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'Big Mouth' Creators On Embracing The Awkwardness Of Puberty

Life Kit

NPR

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Education, Business

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg are the co-creators of 'Big Mouth,' an animated comedy about a group of tweens stumbling through the mysteries of puberty. Kroll and Goldberg talk with Life Kit parenting hosts about normalizing shame, building empathy, weathering awkward puberty moments and hormone monsters.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Ani Kamenets.

0:02.6

I'm Corey Turner and this is NPR's Life Kit.

0:06.1

Now we've done a couple of episodes now on sex education for a new generation.

0:11.3

Yeah, we did one for parents of little kids and one for puberty and beyond.

0:15.8

Now when we do these episodes, there's always tape that ends up on the cutting room floor.

0:20.9

Yeah, not for any fall of their own, but just people we talk to who don't make the cut for some reason.

0:25.1

But for our sex episodes, did you hear what I did there on you?

0:28.9

I'm gonna change your name from Corey to Corny.

0:34.0

If something like this gets you terrible.

0:35.5

Well, so for our sex episodes, we had to cut something that Ani and I both really loved.

0:42.6

Yeah, but we didn't really think it was appropriate, I guess.

0:46.8

As puberty begins, hormones are released and the sexual organs begin to change.

0:52.6

The uterus is the center of...

0:54.7

It's an animated show from Netflix called Big Mouth.

0:58.2

It's about a bunch of tweens stumbling their way through the mysteries of puberty.

1:02.3

And they don't shy away from being pretty explicit.

1:06.6

Yeah, so maybe don't listen to this with your kids.

1:09.0

The uterus.

1:09.8

I thought girls had vaginas.

1:12.2

I thought that too, but I guess they don't.

1:14.1

Maybe vagina is like slang.

1:16.8

Did someone say vagina?

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