The Moth Radio Hour: Second Acts

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this hour, stories of do-overs, golden years, and new takes. One-more-chance—at work, in love, through art. This episode is hosted by Moth Senior Curatorial Producer, Suzanne Rust. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.

Storytellers:

Jamal Joseph is tasked with putting on a play in prison.

After not working for almost 2 decades, Neerja Kapoor takes on an unexpected job.

Craig Mangum and his girlfriend have more in common than anticipated.

Rhonda Sternberg describes dating "while old."

After losing her father, Blessing Omakwu has a crisis of faith.

Transcript

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0:00.0	The moth is coming back to London at Union Chapel for our main stage.
0:05.0	Join us on Friday, September 27th for the quintessential moth two-act experience,
0:10.6	featuring a musical act and five unforgettable true stories told live as they're recorded for
0:16.2	episodes of the Moth Radio Hour and the Moth Podcast.
0:19.7	You can buy tickets now at the Moth.org slash London. We'll see you there. From PRX, this is the moth radio hour. I'm your host Suzanne Rust.
0:41.4	The second act in a person's life is when things start to get juicy.
0:45.0	It's when the plot thickens and the stakes are raised.
0:48.0	It's where we start to learn what a person is really made of.
0:52.0	It's also often the part where we watch a person grow,
0:55.6	adapt, and come into something new. I personally love second X, even third and fourth X,
1:02.2	I've had a few myself, because they remind us that there's always
1:05.2	another way of thinking, being, or doing.
1:09.0	Theater defines second acts, and no one knows this better than our first teller Jamal Joseph.
1:15.0	He told this story at Aaron Davis Hall in Harlem. Here's Jamal live with the mall.
1:20.0	Welcome to the Big Top.
1:25.0	Except it wasn't a three-wing circus.
1:30.0	It was Leavenworth Federal Prison.
1:35.0	So named because the main building in the prison
1:41.0	had a big dome, the Capitol building in Washington.
1:47.0	Here I was, handcuffed,
1:53.0	shackled, in line with a bunch of other federal prisoners
1:59.0	that had just been marched up the steps
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