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Part 3 of our series on Forbidden Crushes features a closeted teen who wants to approach her crush but fears outing herself.  The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.  Listen @ getmortified.com/podcast

58 Forbidden Crushes Part 3: My Secret Gay Crush

People have been giving each other "the finger" since Ancient Greece. The first documented use is said to be a photograph from 1886 in which the pitcher for the Boston Beaneaters extends his middle finger to the camera (ostensibly to the rival New York Giants). Even though it's been around for so long, many still find the gesture offensive enough to try to bring criminal charges. Courts have ruled that "flipping the bird" is a form of speech protected by the First Amendment. It's not a crime to be obnoxious. But there's a man in Oregon who tests the limits of free speech by giving the finger to every police officer that he sees. 

To learn more about the legalities of the middle finger, you might
enjoy: "Digitus Impudicus: The Middle Finger and the Law" from the UC Davis Law Review. 

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Episode 42: The Finger

"Für Elise" is one of the world's most widely-recognized pieces of music. The Beethoven melody has been played by pianists the world over, and its near-universal recognition has been used to attract customers for companies as big as McDonald's  and as small as your local ice-cream truck. But if you hear the song playing on the streets of Taiwan, accompanied by the low grumble of an engine, the only ice-cream you'll find if you follow the tune will be the soupy remains of a neighbor's Häagen-Dazs. In Taiwan, "Für Elise" means it is time to take out your trash. Directly out to the truck. Yourself.

213- Separation Anxiety

In 1979, a group of labor organizers protested outside a Ku Klux Klan screening of the 1915 white supremacist film, The Birth of a Nation. Nelson Johnson and Signe Waller-Foxworth remember shouting at armed Klansmen and burning a confederate flag, until eventually police forced the KKK inside and the standoff ended without violence. The labor organizers felt they'd won a small victory, and planned a much bigger anti-Klan demonstration in Greensboro, North Carolina. They advertised with the slogan: “Death to the Klan" and set the date for November 3rd, 1979.

As protestors assembled, a caravan of nine cars appeared, and a man in a pick-up truck yelled: "You asked for the Klan! Now you've got them!" Thirty-nine shots were fired in eighty-eight seconds, and five protestors were killed. The city of Greensboro is still grappling with the complicated legacy of that day.

Episode 43:  39 Shots

Tales of teens answering the perennial question:  Should I get it on... with myself?   The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.  Listen @ getmortified.com/podcast.



61: How Not To Masturbate (and Other Hollow Victories)

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Walk4b

MBM Performs Billie Eilish

wish you were gay

YOUR KILLING ME SMALLS (actually from the DR1 anime)

Cleveland no no no no nooo!

voice by me

since people liked the first one so much xD

Bon-Bon adopts you

Among us (meme song)

anyone else fucking hate the dub for demon slayer except for a few characters?

roses (rengoku and tengen english)

Tengen (teeth)

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