The Moth Radio Hour: A Place at the Family Table

The Moth

Performing Arts, Arts

4.6 • 25.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ ? minutes

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In this hour, finding one's place among family. Caregivers, care recipients, and stewards of cremains. This episode is hosted by Moth Artistic Director Catherine Burns. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media. Storytellers: After her sari ceremony and debutante ball, Swapna Kakani realizes what coming of age really means. Roz Chast isn't sure where to lay her parents to rest. Zellia Enjoli Tatiana's role of "older sister" gets put to the test. Adam Wade is an awkward teen who spends every weekend with his adoring grandma and her sister. Podcast # 749 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	Imagine a delicious patty nestled between two buns with cheese and ketchup.
0:04.7	It's not a burger.
0:05.6	That patty is actually sausage, which makes this a sandwich.
0:08.6	A breakfast sausage sandwich, the new 199 sausage sandwich from McDonald's.
0:12.8	Made with RSPCA at short pork.
0:15.6	Until 11am.
0:16.6	Price and participation may vary.
0:17.8	Up charges and fees apply to delivery.
0:19.2	Subjects of availability.
0:37.5	This is the Moth Radio Hour, and I'm Catherine Burns.
0:41.6	In this week's hour, we're hearing stories about family dynamics.
0:45.6	It can be tricky to understand our place and roles in our own families.
0:49.4	I personally come from a classic blended family.
0:55.5	The first weekend after their wedding, my stepdaddy Wayne and my mama left 12-year-old me and my siblings with my new step-grandparents, Mama and Paw Harold, who lived in a farm in rural Alabama.
1:02.2	My 14,000-person hometown was metropolis by comparison.
1:06.2	Everything was unfamiliar.
1:08.1	The first night, Pa Harold asked if I'd like to go down the hill and pick
1:11.2	out a watermelon to cut up for dessert. I was excited to have a way to pitch in. I picked out a
1:16.3	nice, fat, green melon, and struggled to hoisted up over my head. I got about two-thirds of the way
1:21.5	up the long red clay mud driveway. When boom, the watermelon slipped out of my hands fell to the ground and cracked open in the dirt three
1:30.4	times I went down the hill for another watermelon and three times I get close to the top then drop it
1:36.2	I felt so embarrassed but pa harold just looked at me kindly went down with me to get a fourth and carried it home
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