The Moth Radio Hour: Unexpected Community

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this hour, stories of finding your people—on the basketball court, behind the bar, or on the street. This episode is hosted by Moth Director Chloe Salmon. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.

Storytellers:

At the age of 50, Harwood Taylor returns to basketball with a new team.

Julia Cadieux's college bartending job isn't what she expected.

Sandra Kwawu finds comfort in a celebration with her friends and family.

When Jose Faus is commissioned to paint a mural, he finds inspiration all around him.

Transcript

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0:00.0	From PierX, X, this is the Moth Radio Hour. I'm your host, Chloe Salmon.
0:18.2	Living in a city as big and busy as New York, I see hundreds of people a day who I know I'll never
0:25.4	said eyes on again.
0:27.3	Most of the time we pass each other by without a second thought, but sometimes I'll find a
0:32.3	meaningful connection where I least expect it.
0:35.0	The construction worker who saw me standing in tears next to my bookcase that was too large to fit through my new building store
0:42.0	and offered to cut it down on the spot. that was too large to fit through my new building store
0:42.9	and offered to cut it down on the spot with his power saw.
0:46.9	The woman who gave me her umbrella during a downpour
0:49.6	when she saw that mine had broken.
0:52.0	The man who stole my wallet and I kid you not, promptly
0:55.6	returned it to me upon seeing how pathetic and so weary I looked after an
0:59.7	exhausting night at work. Even though I'll probably never see any of those folks again, the brief
1:05.8	moments we shared made an impact on me. And in this big and busy city, I think of
1:11.8	them as friends.
1:13.8	In this episode, stories of unexpected communities and the people who make them, whether they're
1:19.8	in our lives for a second or a season. our first story is from
1:24.0	story is from Harwood Taylor who told it at a story slam in Houston where we
1:30.5	partner with public radio station HPM.
1:34.0	A note that this story contains a mention of suicide.
1:38.0	Here's Harwood live at the moth.
1:40.0	So I love basketball and I've loved it since I was 13 and I was a St. Anne's fighting
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