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,

well, there's nothing you can't ask on the Savage Lovecast. I want to admit to a bias, a bias shared by all advice columnists and advice podcasters everywhere.

We're biased in favor of the solvable problem.

If there's something we can say that might be helpful or constructive, we want to say it.

It's been a little

more than two weeks since Hamas terrorists murdered more than 1,400 innocent Israeli civilians,

men, women, children, infants. And two weeks since Israel began reprisals against Hamas, reprisals

that are killing innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza, men, women, children, infants.

And I haven't said anything because I don't think there's anything I could say that would be helpful or constructive.

If someone doesn't say something or doesn't say something right away, it's not because they don't care. I do care. I try to be mindful, though, of what people come to a show like this for.

People come for a break from the horrors of the news.

I'm obsessed with the war in Ukraine, a Russian war of aggression against Ukraine,

and I follow the news of that war very closely,

but I haven't talked about it much here because, again,

I don't think there's anything helpful or constructive I could say, or say here. There are tons of

news and current event podcasts out there. I hope you're listening to a lot of those too, but news

and current events aren't while you're listening to this podcast. You come here for a break.

A little diversion, maybe a little perversion. But I did want to say that I am aware of what

is going on and I am absolutely heartbroken and angry. I want all attacks on civilians to stop.

I want attacks, period, to stop. I want the hostages freed. I want the water turned on. I want Israel

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