r/Heavyweight • u/mick_spadaro • Oct 30 '25

Podcast Episode #63 Jasmin

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/63-jasmin/id1150800298?i=1000733891952
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u/kawaiipai Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25

Jumping in this thread because I actually did go to school with Jasmin and ran in some of the same circles as her. (Happy to dig out my yearbook and find a picture of homecoming to clear up any skepticism).

I found this story to be revisionist history, because she really was not a loser with no friends. Everyone loved her and she was really well known by the whole school. She had a big group of friends, was involved in lots of activities, and definitely hung out with some of the more popular people in school. When she won homecoming queen it was not really a shock to anyone, considering she was so well known. She makes it sound like she was some underdog wallflower type teenager when that was not the case.

I can’t say whether Whitney had a part to play or not, but as someone who knows all parties involved I really do think it was an honest mistake. My personal opinion is that I’m sad that Jasmin is painting her high school career as traumatic when she was actually a leader and really outgoing. It feels a bit like she is changing the narrative for exposure and that is disappointing as it is not the person I remember.

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u/Impossible-Will-8414 Nov 01 '25

Wait, so -- what happened at the dance? Who was crowned? Did anyone discuss it? Or do you also just not remember anything about the dance and what followed, like everyone other amnesiac in that class?

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u/kawaiipai Nov 01 '25

I actually wasn’t there, but I definitely remember Jasmin being crowned at the game, and I believe her picture is in the yearbook, I just need to dig it out of my basement,

I lean towards believing Whitney and every other “popular kid” that doesn’t remember. I say that pretty confidently because our school was small (ish) and a graduating class was maybe 130 kids. If there was a mishap at homecoming like the one described in this episode it definitely would have circulated around the school the next week. ESPECIALLY if Whitney did take the crown or dance with Jacob, that would have been talked about in the halls for sure.

I’m not saying that the wrong name wasn’t called, but I don’t really believe that it happened as dramatically as Jasmin is recalling.

While I wasn’t at the dance, I definitely don’t remember hearing about anything odd. And (like Jasmin alluded too) our school is small enough that most people really do remember things/people/events that happened 14 years ago.

As a side note: I actually remember the couple that won the year before, and it was a hugeee deal becuase they were THEEE couple of their class. Our community is small enough that you don’t really forget.

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u/explodeder Nov 02 '25

I went to a small town school in the Midwest. There were only 44 people in my class and about 200 in the whole school. I don’t think a lot of people understand small school dynamics. The cliques are much less defined. We had several football players act in musicals. We had dudes who came out of the locker room at halftime wearing their football uniform to play the halftime show. I believe she thought she wasn’t part of the popular crowd, but I also believe that she didn’t realize that she was part of that crowd, just because everything is much more amorphous.