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Mortified Media and Radiotopia


The Mortified Podcast is a storytelling series where adults share the embarrassing things they created as kids—diaries, letters, lyrics & beyond—in front of total strangers. PS: It totally likes you. The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. Learn more at radiotopia.fm.  

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// CREDITS: Podcast produced and hosted by Neil Katcher and David Nadelberg. Stage show created by David Nadelberg. Learn more: GetMortified.com.  

// TV: Watch our concert film, Mortified Nation, and our 6-part mini series, The Mortified Guide, now on Tubi and other platforms.  

// BOOKS: We've also got a guided journal, My Mortified Life, that prompts you to compare your life to your childhood self.  We've also got 2 Mortified anthologies.  

// GAME: Check out our confessional card game, I Can't Believe I Did That.  

// KIDS SHOWS: We also made an awesome podcast for kids 9-13 called Ooh You're in Trouble. It's kind of like we made Mortified Jr. Each episode features a true story about a moment when someone broke a rule growing up, and what happened when they did. It's an educational and comedic series that delivers exciting stories while helping kid's define their sense of ethics. 





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We revisit one of our favorite episodes, the boy band episode (originally published in ep 50), where we explore all things boy band-- New Kids on the Block, N*Sync, Backstreet Boys, Hanson, One Direction and more. Plus an interview with our special guest, NKOTB star Joey McIntyre. 

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Encore: Boy Bands (feat. Joey McIntyre of NKOTB)

The Most Mortified Tournament of Teen Angst reaches its climax, as the winning Mortified chapter is officially crowned. 

Tyrel Hartman shares journals about first kisses and video games, as well poems about a pet hamster. 

Andrew Willis shares journals about the search for romance in high school. 

As a heads up, we will have one more episode left after this before the show enters hiatus. 

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269: Most Mortified Champions!

Hear part 2 of our Most Mortified Tournament of Teen Angst finale. Segment 1: the erotic fiction of Keith Garcia. Segment 2: A conversation with 3 members of the Mortified Denver community that covers such topics as: an epic coming-out tale, a major tampon mishap, sneaking explicit music past religious parents and lurid stories from youth group.

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268: Most Mortified Finale pt 2

Hear part 1 of our Most Mortified Tournament of Teen Angst finale. Segment 1: the diary of Chanel Ruth. Segment 2: A conversation with 3 members of the Mortified Chicago team that covers such topics as: creative ways for closeted young lesbians to use the Josie and the Pussycats soundtrack, kids who fear they'll go to hell for watching an Al Pacino movie, and finding out your great grandma has a smutty side.

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267: Most Mortified Finale pt 1

Stories include: 

At the height of the Carter-Reagan election, a 10-year-old girl, Alex, imagines experiencing a future with a female President. 

A broken hearted teen, Erica, unleashes her romantic fury by writing her ex a 24-page letter. 

A girl in the 1970s, Rhonda, wrestles with who she ought to be in pages of her journals after reading a book about being a proper young woman, The Fascinating Girl.

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266: The Fascinating Girl

The Most Mortified tournament has reached the semifinals! In this head to head clash of titans, the Mortified Chicago chapter battles the Mortified Portland chapter. Stories include: 

Inspired by the diary of Anne Frank, a girl sets out to keep an adolescent diary that will be remembered for the ages.

The epic tale of a shy kid who works up the gumption to talk to girls.

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265: Most Mortified Semifinals - Chicago vs Portland

The rebellious, fury-filled journals of a Korean-American boy who was caught in the midst of a culture clash at school and at home.

Watch Robert's performance in the The Mortified Guide to Family in The Mortified Guide TV mini-series on Tubi and Freevee(Amazon Prime). 

The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. 

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264: Why My Name is Robert

The Most Mortified tournament has reached the semifinals! In this head to head clash of titans, the Mortified Denver chapter battles the Mortified DC/Baltimore chapter. Stories include: 

A grade school boy goes to great lengths to win a classroom election. 

A catholic school girl ventures into dating with very limited sex education knowledge.

A boy determined to land a coveted cabbage patch doll transforms himself into a budding entrepreneur. 

A liberated teenager moves to a small religious town where her hormones clash with her desire to fit in with her conservative surroundings.

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263: Most Mortified Semifinals: Denver vs DC/Baltimore

If you were a devout christian kid in the 1980's, there's a good chance mainstream music was off-limits. Especially debaucherous hair metal bands like Motley Crue and Poison. That one christian glam band, complete with big hair, makeup and tight spandex, changed all that... In this special crossover episode with our friends at Rock That Doesn't Roll, hear the unlikely tale of 1980's hair metal band, Stryper. Featuring appearances by Stryper's own Michael Sweet and Mike Tramp of White Lion fame.

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262: Crossover episode: Rock That Doesn't Roll

Mortified celebrates 20 years with a friendly beer-league-level competition that pits city vs city. This week, Mortified's Chicago chapter faces off against Mortified NY as well as Mortified Boston in an epic three-way battle for the coveted last spot in the tournament's semifinals. 

Stories include: A 2nd grader's misguided essay aimed at making retirees go back to work and pay taxes. The diaries of a middle schooler crushing on the receptionist from The Office. Oddly religious fan letters to Katherine Hepburn. 

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261: Most Mortified: NY vs BOS vs CHI

Surprise episode! Hear the journal of Brett Freedman, a closeted middle schooler in the 1980s who tries to keep 2 things alive— his fish and his hopes for romance. Recorded in Los Angeles. Featured in our encore segment: Jimmy Radosta’s Grinch-y Christmas journal, recorded in Portland, OR. And stay tuned, a batch of new episodes are coming in the first half of 2024. 

The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Produced by Neil Katcher and David Nadelberg.

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