The Moth Radio Hour: Under The Gun

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this hour, three stories about times we come across guns in our lives. An aspiring writer tries to land a job with Hunter S. Thompson; a dental student travels to a dangerous Colombian town to finish her residency; and a music artist comes face to face with military police. Hosted by The Moth's Senior Director Meg Bowles. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.

Hosted by: Meg Bowles

Storytellers:

Cheryl Della Pietra gets acquainted with gun-toting Hunter S. Thompson.

Martha Ruiz Perilla is asked to save a life or lose her own.

Boots Riley is trying to get home, but runs into problems on a naval base in San Francisco.

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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0:33.7	Text moth22 no spaces to 41444 to make your gift and help provide the space
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.
0:59.9	From PRX this is the moth radio hour. I'm Meg Bulls and in this hour
1:03.6	We have three stories from our main stage events in all three stories a gun makes an appearance and each story
1:10.3	Illustrates a different perspective different situations where guns come into play the stories deal with mature and sometimes violent subject matter
1:17.8	So just a word of caution before we get started
1:22.6	If you're a frequent listener to this radio hour
1:24.9	You've probably heard me mention before that a few years ago my family and I relocated from New York City to a small town in southern Sweden
1:32.1	I traveled to the US frequently from moth events and on one of my trips back to the States
1:36.7	I was struck by something people always joke about Americans and their guns
1:40.9	But I'd never really noticed what a starring role guns play in popular culture
1:45.4	I remember sitting in a cab in New York City in a bus pass with this huge picture of Tom Cruise holding a gun and after that
1:52.3	I started to notice all these different ads for movies and TV shows featuring guns
1:56.1	It's like when you start to notice something you can't stop seeing it
2:00.1	When guns make an appearance in a moth story the experience people have with them differs wildly
2:05.3	Whether someone's describing the feeling of having a gun held to their head or that time they had a hilarious afternoon shooting clay pigeons
2:12.6	Or perhaps they served in the military and went to war but the difference is
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