This is the Moth Radio Hour.
I'm Sarah Austin Janess.
This time, we have a live main stage show from New York City.
We remember details from our lives through our senses.
A particular song will bring back stories.
A smell will help you time travel to a turning point in your life.
Sense memories are the building blocks of stories.
And so, here's our host for the night, Julian Goldhagen.
a social worker and a theater artist, live at The Moth in New York City's Greenwich Village.
All right!
Welcome to The Moth Main Stage at the NYU Skirball Center!
Wow.
So tonight's theme is Gimme Five, Stories of the Senses.
And I'm thrilled to sort of like go on this journey through the senses with you this evening.
And I'm thrilled to bring our first storyteller up to the stage.
Are we ready?
So another Moth tradition is that we always bring our storytellers to the stage by way of an introductory question.
So the question that I asked everybody was, what was the last time you came to your senses?
Our first storyteller said, on the way here this afternoon,
he was gently nudged by a box truck while riding his city bike down 7th Avenue.