Sebastian Junger
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard 13 Jun
Sebastian Junger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I was overseas when 9-11 happened, and it took me a while to get back, maybe a couple of weeks.
So I got back to New York, and I'm walking down the street by Penn Station.
It's a crazy midtown, soulless kind of area, right?
And you could still smell the burnt smell in the air, and it was a wartime city still, right?
And there was this guy who was a suit, right?
He was this white guy in a nice suit with a briefcase, and he had frozen on the street corner.
And he, you know, he worked down, I'm sure he worked downtown, right?
And whatever had happened on 9-11, like he, and he had frozen.
He was just like frozen on the sidewalk thinking.
I mean, he clearly was having a moment, right?
And this young black guy who was a bike messenger back when there were bike messengers and fax machines and stuff, he was a bike messenger, right?
And he was like on his bike and he saw this guy.
I mean, the two were completely from completely different communities in New York City, right?
And he saw this guy and he went up to him and he said, hey man, he grabbed his arm.
He said, are you okay?
You all right?
That was New York for a while, right?
It ended when the threat felt like it ended, right?
And, you know, Hurricane Sandy brought some of it back.
Half the city went dark, and downtown was pretty scary.
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