You're listening to the microversion of the Savage Love cast at Savage.loaf.

The New York Times had a story this weekend and they run up to Halloween.

Hadline How Horror Stories helped 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 apocalypsees, said they felt more mentally prepared,

or 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 Savage Love Cast.

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 Savage Love Cast.

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 hymen 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

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