Cheers.

Long day at the bullshit factory.

Welcome to the Weekender edition of the Muckrake podcast.

I'm Jared Yates-Saxon here with Nick Houselman.

We're doing this live.

We've got a live show going on.

We're very excited to have our patrons here.

The McCray community. Thank you for being here. We appreciate your support so, so much.

We're going to be doing this the whole episode live. What we're going to do today is we're going to talk, of course, about the 20th anniversary of 9-11.

We're going to break down the history behind it. We're going to break, of course, about the 20th anniversary of 9-11. We're going to break down the history behind it.

We're going to break down the circumstances around it.

We're going to break down the long-term effects, including the Afghan war, the Iraq war, growing fascism, growing authoritarianism.

For the people who are watching live, feel free to ask some questions.

When we're done going through all this stuff, we're happy to talk about some current events and answer whatever quandaries you have.

But before we get to all of that, Nick, I don't know how you feel about it.

It's really strange for me to now have September 11th, which, course was one of those foundational events that my life

obviously is divided up between before and after.

And now to look at it 20 years later and start to wrestle with what it means and what it

meant, it is really surreal for me to recognize

the time that we're dealing with here. I don't know how you feel about it. I mean, I'm trying

to feel if it like, does it feel like it's been 20 years? That's the interesting thing to me.

I mean, in some respects, I think it feels like it could be

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