I Don’t Have Time For Podcasts: “People are losers and don’t realize how freakin’ cool we really are”
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The show
We all wrote embarrassing stuff when we were younger. The premise of “The Mortified Podcast” is how many brave souls would be willing to share those poems, diaries and letters in front of a live audience. Perhaps surprisingly, the answer is “a lot.” This podcast may make you nostalgic for the naiveté of childhood, or it might make you cringe so hard you break a rib. Either way, you’ll probably laugh a lot.
The episode
You can hop into the show anywhere, but my personal favorite episode is #36, “Love, America Online Style.” In it, a man named Tyler reads from the “more than 300 pages” of AOL Instant Messenger chats he conducted with his high school crush, Janelle. And here’s the best part: The real Janelle joins him on stage to re-enact her “lines.” And then he cracks open his public online diary.
How to listen
You can stream “The Mortified Podcast” on its website, or subscribe on Apple Podcasts.
My stuff
Want more podcasts? Here are the shows I’ve appeared on or produced in the past week:
- “Recode Decode”: Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg
- “Recode Decode” bonus episode: “The Handmaid’s Tale” creator Bruce Miller
- “Recode Media”: Comedian W. Kamau Bell
- “Too Embarrassed to Ask”: The Verge’s Dan Seifert / New Microsoft laptops
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Happy listening!
Eric Johnson
@HeyHeyESJ
