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The Mortified Podcast

54: Don’t F*ck with Emiko

The Mortified Podcast

Mortified Media and Radiotopia

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

An outspoken goth uses the school newspaper to tell off the popular kids. The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Listen @getmortified.com/podcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Radio Tapio.

0:04.0

From PRX.

0:10.0

Dear Diary.

0:11.0

6th grade.

0:12.0

February 14th.

0:13.0

1991.

0:14.0

I am really depressed.

0:15.0

How could she break up with me?

0:17.0

Mom, you can't read this.

0:25.0

I think about, you know,

0:27.0

looking like a freak and back then I was what people would call

0:33.0

God now and, you know, I were black and were black lipstick and

0:38.0

listen to Bauhaus.

0:40.0

I was grumpy and anti-social.

0:44.0

I had a chip on my shoulder at a very young age, I think.

0:48.0

From PRX and Radio Tapio, this is the mortified podcast.

0:52.0

I'm Neil.

0:53.0

And today, the tale of a teenage outcast with Dark Eyeliner,

0:56.0

who transformed the word freak into something so empowering,

0:59.0

it became her driving force well into adulthood.

1:02.0

But back in high school, it was just something most people mistook as magic.

1:06.0

Literally, magic.

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