4.6 • 25.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
In this hour, stories of being gentle and kind—to ourselves and to others. Health scares, sound baths, and friend dates. This episode is hosted by Moth Director Jodi Powell. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.
Storytellers:
Freida Vizel questions a big community tradition for the first time.
Skeptical teen Leela Ting goes to to a sound bath.
Young Marianna is her brother's secret weapon in a high stakes basketball game.
James Petersen's daughter checks in on him weekly, via a dreaded phone call.
When Alyssa Hursh and her boyfriend take some time apart, her friends step in to make her summer magical.
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Alexis Ohanian. You may know me as one of the co-founders of Reddit, but more recently, a large part of my identity is being a father to my wonderful daughters. |
0:11.0 | In my podcast, Business Dad, I hope to open the conversation about |
0:15.1 | working parents a bit. You'll get to hear from a wide range of business dads, |
0:18.8 | from Rain Wilson and Guy Raz to Todd Carmichael and Shane Batier to find out how they balance being a dad with a successful career. |
0:28.0 | Business dad is available now, so be sure to listen to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. From PRX, this is the moth radio hour. I'm your host Jody Powell. |
0:55.0 | In this hour, we'll be listening to stories of moments of TLC, moments of |
1:00.8 | receiving or giving care that ultimately translates to love. |
1:05.0 | Self-care has become a bit of a buzzword recently, |
1:09.0 | but there's something to it. |
1:11.0 | A moment to set aside time to see to yourself, to press pause on your |
1:16.0 | watch even when no one else around wants to. Our first story comes from Frida Visell. |
1:24.0 | Frida told this at our played against Slam, |
1:27.0 | a night where we celebrate stories we've heard, |
1:30.0 | loved and wanted you to hear to. |
1:32.0 | This was told in New York City where double- loved and wanted you to hear too. |
1:32.6 | This was told in New York City, where |
1:34.8 | WNYC is a media partner of the moth. |
1:38.0 | Here's Frida. |
1:39.8 | Enjoy. So I grew up in the Southmar Hasidic community, which is a segment of Orthodox Judaism that is very concerned with preserving traditions from before the holocaust. |
1:57.0 | And one of the customs that my grandparents brought to the United States when they came here |
2:01.6 | after World War II as refugees was the tradition that |
2:04.8 | married women shaved their heads and kept it shaved for life. Another tradition |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Moth, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Moth and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.