41 Jackie Tohn & the Gratitude Journal

The Mortified Podcast

Mortified Media and Radiotopia

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2015

⏱️ 16 minutes

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In honor of Thanksgiving, we present the story of an ungrateful teenager, Jackie Tohn, who starts a gratitude journal in the hope of becoming a better person and still manages to miss the point. 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 Tepia.
0:04.0	From PRX.
0:10.4	February 14, 1998.
0:12.5	Sixth grade.
0:13.5	Dear diary.
0:14.5	Dear Jesus.
0:15.5	Dear sweet ass-wad.
0:17.0	Adults.
0:18.0	Sharing the embarrassing things.
0:19.5	They created us kids.
0:20.5	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.
0:25.5	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 the pages of our past.
0:37.0	You're listening to the mortified podcast.
0:39.0	I'm Dave and we're devoting today's entire episode to Thanksgiving.
0:42.0	In occasion where surrounded by friends and family and an abundance of food.
0:46.0	We of course take time to give thanks.
0:48.0	But being thankful is not necessarily something that comes naturally to most of us when we're growing up.
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