Savage Love Episode 720
Savage Lovecast
Dan Savage
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2020
⏱️ 51 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 | while there's nothing you can't ask on SavageMubcast. |
| 0:24.8 | Thanks, BuzzFeed. |
| 0:26.2 | I needed that. |
| 0:27.8 | I was doing a little reading when I got up, checking out my go-to news sites, thinking |
| 0:31.8 | about what I might talk about at the top of today's show. |
| 0:34.7 | Trump dismantling the United States Postal Service to rig the election. |
| 0:38.7 | Trump thinking a temporary payroll tax cut that guts Social Security is what we need at a time |
| 0:44.0 | of mass unemployment, a payroll tax cut when millions of Americans have been booted from payrolls. |
| 0:50.4 | And then Trump sending his Treasury secretary out to tell Americans that Trump will make that temporary payroll tax cut permanent if we reelect him in November because blackmail Ukrainians didn't work out. So now he's going to blackmail Americans. |
| 1:02.7 | Or should I open the show by sharing my truly unkind thoughts about people who won't wear masks? |
| 1:08.5 | Oh my God, that lady at the DMV. And all those straight men, a majority of them, according to one study, who won't wear masks. Oh my God, that lady at the DMV. And all those straight men, a majority of |
| 1:13.4 | them, according to one study, who won't wear masks because they think they make them look weak. |
| 1:19.6 | So it was reading and stressing and spiraling down into a rage when my friend Betsy rescued me with a text. She sent me a link to a quiz |
| 1:30.8 | at BuzzFeed. Now, BuzzFeed isn't one of my usual stops. They do great work. They do great |
| 1:35.5 | reporting. I follow a bunch of BuzzFeed writers on Twitter. No shade BuzzFeed. But not one of my go-toes. |
| 1:41.8 | That said, maybe I need to start stopping by BuzzFeed every day, more often to calm myself down. |
| 1:47.2 | Because the link Betsy sent me yanked me right out of the hard news rabbit hole I'd fallen in. |
| 1:54.0 | Here are 10 different relationship scenarios. |
| 1:57.3 | Are these people cheaters? |
| 1:59.6 | It's a quiz by BuzzFeed staff writer Kelly Martinez. |
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