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 ask on the Savage Lovecast. The New York Times had a story this weekend in the run-up to Halloween.

Headlined how horror stories help us cope with real life and worst-case scenarios.

And reading from the piece, people who watched scary movies involving depictions of mass chaos,

such as alien

invasions and apocalypses, said they felt more mentally prepared for chaotic shit like the

recent pandemic than people who didn't watch those films. Nancy, while I was reading that story,

I was thinking of the love cast. Oh, yeah? What were you thinking? I was thinking, you know, in the same way that this story goes into how people who listen to

murder podcasts about serial killers feel better prepared to, I guess, spot a serial killer

and run away than people who don't, who have less anxiety about being killed by a serial

killer, I think people listen to sex advice podcasts and read sex advice columns

like Savage Love for the same reason some people watch horror movies. It's because you kind of,

you know, you get run through a lot of worst case scenarios and then you know how to respond in

real life if you find yourself in a situation that you read about or heard about on the Savage Lovecast. So now I know exactly what to do if my husband leaves little jizzy

surprises all over the couch. Because you heard about that on the Savage Lovecast. Yes, now I know

to say, husband, please stop doing that. And you now know that if you're dating a doctor and they

don't know what a hyman is.

Yeah.

And they're a lady doctor who doesn't know about lady parts somehow, which they don't cover in medical school very extensively, but still that you shouldn't continue to date that lady doctor.

Yeah, maybe not date them.

And certainly you don't want that lady doctor to be your lady doctor anymore. No. I have to say, though, before we get to the business, we have some business to talk about today. That's why Nancy's joining me at the top of the show. It's really gratifying. And I've heard this many times where people said because they listened to the podcast, they were in a situation that

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