Listen to Grown, a new podcast from the Moth, for true stories that deal with the challenges and the joys of growing up.

Co-hosts Alisa Kazmi and Alfonzo Lacayo are on the cusp of adulthood and bringing you Moth's stories about first crushers, culture, identity, secrets, and more.

In each episode they'll dissect these stories, talk to the storytellers themselves, and feature on the street interviews and audio diaries from young voices.

Grown is a podcast that reminds us that no matter how old we are, we're never fully grown.

New episodes draw by weekly on Fridays. Listen on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Well, welcome to the place you spent some time.

Thank you, sir. The fireplace never been on when I've been in it.

I tell you what, I have it on all the time. It's kind of humbling walking in here.

Absolutely.

I mean, for real. I had my brother, Jimmy, come in and you know, pick the rug and the desk and all that stuff.

And make a long story short, I come walking in like five o'clock in an o'gration day and I walked in and I said,

Jesus, I've never seen Frank on Roosevelt. I'm a admirer, but it's always George Washington, Saul Portrait there.

And Abraham Lincoln and John Meacham, the president of the story, Jimmy called him for some help.

And he looked at me and said, because no one's ever inherited a world economy as much as this array as he had.

And I said, oh, that's wonderful.

And I said, well, why Lincoln is, and the country's never been as divided as Lincoln was president.

But what I did was I wanted to be able to sit here at my desk and look out.

And I only had two political heroes when I was getting involved.

I fell over there, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy.

I was a great admirer at John Kennedy, but I could never picture John Kennedy in my kitchen table.

I could kind of picture maybe.

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