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The James Altucher Show

In Honor & Memory... We Hear an NYC Air Traffic Controller’s 9/11 Story: How Chris Tucker Saved Lives

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

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4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Chris Tucker is a former air traffic controller who was working in New York City on 9/11. Tucker spent the whole day trying to keep the passengers of two hijacked planes safe. This episode is his story. It's heroic, and it saved lives. But as Chris says, "I was just doing my job."

Transcript

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0:00.0

Wow, it is 9-11 again.

0:10.8

It kind of creeps up quietly because we don't really think of it.

0:13.6

It's so long ago now, like 22 years, we don't think of it as having as much impact.

0:18.0

But of course, there's a lot of posts and I don't want to add to the normal social media

0:23.4

stuff.

0:24.4

But this is a unique take we have on it right here.

0:27.0

I spoke with the guy who was the air traffic controller who was basically in charge of New

0:35.4

York's airspace for the jets that were coming for the World Trade Center.

0:41.4

He had to make sure, like there was one store, you'll hear his story, but it's like incredible.

0:48.1

There was one plane that was in a civilian airliner that was in the way of one of the jets

0:55.1

and there was issues there and also there was a lot of debate, were they going to shoot down

0:59.9

these jets?

1:01.9

It was also interesting the military response.

1:05.2

You'll see how Chris Tucker, who is the air traffic controller, you'll see how he communicated

1:10.4

with the military.

1:12.0

They basically had to inform the military that there was this hostage situation happening

1:16.0

and it was really incredible to get that viewpoint and I'll just quickly mention my own

1:22.4

story.

1:23.4

On the first floor of the World Trade Center, there was a dean in Deluga, which was like

1:26.8

kind of where I would have breakfast every day.

1:29.2

I was day trading back then, this was obviously 2001.

1:32.8

My business partner, Dan Kelly, you might remember him from the Wall Street Insane series

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