The Moth Podcast: Live from LA
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4.6 • 25.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
We've got a special treat for you this episode! We're featuring a recent Los Angeles GrandSLAM - with hosting, audience slips, music, and of course, great stories. The episode was introduced by Sarah Austin Jenness, and the GrandSLAM was hosted by Brian Finkelstein. The musicians in this episode were Alexander Burke, who played the vibraphone, and Eban Schletter, who played the theremin.
Storytellers:
Jess Nurse learns a bit about friendship after your twenties.
David Ambroz finds inner strength in a challenging situation.
Bryan Kett plays disc-golf with some misfits.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This autumn fall for moth stories as we travel across the globe for our main stages. |
| 0:05.6 | We're excited to announce our fall lineup of storytelling shows from New York City to Iowa City, |
| 0:10.8 | London, Nairobi, and so many more, the moth will be performing in a city near you, |
| 0:15.6 | featuring a curation of true stories. |
| 0:18.1 | The moth rainstage shows feature five tellers, who share beautiful, unbelievable, hilarious, and often powerful true stories on a common theme. |
| 0:26.0 | Each one told reveals something new about our shared connection. |
| 0:29.5 | To buy your tickets or find out more about our calendar, visit the moth.org |
| 0:33.7 | slash main stage. We hope to see you soon. |
| 0:39.0 | Welcome to the moth podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm Sarah Austin Janess, the Moths Executive Producer, and we have a special treat in store for you today. |
| 0:48.1 | This is a live from episode of the Moth Podcast, from a recent M moth grand slam in Los Angeles. |
| 0:55.0 | Grand Slams are Story Slam Championships. |
| 0:58.0 | They feature 10 stories and we've chosen three from this LA Grand Slam |
| 1:02.9 | to share with you today. |
| 1:04.6 | The theme of the night was Out on a Lim, |
| 1:07.2 | and the show was held at the Aritani Theater |
| 1:09.7 | in collaboration with Public Radio station KCRW. |
| 1:13.8 | Long time moth host and storyteller Brian Finkelstein will lead us through the night. |
| 1:18.4 | Eben Schlutter and Alexander Burke are our musicians for these memorable grand slams in Los Angeles. |
| 1:25.1 | They play The Theremen, which is an electronic instrument controlled without physical contact. |
| 1:32.0 | So Eben and Alexander look like they're just waving their |
| 1:35.0 | hands through the air, but really they are masters of this creepy and wonderful |
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