The Moth Radio Hour: Gestures Great and Small

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A man serves up cocktails with extra flavor; a young ballerina fills a delicate role with force; food helps to bridge a cultural gap; a woman makes a surprise announcement on stage, and more from Moth GrandSLAMs all across the country.

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.

Storytellers: Tim Lopez, Pilar Siman, Tom Nimen, Susan Wolman, Jon Cayton, and Deedee Lundberg.

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0:00.0	Moth stories have the power to bring you into a world that is often not your own and leave you wishing that you could live in that world
0:07.0	Just a little bit longer since 1997 the moth has shared more than 50,000 stories with audiences around the world through shows,
0:14.9	workshops and on the moth podcast and the moth radio hour once the curtains have closed the rooms emptied and the voice is
0:21.3	Quieted it's the stories still ringing in our ears that whisper over and over we are all of us more alike than we are different
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0:33.6	Text moth22 no spaces to 41444 to make your gift and help provide the space, tools and resources needed for more people to embrace the art and craft of
0:44.8	Personal storytelling in their own lives. Thank you.
1:00.0	From PRX this is the moth radio hour. I'm Jennifer Hickson in this hour will transport you to Grand Slam's around the country
1:07.9	We'll hear stories from and about Minnesota Miami San Francisco, New York LA and Ohio
1:15.9	The Grand Slam's are a competition, but the judging is subjective
1:19.7	I always like to stress that everyone in the Grand Slam is already a winner
1:23.3	They have to qualify with a previous slam win to get in for the most part the people who judge Grand Slam's are chosen from the audience
1:30.3	They don't have fancy degrees or credentials and anyway storytelling isn't algebra
1:35.0	So there's never one correct answer. I'm saying the system is imperfect and in that imperfection
1:40.3	There's some beauty because here's the thing after any moth show if you pull the audience and say which was your favorite tonight
1:46.4	Everyone has a different answer each teller is a winner for somebody
1:50.7	You're about to hear six Grand Slam stories and here's something a little different the last story in this hour
1:56.3	We didn't allow it to be judged. You'll understand when we get there
1:59.4	This first story is by Tim Lopez it involves a not so ancient niche art form
2:05.8	I think it's an art form. I guess so you can be the judge. Here's Tim Lopez live at the moth
2:12.3	All right, so about 10 years ago I was working as a bartender at a TGI Fridays in the Valley
2:18.8	Just north of Los Angeles and Fridays was a pioneer in what is known as flare bartending
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