The Moth Podcast: True Crimes Told Live

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we’ve got two stories of tiny crimes. Nothing horrifying happens, nobody gets hurt… it’s all the rush and mischief of trying to get away with it, without any chance of me (or you!) losing sleep.

Host: Chloe Salmon

Storytellers:

Adriana Eraso learns some lessons about crime and business.

Emily Popper sneaks into Colonial Williamsburg.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the moth podcast. I'm Chloe Salmon, your host for this episode. I love
0:09.5	a good mystery or a crime story or a heist.
0:13.4	Give me motive means an opportunity any day.
0:16.7	There's nothing like trying to figure out who done it.
0:19.4	A tough thing though, I am a well-known scaredy cat. When I was a kid my mom threatened to ban
0:25.0	Nancy Drew books from our home because I would read them and get so scared that I
0:29.8	could not sleep. You know Nancy Drew, solver of terrifying crimes such as, can
0:35.2	Nancy locate a missing clock and can Nancy figure out who owns this misplaced
0:39.6	suitcase on her cruise ship? If I can get that worked up about spunky girl detectives
0:44.8	locating lost property you can imagine that scary gory crimes are not my
0:49.6	bread and butter. So in this episode we've got two stories of tiny crimes.
0:54.0	Nothing horrifying happens, nobody gets hurt.
0:57.0	It's all the rush and mischief of trying to get away with it without any chance of me or you losing sleep.
1:03.0	First up is Adriana Erasso.
1:06.0	She told this at a New York City story slam
1:08.0	where the theme of the night was 9 to 5.
1:10.0	Here's Adriana live at the moth.
1:15.0	I was eight years old when I had my first job.
1:18.0	And yeah, I was precocious.
1:21.0	And I was also a multi-hiphon.
1:24.6	I was an entrepreneur, a fighter for justice, and a criminal.
1:29.8	I grew up in Colombia at a time where the government was very much protecting national industry,
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