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🗓️ 10 January 2023
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the microversion of the Savage Love cast at Savage.loaf. |
| 0:23.1 | Happy Feast of the Ass to all who celebrate. January 14th is the Feast of the Ass. |
| 0:28.9 | I talked about it last year. I'm going to talk about it again this year. |
| 0:32.2 | Gretchen may not be able to make fetch happen, but fuck you Regina. I am going to make |
| 0:38.0 | Feast of the Ass happen. Feast of the Ass. It was a medieval feast day, fell on January 14th. |
| 0:44.2 | Falls on January 14th this year. It was a Catholic holiday celebrating the Holy families flight |
| 0:50.0 | into Egypt. King Herod, King of the Jews at the time, according to a story in the gospel of Matthew, |
| 0:55.6 | ordered that all male children under the age of two in Bethlehem be murdered. |
| 1:00.7 | There was a prophecy that a child born in Bethlehem was going to be King of the Jews one day, |
| 1:04.4 | and Herod didn't want to not be King of the Jews one day. So kill all the kids. But an angel appeared |
| 1:10.0 | to Joseph in a dream and warned him. So the Holy family, Jesus, Mary and Joseph, got the hell out of |
| 1:17.0 | Bethlehem on a donkey. And no to answer the obvious next question, Mary and Joseph did not warn any of |
| 1:24.4 | the other new parents in Bethlehem about what Herod was planning to do, and all their babies were |
| 1:29.5 | murdered. Because God works in mysterious ways and God won't be taking any more questions at this |
| 1:34.9 | time. Moving on, Catholic celebrated the Feast of the Ass for centuries, for hundreds of years. |
| 1:41.8 | And like a lot of Catholic holidays, it was a repurposed pagan holiday, an appropriated |
| 1:47.4 | pagan holiday, a Roman feast day originally called Servellus, during which people dressed up like |
| 1:52.9 | deer, paraded through the streets, and exchanged gifts to mark the New Year. |
| 1:57.2 | Servellus hasn't been celebrated by Roman pagans for thousands of years because there haven't |
| 2:01.4 | been any Roman pagans for thousands of years. And Feast of the Ass actually hasn't been celebrated |
| 2:06.8 | by Roman Catholics for more than four centuries, which means the Feast of the Ass, |
| 2:12.8 | Festum Assanorum is free for the taking. And even if it wasn't, if the Catholics could steal |
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