17 Katie: Saving Katharine Hepburn

The Mortified Podcast

Mortified Media and Radiotopia

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 June 2015

⏱️ 16 minutes

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In the 90’s, a teenager sends fan letters to Katharine Hepburn in an attempt to save her from eternal damnation. To learn more about Mortified visit getmortified.com. A proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.

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0:00.0	Radio Tepi-O.
0:04.0	From PRX.
0:10.0	February 14, 1998.
0:12.0	Sixth grade.
0:14.0	Dear Diary.
0:15.0	Dear Jesus.
0:16.0	Dear Sweet Aswad.
0:17.0	Adults.
0:18.0	Sharing the embarrassing things.
0:19.0	They created us kids.
0:20.0	So I wrote poems about masturbation.
0:22.0	Before an audience.
0:23.0	Of total strangers.
0:24.0	I feel like an idiot.
0:25.0	I'm the only normal one in my entire family.
0:28.0	Mom, you can't read this.
0:30.0	These are the stories hidden inside the pages of our past.
0:39.0	Welcome to the Mordified Podcast.
0:40.0	I'm Dave.
0:41.0	In today's episode, peaks inside the fan letters.
0:43.0	So the teenager whose childhood obsessions included
0:46.0	fantasizing about leaving Peoria,
	...

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