196: How TV Saved My Life
The Mortified Podcast
Mortified Media and Radiotopia
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The epic tale of an imaginary TV Network that helped one teenager overcome isolation.
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| 0:00.0 | Radio Tapio. |
| 0:04.0 | From PRX. |
| 0:08.9 | Before we get to this episode, I want to let you know that our fellow Radio Tapio |
| 0:12.5 | show Adolthish is back with their new ninth season. Adolthish is the award-winning, |
| 0:19.2 | advice, culture, and storytelling podcasts put together by and for young adults. |
| 0:25.1 | This season will feature stories and insights of cannabis, |
| 0:28.5 | self-love shams, the joy of drag, and holding grudges. |
| 0:32.8 | The show is produced by YR Media and hosted by Dominique aka Dom French and Nige Turner. |
| 0:39.6 | The 20-something BIPOC hosts tackle the ups and downs of their own lives while bringing in |
| 0:44.8 | teen and young adult co-hosts, authors, and up-and-coming stars in the podcast's most |
| 0:50.4 | boundary-pushing season yet. Look out for new episodes of Adolthish by YR Media and Radio Tapio |
| 0:57.5 | every Thursday, starting April 20th. |
| 1:00.6 | I do feel like I'm frozen in time at the end of like a cliffhanger episode of a TV show, |
| 1:06.3 | where I'm just like, you know, what's going to happen next? But we all feel that way sometimes, |
| 1:10.8 | don't we? |
| 1:11.8 | Spend just a minute speaking with him and you quickly understand one thing. John Griffith's |
| 1:16.9 | loves TV. So much so that he often peppers his descriptions of life experiences with references |
| 1:23.4 | to life on screen. And right now, John is living in a reboot. |
| 1:28.5 | I sold my home in Hollywood and moved back into a house where I spent much of my childhood |
| 1:34.1 | and Newport Beach. John relocated to the quiet serenity of Newport Beach during the quarantine of |
| 1:39.2 | 2020. And while it's been in adjustment, he enjoys it. He's in his 50s and yeah, this wasn't the |
| 1:45.8 | plan, which might be stressful to some. But John's remarkably unfazed. It's like he had at a certain |
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