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Hey everyone, Adam here. I'd like

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to introduce you to a show I am really

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loving lately. It's called Grown, a

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podcast from the moth. Growing

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up feels like a phase that should end

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at some point, but does it ever really?

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Whether you're 16 or you're 26,

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you're gonna have to deal with dating,

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family drama, your body, and the

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type of person you want to be. Luckily,

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our friends at Grown are inviting us to

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go through it together. On Grown,

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a podcast from the moth, co-hosts

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Aliza Kazemi and Fonzo Lucchio

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bring you true stories that deal with cringe,

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culture, and the courageous efforts of

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people like you to get grown.

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I love listening to Grown because you get a

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little bit of silly with a little bit of serious,

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which if you listen to Forgive Me, is exactly

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our jam. Episodes drop every

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other week, so start listening today. Follow

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Grown on Spotify, Apple, or wherever

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you're listening right now.

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I'm gonna show you the second season trailer, and

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I hope that you go give the rest of the show a listen,

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because it's really great. Enjoy.

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I'm Aliza. And I'm Fonzo. And

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we are so excited to bring you season

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two of Grown. We're back. Are

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you excited, Aliza? I just said I was

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excited. But are you excited?

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Yes, I'm really excited. Okay,

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all right. So for people who may not have heard

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of Grown yet, and you should definitely go

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listen to the first season. You can binge it now

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wherever you get your podcast. What

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are we all about here?

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Well, Grown is a podcast from The Moth,

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so we feature true stories told live. But

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in this case, they're all stories about growing

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up. That strange period between being a teen

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and being an adult. My brain is so

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overactive that if you were to take my head

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and place it next to you, you would probably

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see some glitter and some explosions

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and probably some fire-breathing dragons.

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And because my dad is older

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and wiser and not like an emotional

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17-year-old girl, he can

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see things more clearly. And

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he tells me, there's nothing wrong

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with you. That

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guy is just a dick. For

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me, I was just really confused as to why he would

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want to hang out with me, especially the second term in

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my senior year. Because I felt like

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he was burning a lot of social capital just being around

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me. Because, well, I'm

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gay and Jerry's straight. But we

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do more than just share stories. We

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go out and talk to young people.

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I couldn't talk. I didn't want to cry. Like,

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I just needed to be with someone and

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she was there for me. Being a middle child

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sucks. It's

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self-explanatory at that point. Well, I

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learned over quarantine and the pandemic

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is that these friends, you don't have to filter stuff with

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some of the most important ones. And Fonzo

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and I go on topics like FOMO,

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parents and friendship. We can get

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serious, but we know how to keep it silly.

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You know what's crazy? I was like, I

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posted on my close friends and I was like, you know what? I

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should add Eliza.

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Was I not before? You

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are your close friends? I was close to my close friends.

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You're on my close friend story. You have been

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for a very long time. Anyway.

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You know what? This is not the discussion. We

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can't wait for you to listen.

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Season two of Grown launches on October

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25th, available wherever you get your

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podcasts.