257: The Doogie or The Vinnie
The Mortified Podcast
Mortified Media and Radiotopia
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Segments include: A boy, Mat, fears he might become a sidekick. A girl, Keri, struggles with feelings of being overshadowed by a classmate. Finally, a teenager named Cassandra pines to be seen as anything more than a friend.
CREDITS: Podcast produced and hosted by Neil Katcher and David Nadelberg. Stage show created by David Nadelberg.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Radiotopia from PRX. |
| 0:17.0 | I kept a diary. I wish it were a journal, but it's a diary. |
| 0:23.0 | As you may recall, all season long we've been unerthing audio from the early days of Mordified in order to celebrate the project's 20th anniversary. |
| 0:31.0 | October 17th in social studies today, |
| 0:35.3 | I began to think of a question that he, the teacher, |
| 0:38.3 | asked us to think about. |
| 0:39.7 | And in revisiting a recording of our debut show, we couldn't help but be struck by something |
| 0:44.6 | Matt Heroitz wrote in his diary as a teenager. |
| 0:48.0 | It was, quote, who are the five most influential people in our lives. I put one Scott, two Adam, three Andy, four |
| 1:01.9 | Sharon and five is either Greg or Mel. |
| 1:07.0 | Just as an aside, Mel was my therapist. |
| 1:10.0 | Like a lot of teenagers, Matt was just trying to figure out how to navigate life. |
| 1:18.0 | It seems friends come and go, but I can't keep up. |
| 1:22.0 | At one time, Adam I were unseparable. Then for some |
| 1:26.4 | dumb reason I got sick of them and now I think we're back to being |
| 1:29.5 | unseparable. |
| 1:31.5 | Unlike a lot of teenagers, however, Matt distilled all the angst and confusion of social hierarchy into a philosophy that even channeled Neil Patrick Harris. |
| 1:41.0 | Then dukey-H Howser MD came on. |
| 1:44.0 | And I thought everyone seems to be a side kick, |
| 1:49.0 | which made me think, |
| 1:50.0 | am I a side kick or do a nap aside? Am I the doogie or am I the Ville? |
| 2:04.0 | From PRX and Radiotopia, I'm Neil and this is mortified. |
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