Episode 181 dives into 9/11’s 20th anniversary with Peter Dale Scott, after a chaotic detour through astrology jokes and Thanksgiving rants—including a gourd tradition defense. The hosts admit past missteps like Yale’s Lockerbie ties, now regretted, while framing the episode’s deep dive into conspiracy theories and overlooked narratives surrounding the attacks. [Automatically generated summary]
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Why Birthdays Are On The Internet
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| It's September, and you know what that means, right? | |
| Oh, no, what does it mean? | |
| It's Virgo season. | |
| How come y'all females acting like that because of the month is? | |
| Wait, isn't it? | |
| Wait, it's Libra season, no? | |
| You're a Libra. | |
| First of all, I don't know. | |
| But your birthday is not in September. | |
| No, it's not. | |
| Well, America's birthday is not. | |
| Oh, it's coming up soon, though. | |
| We don't have to talk. | |
| I don't need. | |
| I guess it says it on the internet. | |
| It does. | |
| I get it. | |
| My birthday. | |
| Wait, why is your birthday on the internet? | |
| What are you talking about? | |
| Oh, because of like, yeah. | |
| Yeah, my birthday is on the freaking internet. | |
| It's because I get taken down. | |
| I can't get it taken down. | |
| I've tried to add nicknames anytime you want. | |
| Here's what they do. | |
| Okay, this is what you should do now. | |
| Hey, Brace, when's your birthday? | |
| October 4th. | |
| Brace, when's your other birthday? | |
| October 3th. | |
| Are you trying to get somebody a real birthday? | |
| October 13th. | |
| No, I'm trying to get you to say multiple new birthdays so they add them like nickname. | |
| I don't know how Wikipedia is. | |
| My birthday is in November, and it's the worst day in November. | |
| It's the day in November that you start thinking about, oh, my family's going to be so mean to me because I'm 35 and I'm mentally crazy and I can't, I'm all so depressed. | |
| And my family's going to get mad at me at Thanksgiving because of my unorthodox political views that I learned on the internet that I'm insisting on telling them. | |
| Here's my thing. | |
| Why are you talking about that at the Thanksgiving table? | |
| Thanksgiving is by far the worst holiday. | |
| It's dog shit. | |
| What? | |
| Are you fucking kidding me? | |
| No gifts. | |
| And then bad, I don't like Thanksgiving food. | |
| What? | |
| Yeah, well, okay. | |
| Hey, we have already talked about how I think you should come to my place for Thanksgiving. | |
| So we've already talked about that one. | |
| Two, you have never had my Thanksgiving. | |
| Three, who says my Thanksgiving doesn't have gifts? | |
| You wouldn't know because you've never been. | |
| A gourd. | |
| A gourd. | |
| You could get more than a gourd. | |
| Okay, yeah. | |
| Also, it's a gourd. | |
| Gourd. | |
| Uh-huh. | |
| Go on. | |
| What's the fourth thing that you're yelling at me? | |
| It's a great holiday. | |
| Ladies and gentlemen, we could not think of an intro for the Peter Dale Scott guest. | |
| Okay. | |
| We couldn't think of an intro for the Peter Dale Scott guest episode. | |
| So I guess we just talked about Thanksgiving. | |
| Oh, my God. | |
| You know why? | |
| Okay. | |
| You know what? | |
| I'll tell him. | |
| You know why we talked about Thanksgiving? | |
| Why? | |
| Because we were talking about how in our first take, it was 9-11. | |
| And that's like a holiday, basically, something like that. | |
| That's where it went. | |
| We went from A to B to C. I'm just mapping it up for people. | |
| The truth of it. | |
| The red string on the board. | |
| Summer's over. | |
| Summer's over. | |
| It's 9-11. | |
| The long winter begins. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Welcome to my name is Brace. | |
| I'm Liz. | |
| Producer is Young Chomsky, and this has been Truanon. | |
| Episode over. | |
| Ladies and gentlemen, we've been recording for, I mean, I can know you can see the little number on the little right-hand side there next to the 15-second skip mark that you do whenever Liz starts yelling at me. | |
| And you can see how long this episode is. | |
| So you might understand. | |
| I'm feeling a little freaky right now. | |
| Yeah, a little loopy. | |
| We've been talking for a long time, which means we should get right into it. | |
| We got a big episode today because I do want to say, actually, though, before we say anymore, don't you little piggies worry. | |
| We've got a lot of 9-11 content coming. | |
| This is the 20th anniversary of 9-11. | |
| And to get ready for this episode, I was actually re-listening to some clips of our six-part 9-11 series with Ben, whose last name you'll find out on the episode as he's coming out. | |
| It's his big coming out episode. | |
| But I was listening to it and apparently, whoa, during one of the episodes, I said, when you think 9-11, think Truanon, which at the time, I think we all kind of agreed was maybe a bad move. | |
| But, you know, now I got to say, maybe not so bad. | |
| Yeah, that advice about not associating yourself with acts of terror, I really do want to take to heart, considering that I, you know, regretfully did go through all of my four years, six years at Yale as the Lockerbie guy. | |
| And I apologize for that. | |