51: How Not To Win An Oscar (feat. Elijah Wood, Busy Phillips)

The Mortified Podcast

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Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 February 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In honor of Awards Season, we present two tales of teenagers whose attempts at writing an epic screenplay fell far short of Oscar consideration. With special appearances by: Elijah Wood, Busy Philipps, Kevin McDonald, Curtis Armstrong and James Denton. The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Listen @ getmortified.com/podcast

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0:00.0	Radio Tapio.
0:04.0	From PRX.
0:11.0	Dear diary.
0:12.0	6th grade.
0:13.0	February 14th.
0:14.0	1991.
0:15.0	I am really depressed.
0:16.0	How could she break up with me?
0:18.0	Mom, you can't read this.
0:25.0	I fell in love with movies when I saw Star Wars at about five years old
0:29.0	when the spaceship comes flying over your head and it's like a whole new world opened up.
0:34.0	For many of us, there was a moment we can remember when movies went from being something that was pure entertainment
0:39.0	to something that spoke to us on a gut level.
0:42.0	I watched Beauty and the Beast probably, I think I went like six times one week when it came out
0:48.0	and because I definitely identified with Bell
0:53.0	and I think that definitely awoke something in me where I was like, oh, you know,
0:57.0	I belong somewhere else, there's some bigger destiny for me.
1:02.0	From PRX and Radio Tapio, this is the mortified podcast.
1:06.0	I'm Neil.
1:07.0	Today, a mortified mixtape where we tackle two sides of one topic.
1:11.0	And in honor of it being award season, we present How Not to Win and Oscar.
1:16.0	Dueling stories of teenagers who love movies so much, they set out to create their own cinematic gold.
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