The Moth Radio Hour: Creatures Great & Small

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In this hour, stories of encounters with the animal kingdom. Songbirds, rogue rams, carnivorous threats—and friends. This episode is hosted by Moth storyteller and host Ray Christian. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media. Storytellers: Georgia Huff goes for a hike...in grizzly bear country. Randy Horick finds meaning in a bird's song. Michele Woods must prove she's a real Scottish local when her ram, Frowick, escapes. After Fran Kras takes in a stray cat, a mystery unfolds. As a child with a severe stutter, Alan Rabinowitz finds solace in speaking to animals. 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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0:45.8	I'm your host to Ray Christian.
0:47.8	I'm a storyteller and frequent hosts for the Malth's live events in Asheville, North Carolina,
0:53.0	and the host of the podcast, What's Race
0:55.4	Sane, where I explore my many lives as a former ghetto kid, southern black gentleman,
1:01.3	retired army paratrooper, and a doctor of education, connecting centuries of black history
1:07.3	to understand my own story.
1:15.6	Now I've had a love of animals for as long as I can remember. In fact, it was my earliest desire as a kid in elementary school to have a zoo in the backyard.
1:22.6	And in pursuit of that goal, I gathered up what animals I could.
1:26.6	Now, space in my room was a factor, so I had to start small.
1:31.3	First it was the flea circus.
1:33.3	Can't tell you how hard they were to collect.
1:35.3	Later, I had sea monkeys.
1:38.3	That looked nothing like they did on the back of that comic book I ordered them from.
1:42.3	No smiles, leather skin, or nothing.
1:46.0	Later I moved up to rabbits, turtles, pigeons, cats and dogs.
1:50.0	Today, I have an assortment of dogs, chickens, ducks, and goats.
1:56.0	And it's been my experience that it's easy to see human attributes in animal behavior or fall into
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