Never Forget (Ep. 2593)

25:25Shawn Farash:but we're not going to sit there and become terrorists ourselves either, okay

25:32Shawn Farash:just to show you and again, this is not to be a slight or a broad brush to say everybody who belongs to this group is a terrorist and was happy about 9-11 But here we go. Let's go to our first video today to show you what was going on in the Middle East that day. This is in Gaza. OK, Palestinians out there in the Middle East. In Gaza and Israel, after learning about what happened on September 11th and the thousands of Americans who were killed and the Twin Towers came down and the Pentagon was hit with an airplane and United 93. Thank God for those brave passengers, because who knows where that thing was headed?

26:10Shawn Farash:It may have been going to the Capitol. You could have lost. Hundreds of people in government. It could have been going to the White House. Nobody knows for sure. But here are these, here are Palestinians now out there in the Middle East. Again, I'm not saying that all Palestinians are bad. I know some very nice Palestinians, all right? I'm just, this is what it is. It's the truth. There's nothing wrong with telling the truth. Here they were celebrating September 11th, but they were doing it in the Middle East. Now you got people in our country who think we deserve it and will be celebrating today.

26:41Shawn Farash:And that's disgusting. But this is what was going on out there in the Middle East, in Palestine, on 9-11. Roll it. We're going to show you from the West Bank. These are Palestinian celebrations in the wake of Tuesday's terror attacks in the United States. Apparently, Palestinians took to the street chanting, God is great. People were throwing candy, distributing candy to passersby. The U.S. government obviously has become increasingly unpopular, particularly in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, because Palestinians feel that the U.S. government has sided with Israel. One man, Nawal Abdel Fattah, wearing a long black dress, threw sweets in the air, saying actually that's a woman, pardon me, saying she was happy because, quote, America is the The head of the snake, America, always stands by Israel and its war against us.

27:40Shawn Farash:There you go. Okay. You want to know who was happy on September 11th? Because there's a lot of false narratives about that, too. Right there. Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank celebrating. celebrating 2 ,977 deaths and celebrating the rest of the deaths that would come in that day, celebrating the attacks on our country, on our innocence, on our mothers and daughters and sons and dads and uncles and aunts and all of it. Celebrating. How do you forget now? How do you How? How do you watch that? How do you watch a group of people celebrating what happened to our country on that day? How do you watch that?

28:34Shawn Farash:And then forget about it. And well, maybe they had a point. You know, the government was incredibly unpopular. You know what? I don't like Canada's government. I don't think we should be flying planes into their buildings.

28:48Shawn Farash:I'm just saying there's no rationalizing that well if you put yourself in their shoes no I'm sorry I will never just like I've said this about the Lindsay Clancy thing well you have to consider no no here's what I'm going to consider she killed three children she's a murderer in my opinion if I was on that jury I would have done exactly what that male juror did that hold out and said nope I'm not I can't get past the fact that she viciously murdered the kids I don't want to see 3 ,000 people die in a day. Anywhere. Put yourself in their shoes. No, I will not celebrate a bunch of innocent people who just went to work that day getting slaughtered by Islamo fanatics.

29:37Shawn Farash:No, I'm not going to celebrate that. I'm not going to look at it and go, well, maybe they had a point. well if it takes the death of 3 000 people to make your point then your point sucks because you can't make it otherwise okay

29:57Shawn Farash:it's disgusting it really is we're going to take a quick break here and then i'm going to tell you a couple stories about some uh some september 11 stuff i got i got my uh i got a couple hats here You know, I love my hats. One of them is just a little personal story that I, you know, I was a kid when we got this one. Another one is a very moving story about where a place I used to work and an interesting thing. So I am very excited to share that with you. Before we do that, I want to take a very quick break and talk to you about our friends over at Z Biotics. Z Biotics. I got to tell you something.

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31:47Shawn Farash:Thank you, Zbiotics, for being a part of the show. Greatly appreciate it. It's a good product I got there, okay? There you go. Serves a big purpose, right? That's for sure. All right. So I have with me today, I was 10 years old when September 11th happened. This here is my, I bought it, got it in New York City shortly after the attacks. I realized because the Twin Towers were on it, but my FDNY, you could see it. The hat, I still have this thing with me. I will never, I will never, this is never going anywhere. This hat means a lot. But I really want to tell you about about this one. For those of you who have seen the movie World Trade Center, you know that operation to grab those four men that were trapped inside of the inside of the building.

32:35Shawn Farash:Okay, so this is a Brooklyn Wall of Remembrance NYPD hat. And I'm going to tell you how I came into possession of that. So I was working in a retail store and I spoke to a gentleman there. I think it was right around September 11th. And I brought up that, you know, I'd just seen the movie World Trade Center and it was a really moving movie. And, you know, 9-11 means a lot to me, et cetera. And he had told me he worked, he was with NYPD and he was involved in the operation. to get those men out from in the rubble, right? The men who the movie World Trade Center is about. And I was fascinated by this guy.

33:14Shawn Farash:So I continued to talk to him for about an hour. I should have been doing other stuff. I was at work. I'm not there to talk to a guy about September 11th, but he was there. There were no other people who needed help. And so I spoke to this guy for a long time because I was fascinated by his experiences. And he was a part of the operation to remove those men from the rubble. Very similar to the scenes you see in World Trade Center. He was down the line. He had the folks come by him on a stretcher. He was telling me all of these stories. And you could tell, I mean, that this was very it was a very heavy moment for him.

33:44Shawn Farash:It was a very heavy memory to talk about. But you could tell he was kind of happy to talk about it. And and I genuinely appreciated the work and everything that he did for the city in the wake of those attacks. Right. So I wanted to keep him company for as long as I could, not because it was, you know, I'm not going to do my work, but because I was absolutely fascinated. I was connecting with this guy on a human level. Very nice guy. And when, again, if you weren't in New York, you maybe didn't feel this way about September 11th, but in New York, it's a very sore subject that weighed on a lot of people's hearts.

34:16Shawn Farash:It's very difficult. It's one of those things in New York where you say September 11th and the entire mood in the room changes because everybody was connected to that event in some way, shape or form. And so I knew how this guy felt, right? I'd known other cops and firefighters who were involved in the operations that day. And so we finally wrap up the conversation. And he was very appreciative that I took the time. I was extremely appreciative that he shared everything that he shared with me. So it was either the following day or a day or two after that. I was up in the break room and I'm on break and I'm being told, hey, someone is really looking for you down in electronics.

34:57Shawn Farash:That's where I was that day. And I said, okay, that's fine. I only had a couple of minutes of break left. Anyway, I'll go down there. Maybe it's a family member. Maybe something bad is happening. Anyway, I get down there and I see the gentleman that I was speaking to about September 11th, the one I was just telling you about, who was a part of the operation to get the folks out of the men who were trapped in the rubble out and back to safety. And he's with a little boy. And the little boy is his son. Right. And I'm like, okay, this is cool. And so his son pulls out this hat. Okay. And he just looks at me and he says, thank you for being so nice to my daddy.

35:41Shawn Farash:And he gave me this hat. I mean, come on, guys. I said to the gentleman, I said, thank you so much. This is amazing. He told me that the hat at that time, maybe you can get that hat from other people or in other sources now. But that hat at the time was only given to cops who were involved either in that operation or had visited the Brooklyn Wall of Remembrance. And he gave one to me. I'm not a cop. But it was just that conversation, that time that we had spent. And he had his son presented to him. It was just one of the nicest moments. And again, this is one of those things where it's a silver lining of September 11th because it brought people together.

36:33Shawn Farash:You know, and some folks may say, why is it so worn? It's because I actually had this thing in my car. Ever since he gave it to me, I would leave it on the dashboard. And it got bleached by the sun, but it's been through stuff. But you can still see it, right? NYPD, 9-11, all that hasn't faded. it's one of the most moving moments involving September 11th I think I've ever been a part of and you know it was just it was just because of a random conversation at work that led to that there are people who are who live in anguish and have been living in anguish for 25 years because of this event, because of September 11th, because of these attacks.

37:20Shawn Farash:And you wouldn't know it by looking at him until you get to that point where that gentleman got, where he thought it was appropriate to bring his little boy into the store and gift me that hat. And the kid said, thank you for being so nice to my dad, as if like that was some sort of thing that didn't happen often. Or maybe it does happen often, I don't know. but those are the types of things I look at and I say, and there are people who will quickly discount the service that that man did in favor of some other ridiculous narrative. And we're only 25 years removed from it. Well, I'll tell you what, there was a scandal this week with Zoran Mamdani and the mayor of New York city.

38:08Shawn Farash:And Zoran Mamdani gave this pen to, to the police commissioner, Tish, and she passed it along to this guy who was in some way associated with Al Qaeda. He's one of Mamdani's lawyers, the mayor office's lawyers. Anyway, Vicky Palladino was very upset about that. And let's go to this article here on Red State, which is talking about this this very incident. This is police commissioner Tish strikes back at Mamdani, or at least looks to have taken a kind of a veiled swing at Zoran Mamdani during this 9-11 event recently. There's a video there. Look, as the article says here, this is on Red State. Whenever I see NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch at an event alongside New York City Mayor Mamdani, I always get the distinct impression that she's grinning and bearing it as though she'd rather be anywhere else than near the man who has willfully and deliberately made such a mockery of the suffering that the city went through during and after the 9-11 terrorist attacks.

39:08Shawn Farash:Well, here it is. Let's play this cut. This is Police Commissioner Tish in there with essentially in front of cameras. Taking a little bit of a shot at Zoran Mamdani, reminding everybody what happened on September 11th and why. Let's play it. The scale of the loss and the devastation that day was unfathomable, and so too was the heroism that we witnessed in response. Preserving that history also means preserving its moral clarity. The men who attacked this city were terrorists. The men and women who ran into the towers to save innocent lives were heroes. 25 years cannot be allowed to blur that distinction and shame on those who do.

39:56The courage we remember from September 11th was not confined to a single morning. It was there in the members who moved toward the World Trade Center while thousands of people were desperately trying to escape. It remained in those who returned to Ground Zero afterward, even while they were grieving friends and colleagues of their own. They kept working while families waited for answers and a devastated city depended on them. that service came at a terrible cost. And today these names ask something of us in return. They ask us to remember these men and women as more than names or numbers from one of the darkest chapters in our city's history to preserve who they were and the extraordinary standard of service they left to those who followed them.

40:46Shawn Farash:Notice that she said the ones who attacked the city were terrorists. the ones who ran into those buildings to save people were heroes and shame on anybody who tries to blur that distinction take those words to heart and apply that and i i hate to do the political thing on september 11th because this used to be this used to be a terrorist attack that that transcended all political ideologies we all united we're proud to be americans these colors don't run you know Toby Keith will put a boot in your ass it's the American way the whole nine yards right so like you you have you have all of that and now 25 years later that's starting to that's that's like eroded away NYPD Commissioner Tish is and and she's she's talking about Mom Donnie that's That's what it sounds like.

41:43Because you've heard him and his ilk.

41:47Shawn Farash:Democratic Socialists, hard leftists. Take another look at 9-11. Hassan Piker, America deserved 9-11. Well, you know, it's a resistance movement. You know, even that fake news reporter, you know, during the United States government has become increasingly unpopular in the West Bank. And OK, fine. I mean, that's the truth. It has become unpopular. We've taken that and we have magnified that and amplified that a thousandfold to the point where there are people in this country who believe that the terrorists had a point and a right to do what they did to us that day. That the real heroes were the ones who flew the planes into the building.

42:36Shawn Farash:that the real victims weren't the ones who died, but the ones who had their feelings get hurt or this nonsense about Islamophobia after the attacks. Don't get me wrong, Islamophobia is wrong. You should not be, again, intolerant of a person simply because of, you know, what ideology they practice. Listen, some of it's not compatible with Western civilizations. I'm not arguing that. But the real victims of 9-11 were the ones who died on that day and thereafter because of what happened on that day. The real heroes are the ones who tried to save as many people as possible on that day. And the real terrorists were the ones who committed the acts of terror on that day.

43:28Shawn Farash:The ones who hijacked airplanes, flew them into buildings, brought those buildings down and killed innocent people. There is no other side, considerably other side. There is no other side. There's terrorism and there's not terrorism.

43:52We got people spinning up this narrative.

43:55Shawn Farash:Well, you look back at 9-11 and we have questions. Nope. As I said, over my dead body, I'm not going to let that happen. Yeah, you know what? I don't ever like to watch this type of content, okay? But I feel like 25 years after the fact, and the fact that as Police Commissioner Tish alluded to, there are people who are trying to blur the distinction between hero and terrorist. And they're willing to do that only 25 years after the attacks happened. I feel like we do need to see and hear and remember the terror that gripped this country that day. I want you to watch this video when we play this.

44:48This is New York City fireman standing in the lobby. It looks like the lobby of one of the buildings down at the World Trade Center.

44:57Shawn Farash:And you're going to hear these very loud thuds and bangs and broken glass. And I want you to understand that every time you hear that noise, that is a body of somebody who jumped out of that burning building because it was all they had left before they were engulfed in flames. I want you to understand why those people decided to jump. They were not, they didn't do it by choice. They didn't go to work that day thinking that's what they were going to do. They did it because a bunch of terrorists flew airplanes into that building and brought hell to their doorstep. And I don't like this content. It's been in my algorithm for the last week because we're getting closer.

45:48Shawn Farash:And I don't like how fresh it makes it feel. and I don't like how much it stings, and I don't like how much it hurts, but sometimes you need that to remember what pain actually feels like and why that day was so devastating and why what happened that day was so tragic, and we can remember. We can remember the despair of that day and look back on that and say we will never forget and say it will never happen again. All right, I want to play this video here. These are firefighters. I mean, you can look on their faces. Again, they hear the sound of these crashing sounds, and those are bodies. Look at this.

46:38Shawn Farash:You see these firefighters? Now listen close.

46:44Shawn Farash:You hear that? that was somebody jumping you can see their faces now this stretcher this is not a body so don't get squeamish that's just equipment but it looks kind of these guys when we heard they can't believe what they're crashing sound it was something that we never heard before

47:08all right All right. Yep.

47:22So, that's the scene.

47:26Shawn Farash:The morning of September 11th. Now they're obviously fleeing the collapse of one of the towers there. you're really going to let people forget that you're really going to let people blur the distinction as commissioner tish said between between hero and terrorist i don't like playing content like that i don't want to have to but we have to

48:01sometimes we've got to we've got to revive the way it felt i don't like feeling like that

48:09Shawn Farash:i'd rather be on here giggling with you doing voice impersonations and having a having a blast and i hope even though this is a somber day that that that you're getting something out of this

48:23Shawn Farash:the first time i saw that video i i i couldn't play it for a few days i'm not joking because of the noise i know what the noise is these guys telling you about you know these are people who are jumping to their death because they had nowhere else to go and those firemen who were standing there hearing that wanted to help but couldn't and you could tell how much it hurt them

48:52you can tell how much it hurts everyone still who hasn't lost the memory who hasn't lost

48:58Shawn Farash:that grasp on the truth of what happened on september 11th we're going to go to the next video here and i want you to pay attention this is a news report as one of the towers is coming down um this is uh uh a a news report i believe this is as the south tower so the second tower that was hit with the first tower that came down as the south tower was collapsing i believe that's what this was um watch on the right hand portion of your screen there is a fireman who is running away from or moving away from that plume of smoke that's coming in watch this again this isn't easy to watch this is a devastating moment but the raw emotion that you can that you can feel from this fireman in this video i i mean when i saw that it sent chills up my spine and I'm not exaggerating.

49:49Shawn Farash:I don't exaggerate about a topic like this. Let's roll this video. Just a moment ago, the entire top of the building collapsed. You can see a massive plume of smoke. People are running away from the area. There are firefighters and there are police trying to evacuate the area as quickly as possible. People who are near the area are in an absolute frenzied situation. The entire top of the building just collapsed. You can see the plume of smoke is coming in our direction. Let's get out of here, Ralph. We're going to leave because the smoke is coming right at us if you didn't see the fireman in that video uh he's on the right hand side and he he throws his equipment you could tell he's very angry let's play that again let's watch let's watch this this fireman here you can see it here we go the smoke is coming one of the towers it collapsed i'm not sure if it was tower one or two but you see him throwing it look at that Why is he so mad?

50:42Shawn Farash:And I'm not saying that he's acting incorrectly. I'm asking you this question so you can feel it. Look at how frustrated he is. Why? What's he feeling? Why is he so angry? You know, I hear about, put yourself in there. Put yourself in that man's shoes. And think about what that man's feeling right there. friends of his probably were in that building when it came down hundreds of people who he was who was in there trying to save were in that building when it came down that is raw emotion that's how a lot of us felt on september 11th even not being involved in the operation that he was involved in angry that somebody would do that to us angry that that's the way a group decided they wanted to make their quote-unquote point angry that 2 ,977 people all they did was show up to work that day or get on an airplane to go on vacation that day or take a trip that day angry that those people died in a brutal senseless massacre waged on our nation i'd never seen that video before i was on again i was on uh on youtube you know scrolling i know that's haley's job but but i was on youtube scrolling and that popped up and i like to read the comments and see which way the comments are going and generally on this subject it's it's the comments are still pretty kind but it's starting to kind of fade a little bit that because as the new generation, they want to, well, let's take another look at it.

52:39Shawn Farash:The comments kept pointing out to this firefighter and I could not stop watching him. And I'm happy, Guy, that you just rolled it over and over and over and over and over again because the anger can't fade. the emotion can't fade and yeah you know you may have healed and time certainly heals all wounds but it's still a pain point it still hurts it still makes me angry I know it still makes you angry I know we all still feel the way that that firefighter felt in that video

53:22Shawn Farash:and there are people who are trying to Trying to act like that man who was clearly frustrated and upset and distraught because he could not help those who he just watched perish in that building collapsing. He was so frustrated that he couldn't get in there to save anymore.

53:46Shawn Farash:I mean, this is one of the most powerful pieces of footage that I have ever seen regarding September 11th.

53:54Shawn Farash:never, ever, ever forget. Now, I'm going to move to something a little more lighthearted because this whole show, the whole first hour or so, has been very somber, but it has to be. It's September 11th. This is not a happy day, happy birthday, wonderful occasion. However, as I mentioned, there were some silver linings of this attack. It doesn't mean I'm happy that these attacks happened, but I'm proud of the response of many, of a whole nation, this nation. I'm proud of the way we responded to these attacks. Because if something like this happened today, that wouldn't be the case, and that's the problem.

54:36Shawn Farash:You would have people point their fingers at Trump. You would have people point their fingers at each political party. It would not be a united we stand thing. I mean, look at what happened a year ago yesterday. day. Something that I think, you know, everyone should just condemn the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Well, you know, he kind of said a few hateful things on the college. Whoa, stop.

55:02Unacceptable.

55:02Shawn Farash:After President Trump was shot at Butler. You would think, all right, that's it. Everybody's going to come in. Let's. let's all make a good faith effort, a concerted effort to tone down the rhetoric. We don't need to live in an assassination culture. Nope, you had people saying it's too bad the shooter missed.

55:25Shawn Farash:Oh, and then surely after Ryan Wesley Ruth in the Gulf, nope, nope, nope, nope. You got people now saying that it was staged.

55:36Shawn Farash:But I'm proud of the way this nation responded in the wake of 9-11 in the face of this. And a lot of that, you know, people needed an outlet after an attack like that. You know, you had benefit concerts and vigils and all sorts of, you know, these gatherings. But one of the things, and this is why I still watch sports, okay? Because it does provide that outlet. It does. And I understand people are going to say bread and circuses, but you don't understand the NFL's woke and all this. I don't love the politics of these major sports leagues. I don't. OK, like it's not my favorite thing, but I'm a sports guy.

56:18Shawn Farash:I've always been a sports guy. And after September 11th, sports played a huge role, a bringing people together, bringing people out. You know, these large gatherings, people were somewhat afraid about the large gatherings because of a terror attack. And it gave people an outlet. But it gave people a place where you can channel all of that grief and all of that negativity. And just and you could just go to a baseball game and just and just forget for a minute. You know, Dan was talking about how he went fishing for the first time in forever. I heard him on the other on a show the other day. And, you know, how for a little bit of time, you just you're just focused on fishing.

56:58Shawn Farash:You're focused on on what you're doing. You're casting your line. You're catching fish or maybe you're not catching fish. The cliche is a bad day of fishing beats a good day of anything else, right? And that's generally true. I'm a Jets fan, right? Like, it's not an enjoyable experience to watch the Jets play, but I like sports. And for those of you who are from New York or maybe you're big baseball fans, you know where I'm going with this. But the New York Mets, back when they played in Shea Stadium, right in Flushing, Queens, so one of the boroughs of New York City, hit very hard by 9-11, fire department families, et cetera, NYPD families, et cetera.

57:35Shawn Farash:The New York Mets in their first game back when baseball resumed after September 11th, they were playing the Atlanta Braves and they were down three to two at the time of this. And Mike Piazza, the Hall of Fame catcher for the New York Mets, hit a home run. And this is known as one of the most iconic healing quote unquote moments after September 11th. He had a home run that gave the New York Mets the lead. You know, the city had just taken a huge blow. The Mets were losing to the Braves and Shea Stadium, and the Braves were like one of their arch nemeses at the time. It was 2001. It's a year after they just went to the World Series, lost to the New York Yankees.

58:16Shawn Farash:And, you know, now they're losing, and it's like, eh, it's your first game back. Come on, we need something. And Mike Piazza hits an absolute moonshot after they're down for the majority of this game. And it just, the feeling that went through that stadium, I wasn't there, but I know people who were, and you can kind of hear it in the crowd. He hits this home run, and it's just this feeling of hope and joy. And for a moment, those New Yorkers who were devastated for a long time after that September 11th game, they've been devastated ever since the day of that attack. They were happy again. Just play this.

58:51Shawn Farash:This was a really healing moment. Mike Piazza's home run. Lopez wants it away. And it's a deep to left center. Andrew Jones on the run. This one has a chance. Go run by Piazza. And the Mets lead 3-2.

59:08Take a look at this.

59:10Shawn Farash:And here's the swing in detail. He just crushed it.

59:16Shawn Farash:Dead center field. And then he gets the curtain call out. That home run meant the world to that city at that time. You could hear it in the crowd. And listen, Mets fans are crazy. Producer Jim can tell you. Mets fans are crazy people. Even if the team is down and out, they're out there rooting for the team. They're great fans. But that was about more than just a baseball game. That was about more than just taking the lead in a baseball game, in a divisional baseball game. That was about a lot more. Mike Piazza's jersey from that game is in the Baseball Hall of Fame, not because he had a home run and gave the Mets a lead, but because of when he did it.

59:56Shawn Farash:It was very significant. Sports, guys. It's not the most important thing in the world. I get it. If your favorite sports team wins or loses, your taxes don't go up or down. You don't get Marxist ideology getting pumped into your schools. It's not going to determine who's going to war with who in the Middle East. I understand. It's not significant in the grand scheme of things, but it does have a role. and it played a role after September 11th. People came out and rallied around their sports teams and rallied around New York, rallied around the Mets and rallied around the Yankees. And I bet you, you can go back to this day to the pitcher who was on the mound to, I believe that was the manager, Bobby Cox of the Atlanta Braves.

1:00:32Shawn Farash:And they'll tell you, yeah, you know what? I don't like giving up home runs to the Mets, but that one will let slide because of when it happened. Not that they did it on purpose. That was a magical moment in sports history and the New York Mets history. And in United States history, It was one of the first games of the Metro Plains in September 11th, and Piazza hits this just, I mean, moonshot. Dead center field, 410-foot walls at Shea Stadium. That place was not the most hitter-friendly park, and he hit it to the deepest part of the ballpark, Shea Stadium. 410 feet to dead center, I believe. That's not small potatoes, guys.

1:01:10Now, the voice of that call, there's Piazza.

1:01:14Shawn Farash:I mean, look where this thing goes, man. Look where this thing landed. Right? The voice. And look at the crowd. I mean, they're on their feet. They're so happy. They're elated. Right? The voice of that call is a man by the name of Howie Rose. He was the Mets radio voice for a while. You know, Gary Cohen did radio for them. Gary Cohen does TV for them for SMY. But the voice of that call was Howie Rose. Now, why do I bring that up? because in 2011, I think, is when Osama Bin Laden was killed, Howie Rose once again finds himself on the call calling a New York Mets game while they're playing this time in NLE's division rival, the Philadelphia Phillies.

1:01:58Shawn Farash:They're in Philadelphia. And all of a sudden, the stadium starts chanting USA. Right? USA. They're chanting USA. And it's Howie Rose again with a call where all of a sudden sports and being out of the sports game, you just doesn't matter who you're rooting for at that time. You're coming together as Americans. Play this. Now the pitch and it's line foul into the seats down the third base line. One ball, one strike. And I'll tell you what's going on. The crowd is chanting USA. And the reason for that is that there are reports circulating. I am not sure if they've yet been confirmed by the White House that Osama bin Laden is dead.

1:02:49How that's happened, we don't know. But this crowd now knows it. It's amazing how things seem so important for the moment, like they did when Ryan Howard batted with the bases loaded. And then if it's true that Osama bin Laden has been captured, killed, or whatever, it just takes you back to that awful, awful day. And you wonder why you get so upset or worked up over a baseball game in the first place.

1:03:14Shawn Farash:And that, my friends, is why I appreciate sports. And boy, did Howie Rose handle that like a... Howie Rose is a pro's pro. He was also the one who called the New York Rangers winning the Stanley Cup, which is something that I hate to acknowledge happened because I'm an Islanders fan, but he was the one with Matteo, Matteo, the whole thing.

1:03:33Shawn Farash:Did you get goosebumps from that? Because I did. nobody cared about, and that was a close game, Mets, Phillies, it was a close game, 1-1, late stages of the game, and everyone's on their phone, because they're getting news, that Osama Bin Laden was killed, took a long time to get him, but the whole stadium starts chanting USA, because at that time, we hadn't really started to allow, what happened on September 11th to be distorted and perverted and spun up to fit a new narrative. It's still stung for a lot of people. I just didn't think that 15 years after that, we'd be having a different conversation about how quickly people have forgotten what it felt like on that day when we were attacked.

1:04:32Shawn Farash:I couldn't believe it. I can't believe what I'm seeing in some of these cases. All right, let's move on. Osama bin Laden dead, and you heard Howie Rose, the great Howie Rose, saying, I'm going to tell you what's going on. There's some reports going on. He didn't use the Dan Bongino rule. He did say reports. And the whole crowd is chanting USA. It was pretty awesome. A pretty awesome moment. I remember when that happened. I was like, wow, this is so special. the whole stadium. Who cares? Mets, Phillies, it's tied late stages of the game. We just smoked Osama Bin Laden. F yeah. Proud to be American USA.

1:05:15Shawn Farash:Makes you wonder if we're ever going to get back to that. I think we can, but it's going to take all of us leaning into that patriotism, leaning into that, to what never forget actually means. All right. I want to move on to a wild story. Here we go. is a son of a 9-11 victim in this off the post-millennial son of a 9-11 victim at a rally in New York City. As a matter of fact, I know some of the folks who were involved in organizing this thing, and it seems to have been a pretty big success. And this clip from their rally has gone viral. But a son of a 9-11 victim is blasting socialists for believing that Americans, quote, unquote, deserved to get murdered in terror attacks because it was part of an evil capitalist system.

1:05:57Shawn Farash:So this is somebody taking a stand against the nonsense, the new narrative, the spin, the garbage that's being taught that, well, put yourself on their show. Let's look at it on the other side of things. This is how I feel about 9-11 and this guy, this son of this 9-11 victim who slammed Mom Donnie and socialist policymakers and socialists running for office and candidates. Vaughn Coleman told this crowd of the silver lining of the 25th anniversary is that people came together. And I promise you, what I say at the beginning, that's why I'm telling you, and that's why I'm bookending it with this.

1:06:35Shawn Farash:People came together. But I want to play these comments from Vaughn Coleman about the socialists who are trying to divide people and celebrate 9-11. Let's play it. Before he went to bed on September 10th, he kicked his Celtic cross and he kissed it. Once for me, once for my sister, once for my mother, and once again for the whole family. And then he went to work that day. Now, like everyone else, he went to work not thinking that there were people that wanted to kill him simply for being an American. He was blind to that that night. But what's our excuse 25 years later? 25 years later, we know better.

1:07:22We searched for weeks, hoping to find something, but there was nothing left to bury. Not even his cross. but there's a silver lining that until recently i never understood that people would tell me about that people came together that it didn't matter if you were republican or a democrat but we were united on something we were united as americans and people who worked at the world trade center were capitalists these people don't support these things we're not just talking about standard partisan agreements this is different

1:07:57Shawn Farash:so you hear him and his father died on september 11th 2001

1:08:07Shawn Farash:okay it's it's a lot more real when you have one of these family members in front of you isn't it i can say 2977 till i'm blue in the face i could talk about the 343 till i'm blue in the face that's

1:08:25Shawn Farash:I could talk about all those things that I'm blue in the face, but now you heard the son of one of those victims. Makes it feel a lot more real, doesn't it? Carries a little more water, doesn't it? Packs a little bit more of a punch, doesn't it?

1:08:46Shawn Farash:This is why we can never forget. This is why. Von Coleman is why. His family is why. We can never forget. Now, like I said, I hate to get political about September 11th, but unfortunately, the left has turned it into a political thing. His left, the left, sorry, has turned it into a political thing.

1:09:17Shawn Farash:He said in that speech, by the way, Vaughn Coleman, I'm just going to read for you a little bit more. He says, Newsflash, you would never agree with all 3 ,000 people that were killed. It didn't matter. They were Americans. That's what mattered. He said he doesn't want to live in a country where his children are told by their teachers and college professors, which is where a lot of this is happening, that their grandfather deserved to get murdered because he was part of the evil capitalist system. You heard that.

1:09:45Shawn Farash:Folks, this isn't a joke. Vaughn Coleman also noted that Charlie Kirk, when he was murdered on September 10th, 2025, his mother turned to him and said, this is just like your father in terms of terror. The difference is 25 years ago, people didn't cheer when that kind of thing happened. It's true.

1:10:08Shawn Farash:We've fallen real far. A lot of that starts in the schools. and who's responsible for the left-wing ideology that's getting pumped into the heads of your your sons your daughters your nieces your nephews your children whomever in school that would be the radical left who wants to produce good little foot soldiers who wave the banner of big government and socialism so that's what they teach in the schools socialism is great america is terrible where our country is a colonialist it's built on stolen land the terrorists at a point. And it's it is morphed into this terrible three word phrase, four word phrase.

1:10:47Shawn Farash:America deserved 9-11. Death to America. Those are the people that the Democrats and the radical left are cozying up to. Those are the people that they're allowing in their big tent. You don't have to tell me, oh, it's a strength, not a weakness. It's worse than a weakness. That is a cancer. That is a travesty. That is a disgrace that you allow that idea in your quote-unquote tent. That you allow death to America in your tent. You allow death. the mere consideration of the thought that 2 ,977 people deserve to die on September 11th in your tent. But then again, look at some of the leaders in your tent.

1:11:50Shawn Farash:This is a video from the NRCC. I believe that's the National Republican Congressional Committee about the Democrats not condemning anyone who says these horrible things about September 11th. America deserved it. Always, you know, reducing it down to some people did something. That's what we're running against. You want those people running our country in control of one or both houses of Congress? I don't. You better vote like hell this November. Let's roll this cut here from the NRCC. 25 years. That's how long it took for Democrats to go from never forget. To this America deserve 9-11 dude some people did something was 9-11 an inevitable consequence for America Inevitable that dark day was almost 3 ,000 fathers mothers heroes Americans murdered by radical terrorists But today's Democrats align with socialist radicals who say we deserved it America deserve 9-11 dude will or 24 Congress I hear the man.

1:12:59So I still love the guy. Right, with 9-11, the idea that we have to apologize for a terror attack that a couple people did. Democrats won't condemn burning our flag or chanting death to America. They're burning American flags and chanting death to America. I'm not privy to, I haven't seen these reports. Burning the American flag and chanting death to America? At a rally in your district, people were chanting death to America. Do you condemn? Do you condemn chance of death to America?

1:13:34Shawn Farash:When political candidates and public officials refuse to condemn global terror and phrases such as globalize the intifada, they are inviting another 9-11, God forbid. Or even firebombing Americans. Kiros is under fire for refusing to say that this firebombing attack on a group of Jews last year was an act of anti-Semitism. Now, radicals are infiltrating. I don't know what else there is to say. Other than number one, that's a very powerful ad, and that should be everywhere. Number one. Because that really highlights what you're running against. But man, hearing those comments again from folks like Milad Kiros, Ilhan Omar, Hassan Piker, and so on and so forth.

1:14:23Shawn Farash:and watching as people like Ayanna Presley and AOC play dumb. Oh, what? They're chanting death to? I don't know about that. They're chanting death to America. I don't know about that. Just say, hey, if this is true and someone is saying death to America, that's wrong. That's all you had to do. That's all you had to do. Why didn't they do it? Because they didn't want to. That's why. At the very least, they didn't want to. At the very worst, because they agree with it.

1:14:56Shawn Farash:All Abdul Al-Sayed had to do when he was on with Kristen Wilker and said, hey, you know, Hassan Piker says America deserved 9-11. What do you feel about that? All he had to do is say, I don't agree with that. No, we didn't deserve 9-11. How easy is that to say? How easy is that to come out and say, no, 3 ,000 people didn't deserve to die in the blink of an eye one day. America didn't deserve 9-11. I don't agree with those remarks. How easy would that have been? But he didn't. How easy would it have been for AOC to say, nope, I don't agree with burning the American flag or chanting death to America.

1:15:32Shawn Farash:I don't know if anybody who supports me is doing that, but if they are, I don't agree with it. How easy would that have been to say, she didn't do it because she doesn't want to do it or because she doesn't believe that.

1:15:46Shawn Farash:Those are the people we're running against. and they're spitting in your face.

1:15:53Shawn Farash:And ordinarily, we get these attacks and we'll talk about it for a day or so and that pain fades. But folks, when it comes to 9-11, it's a lot different, okay? It's a lot different for me and it should be a lot different for you. I was in fifth grade. I was 10 years old in New York on Long Island

1:16:20Shawn Farash:I was a kid. I still had this innocence about me. I was a little stubborn, a little crazy, but no, generally, a good kid, right? I didn't get any trouble, whatever.

1:16:34Shawn Farash:And like the biggest slap in the face, this world ain't innocent. There's some really bad people in it. You know, they tell you, oh, don't talk to strangers. This could happen. Don't take candy from this guy. You know, you don't do it. And then that takes a pretty big step up when you're talking about a terrorist attack. I always wanted to go to the top of the World Trade Center buildings, right? And my mom told me we were in the city. She would say, no, we'll go another day. They'll always be there.

1:17:06Shawn Farash:Mom, what do you mean the Twin Towers are gone? They're gone. They collapsed. are countries being attacked?

1:17:22Shawn Farash:I'm never going to forget. How could you forget? How? I'm never going to forget the look on her face. I'm never going to forget how I knew something bad was happening because I was being signed out of school, which never happened unless I was like next to death. It's the truth.

1:17:46Shawn Farash:I'll never forget. And you shouldn't either. Take some time today. Say a prayer. Do a little reflection. Just think about where you were 25 years ago. How much it hurt. Allow yourself to feel that so that you do never forget. And make it a goal of yours in life. It doesn't have to be your life's work, but make it a mission. Make it a mission of yours to correct the mistruths, the lies, the perversion, the distortion of September 11th. Make it a goal of yours to set the record straight for the folks who might be a little confused about it. And make it known. That if someone believes that we deserve that, that person deserves none of your support, ever.

1:18:57Shawn Farash:That's not acceptable. Lean into patriotism. It's still a good thing to be proud to be American. We just celebrated 250 years of America's existence. and we're celebrating on 25 years since the darkest day in our country's history never forget and don't allow others to forget either I hope everybody has a great weekend I will catch you live on the podcast today 1 o 'clock eastern time for Sean Farish live if you're able to get there live great if not no problem you can always watch on demand you can subscribe to us anywhere you get your podcast Haley coming up at noon as I said I'm coming up right after Haley Carania with scrolling with Haley you got Vince who's been lighting it up he's been lighting it up and a talent very talented person we love Vince at 8 a.m obviously the great Dan Bongino by the way to be able to fill in for Dan Bongino today on September 11th rumble.com slash Bongino that is something I never thought I'd ever be able to say.

1:20:12Shawn Farash:So I am thankful to you and everybody who made that possible and super excited about the show that we've launched here, which has done very well. Please check it out if you can. We'll see you live at one o 'clock in the afternoon tomorrow. Today, sorry, one o 'clock in the afternoon for Sean Farish Live. And we will see you on the radio show at three o 'clock Eastern time as well. Have a great rest of your Friday. Take as much time as you need to process this episode. Share it with your friends. God bless you. God bless America. I'll see you next week. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

1:21:09We'll be right back.