The Moth Radio Hour: Sink or Swim

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this hour, stories of diving in—whether we want to or not. In a job, in a relationship, or into the unknown. 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:

Surgeon Anthony Chin-Quee finds himself in over his head during his first day on call.

Despite protests from friends and family, Nancy French marries a man she barely knows.

Wilderness guide Monte Montepare takes inexperienced hikers on a glacier expedition

Transcript

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0:00.0	From PRX, this is the moth radio hour. I'm Meg Bulls. Some people dive right in,
0:18.8	throw caution to the wind. Others stand back, consider all the variables.
0:23.0	And sometimes people have absolutely no choice.
0:26.0	They have to think on their feet, sink or swim.
0:29.0	In this hour, stories of how people cope when they find themselves out of their depths.
0:34.0	Our first story comes from Anthony Chin Qui.
0:37.0	He told it in an evening we produced at the Union Chapel in London.
0:40.0	Here's Anthony, live at the moth.
0:43.0	Hi.
0:45.0	All right.
0:47.0	Okay, so, July 1st. This is the day that I, having just graduated from medical school,
0:58.0	finally fully fledged doctor, right? I was
1:05.0	nobody, right? Now on June 30th I was nobody, right?
1:08.0	Just a very ambitious but ultimately very
1:11.0	useless little lap dog
1:12.6	with an adorable short white coat.
1:15.4	But on July 1st, I got that long white coat.
1:20.0	And it was crisp and they had these pockets
1:22.1	that were filled with stethoscopes and prescription pads and of course the terror that I would be found out as an incompetent fraud.
1:29.8	And that terror completely valid primarily because of the unofficial intern year credo.
1:38.7	We be fucking up.
1:41.0	And when we're not fucking up, we are concerned with fucking up. Now a little bit about me, I went to Harvard for university. It's the epitome of my Jamaican and Trinidadian immigrant family's American wet dream and
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