The Moth Radio Hour: Something Borrowed, Something New

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

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🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this hour, we focus on the uncommon denominators and wildly unexpected situations of life. Hosted by Jenifer Hixson, The Moth’s Senior Director. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.

Hosted by: Jenifer Hixson

Omar Qureshi tries to find acceptance in a home that hates him.

Kari Adams faces up a storm of trouble when an uncontrollable force comes crashing into her wedding.

Donna Otter attends a tantric body painting party on the heels of her divorce.

Trystan Reese must deal with the world’s reaction when he goes viral for becoming a pregnant trans man.

Transcript

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0:00.0	From PRX, this is the Moth Radio Hour. I'm Jennifer Hickson. With Moth stories, we try
0:18.5	to introduce you to people and situations you might not come across in your daily life.
0:23.3	In this hour, we'll hear some themes that might sound familiar and close to home, a
0:27.5	wedding, a divorce, and others that might sound less typical, a trans man who wants to
0:32.9	get pregnant, or a Muslim at a barbecue joint called Hog Wild. That scene takes place
0:38.8	in our first story. It's from Omar Kureshi. He's currently a law student at Stanford
0:43.9	who moonlights as a comic, or is he a comic who moonlights as a law student? He seems
0:49.0	equally devoted to both. He told this story in Anchorage, Alaska, where we partner
0:54.3	with the local storytelling group Arctic Entries. Here's Omar Kureshi.
1:00.2	What's up? I'm a Pakistani Muslim, and in 2003, I moved to rural Missouri. So not great
1:12.9	timing. I remember when I first moved to Missouri, I was in my first class and a teacher
1:19.5	was doing rule call. She was like Omar Kureshi. Omar Kureshi. I was like, you're a lady,
1:27.9	cool it, I'm new here. There was a kid in the front of the class, his name was Brett. He
1:34.3	turned around and looked at me and said, did she just say Osama bin Laden? I was like,
1:40.0	no, she didn't say Osama bin Laden. He was like, all right, very next day I go to class.
1:47.1	That walks right up to me. And as I talk to my daddy about you, I was like, oh boy,
1:52.6	what do you say? Are you an al-Qaeda? I was like, no, I'm not an al-Qaeda. He was like,
1:59.8	all right, thank God, we can be friends then. Oh my, dude, this kid is an idiot. That's
2:05.4	all it took. I can't go to TSA like that. So immediately to start to Missouri was very,
2:12.9	very difficult, but not everyone was bad. I actually made a best friend the first day. His name
2:17.3	was Brendan. Brendan was great. He had moved to my town from Buffalo, Missouri and he had moved
2:22.4	there because his dad was a preacher and he was going to take over the local church. And Brendan
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