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The Moth

The Moth Radio Hour: Oh, Brother

The Moth

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.625.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this hour, an ode to brothers. Family ties and secrets, fraternal bonds and sibling pranks. This episode is hosted by Moth Senior Director Jenifer Hixson. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media. Storytellers: Brian Kennedy needs to finally come out to his brother. Nicole Schnitzler tries to establish normalcy for her neurodivergent brother during quarantine. Bill Bernat's brother helps him get a fresh start. Katherine Wu hopes her older brother will attend her wedding. Lynn Adams gets revenge on her brother. Om Choudhury comforts his brother in the wake of their father's death. Podcast # 731 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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0:45.3

I'm Jennifer Hickson.

0:47.0

In this hour, we'll be hearing from and about brothers.

0:52.8

Although he's eight years older than me, my brother was around for all of my growing up

0:57.0

because he needed my mother's basement for band practice.

1:01.0

Because of him, our house was always filled with rock and roll and people and parties.

1:06.0

But perhaps the greatest gift, he pushed all the boundaries.

1:10.0

He was the classic partying older brother,

1:12.6

involved in all sorts of mischief, thereby making my transgressions seem mild. For instance,

1:18.5

when he was just 13, he borrowed the keys to my mother's Ford Country Squire station wagon

1:23.4

and crashed it into the neighbor's yard, a block or two away. So the getting in trouble bar was high.

1:30.3

My sister and I cruised through adolescence in his wide, wide wake.

1:33.3

Yes, Ma, I'm late for curfew, but good news, I didn't wreck the car.

1:38.3

He made it so much easier for us.

1:42.3

Our first story is about an older brother and an unspoken truth.

1:47.0

It was told at the Housing Works Bookstore in Manhattan, where public radio station

1:51.2

WNYC is a media partner.

1:53.8

Here's Brian Kennedy live at the Moth.

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