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How Men Think

Active Shooter On Campus: Back To School Swatting

How Men Think

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Society & Culture, Relationships, Sexuality, Health & Fitness

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Things got personal this week with hoax mass shootings sweeping the country’s college campuses. Both Amy and T.J. got phone calls from loved ones fearing the worst as false phone calls were placed, claiming active shooters were on campus. 

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:06.7

Welcome everyone to this edition of Amy and T.J.

0:09.6

It is Tuesday, August 26th.

0:12.2

It is back to school time.

0:14.1

Parents, a lot of us have dropped our kids off at college campuses or across the country.

0:19.4

And I know a lot of high school students are

0:20.9

already back in session some folks are getting ready to but this is a time of excitement

0:24.7

it's a time of joy a little bit of anxiety as we leave our kids hopefully in safe hands

0:30.1

and a series of frightening events is taking place at college campuses across this country, and it's happening

0:39.3

repeatedly and far too often. TJ, you and I both got phone calls yesterday.

0:46.8

Yeah, we read a lot of news, and we stay up on a lot of news, and we've been informed plenty

0:53.8

over the past week, really, about

0:56.0

active shooter incidents on several college campuses. We get those alerts from breaking news,

1:05.1

emails, we get them from watching the news, we get them from reading the news. We got these

1:10.4

two from family members,

1:12.5

because our family members are in very close proximity to two college campuses where

1:17.4

there were two active shooter hoaxes. One, my alma mater, I don't have a family member enrolled,

1:25.6

had niece and nephew in recent years, but my sister lives

1:29.2

in that area, my niece, and still lives up there. And of course, Annalise, a sophomore now at the

1:38.4

University of Colorado who was just dropped off there officially by you last Thursday and Friday.

1:43.6

So we are talking until three days after you left her at Boulder.

1:50.0

You get a message saying there's an active shooter on her campus.

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