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We hear a familiar phrase, “2021 was not a good year for me,” and it’s true. 2021 was not a good year for Haley.
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 07:58
An episode that discusses the “neverendingness” of it all - a phrase spell-check does not recognize, but one you may have experienced if you ever f...
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 08:06
What were you willing to share in your class-assigned journal? What's too much to share with your authority figures? Hear tales of teenagers who ...
- Added: May 13, 2018
- Length: 29:34
Happy New Year! Ring in '18 with tales of teenagers who make a resolution to lose their virginity. The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radio...
- Added: Dec 31, 2017
- Length: 18:40
Tales of teenagers who try to shed their awkwardness while on vacation -- thinking it would lead to the fling of a lifetime. The Mortified Podcast ...
- Added: Jul 16, 2017
- Length: 28:05
In honor of Halloween, mortifying tales about the kind of fears kids actually have.
- Added: Oct 23, 2016
- Length: 26:34
Philip Armand explores a mysterious black dot on his nose and his parents buy him a used motorcycle.
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 08:06
Philip Armand misses an opportunity to share cake with Sir Terence Conran because he has his head up his A@%.
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 06:13
Philip Armand tries to figure out the correlation between commitment and risk-taking and discovers Einstein's mistakes, and what they mean for his ...
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:54
Philip Armand grapples with commitment, then spends an afternoon watching the TV show Friends with a group of Kurdish Freedom Fighters.
- Added: Mar 12, 2016
- Length: 09:11
After more than 20 albums (including Live from the Big Top) and more than three decades of performing, this co-founder of the influential indie roo...
- Added: Mar 12, 2016
- Length: 59:21
- Purchases: 10
Jonathan Chiu is an inmate at San Quentin State Prison. He was born in Hong Kong in 1982 and moved to the United States with is family when he was...
- Added: Jul 23, 2015
- Length: 05:21
A ten-year-old on deep space, death, and Revolutionary War reenactments.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 27, 2015
- Length: 10:03
- Purchases: 1
Since I was 12-years-old, I always thought I would die by the age of 30. Here's the story of how I didn't, and how I spent my 'last few days' prepa...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 09:59
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 04:48
- Purchases: 1
A never-married guy comes clean.
- Added: May 10, 2012
- Length: 04:42
Just as Sam is starting to feel like he's getting the hang of this whole cab driving thing, he becomes ensnared in the nefarious clutches of 31st S...
- Added: Sep 08, 2011
- Length: 08:35
Sam meets the mysterious Man in the White Van, who rents him a beat-up cab, which he uses for his first fare, which nearly destroys him.
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 09:51
A true story. When my best friend broke up with me, I wished her dead. Then she had a brain hemorrhage.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUT, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 19, 2011
- Length: 08:52
- Purchases: 3
Your host dreams of "Cthulhu Con." A bunch of Brooklyn Musicians dream of "Brand Aid." Plus: a lecture on the concept of the unreliable narrator.
- Added: Mar 22, 2011
- Length: 53:55
- Purchases: 4
This short, fully produced audio essay – with music and sound effects – is a rumination on growing old, with a nod to the effects of Alzheimer's. I...
- Added: Dec 09, 2010
- Length: 03:38
Storyteller Jennifer Munro shares a childhood memory about her father and an overzealous neighbor.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 28, 2010
- Length: 04:04
- Purchases: 1
Taking a first job at an inner city non-profit can be horrifying. But there's a lot of perks too ...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Dec 22, 2009
- Length: 04:37
- Purchases: 1
In which the author Googles “Dysnomia,” and then, later, Googles “Dysnomia.”
Bought by PRX Remix and Remix Radio
- Added: Dec 02, 2009
- Length: 04:45
- Purchases: 2
Writer Kelsey Timmerman and his brother were on a trip to Honduras and enjoying the jungle, the hammock, and the river that flowed right by their b...
Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon
- Added: Apr 17, 2009
- Length: 02:25
- Purchases: 1