I Survived A School Shooting, But Lost My Best Friend

Other People’s Lives

Santagato Studios

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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0:00.0	You know, while everybody's just calling their parents, calling 911, we get a photo of who did it.
0:07.0	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,
0:15.0	because he had pulled out a bucks cutter and friends to stop people.
0:30.9	Welcome back to other people's lives.
0:31.7	I'm Joe Sanagato.
0:32.7	I'm Greg Dyback.
0:34.6	For anyone out there that would like to be a guest in our show,
0:36.0	don't hesitate to reach out to us.
0:39.0	Our email is OPL podcast at gmail.com.
0:46.1	Today we're speaking to a woman who reached out. She is a survivor of a school shooting.
0:54.1	She attended Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee. This school shooting happened this past January.
0:56.1	So it's very recent.
1:04.5	And as she said in her email, it didn't get a ton of coverage compared to a lot of the other shootings that have unfortunately happened.
1:05.6	But we have her on the line.
1:14.8	She's going to tell her story about what she witnessed that day, knowing the shooter and how she has been able to cope with this event.
1:17.5	So we've got the guests on the line. And thank you so much for being on.
1:21.1	All right. Thank you guys. Yeah, of course. So much for having me today. Yeah, no, we really appreciate you coming on. We know it's never easy to recap stories like this.
1:28.9	Obviously something that we want to help bring awareness to.
1:32.4	So we appreciate you, you know, coming on.
1:34.7	Thank you.
1:35.4	Can you just briefly just tell us about your high school?
1:41.3	Just was it a big high school?
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