The Moth Podcast: Birmingham

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, we share two stories from Birmingham, Alabama.

Host: Suzanne Rust

Storytellers:

Anne Wheeler tries to get a part in a play.

Anthony Underwood figures that the best way to get good banana pudding is to make it himself.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Moth Podcast. I'm Suzanne Rust, the curator at the Moth and your host for this episode.
0:07.0	In these next two stories, we'll be taking a trip to Birmingham, Alabama, where we've been hosting Story Slams since March 2019.
0:16.0	Each Story Slam we produce really reflects the city it's a part of.
0:20.5	There's some hilarious behind-the-scenes Hollywood tidbits in the L.A. Story Slams,
0:25.0	The New York Story Slams have a real
0:27.0	I'm Walking Here vibe,
0:28.0	and the Birmingham Story Slams bring that wonderful sense of being
0:32.0	on the front porch as the sun goes down,
0:34.0	listening to a story in the dim twilight.
0:37.0	Birmingham was one of the cities on the Moffs
0:39.0	pop-up porch tour in 2022,
0:41.0	and I was lucky enough to spend a week there getting to know hundreds of
0:44.7	locals and hear their stories. Great town, even better people. First up we've
0:50.0	got Ann Wheeler who told this story at a Birmingham story slam where the theme of the night
0:54.7	was vices. Here's Ann live at the mall.
1:01.2	One Sunday afternoon I opened the Birmingham News, Section 8, Art and Entertainment.
1:05.0	On the second page, down on the left hand side about two-thirds the way down, there was a little
1:09.0	one column inch notice, Open Call Auditions.
1:13.2	Birmingham Festival Theater, Sunday, two to five,
1:16.3	needed.
1:17.2	Three males, age 20 to 35.
1:20.4	Three females age 20 to 35 one female age 35 to 50
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