Brian there on WNYC.

Next Friday night I'll be hosting a Moth storytelling event at the Skirball Center at NYU.

It's part of the Moth series of events this year called American Dreams,

as the country celebrates its 250th anniversary. This particular evening is called,

What Are We Fighting For? There's double meeting in that title. We'll talk about it.

Storytellers will include a few people you may know, like Reverend Jackie Lewis, a multiple

times guest on this show, senior pastor at Middle Church in the East Village, and New York One

anchor Cheryl Willes, as well as others. So let's talk about the event, the larger series,

and the moth itself, at more than 25 years old now, with Kate Teller, storyteller, host, and director of their

Moth Works arm, which takes storytelling out of theaters and into workplaces and elsewhere.

And she is co-author with other Moth leaders of the 2022-2020 book, How to Tell a Story, The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from the Moth.

Kate, great to have you. Thanks for coming on.

Thank you so much for having me, Brian.

And I'll assume that a lot of our listeners, because there's been so much moth content on the station and on public radio,

know basically what it is. So tell us about your American

Dream series of Moth events this year. Are you doing this around the country? Yeah. So around the

country in the spring, the theme of our shows is American Dreams. And as you just said, each of the

American Dream show have their own subset, since there's many ways to divide,

to define and think about the American Dream. So we're excited to have you there for this one.

Yeah, our theme will be under the title, What Are We Fighting for? It'll be five stories of

reconciliation of one kind or another. One of your colleagues chose that title, and I think it's brilliant

for its double meeting. What are we fighting for as keeping your eye on the ball of fighting

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