Introducing: 9/12

Headlong: Running from COPS

Topic / Pineapple Street Media / Dan Taberski

Serial, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, True Crime

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

How did 9/11 the day become 9/11 the idea? That question drives award-winning host Dan Taberski (Missing Richard Simmons, Running From COPS, The Line) to shift his focus to what happened on 9/12, and every day after that. 9/12 is a poignant, surprising, and surprisingly funny seven episode series about people who wake up on 9/12 having to navigate a new, radically altered world. A teenager gets caught up in an out-of-control conspiracy theory that he helped start. A Pakistani business owner finds hundreds of his Brooklyn neighbors are disappearing. Joke-writers at The Onion must figure out just how soon is “too soon”? 9/12 asks what it all means. We know what happened on 9/11. But what happened on 9/12 to alter our memory and our perspective forever?

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0:00.0	I'm Dan Tabersky. I was the host of the podcasts, Missing Richard Simmons, and running from
0:05.2	cops, and most recently, The Lion. Do you want to hear my 9-11 story? Yeah, I mean either.
0:12.7	Because what I want to talk about is what happened the day after, and every day after that.
0:18.1	A new podcast mini-series is called 9-12. It's about how 9-11 the day became 9-11 the
0:24.2	idea. Each episode of 9-12 looks at how September 11th was used. How it became
0:29.9	a tool and a joke, a horror franchise, and a story that we just couldn't let go. You'll
0:35.7	meet the amateur filmmaker whose conspiracy theory spread around the globe, and the roller-blading
0:41.2	tour guide who tried to take him down. A Pakistani business owner who finds hundreds of his
0:46.6	neighbors have disappeared overnight. There are famous Hollywood writers and directors secretly
0:52.4	enlisted by the CIA to stop the next attack, and a drug-dealing former deadhead who becomes
0:58.4	a radical, jee-hotest.
1:00.4	I'm about to play you a preview of 9-12. I hope you like it. Be sure to follow 9-12 wherever
1:07.5	you get your podcasts, or you can binge all seven episodes right now, free on Amazon
1:12.4	Music, or with Wondery Plus.
1:19.8	In the days after 9-11, it really did feel like nothing would ever be funny again.
1:25.6	Thank you very much. Welcome to the late show. This is our first show on the air since
1:35.2	New York and Washington were attacked.
1:38.4	Even the men on late night had abandoned their post. Then shuffled back one by one, cowed
1:43.8	by their lack of words to describe what had happened. Letterman came first.
1:48.9	Watching all of this, I wasn't sure that I should be doing a television show because for
1:54.2	20 years we've been in the city making fun of everything, making fun of the city, making
2:00.0	fun of my hair, making fun of Paul.
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