The Moth Podcast: Kansas City

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, to celebrate our inaugural Kansas City StorySLAMs, we're featuring two stories from KC.

If hearing the energy of the crowd (take it from everyone who was there, the show was super fun!) has got you hankering to attend a Kansas City StorySLAM, just go to themoth.org/kansascity for tickets and dates. And if you want to attend a StorySLAM in your area, just go to themoth.org/events and hit StorySLAMs in the dropdown menu.

This episode was hosted by Chloe Salmon.

Storytellers:

Glenn North learns a hard lesson involving a dirtbike.

Sue Marie Moreno helps found a nurturing community.

Transcript

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0:00.0	When 60 Minutes premiered in September 1968, there was nothing like it.
0:05.6	This is 60 Minutes.
0:07.1	It's a kind of a magazine for television.
0:09.3	Very few have been given access to the treasures in our archives.
0:14.0	But that's all about to change.
0:17.0	Like none of this stuff gets looked at.
0:19.0	That's what's incredible.
0:20.0	I'm Seth Dan of CBS News.
0:23.0	Listen to 60 minutes, a second look, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:28.0	Welcome to the moth podcast. I'm Chloe Salmon, your host for this episode.
0:37.0	On Thursday, September 12th, we had our very first story slam in Kansas City, Missouri.
0:42.0	It was an incredible night at a place called Knuck. first Story Slam in Kansas City, Missouri.
0:42.9	It was an incredible night at a place called knuckleheads,
0:45.5	which has this super cool honky-tong vibe.
0:48.2	The atmosphere was electric.
0:50.3	I mean, just check out the crowd. Welcome to the inaugural Story Slam here in beautiful Kansas City.
0:56.0	Oh, that's amazing right there.
1:01.0	That's the energy we're going all night long
1:03.3	and the storytellers make their way to the stage.
1:05.1	All right.
1:07.0	Every story slam is special, the uncertain magic of it.
1:11.1	The fact that anyone who puts their name in the hat might get up to
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