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    REM, car wrecks and the circus

    We explore What Went Wrong: a dad gets chummy with a rock star and causes havoc, a childhood trauma shapes a super model’s outlook and The Big Apple Circus imports communist acrobats...at the height of the cold war.

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    Sep 4, 2016 • 1 min read

    • Gordon Edelstein befriends a member of the band REM and unwittingly gets him into serious legal trouble.

    • Padma Lakshmi has an accident on the way home from the hospital that gives her a giant scar on her arm.

    • Paul Binder (pictured), founder of The Big Apple Circus, imports some amazing acrobats from communist China during turbulent times.

    Hosted by The Moth’s Artistic Director, Catherine Burns.

    Learn more or listen to this week's episode.

    Photo: Jason Falchook

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