The Moth Radio Hour: Dog Mother, Tour Guide, and Milli Vanilli
The Moth
The Moth
4.6 • 25.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
A woman becomes a stepmother to a dog, a tour guide in Toronto confronts racism, a mother learns the meaning of “Little pitchers have big ears”, and one half of the pop duo Milli Vanilli tells his side of the story. Hosted by The Moth's Senior Producer, Jenifer Hixson. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.
Hosted by: Jenifer Hixson
Storytellers: Sara Barron, Falen Johnson, Catherine Palmer, and Fabrice Morvan.
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| 0:59.8 | From PRX this is the moth radio hour. I'm Jennifer Hickson. The moth is true stories told live |
| 1:06.3 | Stories of human interactions some that have been pulled from the pages of a supermarket tabloid or others that could have been pulled from the pages of your own life |
| 1:15.2 | In this hour we have some of both our first story comes from Sarah Baron for years |
| 1:21.1 | Sarah hosted one of our monthly moth stories slams at the bitter end on Bleaker Street in New York City |
| 1:26.3 | Between other people's stories she'd be on stage sharing the most terrible and hilarious tales of the single life |
| 1:31.7 | Pretty much eight years of bad dates and then one night she brought this bearded guy to the show and he sat right up front |
| 1:38.6 | Enjoyed the evening immensely and the rest is history. He's the guy in a story you're about to hear here Sarah Baron live at the moth |
| 1:50.1 | Six months ago I |
| 1:52.5 | married a man named Jeff and |
| 1:55.6 | My marriage to Jeff made me a stepmother |
| 1:58.9 | to a dog |
| 2:03.9 | And what I mean when I say that is not just that Jeff had a dog and now that we're married |
| 2:09.5 | We kind of have the dog together although that is true |
| 2:12.5 | What I mean more specifically is that Jeff shares custody of a dog with his ex girlfriend |
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