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Really? Yeah, there's that. I promise I'm not a crisis actor though. You're doing a great method job of being a crisis actor right now. Thank you. Where's my Tony?

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or slash TED to take the survey today. That's survey. PRX.org slash Ted. Thanks. Hey, I'm Dylan Merin, and this is conversations with people who hate me, the show where I take negative online conversations and move them offline.

Sometimes I speak one-on-one to people who said not so nice things about me on the internet,

and other times I moderate conversations between people who have gotten into it with each other.

Today I'm doing something a little different. I'm hosting a conversation about a topic.

Now neither of my guests have written anything negative about each other online, but they do come from very different positions on a certain issue.

Guns.

Also, because it seems like teens are leading the conversation about gun control,

both of my guests are teenagers themselves.

My first guest is Sarah, and my second guest is Josh,

who listeners of this show may remember from episode two.

First, I'll speak one-on-one to each of them, and then we'll get on a call together.

Here is Sarah.

Hi Sarah, how are you? Hi, Sarah, how are you? Hi Dylan, I'm good, how are you?

Good, look at our very official tone.

How's your day going?

I mean, I'm a high school student, so I woke up, I went to school, I did my homework, and now I'm here.

Check you out. So this means you're a senior right now, right?

Oh, yeah, I'm a second semester senior, so thankfully the workload is too bad.

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