The Moth Radio Hour: For the Ages

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this hour, a trip through the phases of life—childhood to awkward adolescence, first jobs to careers, and big leaps in adulthood. This episode is hosted by Moth Senior Curatorial Producer, Suzanne Rust. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media. Storytellers: Anne McNamee Keels is "not the cool girl" at school. Matthew Dicks finds a friend at McDonalds. Kate Greathead finds out that her dream at age 7 is a nightmare at age 14. Linda Grosser discovers more about herself on a sailboat. Ron Hart loses passion for his dream job. Karen Lascher has a complicated relationship with Mother's Day. Podcast # 914 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	This is the Moth Radio Hour.
0:15.9	I'm your host, Suzanne Rust.
0:19.1	Moth story slams are magical.
0:21.6	Each evening has a theme like lost, busted, or love hurts.
0:26.6	Brave people from all across the country show up with a five-minute story that relates to the theme
0:32.6	and drop their names in a hat for the chance to step on the stage and share it.
0:36.6	No notes.
0:38.3	This week's hour, which features stories from these slams,
0:42.3	explores how we reflect on our worlds at different ages and stages of our lives,
0:47.3	from childhood and teens to adulthood and later life.
0:51.3	From personal experience and non-scientific observation, I think it's pretty safe to say that in
0:57.5	middle school, confidence levels are not an all-time high. So the last thing most kids want is to be
1:03.4	the center of attention. Our first storyteller found herself in that position and lived to tell the tale.
1:10.8	Anne McNameekeelels told this at a Chicago slam
1:13.7	where we partner with public radio station WB.E.Z.
1:17.7	Here's Anne, live at the Moth.
1:23.8	My story takes place in 1998
1:26.7	at a school on the south side of Chicago, no joke.
1:30.5	But this was a Catholic school on the south side of Chicago, and I was the student.
1:37.8	It's 1998, it's April of 1998. Tuesday morning, I am in my polo shirt and my ugly uniform skirt with a very heavy backpack
1:49.2	full of math, science, and religion textbooks with my head down, getting onto that blacktop,
1:54.6	behind the church, behind the school, before the first bell, just kind of quietly slinking
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