Against the odds, animal-loving kid Steve Zimmer attempts to rescue tadpoles in jeopardy.
An aging yuppie from the midwest, Steve Zimmer was originally an academic economist and is currently a programmer, but not before working 5 years in an NYU immunology lab. Steve began attending the Moth in 2004 and telling stories in 2006. He is a past Grandslam winner.
This story originally aired on December 2, 2014.
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