Episode 137: Aurora
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Andrew, Jeannie, and Patrick discuss the recent tragedy at a midnight showing of the new Batman movie in Colorado.
If discussions of an unthinkable act of gun violence are hard for you to listen to personally, we promise we won’t be offended if you skip this episode. We also promise that in this case, as we will do in any future cases, we handle it in as honest, personal, and unsensationalistic as way possible.
Music courtesy of JD Short (http://bassdbler.com) and Far From Close (http://farfromclose.com)
I just want to throw my hat in the ring.
I first heard about this from my Twitter friend @shackas and not knowing any details I cracked wise. I thought it was like shootings we have here in Australia; a drive-by shooting where the shooter hits a wall and a step and that’s it, no one gets hurt.
At the time I didn’t know the extent of the brutality and the scope of what actually happened and it wasn’t until a few days later that I got the whole story and it broke my heart.
I’m one of these parents that pick up the kids and have a family outing to watch the latest movie, especially comic book movies. I’m the parent sitting with a three-month-old to a ten-year-old, educating them in the good things of life while they’re young. Had I been born in your hemisphere I very well would have had my babies at a midnight screening. I went to a midnight screening of Raimi’s Spider-man with a three week old baby.
Anyway… It’s an international tragedy that hits at every corner of the globe and I humbly apologise for my stupid-arse joking about something I knew nothing about. I am so sorry. My heart is truly broken.
I don’t know what else to say, but thank you guys for a level headed, un-heated, non-knee-jerk discussion.