The Moth Podcast: Football!

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In honor of the big game, we've got three stories all about football, family, and growing up. This episode is hosted by Marc Sollinger. Storytellers: Dame Wilburn is hit hard while playing tackle football. Tina Moore connects with her son by getting into fantasy football. Adam Bottner makes an immaculate connection in an unlikely place. Podcast # 904 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.4	Welcome to the Moth podcast. I'm Mark Solinger, and on this episode,
0:39.9	HALT, Hot! Hike! Whether you watch the big game for the great plays, for the seven-layer nachos, for the funny
0:45.0	ads, for the halftime performances, my personal favorite game was the one Beyonce played
0:50.5	at.
0:51.5	Football, like storytelling, brings people together.
0:55.2	Because these three stories aren't just about football.
0:58.4	They're about family, growing up, and the things that are revealed by the games we play.
1:03.6	First up is Dame Wilburn, who told this story when she hosted a main stage in Traverse
1:08.1	City, Michigan.
1:09.7	Here's Dame live at the month.
1:14.6	Some random snowy Saturday.
1:18.8	When I was a freshman in college, I sat down at the cafeteria table with my friends, the
1:26.3	Klingons.
1:27.0	Now, they basically were an amalgamation of dudes that you would never let into a fraternity.
1:33.7	They were art majors and theater majors and English majors, and they were all like heavy-duty
1:41.1	sci-fi nerds and Trekkies.
1:45.2	And when I sat down, these guys were talking about football.
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