The Moth Radio Hour: Who's Got Your Back?

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In this hour, stories of support systems and the people we depend on. In elementary school band, during medical events, and in the midst of a dangerous escape. This episode is hosted by Moth Senior Director Meg Bowles. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media. Storytellers: Ryan Roe's father proves instrumental at a school concert. Eldon Smith struggles to connect to his girlfriend's kids. Silke Nied's family hatches a plan to escape East Germany. Bryn Durgin becomes her father's caregiver. Podcast # 921 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	If I get my kid a phone, I'll be able to keep in touch with them all the time.
0:02.8	We'll be on it all the time.
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1:15.3	This is The Moth Radio Hour.
1:17.3	I'm your host, Meg Bowles.
1:19.9	Who has your back?
1:22.0	Who are the people you lean on?
1:26.0	For many, that job falls to family, biological or chosen.
1:32.4	In this hour, stories of relationships that see us through, the people who stand by us and keep us out of harm's way.
1:35.3	Our first story comes from Ryan Rowe.
1:37.7	He told it at a mainstage event we produced in Philadelphia.
1:41.3	Live from the Kimmel Cultural Campus, here's Ryan Rowe.
1:49.5	When I was in fourth grade, that's when we as students could pick an instrument to take
1:54.8	lessons in and play in the school band.
1:58.3	And I chose the trombone for two reasons. The first one was that there was this
2:03.3	cute girl named Jessica who told me that she was going to play the saxophone. And I had heard
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