Harold Cox

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251 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 14 Jul

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The Moth · Truth and Consequences: The Moth Radio Hour · 27 Jan 2026 podcast

My mother was a homemaker, and she was also the woman who made the cookies and other stuff, whatever you cook, for our school.

She made this for my class as well as for my brother and sister's classes as well.

And my father was a minister.

He had lots of advice that he liked to give.

He would often say, I would rather be two hours early than 30 seconds late.

I heard this almost every day.

And he also said, if you tell the truth, the truth will set you free.

All right, good words to live by.

In addition to this, I was, well, truth to be told,

I was a dramatic kid.

And I learned that if you got sick, that there were certain things that you might not need to do.

So what I did is I learned the fine art of passing out.

I used to faint so that if I didn't want to go to school, I fainted.

If I didn't want to take the test, I fainted.

If I didn't want to go to church, I fainted.

If I didn't want to go outside and play basketball and football, two things that I absolutely hated, I fainted.

Fainting was my superpower.

Now the only other thing I should probably tell you is that I was then and I probably still am now an explorer.

So one afternoon, I'm 12 years old, I'm home alone, there's nobody else at home.

I go in and I get the key to my father's brand new metallic blue Buick LeSabre.

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