That was Dan Kennedy. Dan is one of the original developers of the Moth Podcast and a longtime host and performer at the Moth. He's the author of three books, Loser goes first, Rock on, and American Spirit, and co-creator of the new comedy fiction podcast, K-P-O-D-D 101.3, with maximum fund network's Benjamin R. Harrison. K-P-O-D-D is available wherever you get your podcasts. Also if you're wondering, yes, Dan and his girlfriend are still together and they now live in Upstate New York. Our next story is from Ophira Eisenberg. Since her story doesn't involve setting off fireworks, feel free to recreate it at home. She told this while hosting a Moth mainstage in Terri Town, New York, where the theme of the night was, there's a place for us. I think it's a place for us

to see. Growing up in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Yeah, woo, woo, interesting. I couldn't wait to leave. You either, actually, if you're here. I just didn't feel like if Calgary, Alberta, it's cowboys and it's the prairies, a lot of oil money. I did not feel like I fit in. I kept fantasizing and over their place to go. And honestly, I didn't know exactly what it was. I was, of course, as a child obsessed with Sesame Street, so I suppose it was Queens. And eventually, I was very scared. I was very scared to move to New York or really just anywhere outside of the country. But then I went to college in Canada, but I had a friend who went to college in New York. And she said, come visit, come visit, not understanding that when most people say that, they don't mean it. And I decided to come visit her as a 25-year-old. I said, I'm going to come for New Year's Eve. I know. It's so naive. You do not bombard someone's apartment in New York for New Year's Eve. I mean, New Year's Eve, as anyone who lives around here anyways, is daunting, right? And I knew that she was going to feel excited to have me. I didn't know that she was going to feel the pressure of having to figure out what we would do if I came. But I was 25-years-old. Honestly, we could have done anything. And I would have thought it was fabulous. But when I got to meet her at her place, she lived in a dorm near the East Village. And she said that we had an invitation to a party. She was like, God's invitation to a New Year's party. I was like, oh, my goodness, we're going to a party in New York. This is amazing. She let me borrow some of her clothes because mine were not good enough.