This is the Moth Radio Hour.
I'm Jay Allison, producer of this radio show,
and I'll be your host for this episode about our fathers,
grandfathers, stepfathers, and our first story about becoming a dad yourself,
a moment that's transformative for most men.
It's the moment you join the generational flow when you play an actual role in the continuity of the species.
And you discover the wild love that, as it turns out,
was lying dormant, waiting for that moment of birth to flame into being.
Before you get there, though, there's the actual process of birth to go through.
Admittedly, quite a bit easier for men than for women,
but for some, like our next storyteller, still a challenge.
Here's Andrew Postman from a moth show with the theme Guts, Stories from the Razor's Edge.
I was 18 the first time I fainted.
My cousin's bris.
He was eight days old, and he was to be circumcised.
It was summer, very hot, an overcrowded room,
and someone pushed a movie camera into my hands and told me to film it.
For some reason, I listened, And I put my finger on the Zoom button.
And as the moil was about to do his business,
I remember hearing my mother call out to my father and say, Neil, catch him.