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9/12

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4.1 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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9/11 & Conspiracy: When 20-year-old Dylan Avery released the documentary “Loose Change,” he got caught up in a world of out-of-control conspiracy theories that his movie helped create. Can a rollerblading New York City tour guide take him down? Who will win the fight of facts vs. feelings?

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members! You can listen to 912 Add Free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:07.0	From One Dream in Audible comes Class of 88, a new podcast hosted by Will Smith.
0:13.0	Before 1988, a lot of people didn't take hip-hop seriously, but hip-hop today, such as everything, from film, to fashion, to sports.
0:22.0	So what changed? Follow Class of 88 wherever you get your podcast.
0:27.0	Follow 912 on Amazon Music or with Wondery Plus to binge all seven episodes right now.
0:34.0	Episode 4. People New
0:41.0	Nobody knows what Manhattan means, by the way. And the best, most scholarly explanation I've seen is
0:48.0	place where wood is gathered for bows. Not a fun explanation to make as a tour guide, right? So we tend to leave that one out.
0:57.0	Mark Roberts loves New York. He loves what New York is, he loves what it was, and he loves to tell people about it.
1:05.0	I was one of the very first rollerblading tour guides out there, back when those were really, really hot.
1:11.0	Mark is already tall, so the rollerblades made him about six foot seven, which is actually perfect for a New York City tour guide.
1:18.0	Easier for his tour groups to follow him, as he glided through the crowds, as he opined.
1:24.0	And my friends would say, oh man, what a drag, because New Yorkers hate tourists, you know?
1:28.0	Guess what? They're the best people in the world. They're jazzed about being where they are, right? Everybody's on vacation.
1:35.0	They're excited about everything. They're seeing. They are literally the best people to spend your time with.
1:41.0	Eventually, Mark ditched the rollerblades and got serious and made his New York City tour guide status official.
1:48.0	I had the highest score in the history of the New York City tour guide exam. Wow!
1:53.0	They may tell everybody who does well that. I don't know.
1:56.0	Tours of the World Trade Center were a big part of Mark's business, before and even more so after 9-11.
2:02.0	Because after the cleanup was finally complete in 2002, but before the steel and cement core of the New One World Trade Center began rising in 2006, there was an in-between time.
2:13.0	When the big attraction was the lack of one.
2:16.0	A big hole in the ground, a 16-acre hole in the ground.
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