Welcome to our gathering tonight. Here we share stories of ordinary people who have experienced extraordinary things.

Sit back, relax and warm yourself by Jim Herald's campfire.

Welcome to Jim Herald's campfire. So glad to be with you. Happy New Year everybody.

And I hope for those who celebrated you had a fantastic Christmas. I know mine was a lot of fun and just great memories.

Just great memories. And looking forward to 2023. You know, it's funny. I used to not look forward to the New Year.

I used to get depressed after the holiday season was over.

But now I think with the business and with doing the podcast, I look at the New Year as a way to look at how we did good things, bringing you the content, how we can improve.

And we definitely have some plans for 2023. Not only with this show, but with all of our efforts, some things will move around and change.

But the good news is you're here for campfire. That is not going to change.

It has been proven over time that you guys love this show. Now I always try to get better.

But campfire is campfire still 90 minutes every weekend. Looking back and I think that's appropriate too.

We look forward to 2023, but we look back and every year I'd like to do a look back to some of our favorite stories.

You know, we get so many stories that there are few favorites that I I missed out on and we weren't able to include. But and this is a great episode to share with a friend.

This is what you can expect because this is the cream of the crop.

And they get really get a sense for the kind of stories that we bring forth each and every week with our great storytellers.

So I'll not belabor the point any longer. Happy New Year, everybody. And let's get back to some of our favorite stories from 2022.

Marty is on the line and she is going to tell us a story about an interesting trip down to New Orleans. She's calling in today from Texas.

She says that one of her favorite things to do along with her son is on road trips to listen to the campfire. So Harrison, thank you for listening and stay spooky and listen to mom. Listen to mom.

Marty, welcome to the show. Thank you for joining us and tell us about this trip to a wedding in New Orleans and seem to come with something a little bit extra.

Yes, that's right. Jim, thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure.

So this was back in 2012. I fiance at the time went to a family wedding. We were invited to a family wedding out in New Orleans.

And Jim would tell you this is a family wedding. This was a just a wedding in the reception. It was like a five day long vacation event.

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