Welcome to The Moth: A Family Circus

The Lazy Genius Podcast

Kendra Adachi

Arts, Education

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

We're excited to bring you a hilarious and heartwarming episode of The Moth, A Family Circus. On this episode, you’ll hear two stories all about the hectic, maddening, hair-pulling side of raising kids. Mary Lea Carroll tries to figure out how her mom raised so many children without absolutely losing it. PT Smith learns the true meaning of fatherhood. Every week, The Moth’s podcast feed presents episodes of the Peabody-Award Winning Moth Radio Hour and original episodes of The Moth Podcast. Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of true stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth storytellers stand alone, under a spotlight, with only a microphone and a roomful of strangers. The storyteller and the audience embark on a high-wire act of shared experience which is both terrifying and exhilarating. Since 2008, The Moth podcast has featured many of our favorite stories told live on Moth stages around the country. 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	Hello, lazy genius listeners. I have got something a little different in the feed for you today that I'm so excited to share, and that is the Moth podcast.
0:09.4	You might be familiar with The Moth. It has been around forever. It is a critically acclaimed series where regular people are suddenly storytellers standing alone on a stage under a spotlight with only a microphone
0:23.1	and a room full of strangers to hear what they have to say.
0:26.6	Every week, The Moth presents stories that are funny, strange, heartbreaking, and above all, true.
0:33.8	I want to share an episode with you today titled A Family Circus. You'll hear two heartwarming,
0:40.0	hilarious, and very relatable stories all about the hectic, maddening, hair-pulling side of raising
0:46.2	kids. I laughed. I felt very seen hearing fellow mothers talk about the chaos of motherhood
0:51.3	in this unique setting, and I really think you're going to enjoy it. And for more stories from The Moth, follow the Moth podcast anywhere you get your podcasts.
0:59.2	Take a listen. Do you want to hear something fun? Yeah, do you want to hear something fun?
1:04.2	Yeah. So when I'm testing the equipment, the question I always ask every single time is, what did you have for breakfast?
1:12.6	So, what did you have for breakfast?
1:14.6	I don't have muffins.
1:17.6	Oh, muffins. What flavor were they?
1:20.6	I don't get banana chocolate chip.
1:23.6	Banana chocolate chip.
1:25.6	That sounds really, really good.
1:27.6	I wish I had banana chocolate chip muffins for my...
1:30.0	Welcome to the Moth podcast.
1:31.8	I'm Kate Tellers, your host for this episode.
1:34.9	A little bit ago, we had a take your child to workday here at the Moth.
1:39.3	There were about seven children in total, including my two little ones.
1:43.2	And I had a lot of fun planning.
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