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Good evening, gentle listener, and welcome to Distractible. This episode, Wicker Wade heckles Hoctua, disses Diablo, and debates the deterioration of downtime distractions. Mortifying Mark loves boxers, then adeptly identifies the issue is egregious ego, and potentially player purchases.

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vacation all I ever wanted hi it's Nancy your singing podcast producer Dan is on vacation having a great time so I've heard so I'm gonna read the listener comments from savage.love what a kind smart group you are it's a pleasure to read these comments Okay, here we go. We start with frequent commenter Softig the Magnificent, who we love.

They say, the caller with two special needs children and a depressed spouse and complicated relationship. Is it possible to be open in all the ways Dan described but start focusing on reconnecting with non-sexual or very lightly sexual physical contact?

I've gone through periods of more or less sex, and one of the things that has helped is that we have a robust habit of physical touch outside of sex. I know that's much harder with kids, but it still might help. Yeah, thanks, Zoftig. Now, here's a comment from Facebook in response to the mom who asked how to support her enby kid. Public support when it's safe.

My parents came around eventually after I came out as a lesbian, but in the beginning I think it was tough for them to admit to their friends, co-workers, and especially extended family that their kid was queer.

It was hurtful to me that they couldn't just own it and claim it and say they stood by me proudly because I knew they were accepting me in private, but it would have been so empowering to feel that in public too. Then back to savage.love, JR says in response to last week's intro about the mice who get blasted with both testosterone and cortisone and then stress themselves out to death.

Dan wished there was an easy way to know how evolutionarily diverged he is from that ridiculous Australian mouse, which is actually a marsupial. Good news, there is. This website offers a research-backed evolutionary divergence time for any pair of taxa, timetree.org.

For example, humans and Antigonus last had a common ancestor about 160 million years ago, around when placental and marsupial mammals diverged. We can also check divergence times to other sexy species like sequentially hermaphroditic clownfish. Pomocentridae, 429 million years ago,

or pregnant male seahorses, also 429 million years ago, or praying mantises that practice nuptial cannibalism much more frequently in captivity than in the wild, 686 million years ago, or the fungus with more than 17,000 sexes, Tricheptum, 1,275 million years ago, or poplars which keep changing their sex chromosomes, 1,530 million years ago, Ain't science fun? Yes, science is fun.

Thank you so much. You can join the conversation every week at savage.love if you want to make a comment of your own. We love reading them. And now, here comes some listener response calls.

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She was a big city career gal in the big city with a career. And she was sparkling with holiday spirit. This year sucked. I just can't wait to go home and hide from the world. But to fully embrace this Christmas season, she had to leave the cold, heartless city and head to her charming small hometown.

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That's what I keep telling her. That's what I told her too.

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I threw a chair. Don't act like I can throw this kind of chair all by myself.

Saturday night. Wow.

Where'd Mr. Wallen go?

People who are like, God fucking is my right to bear arms.

This place had restaurants open until two in the morning. Some of these restaurants never even close.

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