From Celebrities to Crushes: They All Rejected Us

The Really Very Crunchy Podcast

Emily & Jason Morrow

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Rejection happens to everyone, but that doesn’t make it any less awkward, humbling, or downright hilarious in hindsight. In this episode of The Really Very Crunchy Podcast, Emily and Jason share their funniest and most cringe-worthy rejection stories, from celebrity “no’s” that left our inbox feeling lonely, to job applications that went absolutely nowhere, to those relationship rejections we swore we’d never talk about (until now). (00:00) Intro (01:40) Rejected by Carrie Underwood (02:54) Rejected by John Crist (05:53) Rejected by Relient K (06:49) Rejected by Switchfoot (09:12) Not famous enough… (10:20) Rejected in relationships (16:02) Rejected in job interviews (18:16) Rejecting each other (21:40) What is rejection? (22:48) Not caring (23:36) Rejected by publishers (29:40) Emily’s dark joke (30:50) The End Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, Emily, I'm feeling a bit blue.
0:10.2	Are you?
0:10.8	How about you?
0:12.8	Is this because of the house?
0:16.6	Oh, well, that's got me blue, but no, not the house, but I'm feeling a little rejected.
0:23.7	Do you ever feel just rejected?
0:25.9	I do at times.
0:27.7	Hopefully not by me.
0:28.8	No.
0:29.6	Do you feel rejected by me?
0:32.0	No.
0:33.6	You know, recently someone sent me real about this guy who's making fun of me.
0:40.4	The whole video was about how stupid I am, how like...
0:43.9	Wow.
0:44.9	Yeah.
0:45.5	And I felt a little rejected in that.
0:48.9	It had like 30,000 likes or something.
0:52.8	Yikes.
0:53.7	Yeah.
0:54.7	And, uh, thousands of comments something. Yikes. Yeah. And thousands of comments.
0:57.7	But it was about that moon landing short.
1:03.2	So there were a lot of comments standing up for me, but there were a lot against me too.
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