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Episode 20 - Leather Celebration
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Bawdy Storytelling celebrates TEN YEARS of live storytelling!
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Super Happy Funtime Burlesque (performer of 'I am a big Success')
Race to believe it's all the same? You wore the shoes and played the game? You always wore the proper dress in hopes you'd be a big success? You went to school and paid your dues? Held yourself to the golden rule? A giant weight from off your chest? One day you'll be a big success? Oh yes, I am a big success? Look at me mommy, I am a big success? You stay inside during nights weather? No time you're gonna make me better? No time to hang out with the rest? I've come to be a big success? I can see I've crossed my T and my big eye? I can clearly see the road that lies in front of me? Success is coming straight for me? Oh yes, I am a big success? Look at me mommy, I am a big success.
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Dixie de La Tour
Hey y'.
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Audience/Interjections
All.
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Dixie de La Tour
Welcome to the Bawdi Storytelling podcast. I'm sexual folklorist Dixie de La Tour and it is now March, which means that I am on the other side of our epic 10 year anniversary month. February was six shows in the San Francisco Bay area. Things that I'd always wanted to do. We did Body Slam, which is our dirty story slam where you put your name in the hat and you win kinky prizes from the stock room. We did things like the Body Songs Festival, two nights of the music that's been written for Body over the years. We did Body Got me Laid, which was an evening of story about what happened when you got off the stage or when you met somebody playing bango or a dirty bingo game or other stories that weren't told on the stage but needed to be heard. The culmination of our big 10 year anniversary month was this past Saturday night. An evening of ten storytellers on stage. Music by the incomparable Rachel Lark, who writes songs for Body Storytelling all the time. It was an evening of friends and fans, packed houses for both shows and some incredible stories. This week on the podcast we have two stories from Best of Body Storytelling. One from this most recent show just a couple days ago and one from a few years ago that is one of my favorites that I'd love for you to hear. If you like the music at the top of this episode. That is from Super Happy Funtime Burlesque. That song is called I am a big Success and it is from their new album Fuck you in the Face. You can find them on Bandcamp and you can buy their album there. We love what they do. Before we get into story, I want to tell you about something I have coming up. I would love for you to join me for this, I am doing a six week storytelling workshop. Working with storytellers is what I'm most passionate about. I love putting people on stage, but most of all, I love helping them find their story. So starting on April 3rd in San Francisco, I'm going to be doing a six week storytelling class where you get to work with me. If you don't have a story ready, we can find it together. And at the end of it, you're going to be on stage in front of a crowd getting a stage standing ovation. And that's why this class is called standing O storytelling. You thought it meant standing orgasm, didn't you? Well, that might be what it is for you, but my intention when I named the class was to call it standing ovation. But whatever works for you, I just want you there. So it's going to be a six week class working on the basics all the way through how to rock the stage and get the crowd to their feet. So it's going to be the secrets of dealing with stage fright. It's going to be how to find your story, how to make your story resonate with the audience in a way that makes them show you the love when you're ready to walk off at the end of your story. These are things that I have specialized in for the past 10 years and now I want to start working with you on your story. If you want more information on standing o storytelling, go to our website, bodystorytelling.com there's a limited number of spots in this class, so sign up as soon as possible. It's coming up soon. Well, let's get into story, shall we? This first story is from Saturday night's Best of body storytelling show. This story is one that we call Birthing Planets. And the storyteller is Shiloh McCabe.
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Audience/Interjections
Wow.
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Super Happy Funtime Burlesque (performer of 'I am a big Success')
Oh, shoot.
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Audience/Interjections
Killing me.
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Shiloh McCabe
Thank you. I want you to tell me one of your fantasies, says Max, an absolutely gorgeous butch who I have just discovered has the unique ability to make me blush and swoon and melt into a complete femme puddle with just a look. She says this with her mouth right next to my ear and I can feel her breath on my neck. And let me tell you this. When you find yourself in a hotel room with leather bondage mitts on your hands and someone is down between your legs twisting and pinching and pulling at your labia. And then this hot butch asks you your fantasy. You tell her.
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Audience/Interjections
So.
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Shiloh McCabe
I was at a challenging place in my life when I decided to go to Women's International Leather Legacy In Dallas, Texas. This is an annual kink and leather event that brings together a couple hundred folks for discussion panels and historical presentations and workshops with names like Erotic Shaving and Cigars and submissives humiliation 101. You know the basics. The reason that things were challenging for me was because there had been some shakeups in my polyamorous family. A lot of folks around me were struggling with the changes, myself included. Also my wife of 19 years. And I had just negotiated this level of like complete romantic and sexual autonomy. We could do what we want with who we want. And I think we got here because after being together for so long, we just reach a level of like comfortable stability. We know what we are to each other. And this is all really beautiful. Except that doesn't mean I know what the hell I'm doing. You see, before her I was with someone for nine years. So if you do the math, I have been coupled since puberty. I have never dated single, I've never hooked up with random people, made out with someone in the bathroom, never had a one night stand. Unless of course my wife was there or planned it for me or you know, somehow involved. So I was really having a hard time wrapping my head around this new territory. I was feeling really nervous about the whole thing. Even though I was nervous, I decided that I would fly alone to this event like a big girl. And maybe, maybe I would find someone who wanted to have fun with me. Maybe. I really didn't have a lot of confidence in my non existent game. And I was really kind of intimidated by the whole thing. I actually couldn't even settle in. When I first got there Thursday, I panicked at the thought of walking in to the hotel bar to the meet and greet. So instead I stayed in my room and watched American Pickers. Luckily, the very next morning, first class of the day, I see my friend Monica. Now Monica is awesome. She's strong, she's confident, she's kind of mischievous. But she's a caretaker. Short hair, glasses, she looks exactly what you would picture your favorite naughty aunt to look like. And Monica introduces me to her companion, Max. Max as in, oh, I can't make words with mouth right now you're looking at me. I'm blushing, Max. I was only too happy to consent when later that day, Monica says to me, you know, you're ours tonight, Shiloh. I can't say yes because Max is looking at me, but I'm nodding enthusiastically. That sounds like a plan. I would be lying if I didn't say that. You know, I Was nervous walking to their room with a toy bag slung over my shoulder later that day, nervous because I agreed to meet them in their hotel room, but I didn't ask their hotel room number. And I had texted everyone who I thought would know their hotel room number, including them. And no one's getting back to me. And pro tip, it's not a good idea to keep your tops waiting. Just. That's like, general rule there. But I persevered. I walked around their hotel floor and. And I listened at every door for Monica's distinctive voice. And I found them once I got inside, and they gave me a little shit for being late. They're sitting on the bed and I'm sitting on a chair, and we're doing some basic negotiating, you know, like, say, do you like bondage? Which is how I ended up in the midst later, you know, that I mentioned, do you want to be spanked? Do you want to be paddled? Do you like flogging? Do you want to be punched, kicked, or slapped? You know, just simple negotiation. Basic Saturday night stuff. And, you know, when the question came up, would we have sex as part of our play? Oh, I froze, you guys. I panicked because you see this part? This is the new terrain for me. And I gave them the default answer. The answer I would have said these previous years if you asked me that. And my partner wasn't around. I said, well, well, you know, we've never played before, so maybe. No, no, you guys. I heard a sad trombone in my head when those words came out of my mouth, because here it was, all of my fears realized. All of my insecurities were coming to fruition. I clearly had no idea what I was doing here. I am obviously not what they want. And I am clearly, you know, out of my element. I am not enough. And you know that feeling, especially femmes out there when you feel like you're not enough. And, you know, the truth is, I really wanted to do all the things with them, and I had now ruined it. But you gotta love Monica, because she gives me this knowing smile and she says, of course, Shiloh. We won't do anything that you don't want to do. I invite you to consider the possibility that if you give us a little leeway, you might really enjoy where we take you. I had a second chance to answer that question. And this time it was an enthusiastic yes. Yes, actually, all the things. Oh, but not my butt. So Max starts in with punching. No, not in my face like this. And you guys, this is my favorite with a new to me, top right, this is the face off. This is when they're sizing you up, punching a little harder, a little harder, while you look them in the eyes and they're calibrating, right? They're trying to find your edges, getting a sense of what you can take. And I take it all in. I let that pounding vibrate down through my body, and I release it into the ground because receiving pain like this makes me feel powerful. I'm the kind of masochist who wears my bruises and marks with pride because they show me that my body works, that I've lived, I've loved, I've struggled, suffered, and I've survived. So at this point, Monica has discovered the matching set of canes I had brought in my bag. And she apparently subscribes to the same damn spot philosophy. And she's just wailing on my outer arms, just wailing, wailing, wailing. Just the same damn spot. I was already flying high on endorphins by the time I find myself on their bed now. Monica went right for what she wanted, and she's just torturing the fuck out of my pussy. And this, oh, pro tip, don't tell your top that your clit is really sensitive because they're not gonna stay away from it. They're gonna go right for that. This is right when Max leans down and asks me me about my fantasy. And somehow, over the rush of voices that are still screaming insecurities at me about my now naked, fat femme body, I hear myself eek out an answer. And I say I can't look at Max when I'm talking, right? So I'm not looking, but I'm looking over here. I want my and mouth full at the same time, which is a really good go to fantasy. Like that's. That's always keep that one in your back pocket. So Monica goes. Just slips her fingers right in. And Max makes this T shirt appear out of somewhere and covers my whole face with it and takes her hand, fingers most of her fist, and just shoves it right into my mouth through the fabric of this shirt and is pulling my mouth down and just filling me up. And then icing on the fucking cake, she starts saying exactly what I want to hear. You like that, don't you? You're just a plaything to be used. Holes to be filled. Yeah, you take it. Don't you fucking bite me. So the next day, I'm supposed to be a demo bottom for this medical staples class. If you don't know staples, you know, they use them instead of stitches. And the reason we use them is because you can't remove them without a staple remover. And they grab your skin really good. And you can use yank on them and yank on them and yank on them, and they're not going to go anywhere. So I float into this classroom the next day, completely high from the night before, still full, still sore, still wet. And I soon discover that I'm sitting in front of this classroom of all my new best friends and just a bra and panties. And then I end up with these silver elastic cords, like stretchy, shimmery strings stapled thoroughly to my inner thighs, lots of them. The other ends of these strings go out to people on either side of me and they're stapled into their chests. These people are standing back from me, causing tension on the strings and pulling my legs open. Now this scene evolves, and there's strings going all over the classroom. And almost everyone in the room is like, connected and involved in some way or another. And at the center of all of this energy and this shining silver light is my pussy. And you know, these staples fucking hurt. They're really sharp. And I'm really like, I'm losing the stoic demo bottom focus here. As I'm trying to focus, a thought occurs to me that this situation I'm in is not unlike life. Sometimes my life. And the pain that you know is not always better than the pain that you don't know. And you can either lean into it or you can lean out. I leaned in hard. I took a breath, kind of tucked my tailbone a little bit while I sat there. And then I just completely closed my legs just tight. I pulled everyone else into attention. And in that moment, as this new pain washed over me, I was transformed. I had a transcendent experience in this moment. My pussy was the all seeing, all knowing goddess of the universe. I could see the atoms in every person in that room. I was connected to the distant nebulas. I was birthing planets in this moment. You see, what us leather folk do is not always just kinky bedroom fun. What we really do is we live fearlessly and we build connections and we lift each other up. And in a community, in a family like that, I know that the next time I need to dig deep into my well of personal strength that I can find someone to help me remember that I am a goddamn it.
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Dixie de La Tour
Wasn't that story phenomenal? That was from Best of body winner, Shiloh McCabe. Shiloh is someone I met several years ago at the International Ms. Leather Conference. Body Storytelling is part of that conference every year with a closing event, because storytelling brings people together. And after you've been going at it in a dungeon, it's always good to learn people's names. Shiloh has gone from scared newbie to someone who rocks the stage. And Shiloh has some interesting hobbies. Shiloh is not only the photographer behind the Sex Positive photo project, but Shiloh is a kinky crafter who has an Etsy store. So I don't know if you know about this thing that used to be part of gay culture, well, particularly gay culture, but, you know, we've all adopted it, which is the hanky code. So the hanky code is way back before the Internet, when gay culture used to use handkerchiefs, bandana handkerchiefs, to flag what they were into. It saves a lot of time. It saves a lot of that awkward OkCupid moments we have now where we're like, oh, no, I'm sorry, didn't you not know? So the hanky code used bandana handkerchiefs, which come in so many colors. And by using a handkerchief, you could let people know what you were into. Say, for example, you had a red bandana handkerchief and you wore it in your back pocket. That red bandana handkerchief would probably mean you were into fisting. If that handkerchief were dark red, that would mean you're into double fisting. My question was always, if you're in a nightclub, it's pretty, probably dark. So how do you know what color you're looking at? Because the difference between one fist and two fists, that's a pretty big difference. So I don't know if the policy was to carry a flashlight with you and check out the exact color or what. But Shiloh has taken the gay hanky code and she has updated it for current times. She makes femme flagging flowers that you can wear in your hair or for the dapper types, she makes bow ties out of flagging handkerchiefs. Shiloh made me one of her femme flagging flowers to wear on stage. I told her that I would like light blue, and when I got on stage, it was coordinated to the color of my dress that night. And I said, y', all, you should know this is about cock sucking. And Shiloh corrected me and said, actually, you're teal. That color is teal and that means you're into cock and ball torture, Dixie. So this stuff can work for or against you. You never know. So the other day I got together and had lunch with a reporter, someone who had been to our 10 year anniversary show. And we Talked about the fact that Bodi is a unique place to give people a platform to tell stories that they have never had a place to tell them before. It's such a great place for people to learn about what's out there. Each show is a sample platter of the opportunities that await you and to find out that you are not alone in what you're into. It's so great to be able to walk up to a storyteller after they tell their story and find out more and say, I think. I think that what you talked about, I think that's me. It's a great place for transgender people to figure themselves out and figure out what the next step is to build community. And that's what storytelling does best. I say it all the time. So we were talking about what body is, about how we have built this culture, because Bodi is the original sex and storytelling series. When I started this 10 years ago, people told me there was no way in hell people were gonna get on stage, stage and tell their true stories of what happened after the doors closed. Not sensationalized, not made into comedy, but what really happened and how you really felt about it. And that, my friends, is why we are doing a podcast now. So that we can give that to people all over the world. And the way that we are doing that is we are asking for your Support on Patreon. Patreon.com is a platform for you to support the things you care about. Not just a one time thing like Kickstarter. Maybe it's a project that has a start and end date, but something ongoing, something that you want to keep seeing happen, something that you want to be part of your life. What you can do is go to patreon.com bodi click, donate and support us in an ongoing way as we build this podcast, as we hopefully move toward touring and coming to your city. That's my dream and to help us put on the best damn storytelling show in the world. Not just related to sex and storytelling. I want to be the very best. We have a reputation for remarkable storytelling and we want to not just continue, we want to grow. So your support on Patreon can help us do that. We are going to have rewards like you can have a Google hangout with me. You can ask your questions about how to find the things you're looking for. You can can learn about how to tell a better story and you can find out some of the backstories from the many years that I've been doing this show. Because sometimes the stuff that happens behind the scenes is even better than what ends up on stage. But, you know, it's a storytelling show, so we stick to story. But that doesn't mean our Patreon fans don't get access to some special stuff. I've got stories. I want to share them with you. If you'd like episodes that have no Patreon commercials, that have no advertisements, you can donate at a lower level and get that, or you can donate at the $10 level and be part of the Bodi hall of Fame. These are the people who helped us grow, who supported us while this podcast was new. I'd love for you to be part of it. So, again, that's patreon.combodi spelled B a W D Y. Thank you for supporting us and thank you for spreading the word. Word about what we do. Yes.
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Audience/Interjections
All right. So quiet. All right. So how many of you actually know me, like, in person? Those of you who know me in person know that I'm a sick and twisted pervert, but possibly the least fucked pervert in the Bay area for, like, 15 years. Kudos to Bodi for actually getting. Getting me laid. Cause that happened because I complained to Dixie I was not getting laid. And she was like, have you met Reid Michalko? I'm like, no, who's that? So that happened. So the fact of the matter is, when you are literally a globe trotting pervert, everyone assumes you fucking all the time. And so when you tell people no, there's cobwebs, spiders, and mice living down here, like, nesting happily going, we are just so comfortable. Cause nothing ever happens down here. Like, when that's the truth of your life, no one wants to believe you, so no one wants to fuck you, so no one asks you out. And I am a submissive and a slave. And I know that's fucking hard to believe. And fuck you guys, but it's true. I am, in fact. I am, in fact, a certified delicate, trembling flower of submission. But the problem is that I have a lot of people who are dominant. Tell me. Well, you're very intimidating. And you know what's like a cold bucket of slime on your pussy is a dominant telling you they're intimidated by you. I don't need that shit. I need for you to, like, come on and bring it. So the thing is that I look on, like, fetlife, I go around the world, literally, and I talk to kinky people. And I'm out there and I'm like, I'm single. I have profiles on like fucking, what is it like, you know, collarme.com, which is a horrible, destitute ghetto of perversion. And on Facebook, I am out. As out as you could possibly be. I'm on like Christian mingle, hoping that maybe there's a promise keeper who wants to get on some of this. I don't care. I am open for all that shit. I'll take a Christian. I'll take a Christian man who just wants to dominate a woman and make her his bitch. So anyway, so I have on my profiles everywhere that I am kinky. This is information that everyone should have. Like, hey, my name is Melina Williams. That's my actual name. I'm kinky, I'm sober. Pause. Speaking about seven years, if you can see this tattoo, it is March 14, 2007. That's my sobriety date. I will be seven in two weeks. And let me tell you, for a formerly bed pissing alcoholic to be up here having the awesome life I have, anyone can do it. So I have my profiles on dating sites. I lived in San Francisco for 15 years, had a couple relationships, moved back to New York. I'm in New York, I'm thinking, this is great. I'm in New York, I'm in the prime of my life. I'm going to find a partner. And I keep getting these messages from men who are like, mistress, will you dominate me on vanilla sites, people? And here's my profile. Hi, I'm kinky. I'm a pervert. I'm a recovering alcoholic, I'm sober. I really would like for someone to dominate me. But don't be a domineering asshole, please, just please, please don't. And if you have an accent, that's really hot too, because I have an accent problem. And I got message after message from these lame ass motherfuckers and I'm just like, whatever. And I literally had broken myself down to the point where I was like looking for a long term life partner, Looking for a good person to date, looking for someone who's just fun and who has a pulse. Looking on Craigslist. So I had had a series of near misses and I was literally about to delete my OkCupid account because I was getting a lot of messages on OkCupid, but I pretty much given up. And I got this message from someone. I'm going to read you the parts of it and it opened up and said, hi, Melina. Wow, your profile is great. Theater sub, unusual spiritual fodder, Curvy fat black chick, trembling flower of Submission. I'm older than you want. I'm 60, but I have a strong German Austrian accent. I am strongly interested in BDSM with some experience. I am a top and I do not drink alcohol. I trust in the definition of Robert Mapplethorpe that SM means sex and magic. Personal stuff. Personal stuff. I'm especially interested in the dark sides of emotions. And I would like to tame you. So I didn't write to that guy. No, that's a lie. Till he wrote to that guy. So we're setting up a date, right? And usually a first date, you, like, go to Starbucks and have coffee. This motherfucker invited me to his house. Come to my house. I will make you dinner. You know why? Cause fucking Europeans do not fuck around. Europeans are like, you are the one that I want. Come to me. Let us make love. And we will now have a relationship. The end. Americans are like, I don't know. Are we dating? Are we together? I like you. I don't like you. I have this partner, this other person. I have these people. And meanwhile, like, Europeans are like, what are they doing? I'm like, I don't know. So I show up at this guy's gorgeous fucking apartment on the Upper west side. And I go in, and he's like, hello. And he's super casual. And I'm like, you couldn't dress up for our first date. Whatever, dude. But he's made me this amazing meal. Like, the opening round is so sushi. I know, like, this beautiful tuna grade ahi. And we're sitting there eating it, and we're sharing our stories. And I'm looking at him, and you know that part of your brain that's, like, just always sarcastic and always bitter and always loud and sounds like a big stinky hyena. Or maybe that's just me just going, this guy is some sort of freak and pervert. And why are you in his house? He's gonna chop you up and put you in a barrel. You're gonna wind up in the east river or the Hudson, because we were near the Hudson's that you want to wind up in Hudson River. Everything else. So we're eating dinner, and he does a thing where, like, he just keeps getting closer and closer to me as we're sitting there at this round table. So I'm kind of inching away. Cause I'm like, dude, seriously. We're like, whatever. And all of a sudden, he's got his hand in my shirt. And normally you would think that would freak a person out, but my thing is what happens next. So we start making out, we start fooling around. He's like, come to bed. I'm like, yes, let's go to bed. This dude, like pulls off my clothes, rips off my panties, puts his face in my pussy as though he had not eaten or seen pussy in the last 50 years. And I'm thinking, I've been here for like an hour and a half. This is ridiculous. And four hours later, I'm like blinded with orgasm headaches. And he's like, are you okay? I'm like, I'm telling you, you want to have your pussy eaten like it's the Last Supper. 60 year old fucking Austrian guy, man. I got my foot on the back of his neck, like, get the fuck off. I need some coconut water. I need some Gatorade. I need like bananas and shit. This is ridiculous. So we're talking and like there's this amazing click and he's got his fingers in my pussy and he's fucking the shit out of me. And I am like just coming all over his bed. And part of my rational brain is like, oh, that's gonna leave a mark. And he's looking at me and he looks down at me and he says, I love you. And I'm thinking, okay, that's on our second date. Now, mind you, this was now like about a day and a half later. We're talking about Master Slave relationships. He's talking about how he has wanted someone like me for 40 years and he cannot believe that I exist. And he pulls out this piece of paper and says, I have been thinking of what might be a good contract for Master Slave. Possibly it is too much. I have scrubbed men's toilets for two years and never been collared. This dude makes me dinner, eats my pussy, and is like, here's how I want to own you. I want you. He's an artist. He's like, I want you to be my muse. I want you to be here for me. That means that I should take care of you. So we should work out a financial plan. I do not know if this will fit with your lifestyle, but I travel a lot. I go to Europe six or seven times a year. I would need you with me. I would need for you to be sexually available at all times. I have some strange fetishes. I do not know if they will be okay for you. And I'm thinking, like, yeah, we've all seen on south park the German Scheisse video. So I'm thinking, I'm thinking, I got friends. I can Call, I can work this out. And he says, I need to watch men fuck you, but you must not love them. You will be monogamous with me. I will be monogamous with you, but I will give you to other men. And perhaps sometimes I will them too. But of course, I will be in charge. And I keep saying to myself, this has gotta be a fucking joke. There does not exist, like, the dominant man who wants to, like, boss around a room full of guys as they fuck his girl. Like, when does that happen? And then also, like, get alongside and suck dick with you in a dominant way. God damn it. Who also feels that in a master slave relationship, it is the primary responsibility of the master to care for, nurture, and love his slave. Because I am giving all of this to him, and he needs to be worthy of that gift. And I'm sitting there, like, every other day. This motherfucker shocks the shit out of me. I'm like, I'm going to be a muse. Fine. I need comfortable furniture. We now have in his studio a love sack. And if you look at my. If you look at my page on Facebook, you will see me lounging in it. Because muses need to be naked and beautiful lounging to inspire art. When I told him I was coming out here to tell this story tonight, he was like, well, yes, you will.
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Dixie de La Tour
You.
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Audience/Interjections
You must tell. You must tell the story. Because, of course, being very, very Prussian, he is very efficient with his, like, desires. And he's like, yes, this is what you will do. What's amazing to me is that he has been longing for 40 years for something he assumed was impossible. And I have been searching for 20 years for this person that I assumed did not exist. And every day when I look up, because, of course, now we're living together, and every day, we just celebrated our second month anniversary. And. And I know that you're saying, gosh, well, that's crazy and that's fast. Yeah, it is. Because when you spend together 60 years looking for some shit, you're not going to wait to figure out if it's okay. You're gonna figure it out on the motherfucking fly. And nothing touches me as much as, like, every once in a while, I'll catch him looking at me with this very serious, very, very serious man look. And he will say, is it true? And all I can say is, yes, yes, sir, it's true. And we are both very, very lucky.
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Dixie de La Tour
That story was from Melaina. Melaina is spelled M, O, L, L, E, N A. You should look her up you can also find her on melena.com she is an author, she is a world traveler and I thought to celebrate 10 years, let's go back. Melena told that story at our seven year anniversary show. And even though she flew all the way out to perform for us for Saturday night, she lives in New York and flew to San Francisco. I really wanted to share that story with you because dreams can come true, y'.
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Shiloh McCabe
All.
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Dixie de La Tour
And that story is evidence of it. She was probably at the two month mark with her partner Georg when she told that story and now they've been together for three years plus and they are in it for the long haul. There is a documentary being made about the two of them and their story and he is an infamous conductor and they collaborate on performance together and travel the world. How fucking cool is that? I'm so grateful to Melena and to Georg for flying all the way from New York to be on my stage. They made a special trip and to say thank you, we created an orgy on Friday night. The show is on Saturday. So on Friday night we had an orgy to create stories just in case the story storytellers didn't have a fresh story. It was a story orgy. And sometimes when you feel like your life is maybe not up to par, it's always good to throw a sex party and see what you and your friends can come together and create. Storyteller Alison Moon did what was known as the ridiculous lesbian orgy years ago when she felt like her story wasn't all it she wanted it to be. And you can find find Alison Moon's story of the ridiculous lesbian orgy on our YouTube channel. We love to help people find their story or create their story. That's what happens at the live shows. So while you're listening to the podcast, you get to hear the stories. But the part you're missing is what happens at the live show. You meet people, you make friends. You probably have sex over the hood of a car on the side street because that happens from time to time. I'm telling you this because you're only getting 50% right now. 50% of the show is the stories. The other 50% is showing up to a live event and connecting with people and doing God knows what to them. So here are upcoming shows. Seattle, we're back on March 22nd. We've had a long hiatus while I focus on these shows, these big tenure shows. And we are back. Our theme for March 22 is easy. And isn't that an easy theme? You know, you Have a story for that. Pitch me a story. I'm collecting and listening to them now. I'd love to put you on stage. We are back in San Francisco on Thursday, March 16. The theme for the night is Libertine. And if you don't know what a libertine is, it's someone who is sexually or morally unrestrained. In April, we're doing something where I told you, we like to create fresh stories. Sometimes you just need to find people who are just as down as you are to go. Let's make something together. Our theme in April is On Assignment for Body. That means from the minute you contact me to the time I put you on stage, we help you find a fresh adventure, create a story around it, and you know that everything on stage just happened. Sometimes you just need a fresh adventure. So if you're interested in being part of On Assignment for Body and performing on stage in April in San Francisco, send me a message. I'm Dixie@bodystorytelling.com and in May, May is going to be stupendous. We are doing one of our nerd sex shows and I love working with nerds on their stories. It's a totally different kind of storytelling. I'd like to say thank you to all the people who have helped us. Not just with the podcast, not just with the live shows, but people who've been part of this over the years. 10 years is a long time to do anything and I could not do it without the help that I have. This is a show that happens in four to five cities now. I want it to be in your city, too. So this would not happen without the help of a team. The thank yous go out to podcast producer Matthew Marder, to sound engineer David Grossoff, to Ruben Tan. Thank yous also go out to Crystal Crow, who was a performer at Best of Body on Saturday night. Congrats, Crystal. To Lil P, a dear friend of mine who helped us find the first location for body 10 years ago. Also the people who were live at the show, Terry and Steph, a married couple who give up a night once a month to help us put the show on stage. To Ty Mackenzie, who is there every month. To Gil, to Bruce, to Dani, to Sister Flora, to Jefferson Berge, and especially to Rachel Lark, who was the music for both shows. That's it for the Body storytelling podcast. Thank you for listening, thank you for reviewing us, and thanks for telling your friends about us. See you next week.
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Super Happy Funtime Burlesque (performer of 'I am a big Success')
Look at me, Mommy. I am a big success. Will you love me, Daddy? When I'M a big success I'll take that massage now Cause I'm a big success look at you in your pointed suit look at you in your pinstripe suit look at you on the telephone look at you as the women moan look at you as the stocks collapse look at you as cancer relapse look at you as the sirens wail look at you as the nation fails oh yes, we're all a big success Rat beat But in earth now that we have successful Choices are made, choices are given Nobody had the choice to turn to dust or burn to rust in.
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Shiloh McCabe
Me.
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Super Happy Funtime Burlesque (performer of 'I am a big Success')
I am made I made the grave I had the people looking up at me to touch my sleeve and be easy it pays to be a big success Cause everyone is so impressed they look cancer and they feel so pressed they love it Cuz you're a big success no room for mediocrity Old people strive to be like me and when we finally leave our fresh I still will be a big success oh yeah, I am a big success nearly 6 foot 7 I am a big success I can lift a truck over my head Cause I'm a big success look at me at the parties I am a big success My name's in your speed dial I'm a big success.
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Audience/Interjections
And he's like, are you okay? I'm like.