24 Damian: Friends with Benefits

The Mortified Podcast

Mortified Media and Radiotopia

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2015

⏱️ 17 minutes

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A closeted teenager learns that sometimes friends can suck (and that’s not always a bad thing). The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. getmortified.com.

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0:00.0	Radio Tepi-O from PRX
0:10.6	February 14, 1998.
0:13.0	Sixth grade.
0:13.8	Dear diary.
0:14.8	Dear Jesus.
0:15.8	Dear sweet ass-wad.
0:17.4	Adults.
0:18.1	Sharing the embarrassing things.
0:19.7	They created us kids.
0:20.8	So I wrote poems about masturbation.
0:22.3	Before an audience of total strangers.
0:24.4	I feel like an idiot.
0:25.6	I'm the only normal one in my entire family.
0:28.4	Mom, you can't read this.
0:30.8	These are the stories hidden inside the pages of our past.
0:35.4	Welcome to the mortified podcast.
0:41.0	I'm Neil.
0:42.0	And today's episode, peace inside the diaries of a teenager obsessed with busting a
0:46.0	move to the spice girls wearing hemp necklaces and planning elaborate murder mystery parties.
0:53.0	Conventional wisdom states their safety in numbers.
0:55.9	For teenagers of all kinds, especially those coming to terms with their sexuality, this
1:00.2	concept naturally has tons of appeal.
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