Savage Lovecast Episode 846
Savage Lovecast
Dan Savage
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast at savage.love. |
| 0:05.0 | If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony, |
| 0:14.4 | well, there's nothing you can't ask on the Savage Lovecast. Happy Feast of the Savage Lovecast. |
| 0:23.0 | Happy Feast of the Ass to all who celebrate. |
| 0:26.3 | January 14th is the Feast of the Ass. |
| 0:29.0 | I talked about it last year. |
| 0:30.2 | I'm going to talk about it again this year. |
| 0:32.3 | Gretchen may not be able to make Fetch happen, |
| 0:35.2 | but fuck you, Regina. |
| 0:36.5 | I am going to make Feast of the Ass happen. |
| 0:39.9 | Feast of the Ass. It was a medieval feast day. It fell on January 14th. It falls on January 14th. This |
| 0:45.7 | year, it was a Catholic holiday celebrating the Holy Family's flight into Egypt. King Herod, |
| 0:52.2 | King of the Jews at the time, according to a story in the gospel of Matthew, |
| 0:55.8 | ordered that all male children under the age of two in Bethlehem be murdered. There was a prophecy |
| 1:01.6 | that a child born in Bethlehem was going to be king of the Jews one day, and Herod didn't want |
| 1:05.3 | to not be king of the Jews one day, so kill all the kids. But an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream and warned him. So the |
| 1:13.5 | Holy Family, Jesus, Mary and Joseph got the hell out of Bethlehem on a donkey. And no, to answer |
| 1:20.8 | the obvious next question, Mary and Joseph did not warn any of the other new parents in Bethlehem |
| 1:26.1 | about what Herod was planning to do, |
| 1:28.0 | and all their babies were murdered. |
| 1:30.4 | Because God works in mysterious ways, and God won't be taking any more questions at this time. |
| 1:35.9 | Moving on, Catholics celebrated the Feast of the Ass for centuries, for hundreds of years. |
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