The Moth Radio Hour: Follies of Youth

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Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In this hour, stories of the adventures—and misadventures—of growing up. In a cave, on the ball field, and on a camping trip. This episode is hosted by Jay Allison, producer of this show. Storytellers: Trevor Nourse gets lost in a cave. Susan Rohde gets to play wiffle ball with the cool kids. New camp counselor Martha Cooney is determined to win "rookie of the year." Self-proclaimed nerd Usra Gahzi goes on a coed camping trip. Sivad Johnson and his buddies seek to reach new heights on their bikes. Jim Hasson grows up with a healthy fear of strangers. 8th grader Nadia Hakim learns a lesson thanks to depilatory cream. Podcast # 897 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	From PRX, this is the Moth Radio Hour. I'm your host Jay Allison, producer of this radio show.
0:19.0	Childhood and teenagehood are times when all decisions feel significant,
0:24.1	but with our still developing brains, we may not yet be the greatest at making those decisions.
0:30.4	In today's episode, we explore the follies of youth, naivete, Impulsive Actions, and General Wackiness.
0:40.0	Our first teller, Trevor Norse, told his story at a Moth Grand Slam in Louisville,
0:45.0	where we partner with WFPL, a Louisville Public Media Station.
0:50.2	From the Bomhard Theater, here's Trevor.
0:57.5	Three of us went into the cave that day.
1:00.7	Yeah, I get a little fuzzy on details, but I know Jamie was there
1:04.8	because he's the one who threw the rock.
1:07.9	And I know my friend Terry was there because he kept going on about his watch.
1:11.6	My friend Terry was a techie before that was really a thing. And he had just gotten this new
1:16.6	watch. Timex had come out with this Indyglow watch line. And this watch had this new cool feature.
1:22.6	You hit a button at it lit up this fluorescent, bl green color and a funny thing I told some
1:30.2	kids of this story and they all wanted to know did the watch have GPS sir could you play
1:36.2	games on the watch no it was the 80s the watch lit up that's what. They weren't impressed, but we thought it was cool.
1:49.0	And since I was the only one who had been into the cave before with the older kids, I had
1:54.0	the flashlight and I led the way.
1:57.0	Now, the entrance to the cave was a right of passage all on its own.
2:01.6	It was less than 30 inches in diameter.
2:03.6	It was a 40-foot claustrophobic crawl that not everybody could make.
2:08.6	But for those who did, it was worth it.
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