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The Moth

The Moth Radio Hour: Outside the Box

The Moth

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.625.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this hour, stories from risk-takers, innovators, and trail-blazers. Scientific feats, pushing the boundaries of age, and a different kind of motherhood. 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. Storytellers: Whale biologist Iain Kerr demonstrates his new invention on live-television. Carolyn Meyer tries online dating at the age of 80.  Roseline Orwa reclaims her power and starts a new chapter.  Podcast # 894 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

Sean has had some good ideas over the years.

0:05.0

But using Canva was a really good one.

0:08.0

Sean designed some social posts to promote his friend's car boot sale.

0:13.0

They looked good.

0:15.0

Really, really good.

0:17.0

Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the lot, including the car.

0:23.6

Now Sean doesn't know how he's going to get home.

0:27.6

Thanks, Canva. From PRX, this is the Moth Radio Hour.

0:46.4

I'm Sarah Austin-Ginnis.

0:48.3

In this episode, three stories from innovators, people who defy convention.

0:58.0

The status quo is just kind of boring sometimes. Life is more fun and, dare I say, more fulfilling if you invent and then reinvent the future.

1:05.0

So today, stories of drones, Dukadi motorcycles, and dowry return ceremonies, all in the name of

1:13.7

forward thinking. Our first storyteller, Ian Kerr, told this at a moth mainstage in Portsmouth,

1:20.5

New Hampshire. Here's Ian.

1:30.3

So I'm a whale biologist. Sounds cool, right?

1:32.3

Well, actually, not too bad.

1:34.3

But whales are really hard to study.

1:39.3

If you're studying a rhino on the Serengeti,

1:42.3

your land rover can't sink beneath the sand, you don't get seasick, and when you approach the rhino on the Serengeti, your land rover can't sink beneath the sand, you don't get seasick,

1:46.6

and when you approach the rhino, it doesn't dive beneath the serengeti and reappear five miles away.

1:53.5

So I was born in Scotland, and I grew up in a small village in Cornwall called Lost Withiel.

2:00.4

And it really was lost within the hills.

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