The Moth Radio Hour: You Gone Learn

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this hour, stories of education, illumination, or just being schooled. The lessons learned from communities new and old, on top of a glacier, and from children. This episode is hosted by Moth host Jon Goode. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.

Hosted by: Jon Goode

Storytellers:

Dan Souza teaches English and learns about Hungarian karaoke.

Jen Rubin plans to be spontaneous.

Matty Struski learns about resiliency, and slides.

Diane Harari learns that piano recitals are child's play.

Burnell Cotlon returns to the Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina to rebuild the community he loves.

Transcript

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0:00.0	From PRX, this is the Moth Radio Hour.
0:16.5	I'm your host John Good, and there's one thing I know to be true every day.
0:21.4	I learned something new.
0:23.4	Here are three things I've learned recently.
0:25.4	Number one, not long ago I ate at a Michelin Star restaurant, and I learned that the reason
0:30.5	is called a Michelin Star is because the meal costs as much as new tigers.
0:35.1	Number two, if a person in New Orleans comes up to you at three in the morning on Bourbon
0:40.2	Street and asks if you want to see something, the answer is no.
0:44.6	The answer is always no.
0:47.6	And number three, all of life is a teacher, and we are but humble students.
0:52.6	In this hour, we bring you five stories where our story tells us learn a little or a big
0:57.5	something along the way.
1:00.5	Our first story comes from Dan Sousa.
1:02.8	He told us that a story slam in Boston will be partnered with PRX and public radio station
1:07.9	WBUR.
1:08.9	Here's Dan.
1:09.9	Live at the Moth.
1:10.9	Thank you.
1:11.9	So when I graduated college, I didn't want to work.
1:26.7	I just didn't want a job.
1:27.8	So I did what I thought at the time was the smartest thing possible.
1:34.6	And that was to go teach English in a rural town in Hungary about 30 minutes from Romania
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