Been washing, and brewing, and cooking, and pulling weeds.
It was under the "weed pulling" that your SOLUTION came to across the prairee like a jackalope pronged by a horn-twisted antelope.
Your audience NEEDS A REASON to LISTEN.
It is the "hook" the "lead-in" into the tale - EVERY member of your audience needs to have the experience that "you are talking directly to them, personally, one-on-one."
Think of the lead-in from Radio Drama.
Cremation of Sam Magee - "Think back, for most of you it will be far, far back into filtered fantoms of your mind, the kind of thoughts you hoped you left far, far, far behind....to a promise made....5 years, 10 years, 20 years, 40 years, 60 years.....a paper you you would turn in, 50 cents you forgot to return from the change, a message left undelivered.....dig, dig, dig, deep, I want you to bring up some small , minute trivia, a gas tank left unfilled, a Salvation Army Kettle passed with the promise to return....remember, feel it, Doctor Laura of the Radio would say, 'now go out and do right.' For those who have lived with guilt, Guilt, GUILT.....they KNOW it has a code of its own.....
Etc.
(interrupted) - to logo, no later,
Sincerely,
Gargoyle