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The Moth Radio Hour: The Love Hurts SLAM
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.
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The Moth Radio Hour: The Love Hurts SLAM
This is the Moth Radio Hour. I'm Jennifer Hickson. It was February of 2009. Daisy Rosario showed up at our Love Hurts Story Slam at the New Eurekan Poets Cafe in New York City, put her name in the hat, and got picked. She told a story that became the heart of this longer version you're about to hear now. Here's Daisy Rosario.
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The Moth Radio Hour: The Love Hurts SLAM
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.
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The Moth Radio Hour: The Love Hurts SLAM
That was Daisy Rosario. Daisy was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She's an executive producer of original content at Stitcher and frequent contributor to NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour. Daisy is still close with her brother. Although they live on opposite coasts, they try to see each other as often as possible. With the addition of twin boys, Daisy now has three nephews.
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The Moth Radio Hour: The Love Hurts SLAM
To see a picture of Daisy with her brother the weekend they first met, visit themoth.org. Coming up, more Love Hurts stories, one involving Star Trek and another about trans life in a small town, when the Moth Radio Hour continues.
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The Moth Radio Hour: The Love Hurts SLAM
You're listening to the Moth Radio Hour. I'm Jennifer Hickson. We're celebrating Love Hurts slam stories. This next one is from Asheville, North Carolina, where we partner with Blue Ridge Mountain Radio. Here's Gary Sizer.
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The Moth Radio Hour: The Love Hurts SLAM
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.
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The Moth Radio Hour: The Love Hurts SLAM
That was Andrew Brown, Dr. Andrew Brown. He's now a specialist in interventional radiology. His wife Andrea is a teacher and educational consultant. I got a note from Andrea, who reports that Andrew is, quote, a fantastic husband and a doting father of two. She says they're no longer rivals, but a fierce team.
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The Moth Radio Hour: The Love Hurts SLAM
To see a picture of Andrew and Andrea at their wedding, visit themoth.org, where you can also see the video clip of the awards ceremony that left Andrew so ticked off. Next up, we hear a story from Josh Arnold at the Love Hurts Story Slam in Kentucky, where we partner with Louisville Public Media. For this story, you should know two things.
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The Moth Radio Hour: The Love Hurts SLAM
The chair Josh refers to is a wheelchair, and an altar call is when a person is called up to the altar at church to receive blessings. Here's Josh Arnold.
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The Moth Radio Hour: The Love Hurts SLAM
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.
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The Moth Radio Hour: The Love Hurts SLAM
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.
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The Moth Radio Hour: The Love Hurts SLAM
That was Josh Arnold. And I just want to pull out a quote from his story because it's so perfect for this Love Hurts theme. The biggest way to show somebody love is to tell them the truth. Thank you, Josh. Do you have a story about the beauty or pain of love or sometimes all together wrapped up in one? Well, we want to hear it.
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The Moth Radio Hour: The Love Hurts SLAM
We have a pitch line and we encourage you to call it and leave us a message. You can pitch us your love heard story by recording it right on our site, themoth.org or call 877-799-MOTH. That's 877-799-6684. The best pitches are developed for moth shows all around the world. When we return, a story about meeting a close family member for the very first time at a funeral.