You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast at savage.

If you're stuck in a relationship quandary,

or if you're looking for sexual harmony,

while there's nothing you can't pass on the Savage Lovecast. I don't know about you, but I've been feeling a little touch and go over the last few weeks.

So for my sanity, when I'm not doom scrolling Twitter or breathing into a paper bag while I read the New York Times,

I've been making time for a little exercise, some TV, a couple of good books. I'm going to

recommend all three. In general, I recommend exercising, watching TV, reading books, but I've got

some specific recommendations I'd like to share. First, my new exercise routine. Cardio, lifting,

spin classes? No, no, and fuck no. Reservations. It works

like this. Terry makes dinner reservations at some place, a few miles from our house,

and I walk to that restaurant, earbuds in, podcast on. Not my podcast. I'm not one of those

sociopaths who listens to his own podcast. Now I'm walking listening

to Sway with Kara Swisher, the logbooks, The Secret Life of Canada, which I'm really enjoying.

The Gist with Mike Pesco, which I'm really happy to have back. Then Terry drives. We meet at the

restaurant for dinner. I eat whatever I want. I get a lift home. Reservations, my new workout

routine. As for reading, right now I'm reading

The Right to Sex, Feminism in the 21st Century by Amia Shinovasin. It's fascinating.

Ezra Klein interviewed Shinovason on his podcast. Go check it out. Worth listening to

and I'm sure we'll be talking more about the right to sex here on my podcast and soon.

I'm also reading Young, Damned, and Fair by Gareth Russell, which is about Catherine Howard, Henry

the eighth's fifth wife, the second beheaded in the old rhyme about Henry the A's six wives.

Divorced beheaded died, divorced, beheaded survived. Howard, the second beheaded.

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