Why Do You Hate Me?: 2. I Believed Conspiracies About The Shooting I Survived
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BBC
4.0 • 545 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Marianna Spring talks to a survivor of the mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017 about how posts on a social media account made him question an event he’d witnessed with his own eyes
Listen to more episodes of Why Do You Hate Me on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts. For this series, Marianna Spring (one of the most trolled BBC journalists) dives into her inbox and investigates a different extraordinary case of online hate to find out. She meets the people at the heart of these conflicts, and in some cases brings them together, to see if understanding - even forgiveness - is ever possible. Subscribe to BBC Sounds to hear the episodes first.
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Host: Marianna Spring Producer: Ben Carter Editor: Sam Bonham Commissioning editor: Rhian Roberts Sound Engineer: Tom Brignell Production co-ordinator: Rosie Strawbridge
Cellphone footage courtesy of Lindsay Sherk
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| 0:00.0 | An early start here. |
| 0:02.7 | It's time to kick off. |
| 0:04.0 | Your day. Morning! |
| 0:05.8 | What a line-up. |
| 0:07.2 | Oh, thanks very much. |
| 0:08.2 | We do get some great guests on the show. |
| 0:10.1 | The crowd is loving this. |
| 0:12.2 | Thanks, guys. Thank you. Too kind. |
| 0:14.1 | From morning chaos to match day commentary. |
| 0:17.6 | And everything in between. |
| 0:19.0 | BBC Sounds. |
| 0:20.2 | Packed with personality |
| 0:21.7 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:25.0 | Music, radio, podcasts |
| 0:27.3 | Last Vegas, just after 10pm on Sunday, |
| 0:37.0 | on Sunday, October 1st, 2017. |
| 0:40.3 | More than 20,000 people were enjoying a music festival on Las Vegas Boulevard. |
| 0:46.3 | Country singer Jason Aldine was on stage when suddenly his performance was interrupted. |
| 0:53.3 | Yes you heard I was put on two. when suddenly his performance was interrupted. There was four random shots that came out of |
| 1:09.0 | and there was no fireworks around, which |
| 1:12.1 | was then sort of followed up with 11 minutes of bullets, automatic gunfire, constantly. |
| 1:17.7 | Now, I have never been in a situation with gunfire, and we just sort of ran. |
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