122: Indie Kids (w/ Franz Ferdinand)

The Mortified Podcast

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Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Don’t tell me what to do!! Tales of strong-willed kids whose need for independence was unstoppable. With special guests Alex Kapranos and Paul Thomson of Franz Ferdinand. The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Listen to all @ getmortified.com

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0:00.0	Radio Tapio.
0:04.0	From PRX.
0:10.0	Dear diary.
0:11.0	6th grade. February 14th.
0:13.0	1991.
0:14.0	I am really depressed.
0:15.0	How could she break up with me?
0:17.0	Mom, you can't read this.
0:20.0	A great tool for independence for me as a kid was my bike.
0:31.0	And I loved it. I loved having a bike.
0:34.0	Growing up in the UK, Alex always had a bit of an independent streak.
0:38.0	I particularly loved it because my mum would give me boundaries.
0:42.0	I wasn't allowed to cross, like I wasn't allowed to do anything more than term left
0:46.0	or go further than the block that we lived on and something like that.
0:49.0	And to actually do that and go much, much further and her not find out was so exciting.
0:56.0	And then when she did find out and gave me a good wall of paint, it was kind of worth it.
1:02.0	That was so thrilling.
1:04.0	It's a streak, as Aunt Shirley believed was important.
1:07.0	She and my mum were quite different from each other.
1:09.0	Like, Aunt Shirley was a bit wilder.
1:12.0	She would always encourage me to do, sort of, crazy things and maybe misbehave myself a little bit
1:18.0	in the way that a good aunt or uncle always does.
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