The Moth Radio Hour: Great Expectations

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In this hour, expect the unexpected! False assumptions and surprising revelations at home, online, and in the fridge. This episode is hosted by Moth Director Meg Bowles. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media. Storytellers: Benji Waterhouse makes a house call during his first week as a psychiatrist. Comedian Jamie McDonald finds himself at the center of a Twitter storm. Salima Saxton and her husband try to build the "perfect life". Podcast # 905 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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0:45.3	I'm Meg Bowles, and I'll be your host this time.
0:48.8	Expectations.
0:50.1	We set them, manage them, and try to live up to them.
0:53.6	Sometimes our expectations of what will happen next are spot on, and other times we miss the mark.
1:00.0	All of the stories in this hour deal with the goals we set for ourselves and how we hope things might unfold.
1:06.5	Our first story comes from Benji Waterhouse.
1:09.7	If you've ever been to a main stage event,
1:11.7	you'll know that we bring people to the stage by sharing their answer to a question that we
1:15.7	pose to all the storytellers. It's an icebreaker that introduces us to the tellers they make
1:21.0	their way to the stage. So borrowing from that, when I asked Benji, when was a time your
1:27.0	expectations did not meet up with reality, he said, when I asked Benji, when was a time your expectations did not meet up with reality?
1:30.0	He said, when I was working as a doctor for the National Health Service and realized it was
1:35.1	nothing like the TV show Scrubs. Live from the Union Chapel in London, here's Benji
1:41.4	Waterhouse.
1:51.5	Thank you. here's Bingie Waterhouse. I remember when I started at medical school,
1:55.4	I was sitting in a great old lecture theater
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