Discussed on Feast of Fun
"The world has long been filled with secret hiding places where what could not be expressed in public could be enjoyed away from the prying eyes of other like minded folks could meet up for a grand counter at almost any secluded place like a park arrest stop or private stall even in places as populated as new york city. There was always a place you could go to where nobody knows your name. But they're always glad you came. In the new short film trade center filmmaker atom baron returns to the site of the world trade center to examine the stories of men who cruised the iconic building for sex before the twin towers fell. And how that moment changed. Not only new york but the world. Listen as we chat with adam about his new film which premiered south by south west about what made the twin towers powerful center for trade the impact of the surveillance state on cruising and can digital hookups replaced. What's been lost was working as editor for but the legendary gay magazine published on pink paper in the early two thousands that got celebrities to talk about their sex lives and featured men of herron size and their photo pictorials. I'm fausto fairness i'm mark billion and this is feast of fun lou..
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"world trade center" Discussed on Feast of Fun
"The world has long been filled with secret hiding places where what could not be expressed in public could be enjoyed away from the prying eyes of other like minded folks could meet up for a grand counter at almost any secluded place like a park arrest stop or private stall even in places as populated as new york city. There was always a place you could go to where nobody knows your name. But they're always glad you came. In the new short film trade center filmmaker atom baron returns to the site of the world trade center to examine the stories of men who cruised the iconic building for sex before the twin towers fell. And how that moment changed. Not only new york but the world. Listen as we chat with adam about his new film which premiered south by south west about what made the twin towers powerful center for trade the impact of the surveillance state on cruising and can digital hookups replaced. What's been lost was working as editor for but the legendary gay magazine published on pink paper in the early two thousands that got celebrities to talk about their sex lives and featured men of herron size and their photo pictorial. I'm fausto fairness i'm mark billion and this is feast of fun i-.
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"world trade center" Discussed on Feast of Fun
"The world has long been filled with secret hiding places where what could not be expressed in public could be enjoyed away from the prying eyes of other like minded folks could meet up for a grand counter at almost any secluded place like a park arrest stop or private stall even in places as populated as new york city. There was always a place you could go to where nobody knows your name. But they're always glad you came. In the new short film trade center filmmaker atom baron returns to the site of the world trade center to examine the stories of men who cruised the iconic building for sex before the twin towers fell. And how that moment changed. Not only new york but the world. Listen as we chat with adam about his new film which premiered south by south west about what made the twin towers powerful center for trade the impact of the surveillance state on cruising and can digital hookups replaced. What's been lost was working as editor for but the legendary gay magazine published on pink paper in the early two thousands that got celebrities to talk about their sex lives and featured men of herron size and their photo pictorial. I'm fausto fairness i'm mark billion and this is feast of fun. I-.