This is the Moth Radio Hour.
I'm your host, Sarah Austin-Genez.
This episode was recorded live at our Moth Main Stage at Symphony Space in New York City.
What you're hearing is the Honk Family Band, a community band based in New York.
They have a brassy New Orleans feel, and they play world music,
and 30 members of the band opened this show by walking down the aisles of the theater,
playing this song.
The host for this event is a writer, entrepreneur,
and activist who flew in from Johannesburg to MC for us.
Here's Nolo Mocoena, live at the Moth.
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome to the Moth.
I'm your cousin from the Moth family all the way in South Africa.
I know there's another South African here.
I heard a cheer.
Today's theme is actually fantastic.
It's called the audacity.
Global stories of being daring.
Think about the world we live in today where doing the most ordinary human things we've fought to do can be seen as daring.
Listening to someone with a different political opinion is daring.