47 Will: I Was A Teenage Media Mogul

The Mortified Podcast

Mortified Media and Radiotopia

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This special episode of Mortified features the story of a closeted teenager who escapes the bullies at school and retreats into his bedroom where he creates an elaborate imaginary radio empire. The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Listen @ getmortified.com/podcast

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0:00.0	Radio Tapia.
0:04.0	From PRX.
0:09.0	Now as you are quite listening, we would like to take you to the city of Mayfield.
0:16.0	We extremely traveled an exciting world of injury-economic movements.
0:24.0	From PRX and radio topia, this is the Mordified Podcast. I'm Neil.
0:28.0	Today on the show, a lonely teenager in the 1970s retreats to his bedroom and creates an entire media empire that exists only in his mind.
0:48.0	February 14, 1998. Sixth grade.
0:52.0	Dear diary.
0:53.0	Dear Jesus. Dear sweet ass-wad.
0:55.0	Adults. Sharing the embarrassing things.
0:57.0	They created as kids.
0:58.0	So I wrote poems about masturbation.
1:00.0	Before an audience of total strangers.
1:02.0	I feel like an idiot.
1:03.0	I'm the only normal one in my entire family.
1:06.0	Mom, you can't read this.
1:08.0	These are the stories hidden inside.
1:10.0	The pages of our past.
1:20.0	Hi.
1:21.0	I'm Will and when I was 15, it was 1980.
1:27.0	And I lived in Escondido, California.
1:29.0	We was beautiful. I lived right down the hill from my grandparents who were the most awesome people ever.
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