36 Tyler & Janelle: Love, America Online Style

The Mortified Podcast

Mortified Media and Radiotopia

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2015

⏱️ 19 minutes

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The saved AOL chats of Tyler, a self-professed nerd and Janelle, his high school crush. Together, they re-hash them, in all their comedic-tragic glory, in front of a live audience. The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Hear more at getmortified.com/podcast

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0:00.0	Radio Tepi-A from PRX.
0:10.0	February 14, 1998. Sixth grade.
0:14.0	Dear diary.
0:15.0	Dear Jesus. Dear sweet ass-wad.
0:17.0	Adults. Sharing the embarrassing things.
0:19.0	They created us kids.
0:20.0	So I wrote poems about masturbation.
0:22.0	Before an audience.
0:23.0	Of total strangers.
0:24.0	I feel like an idiot.
0:25.0	I'm the only normal one in my entire family.
0:28.0	Mom, you can't read this.
0:30.0	These are the stories hidden inside.
0:32.0	The pages of our past.
0:36.0	You're listening to the mortified podcast.
0:38.0	I'm Neil and today's episode takes us back to a time when the internet itself was still in its own adolescence.
0:44.0	Before it was something you carried wherever you went.
0:47.0	In the mid-90s, if you were a teenager and wanted to connect with a friend online,
0:51.0	there was no Snapchat, Instagram or Facebook.
0:54.0	But there was AOL Instant Messenger.
0:57.0	Or AIM for short.
0:58.0	Welcome.
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