The Moth Radio Hour: Holding On, Digging Out & Hanging Up

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this hour, stories of the everyday moments that have lasting impacts. A fast-food chain giveaway, a perilous outing on the high seas and the emotional toll of being a customer care Agent for the USPS. This episode is hosted by Moth Senior Director Meg Bowles. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.

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0:00.0	From PRX, this is the moth radio hour. I'm Meg Bulls. In this hour, we bring you three stories
0:18.4	told live on stage in Omaha, Nebraska, Portland, Maine, and New York City.
0:23.9	The stories may be wildly different,
0:25.9	but they all share a common theme of how everyday events
0:29.0	can end up being extraordinary.
0:31.9	Our first story comes from Angela Dorman.
0:34.4	She shared it as part of a main stage
0:35.9	reproduced in Nebraska at the Rose Theater
0:38.6	with support from Omaha Public Radio, K-I-O-S.
0:42.7	Here's Angela live at the mall.
0:48.1	The call that started it all was from my sister Michelle. She was calling from California long distance back
0:57.2	when there was such a thing. She was telling me that she had her baby, her first a boy named Jack. And I was hit with this overwhelming
1:10.1	desire to be there as soon as possible. We lost our mom. Our mom died when we were
1:18.0	kids. I was 12 years old. Michelle was 9 and our little sister was five years old.
1:25.0	And I learned that as the oldest, I was often the first to experience those times when without your mother really sucked.
1:37.0	And I would always make sure to warn the others.
1:40.4	And this was a time.
1:42.2	I had two kids of my own by then,
1:44.6	and I knew that postpartum was one of the suckiest
1:48.6	without your mother.
1:50.8	So she asks me when I'm going to come out and I said as soon as I can and we kind of both know that that's not going to be anytime real soon.
2:01.0	We just didn't have the money. We did not have the money. I would have had to put the whole thing on the credit card.
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