The Moth Radio Hour: Outside the Box

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K 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

Transcript

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0:00.0	This autumn, fall for moth stories as we travel across the globe for our main stages.
0:05.6	We're excited to announce our fall lineup of storytelling shows from New York City to Iowa City,
0:10.9	London, Nairobi, and so many more. The moth will be performing in a city near you,
0:15.6	featuring a curation of true stories. The moth mainstaged shows feature five tellers,
0:20.1	who share beautiful, unbelievable, hilarious, and often powerful true stories. The Moth Mainstage shows feature five tellers, who share beautiful,
0:21.5	unbelievable, hilarious, and often powerful true stories on a common theme. Each one told reveals
0:26.9	something new about our shared connection. To buy your tickets or find out more about our calendar,
0:32.1	visit the moth.org slash mainstage. We hope to see you soon.
0:50.2	Music slash main stage. We hope to see you soon. From PRX, this is the Moth Radio Hour.
0:53.1	I'm Sarah Austin Janice. In this episode, three stories from innovators, people who defy convention.
1:01.4	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.
1:12.1	So today, stories of drones, Dukadi motorcycles, and dowry return ceremonies, all in the
1:19.7	name of forward thinking.
1:22.4	Our first storyteller, Ian Kerr, told this at a moth main stage in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Here's Ian.
1:30.3	So I'm a whale biologist. Sounds cool, right? Well, actually, not too bad, but whales are really hard to study. If you're studying a rhino on the Serengeti,
1:49.1	your land rover can't sink beneath the sand, you don't get seasick, and when you approach the
1:54.2	rhino, it doesn't dive beneath the Serengeti and reappear five miles away. So I was born in Scotland and I grew up in a small village
2:04.3	in Cornwall called Lost Withiel. And it really was lost within the hills and maybe not the best
2:11.9	place for a kid with more questions and answers. And as a consequence, as I grew up, I actually spent more time building machines, fixing
2:22.9	things, dreaming of adventure than I did actually making friends.
2:28.8	And in my 30s, I still hadn't found a real job.
2:33.0	I tried, but I just couldn't seem to find a fit.
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