38: Kids on The Campaign Trail

The Mortified Podcast

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Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 2 November 2015

⏱️ 19 minutes

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In honor of primary season, Mortified presents two tales of kids who encounter politics and campaigning for the first time. Hear more episodes at getmortified.com/podcast. The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Become a supporter at radiotopia.fm.

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0:00.0	Radio Tepia.
0:04.0	From PRX.
0:11.0	February 14, 1998.
0:13.0	Sixth grade.
0:14.0	Dear diary.
0:15.0	Dear Jesus.
0:16.0	Dear sweet ass-watt.
0:17.0	Adults.
0:18.0	Sharing the embarrassing things.
0:20.0	They created us kids.
0:21.0	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.
0:34.0	You're listening to the mortified podcast.
0:38.0	I'm Neil.
0:39.0	Now remember when you were a kid.
0:41.0	And you had your first political awakening.
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