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

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. Did you hear about the Pope? It happened a couple of weeks

back. You probably already heard about it. The Pope told nuns that they needed to delete the porn

from their smartphones. That was kind of funny. Didn't see that coming. Wasn't't on my 20-22 bingo card, as they say.

But, yeah, there's a couple weeks ago you probably already heard about it.

You probably already heard about Elon Musk buying Twitter, taking control of Twitter last week.

That has been an unfunny shit show, but you probably heard about that.

Did you hear, though, about the National Park Service

asking Americans to stop licking toads? It's true. They did. The Park Service asked Americans

who are out there licking toads to please stop. There are apparently some hallucinogenic effects

depending on the toad, but it can make you really sick, and I can't

imagine it's very good for the toads either. So you should probably not lick toads. You probably

shouldn't buy powerball tickets either. The prize for the lottery is now up over $2 billion.

Biggest lottery prize in history.

Playing the lottery is a waste of money.

It is a tax on fools, as the Italian nobleman who ran the lottery for his country in the 18th century, famously observed.

So it's not exactly new news that the lottery, or lotteries, all of them everywhere, are a scam.

The odds are stacked so astronomically against you winning the lottery that it amounts to, quote,

attacks on the mathematically challenged, which is how Roger Jones, professor of mathematics at DePaul University in Chicago put it.

It's just a nice way of saying, as other people have said, that lotteries are a tax on stupidity.

I bought my lottery tickets this morning, and I don't want you buying one that will decrease my chances of winning,

...