The Moth Radio Hour: Lost and Found

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this hour, stories of disappearance and reappearance. Losing and finding home, family, and sacred objects -- or making space for something new. This episode is hosted by Moth Executive Producer, Sarah Austin Jenness. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.

Host: Sarah Austin Jenness

Storytellers -

Ross Jessop searches Montana's Lolo National Forest for a missing baby.

Christine Gentry hides a secret from significant others.

Gregory Pereira finds family in an unexpected place.

New Yorker Aaron Wolfe's wife gets a job in Boston.

Joseph Gallo receives a gift from a dying friend.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Moth stories have the power to bring you into a world that is often not your own and leave you wishing that you could live in that world
0:07.0	Just a little bit longer since 1997 the moth has shared more than 50,000 stories with audiences around the world through shows
0:14.9	Workshops and on the moth podcast and the moth radio hour once the curtains have closed the rooms emptied and the voice is quieted
0:21.8	It's the stories still ringing in our ears that whisper over and over we are all of us more alike than we are different
0:28.2	Help us write the next 25 years of the moth story by making your year-end gift today
0:33.7	Text moth22 no spaces to 41444 to make your gift and help provide the space
0:40.5	Tools and resources needed for more people to embrace the art and craft of personal storytelling in their own lives. Thank you.
1:00.3	From Pierrex this is the moth radio hour. I'm Sarah Austin, Genese in this episode
1:05.8	Lost and found stories heirlooms lost old ways of life gone and what is found in their stead
1:14.0	Our curatorial producer Suzanne Rust found out about our first storyteller
1:18.9	Ross Jessup through an article in a local Mizzula Montana newspaper and she reached out
1:25.3	Ross later told us I thought it was a scam and so did my lieutenant
1:29.8	I told my wife about it and she said the moth it's not a scam call them
1:34.3	I listen all the time
1:36.7	So we begin this episode
1:38.7	Lost in the woods of Lolo National Forest in Mizzula Montana with Ross Jessup a cop 10 years into the police force
1:47.8	He came to New York to tell his story outside in Greenwood Cemetery
1:52.4	So you may hear the occasional airplane
1:55.2	We partner with the Greenwood Historic Fund and just to note this story involves a crime and there is some intensity
2:02.5	Here's Ross Jessup live at the moth
2:10.5	It's July 7th
2:13.7	scorching hot 95 degrees. I'm in a dodged rango driving on a dusty road
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