I remember my mom worked 5 blocks away from the towers. She was going through divorce with my dad. My dad was already living outside my home. I was at my school and my dad went pass school officials and told me to get my shit we are leaving. My teacher looked at him in shock. Picked my bookbag and started running with my dad to his car. Then he was speeding towards my cousin's school. Mind you my pops didn't know English. We get to my cousins school. Luckily when we get there we see my cousins in a line ready to enter his school. Big cousin recognized us and we started running to my dad's car. My dad drives us both to my aunt's house. He drops us off at my auntie's house. When we get to my aunt's house. I'll never forget at the door what my dad told my aunt. Even though he was going through divorce. He told my aunt that he needed to get my mom even though he had to run through the Brooklyn bridge. 4 to 5 hours later. He pulls up and drops my mom off safely. Me and my dad don't have the best relationship. But that day I learned the importance of fathers protecting their families.
@@yeabih5607 at the time yes. I remember the news before or leading up to the attack. Months prior everything was Taliban this Taliban that. You see two towers get blown airplane taken over by a group. You are in the capital of the world. The world most biggest target 🎯. You don't know if mass shootings proceed. Or all out warfare. You just don't know. Ask Pearl Harbor. My dad did what any concerned parent would 🤷🏾♂️
One thing i learned from 9/11 and other emergency situations is when in doubt run for your life. Id rather die while trying to get away than be a sitting duck.
@@rulesforrebels right. As a kid in school, we were told to leave a building in the event of a fire/ drill. I dont see how they thought firefighters would get to all those ppl in a feasible amount of time.
Twenty-two years later and I'm still compelled to watch/read/hear stories from that horrible day. God bless everyone who was affected in any way on 9/11/01.
I'm not American but I remember that day like it was yesterday, yet I've heard crazy people in the US say the govt did it on purpose, not bin laden. Unbelievable disrespect to the people in and around those buildings that awful day and all those who lost their lives. RIP.
@@ksc743 Bless you.. & Thank you. Yes- Them conspiracy theorists are not only annoying & ridiculous, but very insulting. I'm not sure if they really believe their own horseshit, but they crave the attention they never got in their empty lives
@@bhall4996 yes, truly empty lives. Lack of education too. I find it difficult to believe they spread that kind of rubbish after such an horrific, life-changing event for Americans.
@@ksc743 there are plenty of awful conspiracy theories around the event but there is also a lot of unexplained and suspicious activity around the event. Just the unusual stock market activity was enough to warrant investigations from multiple nations.
@@ksc743 yes I agree it took years of planning and many people were involved and towers fell when the plane hijacked by Islamist terrorists flew into them. But there were very legitimate reports of unusual amounts of money being moved around right before the attacks, especially in the flight industry. If that’s a crazy conspiracy then I guess the governments of Germany and other major nations are just crazy conspiracy nuts because that’s who led the investigations. This suggests that the secret plan wasn’t exclusive to only the thirteen or so high jackers. Also, there were plans to high jack more than just the three planes that were successfully high jacked that day so there are still people out here who went to airports that morning with the intention of high jacking a plane but were unsuccessful for whatever reason.
My cousin was in the towers. She told me that she used to say good morning & chat with a security guard each morning before heading to work at her bank. When she finally made it out, she saw the torso of a body but nothing else was recognizable or even there. She then said she saw the name on the shirt & realized it was him. After hearing that, I finally realized fully what these people went through on that day. Absolute horror. 😢
I was 10 years old, 5th grade. One of the staff comes running into the room yelling about how WTC and the White House had been blown up. Obviously, her info was somewhat off. But what really scared me was that here in Baltimore we also have a WTC. 10 year old me immediately thought the danger was close to home.
She’s extremely lucky her husband came home for real. I live in ny and can still remember being younger and watching my mom crying on the phone with her friend. Her husband was a fireman and she hadn’t heard from him and no one could find him. I can literally remember my mom just repeating “he’s gonna come home, they’re gonna find him.” And he was found crushed under the buildings. Even thinking about it now makes me so incredibly sad. He’s really really lucky
He did more than describe falling 22 stories..... the entire interview put me right there with him.... I'm a very visual person, so I could see and feel the entire scene he told 😔😔...
You all are dumb, and to the one who isn't dumb and instead asked the question of how he survived, he jumped up in the elevator at the third to second floor when it crashed, it likely injured him still but the impact would of been lessened to a degree, I agree he didn't describe it very well -Jack is just hateful idk, I mean me, I'm Jack in this case, the other Jack is cool I bet but idk, I Am Jack Kosminski
You may think you know what he is feeling like but trust me, you and him have two completely different feelings. You are just using your imagination to actually “ Feel” But it is way different when it is first hand experience. It is not even the same. Don’t put yourself in the same category as this man.
Idky but that pisses me tf off so bad to where I simply have to just change it. Nore does that on drink champs so bad to we’re I’m even shocked that they still have a podcast. It’s super annoying and aggravating. 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️😡😡
AS Budden has said he takes his cue and style from Joe Rogan, and to some degree Lex Fridman who also let their guests do most of the talking. In contrast mainstream media like CNN MSNBC etc interviewers think they are the experts and keep trying to steer toward their outlets partisan views
Imagine hearing and feeling the shaking of 60 floors falling above you... You look up at the people you worked with for 20+ years and then, in an instant, all of them are gone. You think you're dead, but you're one of the very few that aren't. Oooh that's gotta weigh heavy.
You can hear a recording of the a gentleman talking to an operator he was at the very top listen at your own risk its very tragic i have came out of building a few times your head has to be vertical to see the top my dad and sister been to the top amazing pic the first time they tried i was coming back from hunts point headed back to flatbush and they kept rerouting us i can clearly see that day in 93 it was cold snow was falling and there was no car's no people on the street's Are government is crooked if you haven't seen or heard about the man in the red bandana please watch this documentary
@@drewbonsall384 Yes, you can actually hear the rumbling of the floors coming down as he is saying “Oh God,” then the call disconnects. He told the operator he was only 45 and didn’t want to die. I can’t imagine how horrible the memory of that conversation is to that operator. Not being able to help anybody…
@@wildestcowboy2668 His name was Welles Crowther. He worked in WTC 2 on the 104th floor, and was also a volunteer firefighter. He saved the lives of many people that day, guiding them off several of the upper floors of the tower. Very sadly, he lost his own life that day. His body was eventually recovered six months later in what had been the lobby of tower 2, along with a group of firefighters and other emergency personnel. He was 24 years old. 🙏♥️
@@margob6203 That's so sad twenty freaking 4 was a kid. Hopefully he is resting now until JD. That fact that he helped all those people show he was a hero. Rip brotha
@Dama Doms That statement is very true. I still live in New York and lived there during that time. There was a news article about all the people that missed that one E train. In an interview the motorman that drove the train was an employee that never took sick or a day off for 19 years, and he also called sick that day. So being late saved them. It was very powerful to hear their testimony. One woman said she missed that train bc she had to stop and buy pantyhose, another missed that same train bc they stopped to get coffee, etc.
I happened to catch the E Train to the World Trade Center station early that day. If I was on time or a little late, I’m dead! Thankful! I’ve been running early ever since. He was late. I was early. We both survived. It’s hard to explain it.
For those disappointed that it ended so abruptly, I discovered there is another video that is a continuation of his story, and how he was rescued. It's called "Incredible story of being rescued from WTC on 9/11" 😊
I was working on the 71st floor that day. Just like that man said, we were told to stay put so we wouldn’t get on the way of the firefighters. I remember I got up, and grabbed my stuff and said im leaving and my supervisor immediately yelled out at my name and said “you’re not going anywhere. You’re staying like the rest of us.” And then proceeded to tell everyone at the office anyone who walked out that door would face serious consequences. I looked at her and said “So fire me, I’m leaving regardless. Something is not right.” And left… I made it out just in time. My coworkers were messaging me to come back that the supervisor kept saying she would make sure I wouldn’t come back. I told my coworkers this is a terroristic attack and begged them to get out. 2 of my friends listened to me and were on their way to leave. But it was too late for them… no one from the office made it.. No one. This memories and to know I was the only one who made it still haunts me to this day..
I'm so sorry you lost so many friends that day. There must be a very special reason why you survived . . . maybe just to keep your coworkers memories alive. It must haunt you every day.💔
I’m so sorry for the loss of your friends and everyone who passed away in the tragedy. I’m really really happy that you listened to your intuition and chose to do that brave thing. Sending so much love to you❤
@@sweetg12651 It’s totally, completely made up. Incredible, the stories people will fabricate for anonymous internet clout. Appreciate your thoughtfulness though.
It’s more than 20 years since that day, I’m 48 years old and I still can’t watch 9-11 videos without tears in my eyes. I feel so bad for those who died
I'm the same age as you are, and my emotions are identical. It is like reliving the terror of watching it all unfold and feeling desperate and overwhelming empathy for the people caught up in the reality of it happening directly to them. It's a logically incomprehensible set of emotions. I live in the UK and can remember coming home from work, turning on the TV , oblivious to what was happening, and questioning what they were playing on TV, thinking it was some kind of film, then realizing it was happening at that moment to all those thousands of people. It is a shock you can never quite put into words or your brain fully process or understand...and intensely overwhelming feeling of sorrow for all those experiencing it and thinking they were about to die. It was and still is horrific.
@@punkjake no one is trying to deny that fact. Ofcourse thousands lost their lives in those towers and Ofcourse hundred of thousands lost their lives in the endless wars we got involved with after 9/11. So our jobs as individuals is to ask questions and educate ourselves about what happened exactly that day. Every single family got effected in the US Or overseas need justice and closure to what happened.. Why 20,000 experts from the US signed a petition to reinvestigate what happened on that day. Why there is tens if not hundreds of questions left with no answers about what happened that day?
I wish I was like this man, still being able to think clearly under a situation of great stress. The way he talked to his wife and asked her to describe where the building was hit is so intelligent, I mean he truly acted rationally and that saved his life
WHAT? Him staying there and calling his wife is what should’ve gotten him killed. If was by sheer blind luck he survived a 22 story fall. If he acted rationally and left right away he wouldn’t have needed to survive that fall
Yeah, but its not like he had any idea what was going on. He thought it was a fire on one floor at first. He should have left after, but like he said they didn't want to block fire fighters, were told to stay by security, and everything seemed calm around them on their floor. A good lesson from this is that even if it seems okay for the moment get out at the earliest possibility because that calm may not last. But there is no rationality that he really lacked, instead he just didn't know how severe it was until they saw the problems start to show up, and then they tried to leave.
He is lucky he is still alive due to his irrational thoughts. You should never go up, in an elevator no less rather than down. As someone who is a structural specialist should know this. Who knows how we would react, but even his wife has the sense to tell him to get out. And making sure you bring your briefcase? Smh
This is the vital importance of intuition. All the people who called in sick, decided to go home or left immediately once the first tower was hit survived. Everyone who listened to their boss, authorities or the news to just stay inside didn't. It's really sad and interesting at the same time to hear this in peoples stories.
Every time that I am being delayed, whether traffic, someone in line in front of me going slow, I remind myself of those people who missed their bus, or stopped for something that made them late to work at the twin towers and saved their lives.
...this also applies to what happened the past 2 years. Many of those who listened to authorities and billionaires who profited from a certain "treatment" are today either dead or struggling with myocarditis, blood cloths, cancer, heart attacks etc. I am the only one in my family who didn't take it because I listened to my intuition, while the rest of my family all have health problems now that they didn't have before they took the so-called treatment that science now has shown to not be as affective as natural immunity, and other studies have shown that it increases the risk of all the conditions I mentioned earlier. Statistics backs this up too. I have always been the most intuitive, and at times even psychic (dreaming of things before they happen etc), in my family, and have been ridiculed for it many times. And now I am the healthiest in our family, while some of them have had to admit that it was a bit telling that their blood cloths happened 1-2 weeks after their 2nd jab... I am extremely grateful for my strong intuition!
Yeah, I remember a man's story, I don't recall his name. He was in the South Tower and when the North Tower was hit his first instinct was to get out of the building and made it to the lobby but his co-workers and the announcements convinced him to go back up to his office. He was in his office when he saw the second plane headed towards his building. Part of the plane impacted his floor and didn't kill him but he was trapped, he started screaming for help and another man who was going down the stairs heard him and got him out and they both got out of the building seconds before it collapsed.
The man conducting this interview is the best I've ever watched. Asks short, simple questions and then lets the person fully answer without interrupting.
@@cyberleaderandy1no he doesn’t. The survivor is setting the scene for a good story and the interviewer says “ so you were going to work” as though he is bewildered why the survivor is being descriptive about escalators. I’ve got 10 more examples of awful interviewing.
Absolutely horrific for all involved. Falling 22 storeys is something that should kill or permanently injure someone but he’s physically fine. Amazing. I’m sure there are many untold stories out there still, and even after all these years it’s good to hear stories from those who got out alive. Bless him
@@ashleyc8373is that that girl that was sucked out of a plane with her seat? And the one thing that saved her was her still being strapped to her seat? An she ended up by a creek and caught in a tree
This gave me chills. I was working in Secaucus, NJ, in a big glass building right across the river when this happened. While driving to work, I saw the buildings on fire. A friend of mine worked in one of the towers. Thankfully, he got to work late that day and had just entered the lobby when the plane hit and immediately ran out. Unfortunately, he had to witness people jumping and had a hard time getting any transportation out of the city. I worked on the 10th floor in Secaucus and we had huge windows. I can remember looking out of our conference room window and witnessing the buildings collapse IRL and in real time and my heart sank. I've never felt so helpless and so sad. It will be forever ingrained in my memory.
Your experience was traumatic 🙏 PTSD-worthy. I saw it from my roof in Astoria after hearing the news, but we were not that close. What a nightmare the weeks after were😢
Wow how heart breaking to watch that from a distance. It's crazy to hear survivors different views and stories from that horrible day in history. I was in high school still so I was clueless what happened until next period when my history teacher turned on the TV to watch the coverage of what was happening in real time. I remember my teacher wiping tears watching. All television production stopped for few days after that and nothing but news coverage was shown. I wish this day never happened and hope nothing like this ever happens again
Wow. You saw the fire from the bomb they planted. They try to say the 737's melted. Nope. Just like they couldn't find the plane that supposedly hit the pentagon. Another bomb. Notjing like a good halogram to fool ppl.
I’ve rarely seen as such an intense interview. Pasquale is obviously an amazing individual. The interviewer was SO empathic and both inquisitive but also so respectful. Wow. He needs to be publicized more.
I was a rookie with the NYPD. We were all ordered in that morning because the academy had an A squad and B squad which we flip flopped days 4X12s. As a 22 year old I grew up very quick with what we saw down there. What sucks is how many continue to become sick with serious ailments from what we all inhaled while down there. Great job with this interview.
Thank you for your selfless service at a time when you were needed most. That's the very definition of courage to put others before yourself in such dire conditions. ❤️
People like John Stewart fought for you guys to get the help you need. The cancers and health effects from the dust are no joke and heros are dropping dead left and right because of it, many having no money to pay for the surgery and medical expenses. They said to never forget but we forget about he people that risked their life to help others that day
@@MRblazedBEANS yes, Jon Stewart is a good man. Because of his fight we are all covered for our lifetime. I hope most of us never have to use the benefits, but def important for them to be available from what we were breathing in down there.
I worked second shift but still got up early in the morning, saw this as it happened and was all alone. I knew those people up at the top had to get out of there. Heartbreaking to stand there and feel so helpless for these people. I cried the entire week. It was very hard to work after that for a long while. I called my family and said I love you.
That is absolutely awful. I am so sorry. Survivor Guilt is a terrible thing. I'm so glad you were not on shift. Sending you love from Australia. I still remember every TV channel we had stopping & running nothing but that footage, eventually blurring the ppl jumping out the windows. If it still haunts me, by god it must be terrible for you. My heart goes out to you.🐨❤️
@@JHjh88 Imagine the people who let this happen just for an excuse to take away our rights, start a war, make money off oil, and commit insurance fraud. Remember the kids chanting "kite must hit steel" while president Bush just sat there...
From how this survivor told this story I had an absolute visceral reaction to it, as if I was there with him. I'm so happy that you survived, you are obviously deeply loved. May you have peace the rest of your days. 🙏❤️
This is it right here bro...I served overseas because of this..will never forget 9/11 that day..I was in Philly.. center city...never saw the city so empty that day....r.i.p. to all of the victims
Thank you for your service and bravery. To any edgelords who spout their theories to veterans like u putting them on, u might be eligible for a lead check. Read the room.
@@user-lg3rx2ko5g Sorry the truth scares you big dog. 9-11 isn't anyone's own personal tragedy and my family is full of veterans who served for the exact same reason he did and theyll tell you the exact same thing these "edgelords" are. Which is funny coming from a guy talking about 'lead checks'
@@user-lg3rx2ko5g I don’t think 9/11 conspiracies are edgelords. The majority of America believes it’s an inside job so does most of the rest of the world
Wow! I cant even imagine being present in that moment. I know the trauma from that day is so real. Prayers to this man and everyone who survived this tragedy! 😔
I’ll never get over having to run my black ass into the nearest building when the first tower collapsed.. I looked like Casper with all the ash that was on my entire body.. when I sit and think how lucky I was to make it home that day.. damn
I'll never forget this day.... I was 22 years old and I remember watching the second plane hit and the towers falling. I was at work and I came home and my mom just grabbed me and hugged me while she was sobbing.. we were both a mess that whole day. RIP to everyone who lost their life that sad day. 😢
Twenty plus years later and I still cry when I hear this gentleman tell his story. I guess we’ll never stop grieving about what happened. I KNOW we’ll never forget.
I was in high school too it was a half day so we were in lunch and they wheeled like 4 tvs in for everyone to watch, unbeknownst to us, the second plane hit the towers live. Crazy day to say the least.
I remind the day vividly. I was in my Statics class as a sophomore in high school. They told our city for all the students to go home because we were unsure if any of the planes could still crash down on people.
Dad had a standing 9am meeting on one of the top floors. That day was the first time it was ever moved to 10am. He was walking to the building instead of in it just by that one twist of fate. His company had floors 93-101 and lost 295 people instantly.
@@Blueslyfox I was guessing the name of his dad’s firm; Marsh-McLennan was a tenant on some of the floors he mentioned, and they lost a lot of ppl…but after looking it up it seems every last employee of theirs was killed, so I’m prob wrong
@@jesusgonzalez-acton8045 He's likely referring to Marsh McLennan, and it isn't true that "every last employee of Marsh McLennan died that day". Marsh McLennan suffered a horrible loss on 9/11 --- about 300 of their employees in the Manhattan office tragically perished that morning, as they were on high floors of the WTC and had no way to escape. But many of the employees hadn't arrived yet, and many others were out of the office at meetings and appointments; those weren't killed. Neither were the tens of thousands of Marsh McLennan employees who worked in other offices in other cities. Marsh McLennan is still a viable, functioning company, but it was difficult for them to adjust to losing 300 members of their 85,000-person workforce in a single morning.
Went to New York about two weeks after 9/11. The people were still in shock. I am a psychologist and everywhere we went people needed to talk. They just had to process what had happened to them. I listened. On the way was a psychiatrist who had his therapy dog with him. Emma was her name. Her job was to calm the people who had lived through that tragedy .
that day created a massive amount of trauma in new yorkers, and I think to many americans as well. I like in nyc, we all had ptsd for years. I just now am able to watch anything about 9/11 without horror or strong emotional pain. I have not been back downtown to that area but watching these gives me a new desire to back to the area. I cant imagine the horror this man lived with, he is very strong.
@@Kaine1111 they did jfk so idk why people are suprised when people say the same about 9/11 like they didn’t benefit off the peoples pride to go to war and even if it was needed doesnt justify the deaths of thousands of innocent people
I remember being in kindergarten in Brooklyn seeing fear on my teachers faces brought me to panic they brought us all the the auditorium and made us sit in the dark until our parents came to pick us up; my mother and I ran home everyone was panicking in the streets freaking out everyone was panicking and crying and my mom brought me home... we lived on top of an apartment building I could see the tower smoking from my window... Such a vivid memory.
Haha said absolutely no one about Joe Budden before now! I was surprised to see him doing this interview and happy to see he wasn't his same old self for it.
I was once in an elevator when something like this happened, and every one of us in there, instantly and instinctively had an overwhelming urge to get to the ground and away from the building. I remember that feeling ... it was incredibly powerful. An animal instinct to get to the earth and run. I cannot fathom a desire to go the other way. It's against every possible instinct.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure the elevator he was in didn't go any lower. Going up or exiting on the smoke filled floor then find the stairwell in amongst all the chaos to be able to go down were his only options
He couldn't go down with the elevator he was in already, that was the problem. He had to choose between going blindly through the smoke and finding the return elevator, or going back into the elevator he had come out of and getting as far away from the fire as possible. In that situation, I can see why you would choose to go up.
This is some of the best content I have ever seen. Heart wrenching. No sensational titles about a surfer. No political nonsense. Just honest emotions and unmodified, uninterrupted stories told by the people who experienced it. Well done Joe and team. Thank you. You have a well deserved new subscriber.
The floors collapsing part got me I couldn’t imagine what the people above had to go through in their final seconds I hope they didn’t suffer I hope they at peace they didn’t deserve this 💔
After all these years after 9/11 still brings me to tears and rebreaks my heart every time. I wrote a paper about the falling man in high school, I cried for a week because I was so devastated by all the research I had done. Every night when I closed my eyes I saw him. That man has NEVER left my mind after all these years, and it never will.
I remember that day vividly I was in Elementary School at the time. I remember a Teacher who had a free period at the time came in and told us what happened. Then our parents or guardians picked us up an hour or two later. To actually hear from someone who was at the World Trade when it happened and experienced it first hand is wild.
It was my first week of Hs. I am from north New Jersey and had people in my class who had parents there. I specifically remember not getting picked up at school.
This is the first survivor video I’ve watched, it’s an amazing story. His wife still can feel that day. They must have some sort of PTSD. Thank you for sharing. I’m glad you’re alive.
This is great but this guy has been interviewed a lot lol... Our people just don't research a lot ... It's not gossip so it doesn't get any play.... It's tons of interviews with survivors all over TH-cam, for 10 + years lol
My uncle worked in WT #4....we kept calling him but never got an answer. We were worried sick that he was killed, even though his building was not hit, it was destroyed when the North Tower fell on it. I do mean it was almost unrecognizable. I have ssen the pictures of it. We finally got a call from his son and he had retired 1 month earlier. No one in the family knew this. We were so very happy to hear this!!! I actually visited the WTC in 1978. I still cannot believe these two buildings are gone. They were massive! RIP to all lives lost that day...
Hey Donna! Apologies for dropping this here I came across your TH-cam channel and I would love to know you better. I'm guessing you must be an honest person, because I always found your comments to be so nice and respectful. If it's okay with you, I'd love to be friend but if it sounds odd or embarrassing in any way please don't embarrass me by replying. Have a wonderful day, and keep sharing!
I was in the Marines and on leave in Japan after getting married when this happened. I will never forget that day and the emotions I felt then are just as raw today.
Agreed. This should have never happened. Never. We can't do anything to bring the victims back. Trust in God to resurrect the victims and give justice to the victims, and punish the wicked.
Terrifying. It’s a miracle he survived. Rest In Peace to all those who didn’t make it. A song came to mind recently, “Believe” by Yellowcard. I didn’t realize it at first, but it’s a tribute to all the firefighters and first responders who lost their lives that day to save another. Very touching.
@Hoxaye L I was 12 living in CT. We lived 2 miles from Sikorsky helicopter factory who makes black hawks and state police at the time thought that could be a potential target. No one knew what was happening. No planes took off after that. One thing I remember was the skies were the bluest I have ever seen that day.
Has been many years, now. ...Their souls are in the energy unless some have reincarnated. I will try my hardest not to reincarnate back on Planet Earth. It is a lovely place but the people who run it, are mostly the monsters that see us, as commodities. Done with that. Stay away from that light...it is a trap. You cannot reincarnate without giving approval, so, there are attempts made. just for that. The trickery is still around, after we die.....unless we manage to escape. The key is to want to go Home.......where ever it is. Not back here......no Karma left out......Just freedom. The love we have for our family members is a way to keep us coming back....and the roles are switched. Got to get free, unless you want more of the same repetitions. I don't .
I’ve worked many security jobs at different hotels, areas, and industries. You don’t know how many times they tell us in the case of an evacuation: to let EVERYONE leave and never hold anyone back from their choice if they feel they have to leave because of this incident. So many people were listening to their gut instinct, and we’re reassured. So many lives could’ve been saved.
Don't forget this was a 110 storey building with only narrow stairwells, and they never believed it would collapse, so giving firemen first priority especially if incident is on much higher floor would seem the prudent course of action, most workers in floors below impact sites did manage to evacuate in time, many when firemen reached their floors and told them to get out of building, but equally many chose to ignore the "the building is safe, go back to your desks"message that was played repeatedly over towers PA systems.
We need all the stories. I was never satisfied by how this was handled. Stories of anyone who was there is a cannon and needs to be told. This event was the tipping point of our lives.
@@henrygarza3145 They didn't go to hell, so it was their fault they couldn't breathe from the thick smoke because an idiot flew a plane into the building.
I heard of this story about a 9/11 survivor that rode 22 floors down and survived. I always wanted to learn more about this amazing story but was never able to until now. Thanks for bringing people like this on your show, this story needs to be heard, he's one of the few or only one that survived 9/11 while inside the towers when they were coming down.
Didn’t he say he laid on like a chunk of concrete held together by rebar. I’m imagining a concrete flying carpet kind of deal where the debri was so much it’s preventing him from free falling, but just rides the concrete block down 22 floors, now that is amazing. The odds , guess that’s why he is the only one with this story. It’s just insane
Why didn't we hear Pssquale's entire story. It is miraculous. His is a story that he lived. What a blessing God gave him that day. He lived when so many others died.
@@REEDUCATIONCAMPUSA huh? Did you read the comment I was replying to? They said God saved him that day. I’m asking why God let so many people die. The only people I blame are the people who caused it. People!
Joe really has the opportunity to have a massive show here. He has a great eye for interesting guests you wouldn’t normally hear from and is a great interviewer. Both this and the navy seal guy had me hooked
Might be irrelevant but why would you not want to show the person that your interviewing in your thumbnail? I mean it’s basic common sense to include that person? It just makes it look like he’s the one being interviewed like I low key for thought that he was the one that fell lmao.
@@metalrockstarizer89 a/B testing in marketing. To see which thumbnail gets the most views. Also he has another thumbnail for the full 1 hour interview showing the both of them.
Oh man, that adds a whole new level of sad to this. Ontop of losing the bravest firefighters, you also lose people who didn't evacuate right away because they didn't want to inhibit rescue operations.
It's crazy the amount of bravery it needs to take for him to talk about this. After all the trauma he must have gone through, he still comes on and talks about it. I could never do what he did.
Yes you could. My sister was having her wedding that weekend in NY. I lived in CA just the trauma of not being able to just get on a flight and fly home was enough for me to over come my fear of flying and seeing my family again. I'll be scared later, right now I got to do what I got to do.
How can you say that with so much conviction? It's over 20 years on. He's had all the time to process and address the trauma to the point that he was able to do this interview, and maybe it would have been the same for you too
The most powerful event in our lifetime. It’s a day that will always be thought of as “before and after” . And we will always remember where we were when the planes hit. RIP to all those lost . Still emotional. This changed everything!
And I will remember the brave firefighters and policemen that were running iNTO the building, while everyone else was running out for their lives. In all the anti police hatred today, people conveniently forget how many died that day, rushing into save people
Yes, and why isn't the world better? Why hasn't there been a satisfying response as to why did this happened....or is it better, and I just can't see the forest for the trees. At times it feels as though the country will collapse just like the towers.
Thank you so much for interviewing some of the survivors who didn’t get to tell the world their story…..it gives them some kind of relief telling, than someone else. R.I.P. all those who passed away that evil dark day. I was 18, and blown away.
@@WHENWEGONEWIN that's what they call him on all the TV series n Documentaries they have done about 9/11. It's no disrespect. Crazy how he survived though.
I was 19 when this happened and remember watching the news as all of this was happening live. I will never forget that day, it honestly still haunts me. Everywhere I went that day people crying and just so much sadness and panic. Truly a moment you can never forget. My employer at the time had people who worked in the towers that didn’t make it, sadly. Just terrible.
I was 19 when 9/11 happened as well! I was on the west coast but already at work. I'll never forget that feeling of complete shock and disbelief and horror.
My dad went to the Air Force academy and was a pilot with Leroy Homer the pilot of flight 93. 💔 my parents reminisce on his kind nature and spending thanksgiving with him. My mom would have all the squadron over and cook for them. Heartbreaking
I live in Newcastle U.K. and I remember everything what happened on 9/11 I feel it deep in my soul. I will never get used to not seeing the towers. RIP 🙏
Bless this man's heart for being able to calmly share his story. The fear. I imagine he had nightmares for a long time. He is lucky to have survived. As much as I've seen footage of this horrific day I still can comprehend the enormity of it. Our country strongly came together for that. Too bad it is divided so much now.
Unfortunately, I think the damage between left and right in this country is beyond repair at this point. It shouldn’t take a tragedy to make us all love each other. It’s heartbreaking, really.
I agree, the way our Country change together was something I wish this new generation could have felt as horrific as this time was with the loss of so many innocent and wonderful people /human beings.
i love hearing this mans story heard it about 50 times and never gets old everytime i listen to him tell it im 30 years old now i still remember 9/11 like it was yesterday
I doubt they linger. They are long gone. It is our sadness that projects to the tragedy, that has happened to us. Most people do not want to go there. If you have to go to NYC, avoid that place may be best. The tragic thing about memorials is they do nothing to prevent more misery happening to us. It is on going, in various degrees, means and locations. Right now, some entities are getting very close to triggering WW3. It would make 9/11 look like a bad dream.
Wow!! 🥺🥺 This made me cry! My uncle, a deaf man, was working there. He made it out and he said he actually HEARD the bodies hit the ground as ppl were jumping. Imagine never being able to hear, but u hear that!! God Bless EVERYONE that had to experience that! Is that the all of the interview? I want to hear the rest of his story!
I have heard many survivor stories, and I was able to serve at the Salvation Army tent several months after the event, I could see the trauma and pain in the eyes of those who were there and still raking the rubble for fragments, jewelry, etc. my heart is forever in support of the first responders and their families and the people in the building and on the ground who lost their lives.
I think he's a phenomenal interviewer! Way better than so many of the mainstream people. He's not just intelligent, but real. At times I don't agree with a few things he says, but I respect him highly because he seems to really want to understand the "whys" of people instead of just getting info for a show.
I remember the day like it was yesterday 🥹 I was on maternity leave, my daughter was almost one month. RIP to all who died on that day and after because of that horrible day 🙏🏾🙏🏾 And to the survivor, I’m so glad you made it and so sorry u had to go through that nightmare.
I hear stories like this and I’m transported back to that day watching it all unfold on tv. It was my husband’s birthday and my only child was 6 days away from her 1st birthday. I remember holding her and thinking what kind of world did I bring you into. I chose not to have any more children. I believe when it’s our time to go it’s our time but none of those people deserved to die like that. It’s still heartbreaking almost 23 years later.
I was 12years old in middle school when this ish happen. Teachers start crying kids parents start coming to get them. School was almost empty. No body really told me what happen, I seriously thought it was a movie but I was like why they keep playing it over and over. I always wanted to hear the story of survivors.
Yea pretty much same here only i was a freshman in high school in West Virginia . But to reflect on the impact the country felt : we weren’t remotely close to New York City and parents were bailing kids out of school that day . I went to school with 1,200 students and it was almost cleared out that day. Parents thought the entire country was under attack
I lived near dc and even there it was crazy....I was 8 and one of the last kids to be picked up from school....parents were running in the school to get their kids, no sign outs either smh I will never forget
Yes! I was in social studies class in the 7th grade and I saw clouds of smoke out the window and said “Look” everybody ran to the window to see and we were talking amongst ourselves saying it was a fire but our teachers face looked horrified. I remember everyone was being called to go home. My school was in Brooklyn but we were right across the bridge so alot of parents worked in lower Manhattan. So many people were crying. I was so confused. It was crazy
I was 14 & watched it unfold on TV in class. The emotions that floods your mind watching it, I remember my pulse racing as the buildings fell. I visited the site on the 10th anniversary when the memorial opened & it was so quiet & everyone was reliving the moment in their heads. I’m so glad the man responsible got his face blown off.
Lol 10 years later yeah🤣🤣🤣 the fact US didnt kill him in the same year is a L in my opinion, he got to live 10 YEARS!!! he probably bragged about it as well, but better late then never I guess
@@JamesXiii I couldnt give a fuck about 9/11. America is doing 9/11’s everyday in yemen burning children with drone strikes and bombs, 1 million innocent Iraqis that died after 9/11 while Iraq had nothing to do with it, funding the Apartheid state of Israel, supporting the genocide of the Palestinians and illegal settlements on Palestinian land America is a terrorist-supporting state thats killing children in the Middle-East everyday, so dont expect the Middle-East to sympathize with that bullshit, 9/11 is the least interesting thing that happened that year to us, trust me🤣🤣🤣
I remember seeing it on the news. The reporter said that the second plane was a replay. I knew it wasn't. I screamed at my mom. " New York is under attack." My heart stopped. I live in Vancouver Canada. I remember thee local firemen out EVERYWHERE collecting donations. We were and are with you.
Surreal morning.. I would never wake up and turn on the TV but that morning the moment the 1st plane hit I woke up and something told me to turn on the TV... and soon after.. sure enough.. breaking news.
I live in Vancouver Canada also; what was horrific to me was that later I got on a bus to go to a bar to watch live coverage on a large screen. At the time 7 women got on the bus laughing and shreiking; I just looked at them in shock; how could anyone find anything funny on this tragic day........
As someone who has survived two near death experiences, the thoughts and emotions he describes as he's curled up in the corner during the collapse are absolutely spot-on to what I experienced as well. Both when I was being robbed with a gun to my forehead and when I was drowning I experienced these exact thoughts and emotions. It must be the way our brain helps us cope with accepting that we are about to die.
That's incredible. I've been hit by a car TWICE...and survived both times. But it happened SO fast I didn't even have time to think and my life didn't flash before my eyes. It's like one moment I'm walking trying to reach the other side of the street them boom, I'm on the pavement. The first time I tried to break the fall with my hands but instead my JAW hit the pavement so now I have permanent TMJ, the 2nd time I fractured my collarbone & got a giant gash in my head that took 6 staples to close. The 2nd time was actually more of the close call because the paramedics said the hat I was wearing actually saved my life. It was FREEZING that night, I just left work, crossing the street to catch the bus home, it was dark, a lady pulled out of the parking lot to the left of where I was and claimed she didn't see me (it's what the report said). I was wearing one of those thick full head hats, the kind with the built-in lower face protection. My friends used to make fun of it saying I looked like a burglar, calling it my "stalking" hat. They weren't laughing after the accident. Even with that little extra padding my head was bleeding so yes, it for sure saved my life! I don't even question WHY I lived through both of these life-threatening accidents, I am just grateful I survived without losing any limbs.
I've had multiple guns pointed at my head by insane meth dealers. Even more times by cops. I've drowned like 6 times and somehow pulled myself out at the last possible second. Jumped off a bridge, naked, into a raging river at midnight during a lightning storm. I've overdosed. I've had a literal 1800's rusty scythe fall right to my neck and it hit the edge of a car door at the last second. That's not even half the times I've almost died. Lost the love of my life at 26 and tried to actively die for 4 years, but told myself if I made it to 30, that was it. I had to get healthy. So I tried even harder. Destroyed my body and all my clothes from burning holes into them and my legs from friction on concrete, bombing hills in pitch black darkness. I have no idea how I still exist. Made it to 30. Now I'm healthy. Changed everything in my life to positivity and love. I'm in it for the long-haul. I have yet to experience what he's talking about, curling into a ball. I've always had a smile on my face. I don't get it. Maybe 300 hits of LSD, mushrooms, and DMT destroyed my flight response. God or the Devil or someone must be looking after me. It doesn't make sense. I don't knock on wood. I burn it and nothing ever happens. I break bones, but pain doesn't exist when you're in it 24/7, every single day. It's nothing. Glad you're still with us, dude. I'm truly jealous. I wish I could remember what fear feels like.
What most of us know about this day is the palpable and unmistakable feeling that an old life we had all been happily living came to an ubrupt end. Just like that, in a matter of hours, we lost so many innocent lives and we lost ourselves.
My family was more fortunate than most that day and I’m sorry for all the families who lost someone. But my father had a meeting in tower 2 at 830am and his train was due in around 7. His company I think was called Compaq and they began firing people in late summer 2001 (my dad worked for Digital Equipment in the 80s and 90s and they were purchase by Compaq) 2 weeks before 9/11 all of the higher ups and top salesman were suppose to be going to New York for a huge meeting but something within the company changed rapidly and my dad was told to not come. 9 of his friends however did go and all subsequently died. HP (Hewlett-Packard) apparently was in talks to purchase Compaq at the time and later finalized the deal in i think early 2002. My dads jobs were stressful during the tech boom in 98-2005 because he kept getting jobs then the companies would be acquired and they’d let everyone go. But this one saved his life
22 years later I saw my first footage of a person falling ... (Of course I'd seen pictures) but watching the person fall on camera... that will haunt me forever. I can't even imagine being there that day, watching, feeling helpless. My heart goes out to all the victims that lost their lives that day, but to the families, first responders and even just regular civilians that went through this on the ground. I hope y'all are okay.
I'm from Texas and it's been a few documentaries on Hulu that my mom and I have been watching and some of the stories were just so heartbreaking but some were not watching those victims jump to keep from burning alive really took a toll on me and I'm sitting at home watching this I can't imagine how you handled it being right there....but just know you are definitely a hero and God was watching over you that day...thank you for sharing your story...stay blessed ❤🤍💙🇺🇲
I remember a news reporter talking on camera. You could hear regular thumps over an over as people dropped around her. She was trembling as she tried to report.
I was in kindergarten. I remember it was early, one of my teachers came in screaming. She had a family member in one of the towers and they weren’t responding. Shortly after we were all sent home and I watched the replay of the tragedy on tv when I got home. I’ll never forget that day and I can’t even begin to imagine how traumatizing it must have been being there. 😭
I was 22 and had taken the day off from my work as a kayak and canoe builder. My boss had made a comment when I requested the day off, " 911 day. What does that mean? Are you going to an emergency response parade or something?" He was pulling my leg, light humor. Neither of us could have ever imagined what that day had in store. It was a beautiful day. 13 years later my daughter was born on that same day. It was beautiful in 2014 as well.
No one will ever forget where they were and what they were doing when this horrific tragedy happened. I went to nyc shortly after it happened I was writing a college paper about it and people just can’t see or know the huge hole it left there unless they saw it in person.
I'm not a cold person in life, I'm quite friendly but I feel guilty reading this kind of comments, does that make me a bad person for not being affected to that point? I enjoyed his story, I can imagine how much traumatizing it must have been for him, but I can't cry or be depressed because of it. I'm not judging anyone but I want to know if I'm weird or maybe I psychopath
@@LeBonRoiLouisyou can still be compassionate without crying or feeling depressed, everyone expresses themselves different. It doesn’t make you a physcopath because you reacted in a more calm manner.
It’s so crazy how not only the USA but the whole world changed on September 11, I was 12 and living in another country then and I still remember where I was and how everything changed for everybody 😢
I worked on the E train to WTC. They never told anyone what was happening. So many of my regular passengers l’ve often wondered what happened to them after so many photos were attached to walls of the subway. Fast forward …. asthma, auto immune, and a stroke with unexplained reasons with therapy to date. So sorry threw he experienced that nightmare, but glad he’s here to tell the details of event.
I remember my mom worked 5 blocks away from the towers. She was going through divorce with my dad. My dad was already living outside my home. I was at my school and my dad went pass school officials and told me to get my shit we are leaving. My teacher looked at him in shock. Picked my bookbag and started running with my dad to his car. Then he was speeding towards my cousin's school. Mind you my pops didn't know English. We get to my cousins school. Luckily when we get there we see my cousins in a line ready to enter his school. Big cousin recognized us and we started running to my dad's car. My dad drives us both to my aunt's house. He drops us off at my auntie's house. When we get to my aunt's house. I'll never forget at the door what my dad told my aunt. Even though he was going through divorce. He told my aunt that he needed to get my mom even though he had to run through the Brooklyn bridge. 4 to 5 hours later. He pulls up and drops my mom off safely. Me and my dad don't have the best relationship. But that day I learned the importance of fathers protecting their families.
Your dad needs to put his big man pants up .... Sounds like hes dressing like a girl
@@yeabih5607 at the time yes. I remember the news before or leading up to the attack. Months prior everything was Taliban this Taliban that. You see two towers get blown airplane taken over by a group. You are in the capital of the world. The world most biggest target 🎯. You don't know if mass shootings proceed. Or all out warfare. You just don't know. Ask Pearl Harbor. My dad did what any concerned parent would 🤷🏾♂️
@@413. sounds like your the type to walk in your wife cheating and be the one to apologize.
@@josegrullon024 thats pretty specific brother..... If you need someone to talk to, i ain't the one tho lol
@@413. not really. Moral of the story you took a jab. You were just not expecting an uppercut. 🤷🏾♂️
One thing i learned from 9/11 and other emergency situations is when in doubt run for your life. Id rather die while trying to get away than be a sitting duck.
Yes!!!!
Never listen to authorities
Yep!!!
@@rulesforrebels right. As a kid in school, we were told to leave a building in the event of a fire/ drill. I dont see how they thought firefighters would get to all those ppl in a feasible amount of time.
Same goes for mass shootings, lots will hide and die , I’m fighting and running
Twenty-two years later and I'm still compelled to watch/read/hear stories from that horrible day. God bless everyone who was affected in any way on 9/11/01.
I'm not American but I remember that day like it was yesterday, yet I've heard crazy people in the US say the govt did it on purpose, not bin laden. Unbelievable disrespect to the people in and around those buildings that awful day and all those who lost their lives. RIP.
@@ksc743
Bless you.. & Thank you.
Yes- Them conspiracy theorists are not only annoying & ridiculous, but very insulting. I'm not sure if they really believe their own horseshit, but they crave the attention they never got in their empty lives
@@bhall4996 yes, truly empty lives. Lack of education too. I find it difficult to believe they spread that kind of rubbish after such an horrific, life-changing event for Americans.
@@ksc743 there are plenty of awful conspiracy theories around the event but there is also a lot of unexplained and suspicious activity around the event. Just the unusual stock market activity was enough to warrant investigations from multiple nations.
@@ksc743 yes I agree it took years of planning and many people were involved and towers fell when the plane hijacked by Islamist terrorists flew into them. But there were very legitimate reports of unusual amounts of money being moved around right before the attacks, especially in the flight industry. If that’s a crazy conspiracy then I guess the governments of Germany and other major nations are just crazy conspiracy nuts because that’s who led the investigations. This suggests that the secret plan wasn’t exclusive to only the thirteen or so high jackers. Also, there were plans to high jack more than just the three planes that were successfully high jacked that day so there are still people out here who went to airports that morning with the intention of high jacking a plane but were unsuccessful for whatever reason.
My cousin was in the towers. She told me that she used to say good morning & chat with a security guard each morning before heading to work at her bank. When she finally made it out, she saw the torso of a body but nothing else was recognizable or even there. She then said she saw the name on the shirt & realized it was him. After hearing that, I finally realized fully what these people went through on that day. Absolute horror. 😢
no fucking way..
Oh my 🙁
I'm so sorry!!!😞
@@yoshihirotogashi408 If he was in the lobby that sounds possible.....
@@donaldlyons17, why? One of the lowest floor
The way he explained it I can see it so vividly. Almost 22 years lately I'm still in disbelief and that day still haunts me. RIP to all the Victims.
Same I tell kids my all the time
I was 10 years old, 5th grade. One of the staff comes running into the room yelling about how WTC and the White House had been blown up. Obviously, her info was somewhat off. But what really scared me was that here in Baltimore we also have a WTC. 10 year old me immediately thought the danger was close to home.
I could see it so vividly too wow .
Who did it?!
@@swerrd find out and report back in the comments.
She’s extremely lucky her husband came home for real. I live in ny and can still remember being younger and watching my mom crying on the phone with her friend. Her husband was a fireman and she hadn’t heard from him and no one could find him. I can literally remember my mom just repeating “he’s gonna come home, they’re gonna find him.” And he was found crushed under the buildings. Even thinking about it now makes me so incredibly sad. He’s really really lucky
I was 1 year old I don’t remember shit
@@smoshfan439 who asked you? Have some respect.
I don’t believe him
That’s so sad. I hope your mom is still friends with that lady. Ik sometimes people drift away in adulthood
@@JusticeFortheSilenced he only said he didn’t remember shit..? Who the fck are you TH-cam police 👮♀️🤣
He did more than describe falling 22 stories..... the entire interview put me right there with him.... I'm a very visual person, so I could see and feel the entire scene he told 😔😔...
Same here, I was gripping the arms of my chair so tight and my heart was pounding. I cried start to finish.
Real shit
but he didn't describe it. how did he survive?
You all are dumb, and to the one who isn't dumb and instead asked the question of how he survived, he jumped up in the elevator at the third to second floor when it crashed, it likely injured him still but the impact would of been lessened to a degree, I agree he didn't describe it very well -Jack is just hateful idk, I mean me, I'm Jack in this case, the other Jack is cool I bet but idk,
I Am Jack Kosminski
You may think you know what he is feeling like but trust me, you and him have two completely different feelings. You are just using your imagination to actually “ Feel” But it is way different when it is first hand experience. It is not even the same. Don’t put yourself in the same category as this man.
Finally an interviewer who is respectful and doesn’t interrupt someone talking about such a sensitive and personal experience.
Surprised that it is Joe budden but good for him!!!
Idky but that pisses me tf off so bad to where I simply have to just change it. Nore does that on drink champs so bad to we’re I’m even shocked that they still have a podcast. It’s super annoying and aggravating. 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️😡😡
AS Budden has said he takes his cue and style from Joe Rogan, and to some degree Lex Fridman who also let their guests do most of the talking. In contrast mainstream media like CNN MSNBC etc interviewers think they are the experts and keep trying to steer toward their outlets partisan views
Budden's a new york native, born in Manhattan, he's old enough to have experienced the gravity of this firsthand.
Lol you think JB is respectful 😂
Imagine hearing and feeling the shaking of 60 floors falling above you... You look up at the people you worked with for 20+ years and then, in an instant, all of them are gone. You think you're dead, but you're one of the very few that aren't. Oooh that's gotta weigh heavy.
It's actually like 80+ floors above him.
You can hear a recording of the a gentleman talking to an operator he was at the very top listen at your own risk its very tragic i have came out of building a few times your head has to be vertical to see the top my dad and sister been to the top amazing pic the first time they tried i was coming back from hunts point headed back to flatbush and they kept rerouting us i can clearly see that day in 93 it was cold snow was falling and there was no car's no people on the street's Are government is crooked if you haven't seen or heard about the man in the red bandana please watch this documentary
@@drewbonsall384 Yes, you can actually hear the rumbling of the floors coming down as he is saying “Oh God,” then the call disconnects. He told the operator he was only 45 and didn’t want to die. I can’t imagine how horrible the memory of that conversation is to that operator. Not being able to help anybody…
@@wildestcowboy2668 His name was Welles Crowther. He worked in WTC 2 on the 104th floor, and was also a volunteer firefighter. He saved the lives of many people that day, guiding them off several of the upper floors of the tower. Very sadly, he lost his own life that day. His body was eventually recovered six months later in what had been the lobby of tower 2, along with a group of firefighters and other emergency personnel. He was 24 years old. 🙏♥️
@@margob6203 That's so sad twenty freaking 4 was a kid. Hopefully he is resting now until JD. That fact that he helped all those people show he was a hero. Rip brotha
He missed more than 1 train. Such things can save us from other situations we’re unaware of. Glad he lived.
@Dama Doms That statement is very true. I still live in New York and lived there during that time. There was a news article about all the people that missed that one E train. In an interview the motorman that drove the train was an employee that never took sick or a day off for 19 years, and he also called sick that day. So being late saved them. It was very powerful to hear their testimony. One woman said she missed that train bc she had to stop and buy pantyhose, another missed that same train bc they stopped to get coffee, etc.
I know right. Who would've thought these types of things could ever happen
I happened to catch the E Train to the World Trade Center station early that day.
If I was on time or a little late, I’m dead! Thankful! I’ve been running early ever since.
He was late. I was early. We both survived. It’s hard to explain it.
Ikr Michael Jackson had a meeting in one of those towers that morning but missed it because he was late ⏰
@@BrandonLittle85 I was at the michael jackson concert the night before until like midnight at MSG. Crazy times.
For those disappointed that it ended so abruptly, I discovered there is another video that is a continuation of his story, and how he was rescued. It's called "Incredible story of being rescued from WTC on 9/11" 😊
*Wut became of the 2-Ladies who went to FLoor 22 ?*
Ty
@@Justin.Martyr.Eugene I don’t think any of the colleagues he went down the stairs with survived. 🥲
Thank you! :)
@@Justin.Martyr.Eugene They didn't make it. :(
I was working on the 71st floor that day. Just like that man said, we were told to stay put so we wouldn’t get on the way of the firefighters. I remember I got up, and grabbed my stuff and said im leaving and my supervisor immediately yelled out at my name and said “you’re not going anywhere. You’re staying like the rest of us.” And then proceeded to tell everyone at the office anyone who walked out that door would face serious consequences. I looked at her and said “So fire me, I’m leaving regardless. Something is not right.” And left… I made it out just in time. My coworkers were messaging me to come back that the supervisor kept saying she would make sure I wouldn’t come back. I told my coworkers this is a terroristic attack and begged them to get out. 2 of my friends listened to me and were on their way to leave. But it was too late for them… no one from the office made it.. No one. This memories and to know I was the only one who made it still haunts me to this day..
I'm so sorry you lost so many friends that day. There must be a very special reason why you survived . . . maybe just to keep your coworkers memories alive. It must haunt you every day.💔
I’m so sorry for the loss of your friends and everyone who passed away in the tragedy. I’m really really happy that you listened to your intuition and chose to do that brave thing. Sending so much love to you❤
What was the name of your company? And what was the name of your supervisor? And which tower?
Messaging you? In 2001? Sure.
@@sweetg12651 It’s totally, completely made up. Incredible, the stories people will fabricate for anonymous internet clout. Appreciate your thoughtfulness though.
It’s more than 20 years since that day, I’m 48 years old and I still can’t watch 9-11 videos without tears in my eyes. I feel so bad for those who died
I'm the same age as you are, and my emotions are identical. It is like reliving the terror of watching it all unfold and feeling desperate and overwhelming empathy for the people caught up in the reality of it happening directly to them. It's a logically incomprehensible set of emotions. I live in the UK and can remember coming home from work, turning on the TV , oblivious to what was happening, and questioning what they were playing on TV, thinking it was some kind of film, then realizing it was happening at that moment to all those thousands of people. It is a shock you can never quite put into words or your brain fully process or understand...and intensely overwhelming feeling of sorrow for all those experiencing it and thinking they were about to die. It was and still is horrific.
Maybe you need to look for answers for what exactly happened that day instead of just believing the official story
@@YallaMiami they still won’t believe the real reason!!!
@@YallaMiami Regardless of whether the government planned it or not, it doesn't take away the fact thousands died in those towers that day
@@punkjake no one is trying to deny that fact. Ofcourse thousands lost their lives in those towers and Ofcourse hundred of thousands lost their lives in the endless wars we got involved with after 9/11.
So our jobs as individuals is to ask questions and educate ourselves about what happened exactly that day.
Every single family got effected in the US Or overseas need justice and closure to what happened..
Why 20,000 experts from the US signed a petition to reinvestigate what happened on that day.
Why there is tens if not hundreds of questions left with no answers about what happened that day?
I wish I was like this man, still being able to think clearly under a situation of great stress. The way he talked to his wife and asked her to describe where the building was hit is so intelligent, I mean he truly acted rationally and that saved his life
God saved his life 🙏🏾
WHAT? Him staying there and calling his wife is what should’ve gotten him killed. If was by sheer blind luck he survived a 22 story fall. If he acted rationally and left right away he wouldn’t have needed to survive that fall
Yeah, but its not like he had any idea what was going on. He thought it was a fire on one floor at first. He should have left after, but like he said they didn't want to block fire fighters, were told to stay by security, and everything seemed calm around them on their floor. A good lesson from this is that even if it seems okay for the moment get out at the earliest possibility because that calm may not last. But there is no rationality that he really lacked, instead he just didn't know how severe it was until they saw the problems start to show up, and then they tried to leave.
Why can’t you think clearly under situations of great stress?
He is lucky he is still alive due to his irrational thoughts. You should never go up, in an elevator no less rather than down. As someone who is a structural specialist should know this. Who knows how we would react, but even his wife has the sense to tell him to get out. And making sure you bring your briefcase? Smh
This is the vital importance of intuition. All the people who called in sick, decided to go home or left immediately once the first tower was hit survived. Everyone who listened to their boss, authorities or the news to just stay inside didn't. It's really sad and interesting at the same time to hear this in peoples stories.
Every time that I am being delayed, whether traffic, someone in line in front of me going slow, I remind myself of those people who missed their bus, or stopped for something that made them late to work at the twin towers and saved their lives.
If only he listened to his wife hahahahaha we would have been out earlier and running away
Excellent perspective!
...this also applies to what happened the past 2 years. Many of those who listened to authorities and billionaires who profited from a certain "treatment" are today either dead or struggling with myocarditis, blood cloths, cancer, heart attacks etc. I am the only one in my family who didn't take it because I listened to my intuition, while the rest of my family all have health problems now that they didn't have before they took the so-called treatment that science now has shown to not be as affective as natural immunity, and other studies have shown that it increases the risk of all the conditions I mentioned earlier. Statistics backs this up too. I have always been the most intuitive, and at times even psychic (dreaming of things before they happen etc), in my family, and have been ridiculed for it many times. And now I am the healthiest in our family, while some of them have had to admit that it was a bit telling that their blood cloths happened 1-2 weeks after their 2nd jab... I am extremely grateful for my strong intuition!
Yeah, I remember a man's story, I don't recall his name. He was in the South Tower and when the North Tower was hit his first instinct was to get out of the building and made it to the lobby but his co-workers and the announcements convinced him to go back up to his office. He was in his office when he saw the second plane headed towards his building. Part of the plane impacted his floor and didn't kill him but he was trapped, he started screaming for help and another man who was going down the stairs heard him and got him out and they both got out of the building seconds before it collapsed.
The man conducting this interview is the best I've ever watched. Asks short, simple questions and then lets the person fully answer without interrupting.
Prophet- Sean O'Dwyer- 140 hobson street.- auckland 1010. - new Zealand.''
You mean worst. He literally does no interview.
@@drake7036 so you prefer modern activist who talk over everything?
He a great interviewer. Lets people tell their own story
@@cyberleaderandy1no he doesn’t. The survivor is setting the scene for a good story and the interviewer says “ so you were going to work” as though he is bewildered why the survivor is being descriptive about escalators. I’ve got 10 more examples of awful interviewing.
Absolutely horrific for all involved. Falling 22 storeys is something that should kill or permanently injure someone but he’s physically fine. Amazing. I’m sure there are many untold stories out there still, and even after all these years it’s good to hear stories from those who got out alive. Bless him
Jesus is lord ❤
@@louiiviable , incredibly lucky. I’m sure many of the thousands that got pulverized were praying just as hard.
There’s a true story about a lady who fell from a plane at 37,000 feet and lived. Her name is Vesna - look it up. Amazing stuff.
@@ashleyc8373 oh wow! Will most definitely look her up. Thanks for the information.
@@ashleyc8373is that that girl that was sucked out of a plane with her seat? And the one thing that saved her was her still being strapped to her seat? An she ended up by a creek and caught in a tree
This gave me chills. I was working in Secaucus, NJ, in a big glass building right across the river when this happened. While driving to work, I saw the buildings on fire. A friend of mine worked in one of the towers. Thankfully, he got to work late that day and had just entered the lobby when the plane hit and immediately ran out. Unfortunately, he had to witness people jumping and had a hard time getting any transportation out of the city. I worked on the 10th floor in Secaucus and we had huge windows. I can remember looking out of our conference room window and witnessing the buildings collapse IRL and in real time and my heart sank. I've never felt so helpless and so sad. It will be forever ingrained in my memory.
Your experience was traumatic 🙏 PTSD-worthy. I saw it from my roof in Astoria after hearing the news, but we were not that close. What a nightmare the weeks after were😢
Can't even imagine what that would be like to see the twin towers fall...so sorry. God be with you always.
Thank you for sharing- never forget! 9/11
Wow how heart breaking to watch that from a distance. It's crazy to hear survivors different views and stories from that horrible day in history. I was in high school still so I was clueless what happened until next period when my history teacher turned on the TV to watch the coverage of what was happening in real time. I remember my teacher wiping tears watching. All television production stopped for few days after that and nothing but news coverage was shown. I wish this day never happened and hope nothing like this ever happens again
Wow. You saw the fire from the bomb they planted. They try to say the 737's melted. Nope. Just like they couldn't find the plane that supposedly hit the pentagon. Another bomb.
Notjing like a good halogram to fool ppl.
His wife explaining how she put his shirt on brought tears to my eyes. I can’t imagine how helpless she felt especially being pregnant 😢
Yes, that moment made me cry as well.
His wife sounds a bit dippy.
@@Polacerbic🤔 👌
Not knowing where her husband was ..... Terrifying
@@Polacerbic No, she sounds quite rational. What an event to live through when your husband is the in the middle of it.
I’ve rarely seen as such an intense interview. Pasquale is obviously an amazing individual. The interviewer was SO empathic and both inquisitive but also so respectful. Wow. He needs to be publicized more.
The interviewer is a rapper Joe Budden. He was big like 2003/04
Yea how you not know Joe Buddens bruh
@@HumbleAstronauthe must be young. Joe Budden is for us older folk lol
@ZeroFcksGven cope
I was a rookie with the NYPD. We were all ordered in that morning because the academy had an A squad and B squad which we flip flopped days 4X12s.
As a 22 year old I grew up very quick with what we saw down there. What sucks is how many continue to become sick with serious ailments from what we all inhaled while down there.
Great job with this interview.
Thanks for your service bro
Thank you for your selfless service at a time when you were needed most. That's the very definition of courage to put others before yourself in such dire conditions. ❤️
People like John Stewart fought for you guys to get the help you need. The cancers and health effects from the dust are no joke and heros are dropping dead left and right because of it, many having no money to pay for the surgery and medical expenses. They said to never forget but we forget about he people that risked their life to help others that day
Thank you for your service!🙏👏🏻❤️🇨🇦
@@MRblazedBEANS yes, Jon Stewart is a good man. Because of his fight we are all covered for our lifetime. I hope most of us never have to use the benefits, but def important for them to be available from what we were breathing in down there.
I worked second shift but still got up early in the morning, saw this as it happened and was all alone. I knew those people up at the top had to get out of there. Heartbreaking to stand there and feel so helpless for these people. I cried the entire week. It was very hard to work after that for a long while. I called my family and said I love you.
I hope you are dealing with hour trauma the best way you can and I am so sorry this happened to you
That is absolutely awful. I am so sorry. Survivor Guilt is a terrible thing. I'm so glad you were not on shift. Sending you love from Australia. I still remember every TV channel we had stopping & running nothing but that footage, eventually blurring the ppl jumping out the windows. If it still haunts me, by god it must be terrible for you. My heart goes out to you.🐨❤️
@@JHjh88 Imagine the people who let this happen just for an excuse to take away our rights, start a war, make money off oil, and commit insurance fraud.
Remember the kids chanting "kite must hit steel" while president Bush just sat there...
From how this survivor told this story I had an absolute visceral reaction to it, as if I was there with him. I'm so happy that you survived, you are obviously deeply loved. May you have peace the rest of your days. 🙏❤️
This guy is the BEST interviewer! He never interrupts the man’s story unnecessarily. THANK YOU!
- sounds like you are a victim off the Sid Roth show.''
This is it right here bro...I served overseas because of this..will never forget 9/11 that day..I was in Philly.. center city...never saw the city so empty that day....r.i.p. to all of the victims
Well I sure hope you learned that your government is responsible for doing it! Most importantly glad you haven't lost your life behind it! 🙏🏽
@@epifan3_Remember the Israeli spies celebrating in North Jersey? "The dancing Israelis".
Thank you for your service and bravery. To any edgelords who spout their theories to veterans like u putting them on, u might be eligible for a lead check. Read the room.
@@user-lg3rx2ko5g Sorry the truth scares you big dog. 9-11 isn't anyone's own personal tragedy and my family is full of veterans who served for the exact same reason he did and theyll tell you the exact same thing these "edgelords" are. Which is funny coming from a guy talking about 'lead checks'
@@user-lg3rx2ko5g I don’t think 9/11 conspiracies are edgelords. The majority of America believes it’s an inside job so does most of the rest of the world
My God... I cannot imagine the panic and anxiety of his pregnant wife! I am glad this man is alive to speak about his experience!
Wow! I cant even imagine being present in that moment. I know the trauma from that day is so real. Prayers to this man and everyone who survived this tragedy! 😔
Facts!
My sister and cousin worked in the north tower and for different reasons they didn’t show up to work on 9/11.
Especially when the rest of the world moves on but you cant!!
Remove everything Islamic from America IMMEDIATELY
I’ll never get over having to run my black ass into the nearest building when the first tower collapsed.. I looked like Casper with all the ash that was on my entire body.. when I sit and think how lucky I was to make it home that day.. damn
The most shocking event in my life. 22 years later and still crying. I can't comprehend what people have been through the last moments of their lives.
I'll never forget this day.... I was 22 years old and I remember watching the second plane hit and the towers falling. I was at work and I came home and my mom just grabbed me and hugged me while she was sobbing.. we were both a mess that whole day. RIP to everyone who lost their life that sad day. 😢
Same I was 20 was working 3rd shift at the time can tell u everything I did that morning watched the news until 3pm that day couldn't cut it off
Twenty plus years later and I still cry when I hear this gentleman tell his story. I guess we’ll never stop grieving about what happened. I KNOW we’ll never forget.
As a 14 year old kid, I was in high school across the river. Everyone was looking out the windows watching everything unfold. May everyone RIP 🙏🏽
I was in high school too it was a half day so we were in lunch and they wheeled like 4 tvs in for everyone to watch, unbeknownst to us, the second plane hit the towers live. Crazy day to say the least.
Me too. Cardozo HS
Good God, what a horrific site for a boy of just 14 to have to witness. ❤️
I was in high school to 2nd week of 11th grade
I remind the day vividly. I was in my Statics class as a sophomore in high school. They told our city for all the students to go home because we were unsure if any of the planes could still crash down on people.
Dad had a standing 9am meeting on one of the top floors. That day was the first time it was ever moved to 10am. He was walking to the building instead of in it just by that one twist of fate.
His company had floors 93-101 and lost 295 people instantly.
Marsh McLennan?
@@jesusgonzalez-acton8045 yes
@@jesusgonzalez-acton8045forget trying to guess a name. Thousands of people could have been his dad that day considering the number who worked there
@@Blueslyfox I was guessing the name of his dad’s firm; Marsh-McLennan was a tenant on some of the floors he mentioned, and they lost a lot of ppl…but after looking it up it seems every last employee of theirs was killed, so I’m prob wrong
@@jesusgonzalez-acton8045 He's likely referring to Marsh McLennan, and it isn't true that "every last employee of Marsh McLennan died that day". Marsh McLennan suffered a horrible loss on 9/11 --- about 300 of their employees in the Manhattan office tragically perished that morning, as they were on high floors of the WTC and had no way to escape. But many of the employees hadn't arrived yet, and many others were out of the office at meetings and appointments; those weren't killed. Neither were the tens of thousands of Marsh McLennan employees who worked in other offices in other cities. Marsh McLennan is still a viable, functioning company, but it was difficult for them to adjust to losing 300 members of their 85,000-person workforce in a single morning.
This tragedy is something I still can't get past. This most gut wrenching day. I can't imagine the fear of those poor people.
This is why I can't understand how the news says 1/6 is the worst day in America. They have no clue
Went to New York about two weeks after 9/11. The people were still in shock. I am a psychologist and everywhere we went people needed to talk. They just had to process what had happened to them. I listened. On the way was a psychiatrist who had his therapy dog with him. Emma was her name. Her job was to calm the people who had lived through that tragedy .
that day created a massive amount of trauma in new yorkers, and I think to many americans as well. I like in nyc, we all had ptsd for years. I just now am able to watch anything about 9/11 without horror or strong emotional pain. I have not been back downtown to that area but watching these gives me a new desire to back to the area. I cant imagine the horror this man lived with, he is very strong.
The whole world was in shock and grief.
I teared up. Imagine being him.... Being any of those people.... The terror they must've felt. I couldn't even imagine. Thank you for this Joe Budden.
Now imagine you being the american government knowing that the buildings are going to crash
@memo Or an Iraqi child having bombs dropped on your head.
@@memo5230 they're the ones who did it
me rn
@@Kaine1111 they did jfk so idk why people are suprised when people say the same about 9/11 like they didn’t benefit off the peoples pride to go to war and even if it was needed doesnt justify the deaths of thousands of innocent people
I remember being in kindergarten in Brooklyn seeing fear on my teachers faces brought me to panic they brought us all the the auditorium and made us sit in the dark until our parents came to pick us up; my mother and I ran home everyone was panicking in the streets freaking out everyone was panicking and crying and my mom brought me home... we lived on top of an apartment building I could see the tower smoking from my window... Such a vivid memory.
I like how the interviewer never interrupts him, shows him so much respect. 🧡🌱
Yes! I agree
He knows he's in the presence of absolute greatness
Haha said absolutely no one about Joe Budden before now!
I was surprised to see him doing this interview and happy to see he wasn't his same old self for it.
The interviewer himself was too transfixed at the story to even want to interrupt...
@@poorboys14 i’m pretty sure he truly did it out of respect regarding the seriousness of the situation
I was once in an elevator when something like this happened, and every one of us in there, instantly and instinctively had an overwhelming urge to get to the ground and away from the building. I remember that feeling ... it was incredibly powerful. An animal instinct to get to the earth and run.
I cannot fathom a desire to go the other way. It's against every possible instinct.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure the elevator he was in didn't go any lower. Going up or exiting on the smoke filled floor then find the stairwell in amongst all the chaos to be able to go down were his only options
An elevator won't drop if the cable is cut.....the brakes failsafe closed so the car just wouldn't move.
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Oh, God, no! I never would have gone up. Yikes!!
He couldn't go down with the elevator he was in already, that was the problem. He had to choose between going blindly through the smoke and finding the return elevator, or going back into the elevator he had come out of and getting as far away from the fire as possible. In that situation, I can see why you would choose to go up.
This is some of the best content I have ever seen. Heart wrenching. No sensational titles about a surfer. No political nonsense. Just honest emotions and unmodified, uninterrupted stories told by the people who experienced it. Well done Joe and team. Thank you. You have a well deserved new subscriber.
The floors collapsing part got me I couldn’t imagine what the people above had to go through in their final seconds I hope they didn’t suffer I hope they at peace they didn’t deserve this 💔
Joe you have created one hell of a lane for yourself. Hats off.
Yea- and hopefully he’s stopped having sex with dogs 🤢
Foreal foreal
Nah this real - I’m captivated.
No cap i didn’t really Like Joe at first but his his derserve his respect when it comes to interviewing skills
@@realrecognizereal2x71 lol interviewing skills dont mean he gets to be excused from being a dweeb douchebag prick
After all these years after 9/11 still brings me to tears and rebreaks my heart every time. I wrote a paper about the falling man in high school, I cried for a week because I was so devastated by all the research I had done. Every night when I closed my eyes I saw him. That man has NEVER left my mind after all these years, and it never will.
I remember that day vividly I was in Elementary School at the time. I remember a Teacher who had a free period at the time came in and told us what happened. Then our parents or guardians picked us up an hour or two later. To actually hear from someone who was at the World Trade when it happened and experienced it first hand is wild.
I was in 3rd grade and I remember my teacher coming in almost having a panic attack
My Junior year of High School. Remember everything about this day!
I was in 4th grade, Two of my classmates parents passed. 😢
My same experience I was in elementary and got picked up by Mt aunt and uncle from school with my cousins
It was my first week of Hs. I am from north New Jersey and had people in my class who had parents there. I specifically remember not getting picked up at school.
This is the first survivor video I’ve watched, it’s an amazing story. His wife still can feel that day. They must have some sort of PTSD. Thank you for sharing. I’m glad you’re alive.
Maaaaan Joe is just different than all the other platforms shout out to Joe and all the families involved in the tragedy
This is great but this guy has been interviewed a lot lol... Our people just don't research a lot ... It's not gossip so it doesn't get any play.... It's tons of interviews with survivors all over TH-cam, for 10 + years lol
Facts!!!!
Remove everything Islamic from America IMMEDIATELY
Yea hes different alright 💅
@@shawn1819 do u like different ? I’m only asking cuz u here ? Keep it real with ya strangers !
My uncle worked in WT #4....we kept calling him but never got an answer. We were worried sick that he was killed, even though his building was not hit, it was destroyed when the North Tower fell on it. I do mean it was almost unrecognizable. I have ssen the pictures of it. We finally got a call from his son and he had retired 1 month earlier. No one in the family knew this. We were so very happy to hear this!!! I actually visited the WTC in 1978. I still cannot believe these two buildings are gone. They were massive! RIP to all lives lost that day...
Hey Donna! Apologies for dropping this here I came across your TH-cam channel and I would love to know you better. I'm guessing you must be an honest person, because I always found your comments to be so nice and respectful. If it's okay with you, I'd love to be friend but if it sounds odd or embarrassing in any way please don't embarrass me by replying. Have a wonderful day, and keep sharing!
@@Broadtolove shut up scammer
I was in the Marines and on leave in Japan after getting married when this happened. I will never forget that day and the emotions I felt then are just as raw today.
That poor man, the life long trauma for him & his family I just can’t imagine what they all went through 💔 Incredible he made it out.
This story telling was so vivid, I felt like I was there with him. Awesome interview, glad that he lived to tell his story.
I was there that day. Litterally next to it
You got that right, story telling 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
@@dannyrichards-nb9sh😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡
@@Chimp981grow up
@@Chimp981 lay off the crack little buddy
I'm so angry that anyone had to feel that fear. Every time I watch one of these stories, my blood boils and I cry in anger and sorrow.
Uh, ok
Agreed. This should have never happened. Never. We can't do anything to bring the victims back. Trust in God to resurrect the victims and give justice to the victims, and punish the wicked.
Sh*t happens
The us has done far worse to other nations
@@Lankyfool234 Yeah.. and that's bad too. It's ALL bad. It's not like people on 9/11 "deserved" to die because our government sucks at foreign policy.
Terrifying. It’s a miracle he survived. Rest In Peace to all those who didn’t make it.
A song came to mind recently, “Believe” by Yellowcard. I didn’t realize it at first, but it’s a tribute to all the firefighters and first responders who lost their lives that day to save another. Very touching.
amazing song. even more amazing band 🇺🇸
@Hoxaye L I was 12 living in CT. We lived 2 miles from Sikorsky helicopter factory who makes black hawks and state police at the time thought that could be a potential target. No one knew what was happening. No planes took off after that. One thing I remember was the skies were the bluest I have ever seen that day.
@@Honeybeerose88 small world. I grew up in Stratford and my dad used to work for Sikorsky
Has been many years, now. ...Their souls are in the energy unless some have reincarnated. I will try my hardest not to reincarnate back on Planet Earth. It is a lovely place but the people who run it, are mostly the monsters that see us, as commodities. Done with that. Stay away from that light...it is a trap. You cannot reincarnate without giving approval, so, there are attempts made. just for that. The trickery is still around, after we die.....unless we manage to escape. The key is to want to go Home.......where ever it is. Not back here......no Karma left out......Just freedom. The love we have for our family members is a way to keep us coming back....and the roles are switched. Got to get free, unless you want more of the same repetitions. I don't .
I’ve worked many security jobs at different hotels, areas, and industries. You don’t know how many times they tell us in the case of an evacuation: to let EVERYONE leave and never hold anyone back from their choice if they feel they have to leave because of this incident. So many people were listening to their gut instinct, and we’re reassured. So many lives could’ve been saved.
Don't forget this was a 110 storey building with only narrow stairwells, and they never believed it would collapse, so giving firemen first priority especially if incident is on much higher floor would seem the prudent course of action, most workers in floors below impact sites did manage to evacuate in time, many when firemen reached their floors and told them to get out of building, but equally many chose to ignore the "the building is safe, go back to your desks"message that was played repeatedly over towers PA systems.
No it's because they were brainwashed by modern corporate America that work is everything, they were scared of being fired if they left
Unbelievable. That was a riveting story of just one survivor of 9/11. I'm happy for him and his family, that they are together.
We need all the stories. I was never satisfied by how this was handled. Stories of anyone who was there is a cannon and needs to be told. This event was the tipping point of our lives.
Riveting. My thought as well. 9/11 Always Remember !
I'm so sorry these people had to experience such a death. Years later my heart still hurts for these people 🙏🙁!!
I always think about those people that jumped out the building and no they didn't go to hell.
@@muhamedjones122 what?
@@henrygarza3145 They didn't go to hell, so it was their fault they couldn't breathe from the thick smoke because an idiot flew a plane into the building.
I still get all choked up. Not at a mention, but Everytime i really think about it.
It was done so that we would carry this hurt always. 💔
I heard of this story about a 9/11 survivor that rode 22 floors down and survived. I always wanted to learn more about this amazing story but was never able to until now. Thanks for bringing people like this on your show, this story needs to be heard, he's one of the few or only one that survived 9/11 while inside the towers when they were coming down.
Didn’t he say he laid on like a chunk of concrete held together by rebar. I’m imagining a concrete flying carpet kind of deal where the debri was so much it’s preventing him from free falling, but just rides the concrete block down 22 floors, now that is amazing. The odds , guess that’s why he is the only one with this story. It’s just insane
Why didn't we hear Pssquale's entire story. It is miraculous. His is a story that he lived. What a blessing God gave him that day. He lived when so many others died.
Vote MAGA
Why did god let so many people die 💀
@@SanJunipero82why blame God?
@@REEDUCATIONCAMPUSA huh? Did you read the comment I was replying to? They said God saved him that day. I’m asking why God let so many people die. The only people I blame are the people who caused it. People!
@@SanJunipero82 don’t forget about our good friend the DEVIL! People need to stop blaming God for the bad.
This interview just took Joe Budden TV to a whole new level. KEEP THESE COMING!! 🔥🔥
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Fr bro I didn’t expect this from mr joe
Lol not it didn't shut up
@YT laylaygames That's okay hater.
I kinda want to subscribe to his page now..
Joe really has the opportunity to have a massive show here. He has a great eye for interesting guests you wouldn’t normally hear from and is a great interviewer. Both this and the navy seal guy had me hooked
Might be irrelevant but why would you not want to show the person that your interviewing in your thumbnail? I mean it’s basic common sense to include that person? It just makes it look like he’s the one being interviewed like I low key for thought that he was the one that fell lmao.
@@metalrockstarizer89 a/B testing in marketing. To see which thumbnail gets the most views. Also he has another thumbnail for the full 1 hour interview showing the both of them.
The best part is he doesn't interrupt his guests and doesn't overdo his responses like some unwatchable interviewers.
He would have to be a different person. I don't think it's possible.
Best piece of content I’ve ever seen from you Joe!!!!! Hands down. . . . Thank you sir😢
probably because this is something you like he has millions of videos like this lol
@@lowkeytofficialpage4827 no he dont and im a fan 😂
Naw. That would be Pump it Up.
Must never heard mood musik series
??? Really?? Go see Loose Chang3 instead and WAKE UP
Oh man, that adds a whole new level of sad to this. Ontop of losing the bravest firefighters, you also lose people who didn't evacuate right away because they didn't want to inhibit rescue operations.
It's crazy the amount of bravery it needs to take for him to talk about this. After all the trauma he must have gone through, he still comes on and talks about it. I could never do what he did.
Yes you could. My sister was having her wedding that weekend in NY. I lived in CA just the trauma of not being able to just get on a flight and fly home was enough for me to over come my fear of flying and seeing my family again. I'll be scared later, right now I got to do what I got to do.
Fake story
@@volvo24091 you are a heartless person.
@@gonnabeok. I have no time for cry babies with their sob stories
How can you say that with so much conviction? It's over 20 years on. He's had all the time to process and address the trauma to the point that he was able to do this interview, and maybe it would have been the same for you too
The most powerful event in our lifetime. It’s a day that will always be thought of as “before and after” . And we will always remember where we were when the planes hit. RIP to all those lost . Still emotional. This changed everything!
And I will remember the brave firefighters and policemen that were running iNTO the building, while everyone else was running out for their lives. In all the anti police hatred today, people conveniently forget how many died that day, rushing into save people
Most powerful so far..I remember it and it was horrific, odds are we will live to see worse
Yes, and why isn't the world better? Why hasn't there been a satisfying response as to why did this happened....or is it better, and I just can't see the forest for the trees. At times it feels as though the country will collapse just like the towers.
@@johnmisrahi9922 llllllllp0ll0lll
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Thank you so much for interviewing some of the survivors who didn’t get to tell the world their story…..it gives them some kind of relief telling, than someone else. R.I.P. all those who passed away that evil dark day. I was 18, and blown away.
I'll never forget that morning. That event completely changed the course of my life. Thanks Joe for letting these people share their story.
The way this entire segment is put together is amazing. Wow! Shoutout the JB Network
1000% Joe and the team did an amazing job
U doing the right interviews now bro
Why you have the full interview titled as 9/11 surfer tho
@@WHENWEGONEWIN that's what they call him on all the TV series n Documentaries they have done about 9/11. It's no disrespect. Crazy how he survived though.
Remove everything Islamic from America IMMEDIATELY
This is the best interview you have ever done. You actually showed that you've studied the art and have finally put it all together.
I was 19 when this happened and remember watching the news as all of this was happening live. I will never forget that day, it honestly still haunts me. Everywhere I went that day people crying and just so much sadness and panic. Truly a moment you can never forget. My employer at the time had people who worked in the towers that didn’t make it, sadly. Just terrible.
I was 19 when 9/11 happened as well! I was on the west coast but already at work. I'll never forget that feeling of complete shock and disbelief and horror.
I remember watching this on tv in the UK when I was 17, it really did shake the world and my heart broke for these poor people!
I was 18, the world changed for the worse after that.
I was 17 in the UK too. Watched it live. Horrified.
I was 6 years old watching it with my sisters and dad in uk. I was shocked.
I was 19 my baby was playing with his toys i held him so tight absolutely heartbreaking, those poor people and there families. R.i.p.
I was 10 in the UK at the time and I didn't care.
Very strong and descriptive interview. Couldn't imagine going through that.
My dad went to the Air Force academy and was a pilot with Leroy Homer the pilot of flight 93. 💔 my parents reminisce on his kind nature and spending thanksgiving with him. My mom would have all the squadron over and cook for them. Heartbreaking
I live in Newcastle U.K. and I remember everything what happened on 9/11 I feel it deep in my soul. I will never get used to not seeing the towers. RIP 🙏
He took us there the way he told his reality. This is one of the best interviews that I've seen in awhile riveting
I like when Joe is doing interviews like this instead of the gossiping stuff.
Me too
I wish he was gone in general
Bless this man's heart for being able to calmly share his story. The fear. I imagine he had nightmares for a long time. He is lucky to have survived. As much as I've seen footage of this horrific day I still can comprehend the enormity of it. Our country strongly came together for that. Too bad it is divided so much now.
*Wut abt. the 2-Ladies into 22 FLoor???*
*I NEG Voted this & I am BLocking Joe Budden!!!*
Unfortunately, I think the damage between left and right in this country is beyond repair at this point. It shouldn’t take a tragedy to make us all love each other. It’s heartbreaking, really.
I agree, the way our Country change together was something I wish this new generation could have felt as horrific as this time was with the loss of so many innocent and wonderful people /human beings.
@@Justin.Martyr.Eugene Way to further divide the country. Please stop causing chaos & carnage.
i love hearing this mans story heard it about 50 times and never gets old everytime i listen to him tell it im 30 years old now i still remember 9/11 like it was yesterday
I visited Ground Zero two months ago on a trip to NY. You can feel all the sadness in the air still. All those souls still linger. 🙄😢
I doubt they linger. They are long gone. It is our sadness that projects to the tragedy, that has happened to us. Most people do not want to go there. If you have to go to NYC, avoid that place may be best. The tragic thing about memorials is they do nothing to prevent more misery happening to us. It is on going, in various degrees, means and locations. Right now, some entities are getting very close to triggering WW3. It would make 9/11 look like a bad dream.
I couldn't imagine how horrific this was for all these people to go through. All these years later it still brings me to tears.
Wow!! 🥺🥺 This made me cry!
My uncle, a deaf man, was working there. He made it out and he said he actually HEARD the bodies hit the ground as ppl were jumping. Imagine never being able to hear, but u hear that!! God Bless EVERYONE that had to experience that!
Is that the all of the interview? I want to hear the rest of his story!
They "feel" vibrations around them.
@@Og-Judy I'm well AWARE of the vibrations they FEEL. However, MY uncle HEARD THEM hit the ground and he said so himself.
I have heard many survivor stories, and I was able to serve at the Salvation Army tent several months after the event, I could see the trauma and pain in the eyes of those who were there and still raking the rubble for fragments, jewelry, etc. my heart is forever in support of the first responders and their families and the people in the building and on the ground who lost their lives.
Great move, Joe. This is like watching 60 mins. I can't wait to see more interviews like this. Rest in peace to those we lost..😪🕯🙏🏿
I think he's a phenomenal interviewer! Way better than so many of the mainstream people. He's not just intelligent, but real. At times I don't agree with a few things he says, but I respect him highly because he seems to really want to understand the "whys" of people instead of just getting info for a show.
@@sjg5994 Yes , 💯%
That dumb security guard that told them to stay should get interviewed
Better than his usual lol
Remember this day as a kid… man all of these stories gives me chills.. god bless all of the families and R.I.P all of the people lost on 9/11
I remember the day like it was yesterday 🥹 I was on maternity leave, my daughter was almost one month. RIP to all who died on that day and after because of that horrible day 🙏🏾🙏🏾 And to the survivor, I’m so glad you made it and so sorry u had to go through that nightmare.
I hear stories like this and I’m transported back to that day watching it all unfold on tv. It was my husband’s birthday and my only child was 6 days away from her 1st birthday. I remember holding her and thinking what kind of world did I bring you into. I chose not to have any more children. I believe when it’s our time to go it’s our time but none of those people deserved to die like that. It’s still heartbreaking almost 23 years later.
I was 12years old in middle school when this ish happen. Teachers start crying kids parents start coming to get them. School was almost empty. No body really told me what happen, I seriously thought it was a movie but I was like why they keep playing it over and over. I always wanted to hear the story of survivors.
Yea pretty much same here only i was a freshman in high school in West Virginia . But to reflect on the impact the country felt : we weren’t remotely close to New York City and parents were bailing kids out of school that day . I went to school with 1,200 students and it was almost cleared out that day. Parents thought the entire country was under attack
How is he still alive, thought the asbestos dust would have messed up their lungs
I lived near dc and even there it was crazy....I was 8 and one of the last kids to be picked up from school....parents were running in the school to get their kids, no sign outs either smh I will never forget
I was 11 in middle school
Yes! I was in social studies class in the 7th grade and I saw clouds of smoke out the window and said “Look” everybody ran to the window to see and we were talking amongst ourselves saying it was a fire but our teachers face looked horrified. I remember everyone was being called to go home. My school was in Brooklyn but we were right across the bridge so alot of parents worked in lower Manhattan. So many people were crying. I was so confused. It was crazy
I was 14 & watched it unfold on TV in class. The emotions that floods your mind watching it, I remember my pulse racing as the buildings fell. I visited the site on the 10th anniversary when the memorial opened & it was so quiet & everyone was reliving the moment in their heads. I’m so glad the man responsible got his face blown off.
We the same age… Watched the aftermath on CNN. Shook the world. They hit us too in 98’ Nairobi.
Lol 10 years later yeah🤣🤣🤣 the fact US didnt kill him in the same year is a L in my opinion, he got to live 10 YEARS!!! he probably bragged about it as well, but better late then never I guess
@@nourvanwest070 you must be one of his sick followers for you to laugh about it. You sick mate!
When did George Bush’s face get blown off ???
@@JamesXiii I couldnt give a fuck about 9/11. America is doing 9/11’s everyday in yemen burning children with drone strikes and bombs, 1 million innocent Iraqis that died after 9/11 while Iraq had nothing to do with it, funding the Apartheid state of Israel, supporting the genocide of the Palestinians and illegal settlements on Palestinian land America is a terrorist-supporting state thats killing children in the Middle-East everyday, so dont expect the Middle-East to sympathize with that bullshit, 9/11 is the least interesting thing that happened that year to us, trust me🤣🤣🤣
I remember seeing it on the news. The reporter said that the second plane was a replay. I knew it wasn't. I screamed at my mom. " New York is under attack." My heart stopped. I live in Vancouver Canada. I remember thee local firemen out EVERYWHERE collecting donations. We were and are with you.
Surreal morning.. I would never wake up and turn on the TV but that morning the moment the 1st plane hit I woke up and something told me to turn on the TV... and soon after.. sure enough.. breaking news.
I live in Vancouver Canada also; what was horrific to me was that later I got on a bus to go to a bar to watch live coverage on a large screen. At the time 7 women got on the bus laughing and shreiking; I just looked at them in shock; how could anyone find anything funny on this tragic day........
Never heard this story. Surviving when others die is very difficult but you make sure every day counts.
As someone who has survived two near death experiences, the thoughts and emotions he describes as he's curled up in the corner during the collapse are absolutely spot-on to what I experienced as well. Both when I was being robbed with a gun to my forehead and when I was drowning I experienced these exact thoughts and emotions. It must be the way our brain helps us cope with accepting that we are about to die.
That's incredible. I've been hit by a car TWICE...and survived both times. But it happened SO fast I didn't even have time to think and my life didn't flash before my eyes. It's like one moment I'm walking trying to reach the other side of the street them boom, I'm on the pavement. The first time I tried to break the fall with my hands but instead my JAW hit the pavement so now I have permanent TMJ, the 2nd time I fractured my collarbone & got a giant gash in my head that took 6 staples to close. The 2nd time was actually more of the close call because the paramedics said the hat I was wearing actually saved my life. It was FREEZING that night, I just left work, crossing the street to catch the bus home, it was dark, a lady pulled out of the parking lot to the left of where I was and claimed she didn't see me (it's what the report said). I was wearing one of those thick full head hats, the kind with the built-in lower face protection. My friends used to make fun of it saying I looked like a burglar, calling it my "stalking" hat. They weren't laughing after the accident. Even with that little extra padding my head was bleeding so yes, it for sure saved my life! I don't even question WHY I lived through both of these life-threatening accidents, I am just grateful I survived without losing any limbs.
@@Tamesis66 ffs how did you get hit twice? was somebody coming directly for you or did you not look before you crossed somewhere.
You were drowning and accepted that you were going to die??
@@kevinprzy4539 she's the type that thinks time stops for her... Or she's in an abusive relationship and is in denial and claims it was a door knob?
I've had multiple guns pointed at my head by insane meth dealers. Even more times by cops. I've drowned like 6 times and somehow pulled myself out at the last possible second. Jumped off a bridge, naked, into a raging river at midnight during a lightning storm. I've overdosed. I've had a literal 1800's rusty scythe fall right to my neck and it hit the edge of a car door at the last second. That's not even half the times I've almost died. Lost the love of my life at 26 and tried to actively die for 4 years, but told myself if I made it to 30, that was it. I had to get healthy. So I tried even harder. Destroyed my body and all my clothes from burning holes into them and my legs from friction on concrete, bombing hills in pitch black darkness. I have no idea how I still exist. Made it to 30. Now I'm healthy. Changed everything in my life to positivity and love. I'm in it for the long-haul. I have yet to experience what he's talking about, curling into a ball. I've always had a smile on my face. I don't get it. Maybe 300 hits of LSD, mushrooms, and DMT destroyed my flight response. God or the Devil or someone must be looking after me. It doesn't make sense. I don't knock on wood. I burn it and nothing ever happens. I break bones, but pain doesn't exist when you're in it 24/7, every single day. It's nothing. Glad you're still with us, dude. I'm truly jealous. I wish I could remember what fear feels like.
What most of us know about this day is the palpable and unmistakable feeling that an old life we had all been happily living came to an ubrupt end. Just like that, in a matter of hours, we lost so many innocent lives and we lost ourselves.
My family was more fortunate than most that day and I’m sorry for all the families who lost someone. But my father had a meeting in tower 2 at 830am and his train was due in around 7.
His company I think was called Compaq and they began firing people in late summer 2001 (my dad worked for Digital Equipment in the 80s and 90s and they were purchase by Compaq)
2 weeks before 9/11 all of the higher ups and top salesman were suppose to be going to New York for a huge meeting but something within the company changed rapidly and my dad was told to not come. 9 of his friends however did go and all subsequently died.
HP (Hewlett-Packard) apparently was in talks to purchase Compaq at the time and later finalized the deal in i think early 2002.
My dads jobs were stressful during the tech boom in 98-2005 because he kept getting jobs then the companies would be acquired and they’d let everyone go.
But this one saved his life
Talk about lucky to lose your job. I also worked at a company that was acquired by Compaq in 2001 which was then bought by HP as you said.
22 years later I saw my first footage of a person falling ... (Of course I'd seen pictures) but watching the person fall on camera... that will haunt me forever. I can't even imagine being there that day, watching, feeling helpless. My heart goes out to all the victims that lost their lives that day, but to the families, first responders and even just regular civilians that went through this on the ground. I hope y'all are okay.
I'm from Texas and it's been a few documentaries on Hulu that my mom and I have been watching and some of the stories were just so heartbreaking but some were not watching those victims jump to keep from burning alive really took a toll on me and I'm sitting at home watching this I can't imagine how you handled it being right there....but just know you are definitely a hero and God was watching over you that day...thank you for sharing your story...stay blessed ❤🤍💙🇺🇲
I remember a news reporter talking on camera. You could hear regular thumps over an over as people dropped around her. She was trembling as she tried to report.
Joe did such a perfect job listening while asking the bare minimum of what we all were thinking
I was in kindergarten. I remember it was early, one of my teachers came in screaming. She had a family member in one of the towers and they weren’t responding. Shortly after we were all sent home and I watched the replay of the tragedy on tv when I got home. I’ll never forget that day and I can’t even begin to imagine how traumatizing it must have been being there. 😭
I was a junior in highschool. Damn I'm old lol
I was in middle school and and parents starting coming to get there kids
@Denise how old are you now? I think i was in 1st grade but cant remember. Im 25 now
I was 22 and had taken the day off from my work as a kayak and canoe builder. My boss had made a comment when I requested the day off, " 911 day. What does that mean? Are you going to an emergency response parade or something?"
He was pulling my leg, light humor.
Neither of us could have ever imagined what that day had in store.
It was a beautiful day.
13 years later my daughter was born on that same day. It was beautiful in 2014 as well.
How is he still alive, thought the asbestos dust would have messed up their lungs
No one will ever forget where they were and what they were doing when this horrific tragedy happened. I went to nyc shortly after it happened I was writing a college paper about it and people just can’t see or know the huge hole it left there unless they saw it in person.
That was the most intense 9/11 survivor story I’ve heard yet. Had my apathetic, depressed self crying nonstop the last few minutes.
You have compassion. It is what good humans have.
I'm not a cold person in life, I'm quite friendly but I feel guilty reading this kind of comments, does that make me a bad person for not being affected to that point? I enjoyed his story, I can imagine how much traumatizing it must have been for him, but I can't cry or be depressed because of it.
I'm not judging anyone but I want to know if I'm weird or maybe I psychopath
@@LeBonRoiLouisyou can still be compassionate without crying or feeling depressed, everyone expresses themselves different. It doesn’t make you a physcopath because you reacted in a more calm manner.
@macklove8661 It's nice to you to answer me, thank you. I guess you're right!
It’s so crazy how not only the USA but the whole world changed on September 11, I was 12 and living in another country then and I still remember where I was and how everything changed for everybody 😢
Its two times in my life where the world changed. Post 9/11 and post covid 19.
Thank you for documenting this horrific event! It’s so important to preserve these stories, particularly as some forget or deny this happened.
I worked on the E train to WTC. They never told anyone what was happening. So many of my regular passengers l’ve often wondered what happened to them after so many photos were attached to walls of the subway. Fast forward …. asthma, auto immune, and a stroke with unexplained reasons with therapy to date. So sorry threw he experienced that nightmare, but glad he’s here to tell the details of event.
anytime you sense something is wrong or see something is wrong in a high rise building, leave immediately and listen to your instinct