Transcript
Dixie De La Tour (0:01)
The podcast episode you're about to listen to was created especially for you, a consenting adult, because this podcast is explicit and graphic. So you on board?
Nikki Hodgson (0:12)
Consent.
Dixie De La Tour (0:13)
Consent. Consent. Consent. Okay, let's do it.
Vagina Song Performer (0:24)
All of my life I've never fit But I won't complain and I won't quit I am enormous.
Eunuch's Lament Singer (0:33)
Get used to it.
Vagina Song Performer (0:39)
Everyone tells me I'm too much maybe it's just you're not enough for me can't you see I'm the kind of woman I'm supposed to be? Hey, my vagina is eight miles wide. Absolutely everyone can come inside. If you're ever frightened, just run and hide. My vagina is eight miles.
Dixie De La Tour (1:17)
Hi there and welcome to the Bodi Storytelling Podcast. I am Sexual Folklorist Dixie Delator, and This is episode 89. Hi there, pervert. How you doing? I hope you're well. I wanted to let people know that if you are a storyteller who has pitched me a story for one of the upcoming shows in our five city tour, that I am listening to story pitches right now and starting to get back to a few people. So just be patient. Hang on, I'll be back to you soon with some feedback. I just wanted to say that for the people who are probably waiting to know whether they're going to be on stage at Bawdi Storytelling in one of our upcoming cities. But the thing I really want to talk to you about this week is the test tickle. Because this is the last week of the test tickle. As a backstory, let me explain the testicle to you. Once upon a time, I found it impossible to figure out what city to bring body to. I would have ravenous fans who would say, oh my God, if you came to our city, you have no idea how popular this thing would be. And then I'd get there and it would be those people. But not enough to be able to pay for the plane, plane tickets and the venue rental and all of those things. And so it's been a total crapshoot. And then I came up with the idea for letting you guys tell me where to take the show by voting. If you buy a ticket to a show in that city, you have cast your vote. One ticket purchase equals one vote. And I figured if I got like 50 votes in a city, then that meant that that was a viable city because we didn't even have a date for the show yet. We didn't have a venue. We just had passionate fans who really wanted to come to a live Body Storytelling. My podcast producer, Marty Garcia, named it the Test Tickle because it sounds like testicle and that's his sense of humor, which is obviously your sense of humor because I've had a lot of people laugh about that. So we named it, we put it out there and we've confirmed several cities. But this week is the last week, so I've noticed that you start to vote on cities when I talk about those cities. So I'm going to talk about the cities that are up for the testicle this time. I'm going to say the names of cities. You're going to hear the name of your city. You are going to go to bodystorytelling.com testtickle and you're going to vote for your city because we're in the final stretch. Okay, Testicle cities that are going on here are our cities. Denver, Atlanta, Cleveland, Dallas, Washington D.C. las Vegas, Boston, Minneapolis, Philadelphia. We've already confirmed through the testicle, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. I can tell you right Now, Boston, Washington, D.C. philadelphia and Atlanta are currently leading the pack. But that doesn't mean a damn thing. If you contact your friends and say, I love this show, I want to go to this show, I want to play Bango. I want to sit there and listen to filthy stories with people just like me and not feel like I'm the only one. Then you and your friends can get together, you can vote, and you can change everything. None of these cities have hit the magic number of 50 ticket chat. So nothing is confirmed. And I really want to confirm at least one more more city. At least one more. So the deadline for this is this Monday night, September 23rd. That's the first day of fall. I've decided it's kind of a fall tour. I should make that the deadline. So go to bodystorytelling.com testtickle and you can tell me where to go next. This, this whole thing is a leap of faith. And I have faith that you want to go to a live Body Storytelling. We can hang out together. Alright, let's do it. Don't forget, I want you to send me a recording of you telling me what you like about the Body Storytelling podcast. It's really important that I hear your voice and I am collecting audio recordings for a special project, but I need them soon. I've gotten several this week and it's so much more real. It's like I'm connecting with you when I get to hear what's going on in your life and hear a little bit of your story. But this is our point of connection. This podcast. So I want to hear what you think about Bodi. If you don't know how to do a voice memo, it's simple. You have a phone that is capable of doing this. You go to the voice memo function, you hit record and you talk to me. Just tell me what you're thinking. And then you take that, you hit upload and you forward it to an email address, which is dixieaudistorytelling.com send it as soon as you can. And pretty soon you're going to have your earbuds in and your own voice is going to be coming out. Isn't that going to be weird? That's going to be weird. Let's go for weird. I am so excited about the story that I have for you this episode because recently I was going through the backlog of stories that I have from so many years. And as I went through the anals, I mean, the annals of, of our many, many stories, I stumbled upon this incredible story from our six year anniversary show. And you know, we're going on 13, so that's a while back. And it's also pretty close to how long it's been since we've had her in San Francisco because she's moved away. And let me tell you about our storyteller. Nikki Hodgson is a journalist, broadcaster and author living in London. She is a regular contributor to the Guardian, the Telegraph and the BBC on sexual politics, technology, health and dating. Nikki is a regular commentator on BBC Radio 2's and Channel 5's the Jeremy Vine Show, BBC R4, Women's Hour and BBC World Service, and has written and presented two documentaries for BBC Radio. She reviews the papers and comments regularly for Sky News and makes frequent appearances in TV documentaries and debates on relationships, technology and society. Recent credits include Newsnight and the Big Questions. She is the author of Bound to youo, which she wrote in six weeks. And her latest book, the Curious History of Dating From Jane Austen to Tinder, is published by Little Brown. That last book, you can also get an audiobook and once you hear her voice, you're gonna want to get that book on Audiobook. This storyteller is Nicky Hodgson.
