So... last night's story changed DYNAMICALLY because of the Audience, which is the fun of telling stories to people, they can change Dynamically.

I was going to wear my fishing hat as usual, in-part because of a signature for an outdoors canoeing story, and in-part because of insecurity because the story has me as a "hippie type with long hair" which might be hard to picture... because of my being (bald and old ).

But there was a previous great story about hiking and being old, and the audience where laughing and engaged, and it was too too hot on stage, so I left the hat, it just suddenly grabbed me that ... I needed to address this insecurity, speak directly to it... so called it out in the story "I was young with long hippy hair, which is hard to imagine now" and it broke the ice nicely. I know that it also breaks the 4th wall between me and the audience which you should never do, but it was fun, and worked great!!!

Here this and other great tales, the 10/29 TTL show was Awesome!