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Hey, I'm Dan Tabersky. I'm the host of 912. I hope you enjoyed this seven-part series, and if you haven't listened yet, go please check out Episode 1.

That's always a good place to start.

On 912, we took a look at how 911 the day became 911 the idea, and how that idea has shaped the world, our culture, and ourselves for the past 20 years.

Basically, we talked about everything that came after 911.

But as part of our continued coverage, I'd like to present a conversation I had with the host of another podcast, released around the 20th anniversary, that focuses instead on the day itself.

Recently, I spoke to Witt Misseldine. He's the host of the podcast, this is actually happening. The show's most recent season is called The Long Shadow.

And it talks about the day itself through the intimacy of individual stories.

Anyway, I really enjoyed our conversation. I'm excited for you to hear it. Thanks for listening.

Hello. Hey, Dan. Yes. Hey, how are you? I'm good, man. How are you?

I'm great. I've just been listening to your show. What an amazing series you've put together. Oh, good. I've been listening to yours, too. It's really compelling.

It's amazing. I feel like we've got such incredibly complimentary shows. Yeah, they're super different.

Yeah, they're super different, but you know, you've got such a broad sweeping, you know, story that you're telling, and I'm diving so individually in experiences.

And it's just kind of like the perfect complement somehow to each other's work. It's been really interesting to work on.

I wasn't sure exactly where to start, but one thing I thought might be interesting is to share our own experiences of 911 briefly and just kind of get where we were that day.

I know that's like a big connecting point for everyone. So I was going to start with you and just ask you where you were.

I'm a New Yorker, born and raised. And so I was here. I was here for 911. I was living on, well, to be honest, I was living in 59th Street and 1st Avenue, but I was staying at my boyfriend's place on 10th Street and 2nd Avenue.

It was just sort of a slow process of realizing what had happened and then realizing pretty quickly that we had a friend who worked at Canterford's Gerald on the 104th floor.

And so it immediately came about him and his wife who was trying to figure out what had happened to him.

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