The Moth Radio Hour: All About Moms - Babies, Bees, Concerts and Contacts

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Arts, Performing Arts

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🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A special Mother's Day edition of The Moth Radio Hour. A mother helps her daughter get her first contact lenses, an unwanted parental intervention at a school concert, a new mother in Zambia awaits test results, a life or death bee sting and a teenage mother who couldn't be happier to welcome her child to the world. Hosted by The Moth's Artistic Director Catherine Burns. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.

Storytellers:

Chrissie Graham is a nerdy girl who needs contacts and promptly loses one.

Catherine Palmer tries to micromanage her son at a school concert.

Constance Mudenda is a healthcare worker with a health scare of her own.

Matthew Dicks has an allergic reaction to a bee sting and needs his mother.

Melissa Rodriguez grew up a foster child and then has a child of her own.

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0:00.0	From PRX, this is the Moth Radio Hour. I'm Catherine Burns and this hour is all about
0:19.1	mothers. We'll hear about a blundering Pittsburgh mom who keeps embarrassing her kids, a health care worker in Zambia who suddenly needs help herself, a bedbound patient trying to save her 10-year-old boy's life, a teenage mom standing up for her son, and
0:35.0	our first story told by Chrissy Graham.
0:38.2	Here's Chrissy,
0:39.2	recorded live at the Seattle Story Slam. Like most of you I'm guessing I was a total dork as a kid. I mean like
0:49.5	for Halloween I was Mozart. It was bad, not bad.
0:54.0	I'm not kidding.
0:55.0	And to boot, I had terrible, terrible vision.
0:59.0	These thick coat bottle glasses, It was just painful.
1:03.5	I was just steeped and dorked them.
1:06.0	And I wanted so badly to get out.
1:08.7	I just wanted to be cool more than anything.
1:12.1	And my mom, my mom saw this and bless her heart in like the most
1:18.6	amazing act of loving kindness she got me contact lenses.
1:25.5	And not soft lenses, hard, gas permeable lenses.
1:29.6	And if you guys have ever had this,
1:31.3	you know what it's like,'s like you know the texture of an
1:33.9	Eminem shell and it's about that resilient and so you know this was an amazing
1:38.5	amazing act of faith to give these lenses to an 11 year old kid, okay?
1:45.0	And so very wisely, she sat me down and she said,
1:48.7	Chrissy, these lenses cost $50 each.
1:56.4	And if you break one or if you lose one,
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