The Moth Radio Hour: One In a Million

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this hour, stories of people who made an impact—through a single phone call, a helping hand, or human touch. 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.

Storytellers:

Greg Quiroga sees his Uncle Steve in a new light.

Meg Lavery experiences a change of perspective after over a decade as a teacher.

Beth Yates volunteers at San Francisco City Hall during "gay marriage Lollapalooza.”

Brittney Cooper gets an unexpected call from Tyler Perry.

Jerry Jennings Army National Guard unit is unexpectedly deployed after 9/11

Transcript

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0:00.0	From PRX, this is the moth radio hour. I'm Meg Bulls and in this show we have
0:17.8	stories of that special person who did something or said something that
0:21.8	changed those around them.
0:23.2	The parent, the teacher, the volunteer, the celebrity,
0:26.6	the dependable best friend or the surprise guest,
0:29.7	we encounter people every day,
0:31.8	and sometimes they leave a lasting impact.
0:35.4	Our first storyteller Greg Coroga shared this story at one of our open mic story slams in
0:40.3	San Francisco which was supported by public radio stations K-A-L-W and K-Q-E-D.
0:46.0	Live from the Ricshaw stop, here's Greg Corrovo.
0:50.0	I was 10 years old when my parents got divorced and my mom did the thing that made the most sense to her
0:58.6	She hooked up with my dad's sister's ex-husband, who'd always been Uncle Steve to me.
1:06.1	He was a pot-growing Vietnam veteran who had lost his vocal cords to a hand grenade in Vietnam that blew up.
1:16.0	It also opened up his knee and it left him dead in the mash unit for all of three minutes,
1:20.8	which greatly changed his perspective on life and it also made
1:24.4	every metal detector who ever went through just light up like a Christmas tree.
1:28.1	Everybody around us called him whispering Steve because he couldn't talk like normal. He whispered and I quickly adapted to
1:37.4	whispering Steve instead of Uncle Steve. The one thing about whispering Steve is that he'd always been a really good dad to his two sons, my brother cousins.
1:48.0	And I'd always admired the way that he'd been a father to them so it wasn't so much like I had lost an uncle as
1:57.2	as gained a father in the vacuum that was left when my parents split up and and
2:02.1	Steve was this guy who always wanted there to be
2:05.2	magic in the world especially for the kids around him he went to great lengths
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