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Something Our Parents Would Say Thge Birds And The Bees · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: It's a podcast network, twenty different podcasts to choose from.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking to the men and women who have served
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  Speaker 1: dot Net. Enjoy your exploration. Oh, come on, we all
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  Speaker 1: do it. We use those old sayings like it's Penny
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  Speaker 1: Candy at the grocery store, and does anybody remember Penny candy.
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  Speaker 1: Those old saints, you know, the things that family and
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  Speaker 1: friends used to come up with, and they usually came
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  Speaker 1: from out of nowhere, and sometimes they actually made sense. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they had to start somewhere. Who, what, where, why, when
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  Speaker 1: and how. Some of those old saynts are not only ancient,
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  Speaker 1: but they still carry a powerful punch today. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: I live by one of those old saints. Winning is
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  Speaker 1: a choice. The goal of these episodes is to help
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  Speaker 1: reason deserve not only a language, but lessons in life.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Arrow. A ride a fun one, the
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  Speaker 1: birds and the bees. We're all pretty familiar with its
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  Speaker 1: gentle way of adulting. When it comes to sharing the
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  Speaker 1: subject of sex, reproduction and where babies come from with
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  Speaker 1: our children. The phrase actually came from the nineteenth century,
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  Speaker 1: literally combining nature metaphors. The top dog influencer at the
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  Speaker 1: time was in a piece called Work Without Hope, which
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  Speaker 1: was pinned out by a gentleman by the name of
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  Speaker 1: Samuel Taylor Coleridge in eighteen twenty five. All nature seems
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  Speaker 1: to be at work. Bees are stirring, birds are on
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  Speaker 1: the wings. The birds and the bees. Well, by the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen hundreds it had become a common English euphemism. The
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  Speaker 1: book What Every Girl Should Know from Margaret Sanger used
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  Speaker 1: metaphors connecting to nature to describe pollinization and egg lane
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  Speaker 1: bees pollinate bird birds lay eggs, the birds and the bees.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, over the years it made family talk a
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  Speaker 1: lot less awkward, It reinforced modesty, and it became a
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  Speaker 1: cultural shorthand that means the sex talk by blaye bye,
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  Speaker 1: blah blah. But it doesn't work. Today, parents, especially my daughter,
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  Speaker 1: are more direct and medically accurate. Usually the only time
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  Speaker 1: we hear about the birds and the bees is during
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  Speaker 1: a movie or a comedy skit. The birds and the
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  Speaker 1: bees something our parents would say my name is Arrow,