This week on The Moth Radio Hour: stories of beef! Petty grievances to full blown rivalries. At work, over the phone, and, of course, online. This episode is hosted by Moth Director Chloe Salmon. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media. Storytellers: Lori Tucker-Sullivan begins getting a series of strange phone calls. 18 year old Morgan Balavage is betrayed by a friend/coworker. Matthew Trenda gets into a war of words with an internet stranger. Diego Aguirre finds it difficult to be both angry at the world and a dog owner. Podcast # 903 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 your host, Chloe Salmon. Nothing captures the heart and the mind quite like a good beef. I'm not talking the deli counter variety. I'm talking grievances, rivalries, grudges. Now, do I generally advocate for negativity and chaos? No. But I'll admit it. Something about the technicolor drama of a good feud has me reaching for my popcorn every time.
And I know it's not just me. Tales of bad blood and petty squabbles have entertained us all for centuries. So in this episode, stories of bringing and slinging beef and the highs and lows we can find in the fight. Our first story comes to us from Lori Tucker Sullivan. She told it at a story slam in Detroit where we partnered with public radio station WDET. Here's Lori live at the Moth.
Okay, so in the summer of 2010, my husband Kevin was in the hospital dying of cancer, a stage four diagnosis. He had tumors that were in his lungs and in his spine, and the ones in his lungs we had treated successfully, but the ones in his spine didn't respond to treatment, and so he'd had surgery. And the first surgery went pretty well, but the second surgery did not.
And it rendered him a quadriplegic. So he was in the hospital for about 50 days. And during that time, we also had two kids. Our daughter was in middle school and our son had just graduated from high school and was getting ready to leave for college. I was still working and we had a house and all of this other stuff, life that was going on.
So my day would consist of getting up around 9 or 10 in the morning and getting the kids ready and figuring out who was going to care for them and who was going to feed them and how they were going to make it through the day. Then I would go off to the hospital and I would stay with him until about 9.30 at night.
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