Episode 2: Hurt People Hurt People

Conversations with People Who Hate Me

Dylan Marron & TED

Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Dylan Marron talks to Josh, a teenager who told Dylan that he was “the reason this country is dividing itself.” Josh opens up and reveals that high school was hell for him, which means the two might have more in common than they think.

Conversations with People Who Hate Me is a production of Night Vale Presents. Credits: Dylan Marron (creator, producer, host), Christy Gressman (executive producer), Vincent Cacchione (audio engineer, mixer), Alen Rahimic (production manager), Rob Wilson (logo designer). Theme song: “These Dark Times” by Caged Animals.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective. right? Mm-hmm. How is high school for you?
0:13.0	Am I allowed to use the HE double hockey stick word?
0:16.0	Oh, yeah, you're allowed to.
0:18.2	It was so.
0:19.2	Really?
0:20.2	And it's still hell right now, even though it's only two weeks left.
0:24.0	That's awful.
0:25.8	I mean, I also just want to let you know Josh, I was bullied in high school too.
0:30.6	Hey listener, a quick favor.
0:33.3	We are conducting an audience survey and we'd be really grateful if you could take just a few minutes
0:37.7	to respond.
0:38.7	Please visit survey.PRX.org slashED to take the survey today.
0:44.1	That's survey dot PRX.
0:45.8	dot org slash Ted.
0:47.6	Thanks. Hi, I'm Dylan Marion and this is Conversations with People Who Hate Meant, an interview series where I have in-depth conversations
1:05.2	with some of the strangers who have sent me the most hateful
1:08.1	or negative messages online.
1:10.5	Why did they send these messages?
1:12.2	Well, that's essentially what this podcast is trying to figure out.
1:15.5	As a video maker and writer, my work focuses on social justice issues,
1:20.0	and I've been fortunate enough to find a large audience for that work, but that of course means that I've found a lot of detractors too.
1:27.0	Now, we released the first episode last week, and the response has been wonderful, so thank you so much for listening but so many people have
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