Podcast #74: Dan Savage

Drunk Ex-Pastors

Christian Kingery

Religion & Spirituality, Comedy

4.7 • 565 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2015

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, the DXPs sit down with infamous sex advice columnist and gay-rights activist Dan Savage. Highlights include Christian telling a vagina-centric story that shocks Dan and renders him speechless (no easy feat in his line of work), and Dan connecting with Jason over their mutual love of musical theater (to the point where Dan refers to him as "Girl!"). Dan discusses his sexuality, the Catholicism with which he was raised, and the origins of his "It Gets Better" project. And in a shocking display of vulnerability no doubt occasioned by his drinking almost an entire bottle of sparkling rosé, Dan tips his hand and discloses the various insidious elements of the Gay Agenda™. The discussion finally turns to divorce, cheating, and why gays want to be married so badly when straight people are finding less and less use for it.

Also, that thing of when an openly non-monogamous married gay man welcomes you home to Mother Church? Priceless.

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0:00.0	What's up?
0:02.0	I'm just chilling in my robe.
0:03.9	Yeah, dude. You're just big pimping in that thing. Yeah, I've never had a robe as an adult. So this is a new thing for me. My son gave it to me for my birthday. Yeah, and you've been rocking that ever since. I've never stopped wearing it since then. Yeah, I got mine in 1995 and I haven't stopped wearing it. I still wear it. Blue Terrycloth. Robs are awesome.
0:21.6	Yeah.
0:22.0	I've been trying to, you know, give people robe fever.
0:25.5	Catch it. I got it. I caught it. Cool, man. So we had the pleasure of interviewing Dan Savage.
0:31.8	Yes. And Dan Savage is a sex advice columnist. He's a gay activist. Gay rights activist.
0:38.1	He is the editorial director for The Stranger, which is newspaper magazine in Seattle.
0:44.4	What would you call it?
0:45.2	Yeah, it's like a free newspaper.
0:46.3	Yeah.
0:46.7	Yeah.
0:47.2	And he's also, he's on Bill Maher all the time and used to be on Colbert.
0:51.1	And he's, you'll often see him in the news talking about
0:54.8	LGBT issues and that kind of thing yeah yeah so it was a good interview yeah super nice
1:01.0	guy put a little disclaimer out there yeah that might be good yeah just a little caveat we said
1:06.1	sex advice columnist yeah he doesn't shy away from any topic you're gonna unlike us who shy away from stuff all the time yeah Yeah, you're going to hear some things. Yeah. You're going to hear some things. Some issues are going to be discussed that maybe you've never thought of. I'm excited to listen to it. I don't remember all. We did it a couple weeks ago, so I don't really remember. Yeah, I listened to it because I edited it. So it's fresh in my mind. And you liked it. I did. I thought it was a good
1:27.7	interview. I thought we covered a pretty wide gamut of topics. Yeah. And yeah, I thoroughly enjoyed
1:35.0	myself and I think he did too. Yeah. So that was fun. Yeah. So we got we got a couple new patrons.
1:40.3	We have a couple new patrons, Tyler Braconi and Gary McAlpin.
1:44.7	We want to, we're not going to do all the Facebook stuff today because we're just recording an intro, really. Yeah. But we did want to have a shot of alcohol. It's like, hey, it's 2 o'clock in the afternoon. It's time for a shot. Yeah, Seahawks, it's a half time. Yeah. So to Tyler Bricone and Gary McAlpin, thank you for becoming patrons of the show.
2:03.1	Yep.
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