261: Most Mortified: NY vs BOS vs CHI
The Mortified Podcast
Mortified Media and Radiotopia
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Mortified celebrates 20 years with a friendly beer-league-level competition that pits city vs city. This week, Mortified's Chicago chapter faces off against Mortified NY as well as Mortified Boston in an epic three-way battle for the coveted last spot in the tournament's semifinals.
Stories include: A 2nd grader's misguided essay aimed at making retirees go back to work and pay taxes. The diaries of a middle schooler crushing on the receptionist from The Office. Oddly religious fan letters to Katherine Hepburn.
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| 0:00.0 | Radio Topia from PRX. |
| 0:09.0 | Looking for a new podcast to binge, |
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| 0:24.1 | from instruments to beats to vocals. And most importantly, they talk about why they made the creative choices they did. |
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| 0:58.0 | From PRX and Radiotopia, I'm Dave and I'm |
| 1:03.0 | and Neil and this is mortified. |
| 1:05.0 | Today on the show we continue our year-long |
| 1:07.1 | celebration of mortified's 20th anniversary |
| 1:09.7 | with another nail-biting installment of our |
| 1:12.4 | most mortified tournament of teen angst. |
| 1:16.5 | The Super Bowl of Childhood Diaries. The Olympics of adolescent poetry. |
| 1:22.0 | The World Cup of Awkwardness, a tense multi- episode |
| 1:24.8 | competition to determine which city should wear the crown of most mortified. |
| 1:32.1 | All right, so if you hadn't heard the previous tournament episodes, here's what we've been doing. |
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