Popular Reviews of The Moth

Sometimes worthwhile stories, but not as indie as the description makes it out to be. The stories that make it to the show are often by celebrity-ish figures which doesn't always equate to good storytellers. Production is radio quality at best.3/5 dusty butterflies

Love the podcast. As of lately I feel it's moved a bit too much from storytelling to matters of identity.

The first several years of this podcast were excellent. After Lea Thau left, the show gradually started to change. It became a little less surprising, more family-friendly, and a lot less raw. It's still a perfectly good storytelling show though.

I really love the format and storytelling of this podcast. Really cool to hear regular people's stories, and makes me miss going to the local MOTH nights.

We at the PDS love a good story telling podcast and well the Moth is a great one. There's a story for everyone on this show. If you listen long enough you will laugh, you will cry, and you will feel all the emotions between because this is a great show.

Interesting content

Just not what I wanted to listen to in a podcast. Not really into other people's drama.

As a long time listener and live show attendee, I’ve supported The Moth because of the real and unscripted stories people shared. Every episode or show it would be a mystery as to who and what we were going to hear, and whether sad or uplifting, we knew the journey would at least take us somewhere new.But with the evolution of the show, the the liberal bias of the production has become so skewed that the content selected from producers seems nothing more than a tired, contrived slant on a narrative - exactly the thing I came to The Moth to get away from.After hearing a forced “free” promotion for something call the Confession podcast embedded into an episode, I realized I had enough of this homogenized, unoriginal content and will unsubscribe. It’s not the storytellers - I’ve been to several live shows and they are as wonderful and inspiring as ever - it’s the production of the show and its capitulation to what probably amounts to nothing more than better numbers.Bottom line, The Moth has enough daring to repeatedly diminish and ridicule anyone or anything even daring to espouse conservative or religious values, but doesn’t have the conviction to actually make a stance on where they stand, which I would at least have respect for. If you really want new, original content that comes across unapologetically raw and unbent (without awkwardly trying to feel ‘edgy’), then I recommend listening to Risk, a much better podcast.

Excellent live sorry story-telling keeps me coming back to this podcast. I truly appreciate what The Moth does to keep the oral story tradition going strong!

Great show with illuminating, amusing, entertaining, tear jerking and amazing stories.