The Moth Radio Hour: Heroes, Icons and Superstars

The Moth

Performing Arts, Arts

4.6 • 25.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this hour, stories of meeting one's idols. A signature turns into a mentorship, a chance to write a song for a revered musician, and heroes within the home. This hour is hosted by Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media, the producer of this show. Storytellers: Valerie Walker has a chance encounter with a life long idol. Songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman makes music with a country music icon. Danny Artese gets not only a signature but a mentor when he attends a book signing. Elyse McInerney learns her hero may be a lot closer to her than she realized. Bassist Christian McBride gets a chance to play with a Jazz legend. 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 BRX, this is the Moth Radio Hour.
0:16.0	I'm Jay Allison, and in this show, meeting our heroes.
0:19.9	Stories of the times our lives intersect
0:21.9	with the people we most want to intersect with.
0:25.4	Our first story comes from Valerie Walker.
0:28.7	She told this at a slam in New York City,
0:31.0	where we partner with public radio station, WNYC.
0:35.1	Here's Valerie.
0:36.7	Okay.
0:38.3	So sometimes history has a way of speaking directly to you, to your heart, and it can leave a mark,
0:46.3	an indelible etch in who you are that can change who you are without it.
0:53.3	It can manifest into a thought and idea or a way of being
0:57.5	that you wouldn't have been if you hadn't had that moment. And Ruby Bridges made a mark with me.
1:04.6	In 1960, at the age of six, Ruby Bridges desegregated a public elementary school in Louisiana, all by herself.
1:13.6	I first heard about her when my fourth grade teacher read her story out loud in class, and I was fascinated by her.
1:21.6	I was in awe of her bravery in the strength, like in the face of such danger.
1:26.6	U.S. marshals were called in to escort
1:30.3	her safely to and from school. Her act was deemed so dangerous. And I also was struck by her
1:37.8	determination. The other parents of the students that would have been in her class refused
1:43.3	to let their kids come to school
1:45.7	and be educated with a Negro.
1:47.8	So she spent much of that first year by herself.
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