Facing Ground Zero: A Dateline Special
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Facing Ground Zero: A Dateline Special

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 15, 202641 min

In this Dateline Special, New Yorkers whose experiences were captured in real time on September 11, 2001, reflect on what they saw, what they survived and how the attacks indelibly shaped their lives and the country. Former WNBC New York cameraman Ralph Patterson, World Trade Center Port Authority Police commanding officer Tim Norris, North Tower 82nd-floor Port Authority employees Daphne Carlisle and Muyiwa Onigbogi, NYPD detective and helicopter pilot Greg Semendinger, Newark Airport Port Authority Police officer John McDevitt, and FDNY paramedic Trinh K. Dinh share their stories of that day. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See...

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Hi, I'm Kate Snow, NBC News anchor and host of the NBC News podcast The Drink. This month I'm sitting down with actor-writer-producer Brendan Hunt. Most of you know him as Coach Beard from Ted Lasso, but there is so much more to his story.

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We sit down, we talk about all of it from his bumpy upbringing to his years in improv comedy and how a Hollywood rejection opened the door to co-creating Ted Lasso. an open, funny conversation about perseverance, creativity, and the winding road that brought him right here.

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We hope you'll join us for the drink, listen, and follow wherever you get your podcasts. I heard a loud noise and I heard a woman scream. 9-11, as you've never seen it. What was it?

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