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The Moth Radio Hour: The Games We Play

The Moth

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.625.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this hour: win, lose or draw! Stories of competition and play. Family pranks, high school Latin, college track, and the need for approval. 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: Joey Garfield is invited to play with the cool kids. Tod Kelly seeks justice for a decades-old prank.Romy Negrin and her Latin Club compete in the highest division.Tahmin Ullah risks her relationship with her mom when she takes up running. Abhishek Shah hatches a plan to win over his fiancée's family. Podcast # 674 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. I'm Sarah Austin Janice. I come from a game-playing family.

0:50.3

Growing up, we played Domino's, Uno, Gin Rummy, and Pounce, which is competitive solitaire.

0:56.2

We also love backgammon, and in fact, my great Aunt Fanny at 97 years old and right before she died, beat my mom in a backgammon match.

1:04.9

Aunt Fanny always played to win. So this hour is all about play and competition. It's an hour with winners and because the

1:12.8

moth loves an underdog, plenty of losers too. First up is Joey Garfield, who finally gets to

1:19.5

hang out with the big kids on the block. Joey told this at a Moth story slam in Chicago, where we

1:24.8

partner with public radio station WB-B-E-Z. Here's Joey, live at the month.

1:34.3

So, when I was about five or six years old, I was upstairs in my room, just beautiful summer day, mind in my own business when I hear some shouting

1:46.2

from the backyard, like a lot of voices. And they're going, Joey, come outside, this hot

1:51.8

come in the middle of the twisterboard. I was like, what? Like, Joey, come outside. This is

1:58.5

hot talk, go middle of a twister board.

2:01.6

So I walk up to the window and I opened it up and I'm like, what?

2:06.6

And I see my older brothers and their friends sitting around a twister board.

2:13.6

And they're like, Joey, come on downstairs.

2:15.6

There's a hot dog gum in the middle of a twister board.

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