EPISODE · Jun 21, 2026 · 22 MIN
Pax Assadi's memoir made entirely of his most mortifying memories
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After his TV show Raised by Refugees, Pax Assadi was offered a standard memoir deal and turned it down, partly because at 32 he felt he hadn't lived enough to justify one. His solution was Mortified, structured not as a linear life story but as a series of deeply specific, often humiliating childhood memories, including the time he wore a full football kit, boots included, to a school awards ceremony. He joins Culture 101 to talk about why the most embarrassing memories resurface fastest, and growing up doing "New Zealand on hard mode."
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After his TV show Raised by Refugees, Pax Assadi was offered a standard memoir deal and turned it down, partly because at 32 he felt he hadn't lived enough to justify one. His solution was Mortified, structured not as a linear life story but as a series of deeply specific, often humiliating childhood memories, including the time he wore a full football kit, boots included, to a school awards ceremony. He joins Culture 101 to talk about why the most embarrassing memories resurface fastest, and growing up doing "New Zealand on hard mode."
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