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Speaker 1: Am I the a hole for turning in a school

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Speaker 1: project that shows that I live in a crap hold

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Speaker 1: neighborhood where everyone sucks? Okop, this is Okayop. I'm samuel

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Speaker 1: daughter and I'm John from and we tell the funniest

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Speaker 1: stories on the internet. And John, if you were to

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Speaker 1: take a walk around your neighborhood and having to give

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Speaker 1: like a tour and like this is your direct neighborhood,

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Speaker 1: what would you see? What would you find?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Man, we have some interesting houses.

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Speaker 3: We have one that has a mosaic museum inside of

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Speaker 3: it really not even jokes. Yeah, it's like legally a museum,

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Speaker 3: but also a house or something.

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Speaker 1: Right right right around the Is it like around the

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Speaker 1: corner from your place or.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's walking distance in my little back neighborhood area.

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Speaker 3: We have a house with like we thought for sure

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Speaker 3: that it was like one hundred percent abandon There's like

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Speaker 3: a car with like ten years of dust on it,

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Speaker 3: so we thought it was like one hundred percent of band.

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Speaker 2: But then out of nowhere they.

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Speaker 3: Put up like really crappy like Christmas lights on this

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Speaker 3: like giant overgrown tree in front of their house.

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Speaker 2: So we're like, like, I.

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Speaker 1: Guess someone lives there and they're in the Christmas spirit.

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Speaker 2: Yes they are.

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Speaker 3: And then there's there's someone who literally has like the

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Speaker 3: plants straight out if you just copy and pasted like

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Speaker 3: an island jungle that like is there like surrounding area

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Speaker 3: of their house really like plants galore. I mean, just

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Speaker 3: like like Jurassic Park kind of plants practice palm tree,

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Speaker 3: just like weird like trees and plants that you I

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Speaker 3: don't even know what they are and just like filled around.

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Speaker 1: Your neighborhood's done, super super interesting. This story is a

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Speaker 1: story about a neighborhood that is maybe not as inviting

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Speaker 1: as you.

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Speaker 2: It's not as interesting.

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Speaker 1: Okay, am I the a hole for turning in a

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Speaker 1: school project that shows that I live in a crop

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Speaker 1: hold neighborhood where everyone sucks.

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Speaker 2: Hmmm.

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Speaker 1: I'm a high school student in a Spanish class and

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Speaker 1: we had an assignment to make a video tour of

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Speaker 1: our place. It had to be in Spanish and had

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Speaker 1: to be conversational, like you were showing it around to

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Speaker 1: a friend like, hey, look at this planned Look at

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Speaker 1: this mosaic. That's pretty cool, don't they el planto? Yes,

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Speaker 1: you know, Johnny's very uh I Spanish speak. He's Spanish speech.

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Speaker 1: Yo a blow espaniol or pooah bla Espanol?

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Speaker 2: Howca okay?

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Speaker 1: I decided to just walk around my street and make

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Speaker 1: a tour of that because my family wasn't going anywhere else.

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Speaker 1: So this is what I filmed. A neighbor's house when

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Speaker 1: I walked by and they were having a screaming fight

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Speaker 1: like usual, and I said, here are the neighbors. They

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Speaker 1: are very angry. They like to yell in the morning, afternoon,

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Speaker 1: and night. Buenosdes. The next neighbor's house, Joe and Tammy

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Speaker 1: live here. They are very nice and have three dogs.

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Speaker 1: At that moment, someone drives by and cat calls me profanely. Hey,

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Speaker 1: no one thots something like that would probably worse, as

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Speaker 1: I joke. I yelled back and stupid old perro, which

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Speaker 1: means stupid dog. Then he slammed his brain and yelled

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Speaker 1: something racist about me being Mexican, before speeding off. I

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Speaker 1: said to the camera, this man is very stupid. He

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Speaker 1: is a man, but acts like a dog. Also, I'm white,

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Speaker 1: but I think this idiot assumed I was a Hispanic

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Speaker 1: because I was speaking Spanish. I also introduced ten other

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Speaker 1: mundane things like flowers, a bird, etc. I cut out

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Speaker 1: the long sequences of me walking, but I left in

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Speaker 1: everything else. My teacher had a rubric of the types

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Speaker 1: of descriptions and numbers of things you needed, and taking

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Speaker 1: any out would lose me points. It was too dark

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Speaker 1: out to film anymore, so I stopped. The second part

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Speaker 1: of the assignment was to upload the video on the

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Speaker 1: school website and post comments back and forth, responding to

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Speaker 1: several of your classmates videos. One of my friends from

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Speaker 1: class recognized the racist guy as someone who volunteers with

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Speaker 1: the middle school soccer team. So the guy that was

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Speaker 1: cat calling is teaching kids out to play soccer?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 1: So she texted me like, ha ha, Shall I say something?

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Speaker 1: And I said sure. So she posted in Spanish in

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Speaker 1: the car is mister Jones who coaches the children? I

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Speaker 1: learned from your video that he hates women and is racist.

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Speaker 1: I replied to say, does he teach the girls or

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Speaker 1: the boys? And she replied back both. I replied back,

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Speaker 1: that is terrible. I love how all these sentences are

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Speaker 1: super simple, but they're so savage. A guy in my

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Speaker 1: class made a comment like the man yelling at his

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Speaker 1: family is a police officer. He is always a very

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Speaker 1: angry man. I replied back to say, that is scary.

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Speaker 1: The next day at school, my teacher wanted to talk

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Speaker 1: to me alone. She told me my video was inappropriate

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Speaker 1: and I shouldn't have filmed the neighbors or the coach.

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Speaker 1: I said that this assignment was literally to walk around

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Speaker 1: a place you're familiar with and react like you're having

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Speaker 1: a conversation with a friend, and that is literally how

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Speaker 1: it goes when I walk around my house with my friends.

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Speaker 1: My teacher said I was being a alligerent on purpose,

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Speaker 1: and I should have known that this stuff has to

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Speaker 1: be dealt with delicately. I said, I just don't agree.

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Speaker 1: It's just life, and there's no point of pretending that

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Speaker 1: it's not happening.

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Speaker 3: Facts, Opie, I like OPI is literally dropping these like

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Speaker 3: philosophical gems, just yeah, nonchalantly.

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Speaker 1: She said she'd taken down the video and it was

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Speaker 1: the sort of thing that should be brought to the

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Speaker 1: authorities instead of posted for the whole class. I said,

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Speaker 1: I didn't even know the guy in the car, and

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Speaker 1: who was I gonna call about the cop? The cops?

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Speaker 1: Who police is the police? I have a meeting with

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Speaker 1: the principal coming up tomorrow. Am I the a hole

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Speaker 1: for posting a video for Spanish class?

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Speaker 2: First off, man, can we have a little humor?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Can we have a little comedy?

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Speaker 3: Man?

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Speaker 1: Like I honestly, watching that video, I would have cracked up.

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Speaker 1: Thought I would have thought it was hilarious. Yeah, she

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Speaker 1: did do the assignment that she did. She understood the assignment,

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Speaker 1: Yes she did. But there's an update. John Oh, I

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Speaker 1: had a meeting this morning and I think it went well.

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Speaker 1: I have a study hall now, so I have a

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Speaker 1: little more time to write an update. So last night

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Speaker 1: I did a bunch of prep before the meeting. I

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Speaker 1: emailed the video to the elementary school principal, guidance counselor,

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Speaker 1: and a few parents I know with kids on the

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Speaker 1: sports team to say their coach had yelled sexually explicit

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Speaker 1: and hateful things at me. A student in the school system.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to get out ahead and make sure the

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Speaker 1: video was out there before the school might pressure me

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Speaker 1: to delete it. Then I backed up the video to

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Speaker 1: multiple places. Then I asked a teacher I trust to

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Speaker 1: sit in on this meeting and have it be recorded

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Speaker 1: and sent to all participants. Afterwards, we scheduled it for

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Speaker 1: just before the school day started on zoom so I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't miss any class. And then finally I decided to

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Speaker 1: write up a list of things I'd want discussed in

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Speaker 1: the meeting and shared it with my favorite teacher in

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Speaker 1: advance so she can help me address the questions.

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Speaker 2: Bro shout out to Opie.

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Speaker 1: Opie became really prepared crash darn, and for the actual meeting,

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Speaker 1: I decided I'd just go into it acting as if

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Speaker 1: they would obviously do the right thing and ask for help.

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Speaker 1: I was hoping having a teacher on my side and

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Speaker 1: the meeting on video would pressure them to help. I

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Speaker 1: thought if I approached it from and well, obviously you're

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Speaker 1: going to take this seriously perspective, and had it on video,

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Speaker 1: it would put them in a tough spot to have

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Speaker 1: to contradict me. So when I called in, everyone said

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Speaker 1: good morning, and the principal asked if I knew why

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Speaker 1: I had been called in this morning. I just started

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Speaker 1: out by saying, yes, I assume it's about the kid's coach.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for calling me to this meeting

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Speaker 1: this morning. I really appreciate how proactive you are about

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Speaker 1: addressing the sexual harassment from a staff member. I understand

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Speaker 1: this is a mandated reporting state, and I wanted to

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Speaker 1: ask if there's any information you will need to add

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Speaker 1: to your.

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Speaker 2: Report, that is how it's done.

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Speaker 1: And the principle seemed kind of caught out and said

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Speaker 1: a report had not yet been filed. I said, well,

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Speaker 1: as I understand it, there is a forty eight hour

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Speaker 1: timeframe to file report. I understand making you aware of

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Speaker 1: this right before the weekend might have complicated things. Perhaps

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Speaker 1: there was a miscommunication about the severity of the events,

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Speaker 1: but I was approaching a car sexually harassed and threatened

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Speaker 1: by a man who worked with other miners in the

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Speaker 1: public school system. As soon as I said all that,

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Speaker 1: the meeting tone really changed. The meeting also had a

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Speaker 1: understood how serious what I was saying was, especially because

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Speaker 1: I was politely calling out that they were already past

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Speaker 1: the legal deadline and that they should have filed the

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Speaker 1: report already. She actually took over and the principal didn't

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Speaker 1: somewhat by saying I was sorry I brought this to

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Speaker 1: their attention in a school project. Instead of asking for

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Speaker 1: out for help. So that's over. I'm still kind of

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Speaker 1: freaking out how big of a deal it turned out

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Speaker 1: to be. Also, I want to say thanks to everyone

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Speaker 1: who had suggestions about how to approach this, like having

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Speaker 1: an adult to back me up, getting the meeting on record,

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Speaker 1: and knowing about the mandatory reporting. OPI is literally a hero,

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Speaker 1: like OPI is a freaking lawyer, bro, like just bowling

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Speaker 1: out justice.

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Speaker 2: Incredible. Wow wow wow wow.

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