263: Most Mortified Semifinals: Denver vs DC/Baltimore

The Mortified Podcast

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🗓️ 8 September 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The Most Mortified tournament has reached the semifinals! In this head to head clash of titans, the Mortified Denver chapter battles the Mortified DC/Baltimore chapter. Stories include:

A grade school boy goes to great lengths to win a classroom election.

A catholic school girl ventures into dating with very limited sex education knowledge.

A boy determined to land a coveted cabbage patch doll transforms himself into a budding entrepreneur.

A liberated teenager moves to a small religious town where her hormones clash with her desire to fit in with her conservative surroundings.

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0:00.0	Radiotopia from PRX.
0:06.0	Hi there it's Dave and I am very excited to tell you that Radiotopias Wait for it Podcast is back for season
0:16.2	two. Now if you don't know the podcast it's got some pretty serious credentials.
0:21.8	It is an official selection of the Trebaca Festival. It is a
0:25.5	three-time Ambi Award winning show and it is back with new stories and conversations
0:31.1	about the ways we feel about weight.
0:34.8	This season, Host Ronald Young Jr. is talking about grief, air travel,
0:39.2	fat camp, and of course, the word that feels inescapable right now, O Zempeck.
0:45.0	Guests include marathon runner Martina Evans, Aubrey Gordon of the podcast maintenance
0:49.6	phase, and his sister Marilyn for a deeply personal conversation about a recent loss.
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1:03.0	I was always competitive as a kid,
1:05.0	but I was competitive at the things that I thought I was good at.
1:09.0	All his life, Adam Rubin strived to be a winner.
1:12.0	I was in the Math League. I was in the math league.
1:13.4	I was in Science Olympiad.
1:15.0	I was in Spelling Bees and Computer Fair, the calculator contest.
1:20.0	There's no end to these things.
1:22.0	The more he competed, the more determined he became.
1:25.1	But when it came to the things that I didn't think I was going to win, basically any sport or
1:30.7	student government with an election in it,
1:32.6	it kind of hurt that I would never have the ability
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