I Was Shot During A Mass Shooting

Other People’s Lives

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Society & Culture, Comedy

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🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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0:00.0	And we can hear people's cries for help. We can hear them saying like please don't shoot me, please don't shoot me. Why are you doing this? Like please no no no. Like he wouldn't even let them finish their sentence. And it was just pop, pop, pop. Welcome back to other people's lives. I'm Joe Sanigato. I'm Greg Dyebeck.
0:25.3	For anyone out there that would like to be a guest on our show, hit us up or email is
0:28.9	OPL Podcast at gmail.com. Today we're speaking with Jeff and Jeff is a survivor of the Pulse nightclub
0:36.7	shooting that happened in Orlando, Florida, in which 49 people were killed and 53 were injured.
0:43.8	And Jeff himself was injured after being shot several times
0:47.1	and he lost six friends that night.
0:49.2	So we've got Jeff on to talk about that tragic night,
0:52.2	his experience, his recovery, and the aftermath since.
0:56.0	So Jeff, thank you so much for being on today to share your story.
1:00.3	Thank you for having me guys.
1:02.3	Yeah, of course.
1:03.0	So can you just talk us through that day?
1:07.4	Do you recall, you know, what you did that day leading up to going out to the club and kind of what that night was supposed to be for you?
1:17.3	Yeah, it was just a typical you know Saturday night and we were having a good time and I had a
1:27.8	home girl of mine one of my one of my best friends be she's a Greek girl crazy Greek girl and one of my best friends so she
1:36.2	was staying with me temporarily to her condo was fixed and then she was just
1:42.4	crashed on my couch and staying with me that week and we're like, hey, it's the weekend, let's go out and we ended up going out to meet some friends at Wine Bar and we ended up having a good time there and then another
1:57.7	friend of mine, Angel, met up with us there.
2:00.8	We did a little bar hopping in the area. It was all like straight couples. Only Angel
2:07.1	and I were the gay ones and then V straight. So not that it matters, but anyway. So we were all having a good time we're all drinking you
2:13.4	know bar hopping taking pictures and that kind of stuff right and and then we end up at
2:19.7	the skate bar down the street and they were having like two for one drinks so we went there
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