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Savage Lovecast

Savage Love Episode 352

Savage Lovecast

Dan Savage

Relationships, Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Society & Culture

4.66.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2013

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Listen in as Dan Savage and Ari Shapiro (fancy-pants White House correspondent for NPR) drink, talk about monogamy and Dan's book, drink, talk about covering the Mitt Romney campaign, something about Dan's son "coming out" as straight, drink, talk and then drink.  This all went down on Father's Day at Town Hall in Seattle. It's super fun.  Be sure to listen for the ill-timed champagne cork.  Today's episode is brought to you by . Get 50 percent off almost any item when you enter "Savage" at checkout.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast, www.com.

0:06.7

If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony,

0:14.3

while there's nothing you can't ask on the Savage Podcast.

0:24.8

Hey everybody, it's Dan.

0:26.1

We're going to do something just a little bit different this week.

0:29.2

I'm on vacation, and instead of skipping a show or doing a greatest hits,

0:32.8

we've decided to broadcast an interview that I did with Ari Shapiro.

0:36.9

He's the White House correspondent for National public radio and a terrific and funny and

0:41.7

insightful reporter and guy.

0:43.5

And when the new book came out, when American Savage came out, Ari and I sat down for a long

0:48.1

conversation at Town Hall in Seattle about the book, about gay politics, about life, about

0:52.9

fatherhood, about all sorts of things.

0:55.5

And it's a terrific conversation.

0:57.9

It was originally supposed to be aired on public radio, but we used a few too many F-bombs for it to make public radio.

1:04.7

So we're sharing with all of you on the podcast.

1:07.8

A quick programming note, there was a reception before the talk. So Ari and I had a

1:13.2

couple of drinks at the reception before the talk, and then somebody thought it would be really

1:16.9

a good idea to send us out on stage with more drinks. So we were a little tipsy at the beginning

1:23.3

of the convo, and we got tipsier and tipsier and tipsier and tips here as the Convo went on. It's a good

1:28.7

time and thank you to Ari for coming out to Seattle and doing this event with me and I think

1:33.2

everyone's going to enjoy it. So here's a very special and weird and off topic episode of the

1:38.5

Savage Lovecast. Hey everybody. If you're looking to improve your sex life, Adam and Eve can help

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