Storyworthy Media, the best in story-driven content.

Hello, it's Wendy MacLendon Coveovey and you're listening to Storyworthy.

Welcome to the Story Worthy!

Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Hanna Svign.

Welcome to Storyworthy.

My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with Hanna Sfini, and we're coming to you from the campus of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, the home of Masters and Johnson. Oh. I've been watching that show, Masters of Sex. That's a good show, right? It's a good show. It's a quality show. It's stunning that that was the way it used to be, as it were. Yeah, did I do love the fact that they're they're I mean

St. Louis is kind of the Midwest but really it's the beginning of the South yeah and like that

that's where this revolution had to take place in academia yeah I suppose like not New York and not in

San Francisco or you know on Berkeley campus or something but some guy some really uptight guy

in St. Louis.

Yeah, that is interesting. I never thought of it that way.

And the reason. Well, we're talking about the birds and the bees. The birds and the bees is our topic. And we're coming from the lab in St. Louis because that's where they studied. Right. We are all naked right now and hooked up to electrodes. That's not right. That's not right. But much, but since it's American television, we can see your completely naked body and I'm covered by a strategic, you know, play. The sock. Sock. Exactly. Well, listen, this is really exciting, Honest. I'm so thrilled to have our guests here today. Wendy McClendon Covey is here. Oh, my God. And she brings forth the topic, the birds and the bees. Because she's dirty. By the way, my daughter, who happens to be sitting in the next room, she, she can't hear this. The second time she's ever come to a recording. And she and I are both such fans of the Goldbergs. I picked her up from school today, and she came with me. And as expected, she shut down. You know what I mean? No, no, no. She'll be'll be fine she'll be fine you look she just ate some fried chicken it's adorable she's gonna eat the half of donut that Uncle Honest brought that's right she's gonna be loaded up on sugar she's not in the room right now but she hopefully is going to come on in a little while don't write your congressman she's not going to hear the story she's not going to hear the story because I'll tell you how far off we are with my daughter and the birds and the bees. Okay, she's only eight. Yeah. The other day, she's with her dad. Commercial comes on for tampons. Oh, boy. And she says to Matt afterward, is that kind of like a band-aid. And I hope he said yes.

He said, yes, it is. And then he texted me and I said, you know what? Just leave it right there. He just texted you an emoji of, help. And I wrote back. I wrote back, oh, shit, you know, like. Wait a minute. Now, you've said on this podcast before how you, you don't want, you know, you grew up, youngest of six, Catholic family, no information.

No information.

No information whatsoever. podcast before how you you don't want you know you grew up youngest of six Catholic family

no information no information no information whatsoever there's so little information I was told

that I didn't even know I mean I didn't know anything about sex and of course when I grew up there

was no internet then there were my first R-rated movie was Caddyshack and that did have have some hot scenes. Yes. I remember when she tied him up, you know, she said, do you want me to tie you up with your ties, tie, or something like that? So I remember the inferences, but I didn't honestly know there was a penis. I remember Chevy Cheese sliding off the back of the woman because he oiled her up so much. He couldn't stay on the bed. That's, and I thought, that seems wrong. That's in the scene where he plays the piano and then he snorts the cocaine and then he does everything in a row, right? Yes, yes. Just yes and me. We have a professional improviser here. I'm sorry. No, you're completely wrong, and we are not in that place, and you are not who you say you are.

Anyway, the point is, I didn't even know. I didn't even know a penis went into a vagina, so that was not, I did not have any information. Here's what I knew. This is all I knew, and I kid you not. My brother, now he's the only boy, six kids, five girls, one boy. One of his chores was to burn the trash because

where I grew up in rural Pennsylvania, outside of Pittsburgh, we burned our trash. So my brother

way outside. We would go to, we would go down to the backyard by the garden and he would burn the

trash and he would call me and my sister. Tracy down, okay? And I kid you not, he would be putting the trash into the burning barrel, we called it,

...