Dick and Dick Tie

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Year

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English

7 min

2026

Lithuanian

When a pelvic floor physio hands over five Barbie pink-colored dildos and a homework plan, Rachael does what any reasonable person would do: puts them in a drawer and pretends they don't exist. It's only when she stumbles onto a podcast where the host calls her a Vagina CEO that something finally cracks open. Her pain, it turns out, had been trying to tell her something the whole time.

Written, produced, edited, and sound designed by Rachael Cusick

Edited by Annie McEwen.

Music by Jeremy Bloom ("Simple Piano" + "Butch Mood Drone" + "Peter Poetry") and Kevin MacLeod, Licensed under Creative Commons

Special thanks to Dr. Janelle Frederick for letting me use an excerpt of her podcast, The Vagina Rehab Doctor Podcast

Vertimas Edvardas Vaišvila

Rachael Cusick

Rachael Cusick is an audio producer and writer based on this wet rock called Earth. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, NPR, Slate, and Politico, and she has performed her stories live on stage at the Sydney Opera House and in historic venues across America with Pop-Up Magazine. After making stories on staff at the award-winning podcast Radiolab for six years, she now lives in Australia and works freelance. She is currently a National Geographic Explorer.