The Moth Radio Hour: The Universe of Impossible Things

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this hour, stories of doing the seemingly impossible; taking a risk for a chance at love, trusting a gut instinct, believing in a message from beyond and shooting (literally) for the stars. Hosted by The Moth's Senior Producer, Meg Bowles. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.

Host: Meg Bowles

Storytellers: Daniel Heuman, Navreet Chawla, Ashok Ramasubramanian, Cathy Olkin

Transcript

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0:00.0	Moth stories have the power to bring you into a world that is often not your own and leave you wishing that you could live in that world
0:07.0	Just a little bit longer since 1997 the moth has shared more than 50,000 stories with audiences around the world through shows
0:14.9	Workshops and on the moth podcast and the moth radio hour once the curtains have closed the rooms emptied and the voice is quieted
0:21.8	It's the stories still ringing in our ears that whisper over and over we are all of us more alike than we are different
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0:40.5	Tools and resources needed for more people to embrace the art and craft of personal storytelling in their own lives. Thank you.
1:00.0	From PRX this is the moth radio hour. I'm Meg Bulls and in this hour
1:03.9	We bring you four stories that explored the seemingly impossible
1:07.7	We've all had that feeling. Oh come on. That's just not possible
1:12.8	Maybe we're asked to take on an insurmountable task or to believe in something that seems contrary to reason
1:18.7	But often it's what we do in those moments that changes everything
1:23.7	Sometimes the impossible takes the shape of that ever elusive thing we desire that one piece of the puzzle
1:29.8	We believe we need for everything else to simply fall into place
1:32.7	That was the case for our first storyteller Daniel human as he went off in search of his very own Hollywood-sized romantic comedy
1:40.8	Here's Daniel human
1:47.9	Some 20 and I have never so much as kids to go and
1:52.3	And people ask me how that's even possible and you know the easy answer I give them is that I went to an old boys school
2:02.7	But the truth is that I'm just really awkward. I'm a nerd. I do not understand flirting and
2:11.6	Really my only frame of reference for for how to talk to girls are movies
2:16.5	Like I can remember this one time I was sort of went to the park with this friend that I really liked and
2:24.9	I remember sort of stopping in the park to explain to her each of the detailed reasons why the week should be more than friends
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