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| 0:00.0 | I'm Gimlet, this is Reply All. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm Alex Skoldman. |
| 0:13.8 | Carlos Mazza grew up in Miami. |
| 0:16.0 | As a kid, he was chubby and shy, and he had a very hard time fitting in at the All Boys |
| 0:20.8 | Catholic High School that his parents sent him to. |
| 0:23.5 | What was your first experience being bullied? |
| 0:28.1 | It was just like the high school I went to was like really had like an out of control |
| 0:32.9 | bullying and homophobia problem. |
| 0:35.0 | It was just a ton of getting called a fag, being zip tied to my chair. |
| 0:41.0 | People would steal my book bag and like flip it inside out and then drop penis on it with |
| 0:45.1 | chalk. |
| 0:46.4 | And I, I don't know, looking back, I'm like, what was I thinking? |
| 0:50.6 | But I came out in high school, like in the middle of all that. |
| 0:58.1 | When you were getting bullied in high school and you would tell the teachers, what would |
| 1:01.0 | they say? |
| 1:02.8 | I didn't tell the teachers. |
| 1:06.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.3 | It was so normal to me that I thought I don't even know what I'd be complaining about. |
| 1:12.2 | Like the beloved AP English teacher is calling kids faggots in school. |
| 1:17.6 | Like to some extent, this stuff only exists because the teachers know and tolerate it. |
| 1:23.6 | They knew it, tolerated it, and it made life for Carlos really hard. |
| 1:28.3 | But in his late teens, he found a place that he said was no way this for him. |
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