meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Story Must Be Told

35. The Unruly Teen's Display

The Story Must Be Told

The Last Podcast Network

Arts

4.8530 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Healthy teens, good teens, sinful teens, teens of virtue. There used to be so many kinds of teens! Today we remember them. Burn a candle, pour a drink, smoke a smoke and cry a cry for us, the post-teen society. This truth from our first season has been reborn in the Story’s frothy goodness, a respite as we prepare yon live show. Invocation The Names of Teens Liturgical Reading: “The Unruly Teen’s Display” Concluding Prayer We’re doing a wholesome, virtuous live show in Brooklyn October 11th. Tickets here: https://thestorymustbetoldlive.eventbrite.com/

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Today is a memorial service.

0:08.0

There may be tears. Today is a memorial service.

0:22.6

There may be tears.

0:25.6

There may be wailing and beating of chests.

0:29.6

I encourage everyone to let it out.

0:32.6

What do we mourn?

0:35.6

Why, we mourn but one thing.

0:39.3

Teens. Those makers of culture, consumers of goods who no longer exist.

0:47.3

We have tots, and we have lonesome young adults, but twixt the ages of 13 and 19, not a soul lives.

0:57.6

Thus the story wrote.

1:00.2

The story must be told.

1:02.5

The story must be told.

1:06.2

What is a teen exactly?

1:09.7

Well, take a baby, put it in a blender with a scoop of sass, a cup of rebellion, and two

1:15.4

quarts of angst, and hit puree.

1:18.6

You taste that spicy taste?

1:21.2

That's the teen spice.

1:23.3

The moment a tot lives past 12, we can cease this depressing yearly affair,

1:28.6

but, well, it just won't happen.

1:33.8

Instead of a psalm, we would do well

1:36.9

to remember the names of teens who have left this world

1:40.0

for the empty embrace of the story.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Last Podcast Network, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Last Podcast Network and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.