The Moth Podcast: Kansas City

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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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 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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0:00.0	Sean has had some good ideas over the years.
0:05.0	But using Canva was a really good one.
0:08.0	Sean designed some social posts to promote his friend's car boot sale.
0:13.0	They looked good.
0:15.0	Really, really good.
0:17.0	Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the lot, including the car.
0:24.5	Now Sean doesn't know how he's going to get home.
0:28.0	Thanks, Canva.
0:31.7	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.
0:42.6	It was an incredible night at a place called Knuckleheads, which has this super cool honky-tongk vibe.
0:48.0	The atmosphere was electric.
0:50.1	I mean, just check out the crowd.
0:52.3	Welcome to the inaugural StorySlam here in beautiful Kansas City!
0:56.0	Oh, that's amazing right there.
1:01.0	That's the energy we want all night long as storytellers make their way to the stage.
1:05.0	All right.
1:06.0	Every Story Slam is special, the uncertain magic of it. The fact that anyone who puts their name in the hat might get up to tell their story.
1:14.6	The intimacy of sharing the room with people who just poured their hearts out on stage.
1:18.6	It's a unique combination you just can't get anywhere else.
1:22.6	But the show in Kansas City was even more special, because it's our first new slam city we've opened since the pandemic began.
1:30.3	To celebrate that night and to entice you to come to our next Kansas City show if you're in the area, we've got two Kansas City stories for you today.
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