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🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | OMG Yes.com is a website presenting groundbreaking research about women's sexual pleasure in partnership with Indiana University and Kinsey Institute researchers. |
| 0:11.2 | When you see such an open, honest, evidence-based discussion of what feels good and why, it becomes obvious. |
| 0:17.8 | That's how it should be. What if our generation breaks the cycle of shame and taboo once and for all, and everyone realizes |
| 0:24.6 | pleasure is good, healthy, important, and endlessly fascinating? |
| 0:28.6 | See for yourself at omg yes.com slash moth. |
| 0:32.6 | That's o m g yes.com slash moth. |
| 0:36.6 | Welcome to the moth. I'm Chloe Salmon. |
| 0:41.7 | Every year in the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving, I start getting inundated with social media posts that feature photos of aspirational feats of culinary wizardry. |
| 0:51.5 | For this holiday, the food is the star of the show. |
| 0:55.5 | Expectations are high, and honestly, it's kind of stressful. This year, I propose we all chill out a little. |
| 1:02.2 | Take a collective breath and say, look, the turkey is probably going to be kind of dry. Your |
| 1:07.6 | cousin's new fling may bring an abomination of a mayo-based side, and your new pie |
| 1:11.9 | recipe might betray you. And you know what? It's okay. Food disasters make for better family |
| 1:17.8 | lore anyway. So in this episode, we're leaning out of perfection and into messiness, with three |
| 1:23.8 | stories of food gone wrong. First up, we have Ellie Tonkin. |
| 1:28.4 | She told this at a Boston story slam |
| 1:30.3 | where the theme of the night was Grudge. |
| 1:32.6 | Here's Ellie. |
| 1:37.7 | When I was in grade school, |
| 1:40.4 | most kids got the hot lunch for 25 cents a day. |
| 1:47.0 | I really wanted to be like most kids. I coveted the American chop suey with green jello and whipped topping for dessert. |
| 1:54.0 | The sloppy joes, the Hungarian goulash, but alas, I couldn't have any of it. |
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