Savage Love Episode 697

Savage Lovecast

Dan Savage

Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

A gay man was hooking up at a bathhouse. His brand new lover wanted to bring a little romance into the encounter by saying the caller's name and complimenting him. The caller was horrified. Isn't bathhouse sex supposed to be anonymous? Meanwhile, in another corner of our universe, a woman is appalled that her boyfriend closes his eyes when they're having sex. How can she get him to gaze deeply into her soul while pounding her real good? On the Magnum version of the show, Dan chats with stand-up comedian, and podcaster Cameron Esposito about her new book: Save Yourself, and how queerness and the experience of being closeted impacts her comedy. Finally, a married man with a one year-old child bemoans the quality of the "service sex" he's getting these days. With he ever see the return of enthusiastic rutting? 206-302-2064 voicemail@savagelovecast.com This episode is brought to you by Squarespace. They make it easy to build a website or blog. Give it a whirl at and if you want to buy it, use the code Savage for a 10% off your first purchase. This episode is brought toy by Tushy- the modern bidet attachment that washes your ass completely. Go to and get 10% off your order with promo code SAVAGE. Stop wiping and start washing with TUSHY. Today’s Lovecast is brought to you by MeUndies.com: High quality, super-comfortable, good looking undies. Get 15% off your first order when you go to .

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0:00.0	You're listening to the microversion of the Savage Lovecast, www.com.
0:06.5	If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony,
0:16.2	well, there's nothing you can't ask on Savage Lovecast.
0:25.1	Super Tuesday isn't going to throw me because my vote is blue.
0:32.6	Yeah, no matter who.
0:36.6	And I'm hoping that your vote is too.
0:40.4	Sorry about that, everybody.
0:42.4	But Super Trooper has been stuck in my head all day because it's Super Tuesday.
0:47.4	Super Tuesday, Super Trooper.
0:49.0	Super Tuesday, Super Trooper.
0:50.5	Here's a fun fact.
0:51.8	Super Trooper was released on Monday, November 3rd, 1980, almost 40 years ago.
0:57.1	And here's the unfun follow-up fact. The very next day, Tuesday, November 4th, 1980,
1:03.5	Ronald Reagan was elected president of the United States in a landslide. A landslide that brought
1:08.5	us supply-side economics, also known as voodoo economics, now best understood as a brain-eating monster that cannot be killed.
1:15.9	A zombie idea is a belief or doctrine that has repeatedly been proved false but refuses to die, writes New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.
1:24.5	Instead, it just keeps shambling along eating people's brains. And the
1:28.7	zambiest of zombie ideas out there plague, says Krugman, the Republican Party. They have,
1:34.0	he writes, taken over the Republican Party. Zombies seem to prefer Republican brains, which
1:40.2	must be delicious, considering the effort it has to take to find them.
1:47.5	And the worst zombie idea shambling around out there refusing to die?
1:50.0	Krugman writes about it at length in his new book,
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