The Moth Radio Hour: Live from New York: Give me Five - Stories of the Senses

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week, a special edition of The Moth Radio Hour featuring a live show from New York City. Stories of the senses: touch, smell, sound, and sight. This episode is hosted by Julian Goldhagen, with additional hosting by Moth Executive Producer, Sarah Austin Jenness. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media. Storytellers: Peter Aguero's life takes an unexpected turn in a pottery class. Tighisti Amahazion finds creature comfort during an escape with her family. Julian Goldhagen gets trapped in a walk-in closet. Bryan Kett gets a chance to see in color for the first time. Podcast # 917 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	This is the Moth Radio Hour. I'm Sarah Austin Janice. This time we have a live mainstage show from New York City.
0:21.8	We remember details from our lives through our senses.
0:26.0	A particular song will bring back stories.
0:28.6	A smell will help you time travel to a turning point in your life.
0:32.5	Sense memories are the building blocks of stories.
0:35.7	And so, here's our host for the night, Julian Goldhagen,
0:39.3	a social worker and a theater artist,
0:42.3	live at the Moth in New York City's Greenwich Village.
0:46.3	All right, welcome to the Moth Mainstitch at the NYU Skirval Center!
0:56.0	Wow.
0:59.0	So tonight's theme is,
1:00.0	Gimme Five, Stories of the Senses.
1:03.0	And I'm thrilled to sort of like go on this journey
1:06.0	through the senses with you this evening.
1:08.0	And I'm thrilled to bring our first storyteller up to the stage.
1:11.7	Are we ready?
1:16.7	So another Moth tradition is that we always bring our storytellers to the stage
1:20.8	by way of an introductory question.
1:22.8	So the question that I asked everybody was,
1:24.9	what was the last time you came to your senses?
1:29.3	Our first storyteller said,
1:30.3	on the way here this afternoon,
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