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You're listening to How to Bea Better Human.

I'm your host Chris Duffy.

Today's episode is all about the

cringe-worthy embarrassing mortifying moments of our lives. For me, these are memories of a

time when I did something that was so deeply awkward that even years later it prompts

like a physical reaction in my body out of nowhere when I'm thinking about it probably in

the shower or in bed I will say say out loud, oh no, oh baby, oh no.

This happens to me enough that my wife knows exactly what it means when I have one of these

outbursts.

When it happens, she often asks asks what did you just think about and she asks that because it is a kind of a treat for both of us because despite how embarrassing those moments were in the past when I was living them,

now in the present, looking back, they are often really, really, really quite funny.

And that concept that we can laugh at some of the most cringe-worthy embarrassing moments of our existence.

That is the driving force behind Mortified, a hilarious

podcast and live show that I could not love more.

Today's guests are Dave Natalberg and Neil Catcher. They're the co-founders of Mortified and we're going to be talking to them all about their show and what they've learned about how to laugh at instead of feel ashamed by our past selves. I want to give you a taste of what mortified is like. So we're

going to play you a clip that actually isn't of Dave O'Neill. Instead, it is one of the performers

at a mortified live show. They are in front of a live audience reading from their childhood diary.

And this performer Kevin sets up this entry by explaining that at this time when he was writing this,

he had never kissed a girl, but he was very, very, very obsessed with Star Trek.

February 20th, 1991, 20th century. Break, incoming message. Kevin HQ control. Alert, alert, fire up generators.

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