On September ninth and tenth, 2001, George Carlin was performing a standup set about having fun with mass tragedies. It wouldn’t be launched till 2016 as his remaining, posthumous, comedy album, nevertheless it had a prescient title he’d provide you with earlier than the present: I Kinda Like It When a Lotta Folks Die.
This is only one eerie anecdote that host Dan Taberski (Lacking Richard Simmons, Surviving Y2K, Operating From ‘Cops’) explores on his new podcast, 9/12, from Pineapple Avenue Studios, Amazon Music and Wondery. Carlin’s daughter, Kelly Carlin, described discovering the recordings of the standup units amongst her father’s belongings after his 2008 dying. “He’d already picked the title and he’d been working this materials,” she tells Taberski on the podcast. “That is the Carlin that folks say, ‘He’s so offended and darkish.’ The factor is if you happen to have a look at the world now, he was simply making an attempt to prep us for it. He noticed it coming, folks.”
In a seven-part collection, launched in its entirety at present on Amazon Music and Wondery +, 9/12 examines how 9/11 formed American tradition within the twenty years because it occurred. In every episode, Taberski — a born-and-raised New Yorker — focuses on how the day affected one individual or group, how issues modified for them the day after, and for the 20 years that adopted. (Episodes can be dropping weekly on all podcast platforms beginning September eighth.)
In its exploration, the collection catalogues compelling where-were-you-on-9/11 tales. There’s the truth present crew who have been remoted on a ship, crusing the Timor Sea between Australia and Indonesia to whom the information felt surreal and simple to overlook; the employees of The Onion, who had celebrated the launch of their first New York problem the night time earlier than the assaults and was left grappling with how one can be humorous within the aftermath (ultimately producing timeless headlines in regards to the shared expertise like Not Knowing What Else To Do, Woman Bakes American-Flag Cake); and a Deadhead who’d begun exploring Islamic fundamentalism six months earlier than the assaults and had to decide on sides.
Because the twentieth anniversary of the assaults approaches, Taberski’s newest venture seems again at how 9/11 modified us, what it meant, and whether or not we are able to ever transfer previous it. “Twenty years later, it’s not the day that we have to ‘always remember’,” Taberski mentioned in an announcement. “It’s how we reacted afterwards, how we let it change us and the way it nonetheless does. 9/12 is our try at determining the place to place 9/11 now.”
