Savage Love Episode 490
Savage Lovecast
Dan Savage
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast, www.com. |
| 0:06.6 | If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony, |
| 0:16.1 | well, there's nothing you can't ask on the Savage Lovecast. |
| 0:24.9 | Jake 2K on Savage Lovecast.com, and one of the comments threads on last week's show, wrote, |
| 0:31.3 | anybody want to guess what next week's intro rant is going to be about? |
| 0:35.9 | I think what Jake is expecting me to rant about is Hillary Clinton |
| 0:40.5 | that I'm going to angrily pound the table and scream and yell about Hillary Clinton. And that's |
| 0:43.4 | actually not what I'm going to do this week. I'm not going to scream and yell about what Hillary |
| 0:48.1 | Clinton said about Nancy and Ronald Reagan starting a national conversation about AIDS in the 1980s when they were president and |
| 0:57.1 | the first lady. |
| 0:57.6 | I'm not going to rant about that. |
| 0:58.7 | Actually, I'm not going to scream and yell at Hillary Clinton. |
| 1:00.6 | I'm going to thank Hillary Clinton for what she said. |
| 1:04.7 | And here, if you missed it, is what she said. |
| 1:07.6 | It may be hard for your viewers to remember how difficult it was for people to talk about |
| 1:12.9 | HIV AIDS back in the 1980s. And because of both President and Mrs. Reagan, in particular, |
| 1:19.4 | Mrs. Reagan, we started a national conversation when before nobody would talk about it, nobody |
| 1:24.9 | wanted to do anything about it. And, you know, that, too, is something that I really appreciate with her very effective, low-key advocacy, |
| 1:35.7 | but it penetrated the public conscience. |
| 1:38.5 | And people began to say, hey, we have to do something about this, too. |
| 1:42.8 | You could only say that Nancy and Ronald Reagan started a national conversation about HIV AIDS. |
| 1:49.0 | If people screaming, desperate, dying people, terrified people screaming at Nancy and Ronald Reagan, |
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