I Survived A School Shooting, But Lost My Best Friend

Other People’s Lives

Santagato Studios

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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0:00.0	I've rolled out uni because I want to live at home.
0:02.5	I've ruled out uni because I want to earn money.
0:05.7	I've ruled out uni because of my grades.
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0:30.4	You know, while everybody's just calling their parents, calling 911, we get a photo of who did it.
1:03.5	And then I'm like, oh my goodness, this cannot be happening because this person, a couple of months before we had had a lockdown because he had pulled out a bucks cutter and threatened to stab people. Welcome back to other people's lives. I'm Joe Sanagato. I'm Greg Dyback. For anyone out there that would like to be a guest in our show, don't hesitate to reach out to us. Our email is OPL podcast at
1:08.0	gmail.com. Today, we're speaking to a woman who reached out.
1:12.0	She is a survivor of a school shooting.
1:16.7	She attended Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee.
1:20.6	This school shooting happened this past January.
1:24.3	So it's very recent.
1:26.1	And as she said in her email, it didn't get a ton of coverage
1:30.2	compared to a lot of the other shootings that have unfortunately happened. But we have her on the
1:35.3	line. She's going to tell her story about what she witnessed that day, knowing the shooter
1:41.5	and how she has been able to cope with this event.
1:44.9	So we've got the guests on the line.
1:46.1	And thank you so much for being on.
1:49.2	All right.
1:49.6	Thank you guys.
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