Mutiny On The Playground
Ooh You're In Trouble
Mortified Media and TRAX from PRX
4.6 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
A boy organizes his classmates in a playground revolt when he is convinced the rules of recess are totally unjust.
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| 0:00.0 | The following story is true. |
| 0:02.1 | Names and places may have been changed to protect the innocent and guilty and the just plain ridiculous. |
| 0:09.6 | This week on... |
| 0:11.1 | Ooh, you're in trouble. |
| 0:14.4 | I'm Robert. |
| 0:15.8 | When I was in second grade, I staged a coup on the playground. |
| 0:19.4 | Which basically means I made my own rules. |
| 0:22.0 | Ooh, that sounds bad, but is it? That's something I'm always wondering, because, you know, |
| 0:28.1 | I'm that little voice in your head. You can call me Elby. Hi, Elvie. What's up? And if there's |
| 0:32.9 | one thing I know, it's that we don't always do what we're told. Sometimes we're stirring up mischief. |
| 0:38.4 | Please report to the principal's office. |
| 0:40.6 | Sometimes we're trying to spark change. |
| 0:42.5 | Attention, students. Please stop protesting in the cafeteria. |
| 0:46.3 | This is a show about what happens when we break the rules growing up, and someone |
| 0:50.6 | shouts, ooh, you're in trouble. |
| 0:53.6 | Stories of rebels, rascals, rule breakers, and even revolutionaries. |
| 1:01.1 | I hated the idea of being in trouble. |
| 1:08.8 | If a teacher told me you're being disrupted to the class, I was the type of student to start, like, breaking down and crying. |
| 1:14.6 | To Robert, being a good student has always been important, especially when it came to his favorite subject. |
| 1:20.6 | Ever since I was little, I was like super obsessed with learning about history. |
| 1:25.6 | While other kids' age were off playing tag and tetherball, Robert was busy watching documentaries |
| 1:32.7 | about war and civil rights movements. |
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