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On the saddest lovecast.

I'm not even going to try to pronounce that word. The one the Pope had to

apologize for using last week. The current Pope, the nice Pope, the who am I

a judge Pope, the being gay is not a crime Pope, that Pope.

Someone ratted the Pope out for using an anti-gay slurr during a private closed closet doors meeting

with 250 Catholic bishops in Italy last week and yeah I'm not even

going to try to say it out loud because I have a problem if I see an unfamiliar word in print first, I hear it in my head, and if I don't hear it in my head, the way it's supposed to be pronounced, doesn't matter.

How many times I hear the word pronounced correctly after that doesn't

matter how many times I'm corrected what I heard in my head when I read the word for the

first time that's how it's going to come out of my mouth

for the rest of my life.

A Savage Lovecast listener who obviously knows what I'm like,

called in with the correct pronunciation.

Hi, Janet and everybody.

The word is pronounced.

Prochadginay.

Bye.

It was a valiant attempt to get out in front of my brain and one I very much appreciate,

caller, but it came too late. I'd already read the word

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