This week, a special episode of The Moth, live from a Mainstage show in London. Stories of going "All In" — in a new town, in an icy lake, and on the paintball course. This live show is hosted by Tiff Stevenson with additional hosting by Moth Senior Director Meg Bowles. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media. Storytellers: Kate Oliver remembers what it was like to be a "weird, androgynous, nerdy" teenager. Navied Mahdavian and his wife try to build a community in a new town. A difficult period leads Catherine Joy White back to a childhood passion. Podcast # 911 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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This is the Moth Radio Hour. I'm Meg Bowles. And today we're taking you to London for a live main stage show. Now imagine you're sitting in a darkened Gothic revival style church. The sun is setting through the stained glass windows. Candles illuminate the eaves.
The wooden pews are packed and the energy is buzzing as our audience awaits an evening of stories on the theme of taking a leap and going all in. Live from the Union Chapel in London, here's your host for the evening, actor, comedian, and writer, Tiff Stevenson.
How beautiful. Welcome to The Moth. Hello, I'm your host, Tiff Stevenson. I'm local and cheap. Also, a sexually confident woman in my 40s. Yeah! The men are, like, frightening. People are frightened of sexually confident women in their 40s. It's what I went as for Halloween last year. People were like, hideous, kill it. Who's been to the moth before? Let me hear you cheer.
A few of you, about half, I would say. If you've never been to the Moth, let me tell you about the Moth. It's non-profit. Excellent. It's storytelling. It's first-person storytelling.
And we have storytellers coming up tonight telling true stories, personal stories from their lives because the Moth believes that building community and empathy through storytelling is more important than ever before. Yes. I think that's a beautiful sentiment. The storytellers will use no notes, no cheat sheets. We have three stories. This is how it's going to run.
Tell you how the night's going to go. We have three stories and a break where you can go to the bar. Yeah, see, that's how you know you're in the UK and not America. People will cheer going to the bar as a part of the evening. And tonight's theme for the show is all in. That's the theme for tonight's show. Stories about going all in, like the time I went to Paris. I went all in on mezcal.
I drank a lot of it. In fact, I was still throwing up on the way to the Eurostar the next day. I walked up to the desk, having done a little puke in a bin. I'm very classy. Let's get that out of the way. And as I walked up to the desk, the man behind the check-in counter said, is it contagious? Yes. I said, sorry, what? He said, what is making you sick? Is it contagious?
And I had to say, no, I did this to myself. It's beautiful, beautiful. So as I introduce our storytellers tonight, I like to introduce them with a little bit of a question to get you into the mood and the vibe of the evening. And because it's me, I've asked a question about fashion. I like to know when our storytellers have gone all in on fashion.
You know, I've gone all in on fashion plenty of times. There was the time I bought fingerless gloves and thought they were a good idea. Yes, exactly. Fingerless gloves, not a good idea. Not combined with a shawl. In London, when it's foggy. As I said, I asked everyone a question before this, and our first storyteller said, when she went all in on fashion, she said, I have to dress up for work.
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