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The Mortified Podcast

43: Boys DO Cry (w/ special guest CHVRCHES)

The Mortified Podcast

Mortified Media and Radiotopia

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This special Mortified Mixtape episode is devoted to sensitive teenage guys who aren’t afraid to wear their hearts on their sleeves. With a special performance from CHVRCHES.

The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Listen at getmortified.com/podcast. Find out how to share your worst adolescent poetry in Mortified’s Tournament of Awkward Teen Poetry at getmortified.com/poetry.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Radio Tepia.

0:04.0

From PRX.

0:10.5

February 14, 1998.

0:13.0

Sixth grade.

0:14.0

Dear diary.

0:15.0

Dear Jesus.

0:16.0

Dear sweet ass-wad.

0:17.0

Adults.

0:18.0

Sharing the embarrassing things.

0:19.0

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.

0:36.0

You're listening to the mortified podcast.

0:38.0

I'm Neil.

0:39.0

Now the great Robert Smith once saying,

0:41.0

boys don't cry.

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