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🗓️ 12 July 2022
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0:00.0 | You're listening to the microversion of the Savage Love cast at Savage.loaf. |
0:23.0 | I was planning to talk about the James Webb Space Telescope at the top of this week's show. |
0:27.6 | It's the largest telescope ever hurled into space, a $10 billion price tag, 30 years, |
0:34.7 | in the planning. The Webb Telescope can peer into the deepest recesses of space and time, |
0:41.0 | much farther out and much farther back than the Hubble Telescope, and the very first images. |
0:46.0 | From the Webb Telescope will be released today, Tuesday, July 11th by the President. |
0:51.5 | I'm excited. I think we're about to find out that the universe wasn't created in seven days, |
0:55.9 | and is more than 6,000 years old. And who knows? Maybe we'll catch a glimpse of an alternate universe |
1:02.4 | somewhere where the President went ahead and canceled student loan debt. Anyway, I don't want to |
1:08.2 | come off like some sort of cloud chaser, but I actually have a very weird, very tenuous and |
1:14.0 | very aggravating connection to the James Webb Space Telescope. Thanks to the New York Times. |
1:20.2 | The paper of record, all the news that's fit to print, first draft of history and all that. |
1:24.4 | And maybe I'll talk about that on another show. Because today, I want to talk about some breaking |
1:31.2 | news, porn news, news that's a bit more in the wheelhouse of a sex advice podcast, or a bit more |
1:37.7 | in the whorehouse or bathhouse or mollyhouse of a sex advice podcast. And it's good news for a change. |
1:44.0 | I feel like it's been forever since I've been able to open the show with some good news. |
1:48.4 | So that's why I'm not going to rehearse my beef with the New York Times and New York Times Science |
1:55.1 | reporter Dennis Overby today on this week's show about how they described me or overbeacused me |
2:02.4 | of leading some sort of campaign that doesn't exist to get James Webb's name off that telescope. |
2:10.4 | James Webb was an administrator at NASA in the 1960s when they put a man on the moon. But before |
2:15.6 | working at NASA, James Webb was an undersecretary of state in the Truman administration during the |
2:21.5 | lavender scare. He oversaw the firing of gay men and lesbians from the state department. |
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