There's no one like you, and there never will be.

From the producer of Bohemian Rhapsody.

There are many legends, but there is only one.

Michael in IMAX and Cinema's Wednesday, April 22.

The This is the Moth Radio Hour.

I'm your host, Suzanne Rust.

You can try to escape it.

You can try not to listen.

But eventually, reality turns up the volume and we are forced

to face the music and come to terms with our stuff. I generally know what that means for me.

You probably know what that means for you. And so do these four storytellers.

Our first story is from E.J.R. DeVeed, who told it at the Atwood Concert Hall in Anchorage, Alaska,

where we partner with the Anchorage Concert Association. Here's E.J.

I've always had a high tolerance for pain.

I broke my left arm when I was a kid trying to skateboard and I just tried to walk

it off. I tore my ACL on my left knee playing basketball, but I still ran a couple of marathons

and a couple of half marathons on it. In fact, one story that my mom often shares with me that exemplifies this tolerance for pain

happened when I was just three years old. She said it was just an ordinary day. I wasn't complaining or crying. But that night, after we went to bed, I started convulsing.

She checked me out and she saw that my eyes were rolling up to the back of my head.

She rushed me to the hospital where the doctors told her that I was convulsing

because I couldn't break out into a fever.

I guess fevers can be a good thing because it's an indicator that our immune system was activated

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