Plastic Vagina is a provocative, unfiltered episode where Tombo Baldwin uses shock, humor, and raw honesty to confront a serious cultural issue: our growing tendency to edit pain, awkwardness, and effort out of life—and especially out of relationships.
Using the metaphor of artificial intimacy, Tom explores how modern society increasingly chooses convenience, control, and comfort over real human connection. From sex and marriage to work, family, social media, substances, and virtual realities, he argues that we are short-circuiting the very discomfort that matures us. The awkward conversations, unmet expectations, conflict, and emotional labor we try to avoid are actually the training ground for depth, intimacy, and meaning.
Drawing from personal failure, grief, marriage, parenting, and self-awareness around narcissism and control, Tom challenges listeners to resist the temptation to numb, escape, or curate life. Pain—when paired with purpose and connection—is not the enemy; it’s the catalyst for growth and transformation.
This episode is messy, funny, uncomfortable, and deeply human. At its core, it’s a call to re-engage real life: build community, lean into awkwardness, risk connection, and refuse the shallow substitutes that promise relief but steal meaning.
Don’t edit your life. Live it.
What you agree with gains permission to operate in your life.
