Mortified’s Dave Nadelberg Presents Your Shame Live On Stage

The Hilarious World of Depression

American Public Media

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

You can think of Dave Nadelberg's vast Mortified project as The Hilarious World of Embarrassment, Awkwardness, and Redemption. Through stage presentations, film, TV, and books, Dave invites people to share their most mortifying writing. It's very funny, sure, but it's more than that. Dave says the process of dragging your younger self out of that old trunk can provide understanding of who you were and what motivated you. That, in turn, can offer valuable insight into who you are. Also in this episode, John is dragged kicking and screaming into revealing his 2nd grade secret identity.

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0:00.0	I'm Cameron Espazito and I have a lot of jobs. I'm an actor. You've seen me on ABC's and a million little things.
0:04.8	I'm a stand-up comic bestselling author, but I am no expert at survival.
0:08.5	On my new podcast Survivor Diet trying, we're going to learn together from shark attacks to
0:13.8	tsunamis and bad breakups. This is your one-stop shop to prepare for the absolute worst-case scenario.
0:20.0	Join me and some special guests on Survivor Diet trying a comedy podcast that prepares you for anything.
0:26.4	Listen and follow wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.5	My mission is to change cultural relationship to shame. I mean, it's also to make people laugh and do
0:36.8	all these other things.
1:00.0	It's the hilarious world of depression. I'm John Moe. Who are you?
1:10.5	No, not your name. Who are you? Tough question. So let's back up. Who were you?
1:16.9	One of the most common issues people with depression work on in therapy is childhood.
1:22.8	What happened that made me the way I am today? Diving into that history, looking for answers,
1:29.1	can be difficult and painful and scary. But if you can laugh about it, it can feel more manageable.
1:36.1	On this episode, a unique way of examining personal history.
1:40.8	Hi, my name is Dave Nadelberg. I am the founder of a project, storytelling project called Mordified.
1:47.1	Dave Nadelberg has been dealing with depression for years, and at times it's been really bad.
1:52.4	He's a veteran writer, producer, television host. Most of his work centered around
1:57.5	looking at our younger selves through a project called Mordified, which sounds like this.
2:12.8	Dear diary, Ben and I pulled around while watching some weird space movie in his basement.
2:21.2	He started kissing my ear, but the more into it he got, the sloppier it got.
2:27.5	It was awful of spit and I'm kind of having a hard time hearing in it today.
2:37.1	Mordified is a storytelling project where adults read their most embarrassing childhood writings,
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