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Punks, Blessings, Burlesque and Lotus Flowers: The Moth Radio Hour

The Moth

The Moth

Performing Arts, Arts

4.625.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This episode originally aired on June 21, 2022. In this episode, five strangers redefine themselves and family in the face of their past. This episode is hosted by Moth Senior Curatorial Producer, Suzanne Rust. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media. Storytellers: Eddy Laughter sees her future at her first concert. Christopher Brune-Horan finds sanctuary in an unlikely location. Louise Newton-Keogh learns an important lesson about controlling the universe. Pauline Nguyen reconciles with a harbinger of fear.  Denise Bledsoe Slaughter gets a second mother when she needs it most. Podcast # 770 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

There's new research on pleasure that's actually fascinating, and the site OMG Yes makes it accessible to everyone.

0:08.2

OMG Yes shares findings from the largest ever study into women's pleasure and intimacy.

0:15.0

In partnership with researchers at Yale and Indiana University, they asked tens of thousands of couples what they wish they'd

0:22.0

discovered sooner. They found the patterns in those discoveries and all that wisdom about pleasure

0:27.2

and intimacy is organized as hundreds of short videos, animations, and how-toes on

0:33.3

omg.s.com and guess what? Half of OMG yes users are men.

0:40.6

Hooray for generous lovers, right?

0:43.2

You'll find specific research-backed techniques.

0:46.6

It's a science of sexual generosity in action.

0:50.1

See what they discovered today at omgues.com slash moth. That's omg-y-es.com slash moth.

0:54.4

That's omg-Y-E-S.com slash moth.

1:13.1

This is The Moth Radio Hour.

1:16.4

I'm your host, Suzanne Rust, the Moth's curate oil producer.

1:19.5

Sometimes people ask me what Moth stories are about.

1:22.6

I tell them they are really about everything and anything,

1:24.6

which explains the title this episode,

1:27.4

Punks, Blessings, Burlesque, and Lotus Flowers.

1:28.7

Like this title, Moth Stories are like Life itself, a variety show with every act imaginable.

1:35.2

But what often unites them are common themes, like self-discovery, finding sanctuary,

1:40.7

learning to forgive and acknowledging blessings of different kinds.

1:51.0

Our first story is from Eddie Lafter, who discovers just what she needs in a most unlikely place. She told this story at our Moth Teacher Institute. Here's Eddie.

1:55.0

I'm on my way to see live music for the first time, and I'm so much more anxious than I think I have any right to be because this band I'm about to see I'm completely and utterly obsessed with and I have seen every interview. YouTube will physically let me watch and I listen to them so much at this point. It's probably doing something unhealthy to me. I don't know how that would work, but it's happening. And when I listen to, and this is

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