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The Moth Podcast
April 8, 2014

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05:23
Tackle Football Birthday Party

by Julian Goldhagen

A boy who loves Barbies is terrified at the thought of playing tackle football. 

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The Moth Podcast
April 1, 2014

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The Moth Radio Hour
Korea, Colons, Pickups and Pranks

A life-changing email arrives from an almost-stranger; a single man ventures into a gay bar in Greenwich Village in the 1970’s; an adoptee fears rejection by her birth family in Korea; and a newlywed’s stomach ache turns life threatening.

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The Moth Podcast
March 4, 2014

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The Moth Radio Hour
Paul Bowles, Exile, and a Bar Mitzvah

A boy's Bar Mitzvah becomes a family battle ground, three literary pilgrims search for the author Paul Bowles in Morocco, and a novelist decides that the only way to cure her writer's block is to block out the world.

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07:40
Here We Are

by Mindy Nettifee

The daughter of a gay man adjusts to intolerance in her new town. 

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The Moth Radio Hour
Pornography, Divinity and Mercy

A father of twin teenage boys finds the internet a scary place for impressionable minds; a woman circles back to appreciate her strict minister grandfather; and a man strives to grant forgiveness after a devastating loss.

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The Moth Radio Hour
Bulls, Bikes, Bullets, Brother

A college student goes running with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain; the complications of bicycle shopping; warning signs on a Match.com date; family secrets; and surviving the Khmer Rouge.

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12:25
A Little More Every Day

by Nicole Kear

Nicole Kear comes to terms with her degenerative blindness. 

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The Moth Radio Hour
Firemen, Bourbon, and Bathhouses

A literary woman sparks a romance with a New York City fireman, Jim Beam's great-grandson describes growing up under the watchful eye of his famous Kentucky bourbon family, and a father and son battle liberal guilt in a sauna.

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The Moth Radio Hour
Cops, Dumpster Diving and Mental Illness

A tough New York City cop gets a small, fluffy dog; a college student tries dumpster diving; a Brooklyn mom has to deviate from her birth plan; and a surfer contends with his wife’s deep depression.

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The Moth Podcast
January 7, 2014

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The Moth Podcast
December 31, 2013

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The Moth Podcast
December 24, 2013

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The Moth Radio Hour
Literary Scandals & Fraud

Laura Albert, better known as J.T. LeRoy, details her side of what became a major literary scandal and a case of credit card fraud sets an amateur sleuth on a crime-solving caper.

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The Moth Podcast
December 10, 2013

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The Moth Podcast
November 26, 2013

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The Moth Podcast
November 19, 2013

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The Moth Podcast
November 12, 2013

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