A special Moth Radio Hour with stories originating from our annual "Love Hurts" StorySLAM. Love lost, love found, unwanted spotlights and the family we choose. This episode is hosted by Moth Senior Director Jenifer Hixson. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media. Storytellers: Andrew Brown comes face to face with his academic nemesis. Joshua Arnold dreads being singled out during altar call. Daisy Rosario meets her brother for the first time at their father's funeral. Gary Sizer shares a love of Star Trek with his step father.. Antoinette Thorne, a trans woman, is recognized by her father in a small town. Podcast # 721 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 Jennifer Hickson. The first Moth Story Slam was in 2001, and we are still going strong. There's different themes and different hosts in different cities. A lot has changed. A lot continues to change. But one thing stays the same.
Every February, as a sort of answer to Valentine's Day or an alt-Valentine's Day, we put on shows all over the country with the theme, Love Hurts. Now, maybe it sounds to you like it would be a huge bummer, but somehow it's not. Yes, people bring stories of heartbreak and good love gone wrong and being crushed and kicked to the curb, all of that. But it's always somehow a lot of fun, too.
The math of love always switches things around. You lose, but then, lo and behold, you find again. We always enjoy the interpretations of our themes, and in this hour, we'll hear five stories all born in February at a Love Hurts Story Slam. Our first story was told at the Love Hurts Story Slam in Boston, where we partner with PRX and WBUR. Little inside baseball.
At our storytelling competitions, people sign up to tell, but there are often more wannabe tellers than there are slots. So as a rule, we only hear 10 stories. After those 10 stories are told, we have all the people who didn't get a chance come up and give their first lines. But every once in a while, there aren't three or eight extra names in the hat, but just one extra.
And if the audience gets wind of it, well, just listen to how our Boston host handles it. Here's Jeremy Brothers trying to keep the Boston crowd at bay. And then after that, the 11th storyteller, Andrew Brown.
Let's welcome up right now the person who didn't get to tell his story tonight so that we can just hear the first sentence. Please welcome up Andrew Brown. Andrew Brown. Thank you. Yes. The first sentence of Love Hurts from Andrew Brown.
This story goes out to my wife, who I love very much, and encouraged me to come up and tell my story.
Oh. That's so sweet, but it's also such a tease. Cause that's not the first story. That's like the, that's the prelude. Well, you know, assault him in the front room. All right, Andrew, get on up here. Oh my God. It's a moth first. We're doing 11 stories. This one is not counting toward the judging. All right. Andrew will tell his story right now. We'll do the judging.
Look, we're completely off book with the running order tonight. Give it up one more time.
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