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. Right after the insurrection, right after January 6th, no, no, wait, I want to be accurate during the insurrection.

There was a report that one of the rioters died after tasing himself in the balls.

Apparently, the guy had a taser in his pocket,

concealed in his front pocket, and it went off accidentally and repeatedly as he stormed

through the Capitol building. And the shock, or the shocks, from the taser to the nuts,

caused him to have a heart attack and die. This turned out not to be true. A man did die of a heart attack during the

insurrection, one of the five people that died that day. But as later reports made clear,

including an eyewitness account from a reporter for the New York Times, the balls in question,

which belonged to a man named Kevin Griesen, a Trump supporter from Alabama. They were never tased.

Griesen, who had a weak heart, did not have a taser.

Turns out didn't even make it into the Capitol building that day.

Griesen died on a sidewalk outside the building.

After the story was debunked, I refused to let it go.

There wasn't a lot to laugh about after January 6th, but this guy tasing himself in the balls? Yeah, I had to laugh.

So I embraced ball tase truthorism.

If right-wingers can believe that Italian hackers used Vatican satellites, which do not exist,

to alter vote totals in swing states and throw the 2020 election to Joe Biden, and if they can

believe Hillary Clinton runs a pedophile sex ring out of the basement of a pizza parlor in

Washington, D.C., which is housed in a building that does not have a basement.

The latter, being a conspiracy theory, that prompted a man to burst into that pizza parlor with an AR-15

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