From BRX, this is the Moth Radio Hour.

I'm Jay Ellison, producer of this radio show.

In this hour, we bring you a special live Moth event recorded in Boston, Massachusetts

at the beautiful Schubert Theater, which produced in partnership with WBUR.

The theme of the night was eye witness, and our first storyteller is Steve Osborne.

It's seven o'clock in the morning, I'm laying in bed, I'm sound asleep, I'm out like a

light, and the phone starts ringing.

Now listening I wanted to do his answer this.

I just got in home, I worked overtime all night long, I was dead tired, I was beat, and

I just didn't want to answer it.

I had a lady answer machine pick up, and I hit his voice.

It's a buddy of mine from the old neighborhood where I grew up.

And I haven't heard from him in a really long time, but right away I could tell that this

something wrong.

You know, like he's humming in the horn, he's like he's searching for the right words,

and he says, you know, hey, I know it's early, I'm sorry to bother you, but I didn't know

who else to call, I figured you the only guy who could help me.

Now when you're a cop, your family, your friends, they like to come to you with their

illegal problems.

And usually the illegal problems are, they got arrested.

Now when I was a kid, my father was a cop, and everybody in the neighborhood came to him

with their problems, but he had recently passed away so the job got handed down to me.

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