126: I Would Die to Meet JTT

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🗓️ 4 March 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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James Van Der Beek? Nick Carter? Devon Sawa? Puh-lease! According to pre-teen girls of the 90s, none of the above held a candle to the boy who played the middle child on Home Improvement — Jonathan Taylor Thomas. This week, the frenzied journals of tweens who would have died to meet JTT.

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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.
0:25.0	His hair was a prime feature.
0:26.0	It was that perfect down the middle, center part.
0:29.0	With two big waves coming out on the side.
0:33.0	But his voice was really the main alert.
0:36.0	He had a very identifiable, raspy voice.
0:40.0	I thought it was sexy at the time.
0:42.0	I could imagine I was saying my name.
0:44.0	Like, hey, and he just seemed like that good guy
0:48.0	was going to like pull your hand and like,
0:50.0	comes a hat of your parents.
0:52.0	And for your first crash, that was like a nice step into the world of boys.
0:58.0	In the 1990s, one person had a magical power over millions of teenage girls.
1:04.0	I was just wondering, you know, if you're not too busy sometime,
1:08.0	maybe you would like to go out on a date.
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