45 Emma: The Girl Who Cried Y2K

The Mortified Podcast

Mortified Media and Radiotopia

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2015

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In honor of the New Year, Mortified goes back in time to the turn of the new millenium when one very concerned teenager went all out to prepare her family for worldwide catastrophe. And, hear some truly terrible teen poetry when we crown the winner of Mortified’s Awkward Teen Poetry Contest! The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.

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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 Aswad.
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.
0:37.0	You're listening to the Mordified Podcast.
0:39.0	I'm Dave and today in honor of the New Year.
0:41.0	We're traveling back in time to the year 1999 on the eve of the New Millennium.
0:46.0	A time when being an American teenager felt relatively secure compared to the rest of the world.
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