Birds And Bees Don't Fck
Join us LIVE AT FIVE (PT) on YouTube for the watch party every Wednesday: Ariel Zucker is a producer, director, and writer from Atlanta, Georgia where sex education was taught through abstinence, fear-based messaging, and wildly unhelpful visuals that left her and her peers confused about their bodies and sexuality. In this episode we talk about growing up with abstinence-based sex education, the confusion and shame that comes from fear-driven messaging, how sex education shapes our early experiences, and what it actually means to unlearn all of that as an adult. We get into working in...
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Alyssa Mei Lue is a traveling burlesque and circus performer, Playboy model, and podcaster from Riverside, California, where her formal sex education consisted of one vague classroom video, a heavily religious upbringing, and getting married at 21 before she had ever seen, touched, or had sex with a penis. In this episode, we talk about performance, survival, and what it actually means to be a dangerous woman. Alyssa shares how she got into modeling during quarantine, why modeling can be just as risky as live performance, and how learning boundaries in those industries changed the way she...
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Join us LIVE AT FIVE (PT) on YouTube for the watch party every Wednesday: Emily Zawadzki (AKA Emily Zed) is a Canadian sex educator who specializes in supporting queer, kinky, and neurodivergent people navigating intimacy, relationships, and pleasure. She grew up in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, where her formal sex education came from Catholic school abstinence lessons, graphic STI scare tactics, and a very cool mom who handed her an educational flap book about how babies are made. In this episode we talk about building a career in sex education, why gender-affirming care isn’t just for...
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Join us LIVE AT FIVE (PT) on YouTube for the watch party every Wednesday: Joy Mamey is an actor, writer, comedian, cancer survivor, and improviser currently performing with Sunday Company at The Groundlings who grew up in Los Angeles where her sex ed teacher wouldn’t answer her questions so she thought sex was basically naked kissing and that penises had bones. In this episode we talk about the surprising overlap between improv and intimacy, why "yes and" can become a people-pleasing trap, and what happens when we're taught to ignore our instincts to make other people comfortable. Joy...
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Join us LIVE AT FIVE (PT) on YouTube for the watch party every Wednesday: Caitlin V is a sex and relationship coach, former sexuality researcher, author of Harder, Better, Longer, Stronger, and host of Good Sex on HBO Max from Michigan where her earliest sex education included a fifth-grade period lesson, a graphic STI scare slide in health class, and years of curiosity about pleasure that she had already discovered on her own. In this episode we talk about what men actually want help with in their sex lives, why performance goals like “lasting longer” rarely solve the real problem, and...
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It’s 6/9 so we’re publishing early! Plus if you're in Los Angeles, come with us... to Melrose Umbrella Co from 6-9p to celebrate! Daddy Heff is a professional dominant, kink educator and master of the sensual art of impact play from Greensboro, North Carolina where his earliest sex education included school lessons on fallopian tubes, ovaries, sperm and semen, sneaking reads of his mom’s risqué novels, flipping through Penthouse Forum stories, and asking a very uncomfortable teacher to explain anal sex after seeing it in a porn video. In this episode we talk about the connection between...
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Join us for the watch party on YouTube LIVE AT FIVE (PT) on episode release day: Phil Morris is an actor best known as Jackie Chiles on Seinfeld and John Jones on Smallville who grew up in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, where the closest thing to sex education was basic health class, a little anatomy, and figuring out the rest through growing up in Hollywood. In this episode we talk about Good Vibes Breakfast Club, the beautiful way community can create space for men to be vulnerable, and why real connection so often happens when people drop the performance and just show up as...
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Justine Cross is a professional dominatrix, dungeon owner, educator, and sex worker advocate who grew up in the tri-state area where she actually received surprisingly comprehensive sex education growing up between private and public schools, something she credits with shaping how she thinks about sex, consent, and power dynamics today. In this episode we talk about how someone becomes a professional dominatrix, what actually happens inside a BDSM dungeon, and why kink spaces are often far more structured, communicative, and consent-focused than most people expect. We also get into power...
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Join the live watch party on YouTube today, episode release day, at 5p PT / 8p ET: Nicole Jardim is a certified women’s health coach, author of Fix Your Period, and founder of the Institute for Menstrual Health originally from Antigua where the closest thing to sex education was mostly silence… leaving her to figure out hormones, cycles, and menstrual health the hard way before eventually dedicating her career to helping other women do the same. In this episode we talk about Nicole and I’s shared history working in television production, how burnout and health challenges led her to...
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Erica Smith is an award-winning sexuality educator, advocate, and author from rural Pennsylvania, where she grew up casually Christian, went to public school, learned sex ed from a gym teacher, and somehow became the most responsible teenage sexual health nerd with birth control, condoms, spermicide, and library books before having sex for the first time. In this episode we talk about purity culture, religious sexual shame, high-control groups, Christian nationalism, marital consent, “duty sex,” the pressure placed on both women and men in evangelical purity teachings, and why healing from...
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Phil Morris is an actor best known as Jackie Chiles on Seinfeld and John Jones on Smallville who grew up in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, where the closest thing to sex education was basic health class, a little anatomy, and figuring out the rest through growing up in Hollywood.
In this episode we talk about Good Vibes Breakfast Club, the beautiful way community can create space for men to be vulnerable, and why real connection so often happens when people drop the performance and just show up as themselves. Phil shares what it was like growing up in Beverly Hills as the son of original Mission: Impossible star Greg Morris, how early exposure to fame shaped the way he sees the world, and why curiosity, humility, and authenticity matter so much more than status. We also get into marriage, intimacy, what it actually takes to stay connected over decades, and Phil’s simple but powerful advice to stay attractive, stay attracted, stay interesting, and stay interested.
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- STORY 1: AITA for ignoring my wife for throwing away my late wife video tapes?
- STORY 2: My 18M son says my brother’s wife (30F) crossed boundaries with him and now my family says I’m overreacting (46F)
- STORY 3: Do I (F 26) tell my boyfriend (M 26) his ex cheated on him?
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Episode Cheat Sheet:
02:47 Good Vibes Breakfast Club, car culture, and finding community in Los Angeles
05:14 Male vulnerability, brotherhood, and emotional intimacy during the pandemic
07:39 Why real connection happens when people drop the filter
09:50 Community, commonality, and why we are more alike than we are different
12:10 Why big conversations happen best on a beautiful drive
14:30 Intimacy meetings, relationship check-ins, and how to communicate with your partner
16:54 Emotional intelligence, curiosity, and what makes relationships actually work
19:20 Marriage advice, acceptance, and why you cannot carry someone else’s water
21:35 Stay attractive, stay attracted, stay interesting, stay interested
23:52 Novel thinking, personal growth, and accepting the peaks and valleys of life
26:13 Why relationships, friendships, and community all need curiosity and effort
28:28 Good Vibes, masculine friendship, and non-sexual touch between men
30:41 Growing up in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills as Greg Morris’ son
31:42 Fame, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and what Phil learned early about success
34:01 Black representation in Hollywood and being raised around groundbreaking artists
35:25 How community showed up in grief, loss, and the final days of a loved one
37:48 Grace, gratitude, and why pain does not have to define your story
40:05 Falling down, getting up, and deciding how to write your own life
42:27 Career pivots, producing, creativity, and doing the work that actually lights you up
44:48 Why Phil stopped hustling and started creating
47:13 Acting, storytelling, and what comic conventions reveal about human connection
49:40 Leadership, gender dynamics, and domestic labor in relationships
52:03 Growing up with basic sex education, Hollywood freedom, and getting married young
54:22 Marriage, desire, fidelity, and how to stay connected over time
56:43 Long-term relationships, teamwork, and the three energies inside a partnership
59:04 Relationship advice, acceptance, and what it means to stay on the same team