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The Gist

BEST OF THE GIST: Dan Savage Edition

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.43.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this installment of Best Of The Gist, with the permission of the fine folks at the Savage Lovecast, we will listen to Mike being interviewed by Dan Savage of the trés popular Savage Lovecast, for his series “Sex & Politics.” They discuss the debate and the election, and Mike gives sex advice. So, there’s that. Big thanks: Nancy Hartunian, Dan Savage, and the crew Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at [email protected] To advertise on the show: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to our ad-free and/or PescaPlus versions of The Gist: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mike’s Substack: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, it's Saturday it's the Saturday show our usual format, one from the vault and one from the week, but I deviate from that format so much, I don't know, can we really say that which is usual it's like

0:14.6

the host of ABCs this week it's supposed to be Stephanopoulos his name's in the

0:18.8

title it's so often Martha Raditz and lots of times Jonathan Carl. I digress. I was on the Dan Savage show.

0:25.2

It is called Savage Lovecast. You normally have to pay a premium to get access for a

0:30.7

guy like me and buy a guy like me. I really don't mean a guy like me, someone who almost

0:35.2

never talks about sex publicly, or really that much privately. But I talk to Dan about politics, and I love talking to Dan. We agree on so many things. I think we agree on tactics. We agree on where we want to go. We agree on how to get there. Isn't that the stuff you need to agree on? So I will give to you my audience and recommend to you you check out Savage Lovecast. I will give to you that performance here now, Mike Pesca, your host on the Savage Love

1:06.0

cast. And so, I work out almost every day. In fact I probably should say I work out every day and then you know every day means you miss a couple days so it works out to working out almost every day

1:37.3

What I sometimes do is there are the exercises that I'm very familiar with and know how to do, but I'm so familiar with them.

1:45.0

They get a little boring and I want to challenge myself and hit parts of the old body that haven't been hit before.

1:51.0

So I find myself scrolling through clips

1:56.4

on whatever social media site or whatever video site

2:00.7

to see how to do a proper Bulgarian split squat.

2:04.3

Like you gotta sit through an ad and you don't know if,

2:06.6

like what is the qualification of this particular video

2:11.0

to tell me that I've done it right. It's extremely imperfect. Then I was

2:15.6

approached to do these ads for an app called Fitbot and it's transformed my

2:19.8

workouts. Fitbot is the perfect companion to keep exercises fresh and myself accountable.

2:26.4

The accountability part for me, maybe that's a big thing for you.

2:29.7

I'm pretty good with accountability.

2:31.1

I just need to do the right number of exercises. I need to do them properly.

2:35.2

And the fact that it tracks this in a fun and challenging way is extremely important.

2:41.2

How much recovery your muscles need. They give you these videos on how to do the

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