Savage Love Episode 557

Savage Lovecast

Dan Savage

Society & Culture, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Sexuality

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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A man is just about to end his Grindr relationship with a dude whose girlfriend knows nothing of his exploits. Should he drop the info on this poor girl before he leaves town? Dan interviews Seth Davidowitz, author of "Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are." Basically, when you look at Google searches, people are just as nasty as can be. On the Magnum, Dan chats with Viro, co-host of the furry relationship advice podcast "Feral Attraction" on furries, bestiality and fetish mis-matches. Also, what is the best way to ask the check-out girl at the CVS if she'll be your unicorn in a three-way? 206-302-2064 This episode of the Savage Lovecast is brought to you by : luxury, affordable fair trade certified sheets. Get $50 off a set of sheets plus free shipping by going to and enter Savage. Today's episode of the Lovecast is brought to you by - fashionable men's clothing curated and sent right to your door. Get 50% off your first package at when you use the offer code Savage. This episode of the Savage Lovecast is brought to you by Thrive Market, the new convenient way to get the highest quality, natural, organic groceries delivered to your door. Try it for FREE for 30 days and get an extra 20% off at

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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,
0:15.8	while there's nothing you can't ask on savage love cast when it comes to the republican health care plan
0:27.3	the american health care act as the house calls their bill the better care reconciliation
0:32.0	act as the senate calls their bill or the obamacare repeal and go fuck yourselves, as I like to call it,
0:38.8	Republican members of Congress, would they reach around from conservative pundits,
0:42.3	are trying to declare the truth out of bounds.
0:46.4	Hillary Clinton tweeted last week, forget death panels if Republicans passed this bill,
0:51.5	they're the death party.
0:53.5	With a link to a study from Harvard researchers that
0:56.4	says the Senate bill could result in 18,000 to 28,000 deaths per year in 2026 by 202026. Hillary was
1:06.3	scolded for this because, of course, she was, because she's supposed to shut up and go away now,
1:11.0	like John Kerry and John McCain did after they lost their presidential bids. Whatever happened
1:16.3	to those guys anyway. But yeah, it's the truth. The truth. People will die if the Republicans
1:22.4	get their way. People will die. People will be bankrupted. Older and sicker people will be priced
1:27.1	out of the health insurance market.
1:28.9	The Senate bill ends Medicaid as we know it. Medicaid is a government-run health insurance plan that covers millions of Americans, millions of pregnant women, single mothers, people with disabilities, disabled children, seniors with low incomes.
1:42.1	Rural hospitals will close. People with preexisting conditions will find
1:46.0	themselves unable to get insurance. If they can get insurance, it won't cover the condition that
1:50.9	they had that was preexisting. And you know what? Sooner or later, we all have preexisting
1:56.2	conditions. Lots of us, myself included, are born with conditions, born with preexisting conditions.
2:03.5	And we have Republican shitbag senators out there saying that people have preexisting conditions, have no one but themselves to blame for those preexisting conditions.
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