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Scary Colors, the Labia, Dancing

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Sarah talks about why we raise boys to be afraid of colors. Plus, she gives a man permission not to dance at parties, provides support to someone newly diagnosed with HPV, and returns to Amy’s female anatomy class.

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Transcript

SPEAKERS

Sender 3, Al, Alicia, Mary, Isabella, Sarah Silverman, Noah, Sender 5

Sarah Silverman  00:45

Y’all, it’s your old pal, Sarah. And you know what I was thinking about, boy, I’m so blown away by Rory, who, early on, when we were dating, and I’ve talked about this, was like, you know, said to me, you know, really acknowledged that he was raised with such toxic masculinity and, like, it blew me away, because people hear that term toxic masculinity, and really it’s like, this should be such a part of the feminist movement. You know, there needs to be a men’s movement that isn’t like Promise Keepers or Oath Keepers, or whatever you know, but like truly, they deserve all our compassion, you know. Like it this is horrible, and in society has done this we raise boys and women, you know, I said I was reading this book by bell hooks, the will to change, and it’s about, really, how we raise men and boys in this society. And it’s horrible. I mean, it’s amazing when men turn out good. I mean, Jesus Christ, I’m attracted to masculine men. And yet, masculinity, what that is, and what we think it is, are such different things. You know, I love the the guy who chops wood that, you know, my step dad used to chop our wood for our wood stove that heated our house. He built my bed like the bed frame. He built our like house, like parts of the house. We had this little house, and he made a whole to me, that’s like, so like, I love that. That’s just skills and and strength and but, you know, we we’re so put off when men are afraid of their own feelings. We’ve trained them to be afraid of their feelings. You know, we say, God, men, should, you know, explore their their emotional side and their be in touch with their feminine side, and they’re so punished for that in our society. So how do we expect it from them, like we have to change, and even women who are hardcore feminists like myself are a part of it and and you know what we want in a man, and then what we you know, and then when they show weakness or emotion or have or are grappling with, you know, how many men do you know? And certainly I know that can’t feel embarrassment or shame without turning it into outward anger, because that’s what they’ve been fucking taught. We did this to them. Mothers raise them like this, fathers too. Of course, I’m not blaming women. I’m saying women are just as much a part of this problem. Anyway, Rory and I were, we just were talking about how filthy our iPhones must be, and we got in our heads, so we took them out of their cases, and we were wiping them, you know, cleaning them. And he forgot. He took his out of his case, which is like a green case, and he remembered, he went, Oh, my god, yeah, my phone is purple, like, and he said, You know what’s crazy, four or five years ago, I would have waited until there was another color available, but they only had purple available. I would have waited the however many weeks until they got other colors. Because to me, purple is like. A girl’s color. And he said, isn’t that crazy? And it’s crazy. I mean, it’s crazy. We raise boys to be afraid of colors.  That’s all. Just wanted to chew on that a little. All right, let’s take some calls.

 

Al  05:40

Hey, Sarah, it’s your pal Al. I went to your opening show in St Louis, and it was absolutely amazing. I went with my sister, and we’ve experienced a lot of loss together, so it was just super heartfelt and hilarious. Loved every bit of it. You just showed up and did what you do. Love to see it. And if I had a dinner with any three people in the whole world, it would be you, Steve Irwin and Lady Gaga. I wish we could make that happen so, but it’s fine, it’s not fine, but whatever. Anyways, so I just had a quick question for you, do you think it takes people longer to get to a certain place, like, Should we wait for those people? I’ve been with my boyfriend for three and a half years, and we live together, and we have a cat together, and like, for the past year, I’ve just felt like a total lack of emotional intimacy, and he just shut me out and explained that he does this in every relationship. So he wants to give it a go, giving him another chance. And I’m just wondering if it’s worth that, if it’s worth my time, or am I wasting my time? Is it never gonna happen, or should I wait for him? Because sometimes it takes people you know a little longer i don’t know. Okay, I ran out of time, goodbye.

 

Sarah Silverman  07:08

I mean, if he knows this is a pattern, and he does, because you told me he does, but if he knows this is a pattern and he wants to break that pattern, great, that’s great. But if he knows it’s a pattern and he wants you to just accept it, that is only fine, if that works for you and it doesn’t, it doesn’t you feel that difference. Trust that if you crave emotional intimacy, as one does. You should be in a relationship where you get that and do not waste time on a relationship that does not feed you. That said, if he really wants to work on this, and he wants you to mirror him when, when he’s closed off or at least just talk about it. If it’s mentionable, it’s manageable, boy, is that true? And I don’t want to plant this in your head, but I noticed that in a relationship many years ago, I just felt like everything felt different. I felt a closed offness, and he was cheating on me, you know, like, of course, I, you know, I realized that later, you know, but when it was over. But, yeah, that’s, that’s a palatable change. I hate to throw this into the mix, you know, or you know, and I’m not saying he is, but either way, irrelevant in a way, because this is not working for you. So if he wants to break that pattern, and that’s something he wants to work on with you, and he’s committed to this relationship, then go for it and see if this works for you as well. You can have compassion for somebody and still not want to take what they’re giving you. You know, if that doesn’t work for you, and you can even love them and wish them well and have a great friendship after but you know, this is your life. You’re responsible for your happiness in it. So I hope that advice helps. What else?

 

Mary  09:24

Hey, Sarah, it’s your old friend Mary. And I am here to hop on the reverse peen bandwagon and take it up a notch, because I’m here to say that the notion that women cannot pee standing up is a bold faced lie. And I know this because I have been practicing for a couple years. In fact, here’s how you do it. You throw out the toilet, you sort of squat down a little bit, and you can use, you know, one of your arms to, sort of like, lean up against the wall in front of you, if you like, get a little bit of stability. And then you take your pointer finger and your middle finger, and then you use that to essentially aim, you know, pull up and out a little bit. And I’m telling you, I think it probably works as well as it does for men based on what I’ve seen of COVID public restrooms. It’s been great. Hope you enjoy. Let me know how it goes.

 

Sarah Silverman  10:21

I’m doing that tonight. Wait, so you’re this is me being vulnerable right now. I’ve learned a lot about my vagina doing this podcast. I know that the vagina is just the canal, so I’m already mislabeling it the vulva. The whole kit and caboodle is the vulva. And I know the the the penis hole slash baby hole, which there’s got to be a, probably a better right, is the vagina, right? And I know that P comes out of my urethra hall, tiny, little hole, and that’s basically like a penis hole. Is the the urethra, and, oh, and so my question is to y’all in the booth over there, and I feel like I’ve asked this before, but I don’t remember. Is that is my urethra on my clitoris.

 

Isabella  11:25

I’m gonna jump in here. I first want to let Mary know our caller, yeah, that Sarah is not good at peeing standing up. I’ve urinated with her many times.

 

Sarah Silverman  11:39

No, you’re talking about squatting. I don’t have the the glute strength at this point that you have. She Amy papers the seat 11 fold and then never touches it. She squats, basically.

 

Isabella  11:57

It’s because people are filthy, and I know toilet seats are cleaner than other things, but you should have seen that airplane bathroom that I went into. You didn’t use the toilet on that. I didn’t I it was so disgusting. But do you know why it’s gross? Because people are disgusting.

 

Sarah Silverman  12:12

Because women squat and piss all over the seat.

 

Isabella  12:15

No, men do that as well. They miss the bowl.

 

Sarah Silverman  12:19

They pee on the floor.

 

Isabella  12:20

Let me just get back to the urethra hole, because.

 

Sarah Silverman  12:23

Yes, thank you. I just need an answer.

 

Isabella  12:25

Their urethra whole is above the vagina hole, so it in from back to front. There’s your anus, then there’s your perineum, which is between there.

 

Sarah Silverman  12:36

I thought it was like perineum perennium, okay.

 

Isabella  12:40

Then there’s your vagina.

 

Sarah Silverman  12:41

Got it.

 

Isabella  12:42

And then you keep going up and around, and then there’s like a tiny little hole that’s sort of in the hood, that’s your urethra, the hood of your clitoris. But it’s not really your clitoris. That’s a difference.

 

Sarah Silverman  12:54

Isn’t it? Like your clitoris is, like your penis.

 

Isabella  12:56

You know your clitoris is sort of inside, it’s that little nubby thing,.

 

Sarah Silverman  13:02

Yeah, I know. And because I was we, I didn’t we had a real scientific science lab last night, Rory and I breaking it down.

 

Isabella  13:10

I had a kidney stone, a seven millimeter kidney stone, about 2016 I know you remember.

 

Sarah Silverman  13:15

Always bragging, humble brag.

 

Isabella  13:18

And the reason why I know exactly where my urethra is is because I had a stent in after a surgery so that they could keep it open, so that you don’t and I went to the office and they did not warn me that they were pulling it out, which was a basically a catheter without any anesthesia, and I’ll never forget where that hole is again.

 

Sarah Silverman  13:40

Wait, I had the same thing happen after my whole, like, whole surgery thing with my throat. Yeah, I was, it’s a long story. I’ve told it, but, you know, I was like, in a coma, like a whatever, and then they brought me out of it, and I was done, and I was able to go home, like, a week later, and a male nurse, otherwise known as a nurse, but I’m pointing out that he was male. Went to take the catheter out, and he goes, 1, 2, 3, and he yanked and it didn’t come out.

 

Isabella  14:15

Now, if you were a male patient, I just want to point out that that’s not how that would have gone because men and their penises are so fucking fragile anyway, you’re right, but that’s basically when I had the stent removed. It’s very similar to that. It’s the it’s a cord, and they yank it, and it’s like every bladder infection you’ve ever had all at once.

 

Sarah Silverman  14:38

But I still, I’m still not. It’s no it’s not. All I’m saying is the penis is like the male clitoris, yes.

 

Isabella  14:47

Yes, but I don’t know that that’s like apples to apples comparison.

 

Sarah Silverman  14:52

Are you talking about the card game or.

 

Isabella  14:54

None of that matters. When men pee, there’s one hole. When women pee, there’s one hole. Hole, right? It’s just, it’s near, it’s near another hole. And you, that was your confusion, right? Now, I think that there’s one other piece of this, and that is depending on the size of your labia, menorah and Majora, so when you, if you’re standing to pee, going back to Mary’s thing, right? If your labia are not fully open, then when you pee, it bounces off things. And that’s why you can get like streams. You really need to be like.

 

Sarah Silverman  15:33

Yeah, mine is like a sprinkler system. That’s why I go. I don’t know where it comes out of, but it’s at least three to four places, but it’s not it’s one place, and then my.

 

Isabella  15:44

Just dripping everywhere, because your labia is probably like intersecting.

 

Sarah Silverman  15:49

It’s involved.

 

Isabella  15:52

Well, it’s, it’s just, it’s hitting it, oh yeah.

 

Sarah Silverman  15:56

So if I pull my labia, not labias, but it does feel like there’s two. I pull that kind of back. I could kind of use an upside down V kind of pull, pull that back, and then I use, she said, pointer finger and middle finger. That goes. Where did she say? To do with that? Pull up the like hood.

 

Isabella  16:23

I don’t, well, the hood doesn’t, okay, here’s, here’s what I’m thinking about. Like, if you have a can, you open a can of soda, and you pour it out, it kind of like goes everywhere. But if you have a squirt bottle, like those Gatorade squirt bottles, which is more like a penis, right? It’s gonna direct the stream more accurately. So I think it it has to do with the folds, but it also has to do with the fact that we don’t have, like a funnel coming out that’s directing our flow stream.

 

Sarah Silverman  16:53

That I thought she was gonna say, I can pee standing up, because I pee into a funnel, which basically, if you bring a funnel, you could pee like a man. Then when you move the funnel, you’re kind of scraping it up from your vagina to kind of get any excess. Then use a cocktail napkin from the bar to, like, wipe the corners of your mouth, so to speak. And you did it.

 

Isabella  17:18

So have you ever had to give a urine sample at a at a doctor’s office many times. Okay, so you know how you always have there’s like directions on how to do it, because you need to use, you know, those they give you. So the little wet pad that probably is takes any bacteria out, so that when the the urine comes out, it hasn’t hit anything and picked up bacteria, so that when they test the urine, it’s more clean. They also tell you, depending on what doctor and if they’ve been thorough enough with their instructions, to separate everything bulabia, so that your pee is coming straight out.

 

Sarah Silverman  17:57

I’ve never been told that, but that makes so much sense.

 

Isabella  18:01

Well because you can get a false negative on a urine sample for, like, a bladder infection, if you, for example, if anything from other areas drips in, or if you have your period, and then there’s, now there’s blood in your urine. Or, you know, sorry, this is disgusting, and neither of us are doctors, but.

 

Sarah Silverman  18:18

It’s not disgusting, and we’re all doctors.

 

Sender 3  21:07

Hey, Sarah, I’m calling with a question about dancing. Today, I love music, but I personally hate to dance, even if I’m alone, my body just has no natural inclination to move to the rhythm of a song. So when I’m at a wedding or a party or something, I will be having a great time being on the outskirts of a dance floor, enjoying the music from a different perspective and just talking to people and kind of observing the whole spectacle of it all. And I will be having a great time until somebody inevitably comes off the dance floor and kind of grabs your hand and does that thing where they playfully try to pull you onto the dance floor. Because I think the social expectation is that if you’re at a party and you’re not dancing, you must be not having fun, and you just need someone to kind of make you come out of your shell. And the truth is that I was having fun, having this great conversation with somebody else, until you now begrudgingly pulled me onto the dance floor and made me kind of dance against my will. So is there anything in your life that’s like that where there’s like a social expectation to enjoy something in a certain way, and it’s hard to make people see that you’re enjoying it just in your own different way. Thank you.

 

Sarah Silverman  22:33

Totally, and I completely It’s so annoying when your experience of a good time is different than someone else’s experience of a good time, and they think that the only way you can experience joy is their way, or they want you to to experience what they’re experiencing and and enjoy it the way they’re enjoying it. I love doing stand up, but I wouldn’t make someone do stand up if they didn’t want to. Like, express themselves that way. Most people don’t. I do love dancing when I’m in the mood or moved to dance, but if I’m not in the mood and someone like is trying to pull me out on the dance floor, that’s it. It does. It feels like torture, because you’re just like, I don’t and I do understand what you mean. Like, I stay in a lot, I don’t go out much, and people think, you know, I must be just home alone, not having fun. No, I love being home. I don’t get to be home, you know, like, if I can be home, I want to be home, and I love watching TV, and I I like, truly enjoy it. It’s not just like I’m mindlessly flipping the channels. I’m I’m, there’s television. There’s so much brilliant TV, and it’s just my favorite medium to consume. And I don’t enjoy necessarily going out. I sometimes I do. But, you know, it is funny, people go come out. What’s you know, they think they’re helping by encouraging me to go out. And it is good to go out. Sometimes, I don’t know, but like you don’t understand, I It’s literally my joy to be home. I love taking a bath. I love watching TV. I love playing video games. I’m on the road non stop when I can be home, that’s all I want to do. But yeah, it’s just people’s joy is different. I get trying new things. Like Rory will try to get me to try new things, and he’s like, you’re such a creature of habit, but like, I love my habits and my rituals. I like eating primarily, the same thing all the time, but Rory always wants me to try his drink, you know, like, he doesn’t drink much, but he’ll have, like, an old fashioned or he’ll have a glass of wine, and it will look good, you know, he’ll be like, try it. And I’m just like, I’m I’m not gonna suddenly like the taste of Al. I’ll take a little sip, sure, but it’s not going to be I’m not going to suddenly go like, Oh my god, I love to drink. And also, I don’t need to want to I don’t need to learn to love to drink. I think I it’s great that I don’t if I liked it, it might be a problem. What else?

 

Alicia  25:22

Hi, Sarah, it’s your best friend, Alicia. I’m just calling. I just got home from your show in Columbus, Ohio, and so I just wanted to call and let you know how awesome it was. Although you called it the post mortem tour, somehow it didn’t occur to me that it would basically be, yeah, 52 minute eulogy to your dadpie and your stepmom, Janice, and I think your mom too. And they’re spurs with so many hilarious little bits. I can’t believe that you, Sarah, can make something like flies that fucking funny. And I will just say anybody who says, are you gonna run out of material if you settle down and, you know, have a long term boyfriend and whatever else? Yes, obviously you can make anything funny. Um, anyway, I laughed really hard, I cried really hard, and I thought maybe the rest of the audience would also be crying when I left, but they were not. It looked like it was just me, so I was a little embarrassed. But it was beautiful. It was heartbreaking. It was just the most beautiful tribute to all three of your wonderful parents. I think it’s pretty cool that you got to kind of have two moms to fill in all the gaps so that the one couldn’t bring that was that’s pretty beautiful.

 

Sarah Silverman  26:41

Oh my gosh, Alicia, thank you so much. I’m glad you were at that show and, oh, there was still so much hope at that time. Yeah, I think, as some people have said that they’ve cried. I just it, just to tell the listeners out there, it’s not, it’s mostly funny, but it’s about, you know, the one thing none of us can escape death, and I feel so bad. It’s funny at the end, when I talk about how I have no more parents. And I mentioned first my stepdad, John O’Hara, died, and he didn’t even make this hour, you know, these dark I think I’ve always based my comedy on the kind of the darker corners of life, and this is death is definitely one of them, and so that’s what it became. But thanks for coming and thanks for enjoying it and what else.

 

Sender 5  27:37

Hi, Sarah. I am just done watching Love is blind, and saw a lot of hate online for Hannah, who was critical of her partner. And I see this as a double standard that we really can’t criticize men in our society or name the things that they’re bad at without being labeled ourselves as women as bitchy or controlling or nagging or nitpicking. But how do you navigate that when your partner is not up to snuff in a certain area? Obviously, Hannah could have done it differently, but gosh, she’s on TV and taking a lot of risks and trying to be vulnerable. So I wonder why we’re not giving her the grace that we give a 28 year old man who doesn’t know how to boil water. So I’d love your thoughts, thanks.

 

Sarah Silverman  28:36

You know, I don’t know the reference I saw one season of love is blind when I got my tonsils up. But I don’t know who you’re talking about for this, and so I don’t really know, but I I do think there’s a difference between criticizing your partner and voicing something that you feel, that you’re being affected by by their behavior. And I think that said very plainly, and from your point of view of your own feelings, it’s not like I feel that you’re being a dick right now, and so like, literally, your feelings can still be hard with men, because they can if they’re not in the right headspace. And then women, too, by the way, I’m sure they can feel like, Oh, I can’t do anything right? You know, no, that’s not what I’m saying. I’m just saying, you know, it’s like, here’s a silly example from me. It’s like, I’ll say something to Rory, and he will hear me, but he will not make any sound of response back. So now I’m put in the position to go, did you? Did you hear me? Yeah, I heard you. Okay well, could you just go like, huh or okay, and then he acts like my request is crazy. You. Know, Like, and I I understand kind of both of those things. But what I think I’m saying is I need some kind of sign that you’ve heard me, because I don’t know if I should repeat myself or not. It’s just like as and it’s also just kind of, I’m not to air out our we don’t have much dirty line. I mean, he’s like, the most amazing love of a person. But sometimes those little things can become like a fight, and it’s I just have to be able to say, like, hey, you know, if you say nothing back to me, I don’t know if you literally heard it at all, like I’m literally asking for, like, a a grunt, a sound, you know, but it is, yeah, it’s, it’s ego and feelings and stuff is a lot to navigate, and that’s what a relationship is. You’re learning how to navigate, how to communicate, how to how to, you know, take care of your own feelings and wellness and happiness without burdening or upsetting or your your partner that you’re doing life with. It’s, there’s a it’s not as easy as being alone, but it has a lot of benefits. Being alone and a lot of benefits too, don’t get me wrong, but learning to get along with somebody is a pretty great thing to learn in relationship. It’s a gift, you know? So you’re you’re in this thing together, and hopefully you both are in the same mindset of, let’s figure out how to be each other’s person in the best possible way for for both of us, we’re being together makes our both of our lives a better place than without each other, you know, but it takes a lot of work and a lot of working through feelings and working through the triggers of your childhood and all that shit, you know, it brings to light a lot of things that being alone wouldn’t bring up because you have someone now putting up a mirror to you. You know, I was just talking to Tess yesterday, who you know, and we were just saying, like, you know, there can be someone who’s in therapy their whole lives and they don’t get better. Why? Because what they bring to therapy is not their problems, it’s their things that they’re already great at, because they want this stranger to think they’re great, and that’s all ego, and it’s just a waste of money. You’re paying money for someone to go like, Wow, you’re amazing. That was so smart, good move. That wasn’t you, that was them. What you should be bringing into therapy are the problems. Are the things you haven’t figured out, or the things you’re not good at, or the things that you’re triggered by, and then react in ways that aren’t don’t feed you, you know, bring the work there, the stuff you have to work on, not the stuff you’re good at, and that’s on you to do. So not everyone does it. It does not doesn’t feel as good. It feels harder. But then when you get to the other side of it, it’s very rewarding. Sometimes you’re never on the other side of it. It’s just a practice like fucking yoga or knitting or sitting still.

 

Noah  33:31

Hey, Sarah, this is your pal, Noah. I’m calling because I can’t think of anyone else who I’d be more comfortable talking about my asshole with.

 

Sarah Silverman  35:37

Go on.

 

Noah  35:38

I am a queer male and I have unfortunately contracted HPV, that’s right, I have warts on my asshole, and it’s especially frustrating because I thought I was practicing safe sex. My partner at the time and I, we both got tested before engaging in unprotected sex, but that’s when I learned that you can’t test for HPV in men, and that’s also when I learned that this is a potentially lifelong affliction. I’ve been struggling with this for over two years now. I’ve had two surgeries to get the warts removed, both of which were extremely traumatic and painful, and I just had a doctor’s appointment yesterday that confirmed that the warts are coming back again, and after I got that news, I just sat in my car and cried for a while. Oh, sweet. I am extremely fearful that I may have just lost this way of sexually expressing myself. It’s definitely more painful in that area now, and I don’t want to put anyone else’s health at risk, and I’m really struggling to reach a place of acceptance about it all. So if you have any words of encouragement or advice, I’d really appreciate it. Thanks, bye.

 

Sarah Silverman  36:58

Oh gosh, I’m so sorry that just sucks. Listen, it’s, it sucks, especially if you bottom, and you can’t bottom, and that’s your like, you know what you that’s how you enjoy sex. I, you know it’s funny because I, I remember I read somewhere like, four out of five people have HPV at some point in their lives. I think younger people, now that there’s a do younger people get it now, HPV wasn’t a thing when I was growing up, or even in my sexual like awakening, but, or maybe it was, and it didn’t have a name, or, I don’t know, I got, I had one wart on my cervix when I was 20, and I got it zapped, and it fucking hurt, and it never came back. And but I remember, I was on my dad’s insurance, and he’s like, what is this for $2,000 which is crazy that that was $2,000 and I said, um, I had an award on my cervix. And he was like, oh, okay, I not want to talk about that. But anyway, listen, as far as I know, I think most people have it at some point in their lives, and most don’t even know they had it, and that they tend to clear up on their own in around two years. But you said this has been more than two years, and you might just be that like 1% of cases that deals with it. But I did look this up once, and it’s, it seemed to say over and over, this is not forever. This is like, you know, listen, I will tell you this, you did nothing wrong. You didn’t do anything wrong. It’s just this, if you are living having a sex life at all, this is something that might happen, and the person who gave it to you probably didn’t even know they had it, the person you know you but you know you have it. So then you go, what are the ethics of you know you need to either have safe sex, or would you be interested in top being a top at all? Or, you know, I there’s, you could always like, there’s mutual masturbation, there’s, there’s myriad ways to express yourself with sex and sexually, and you might have to find some other ways. For the time being, who knows, you might find something you really love. I think telling you know, you could have safe sex. You can tell your partner you know, and. Your partner is who doesn’t want to be with you anymore? Then they then get good riddance, because, like, who cares truly? And, you know, I remember a boyfriend I had for when I was very young, when in my 20s, and we were already together when he told me, he’s like, I have oral herpes, and he was so protective of me about it. I think I told this story. But he, first of all, he got it from his first kiss, which is just so sad, but, like, I didn’t care. And he was very like, like, for instance, most people don’t know they have HPV, but you feel when you have, like, warts in your ass. So then you’ll know, like, I can’t right now, or it’s I’m not, it’s not comfortable, or it’s I’m having a flare up, that’s all. And you do something else, you jerk off together, you there’s lots of things you can do, but I’m sorry, and it sucks, but it’s not the end. And I think most people, especially if you’re responsible, and like, say something or and can say, like, I feel a flare up coming on or I you know, they’re not going to care.

 

Isabella  41:24

I just want to confirm that most men and most women will have HPV in their lifetimes. It’s more more than half. It’s the majority of the population. And there’s no cure for HPV, but it does usually clear in a couple years, because it’s a virus. It’s like, if you’re healthy and you’re sleeping and you’re resting, you’ll have more likelihood of it clearing. So it’s just like, it is possible to have it become dormant and not become an active thing.

 

Sarah Silverman  41:54

Great. Look at that.

 

Isabella  41:58

And I happen to know about a great resource. We’ll put some resources in the show notes, but there’s this homeopathic remedy you can take called Super lysine pills, and it’s like a combination of a lot of different herbs that help boost your immune system.

 

Sarah Silverman  42:14

Oh, yeah, people take that for all sorts of reasons.

 

Isabella  42:17

Totally.

 

Sarah Silverman  42:17

Yeah, great. Listen, Google the shit out of it, and you’re gonna find a lot of resources, but there’s one, and we’ll put it up. And I mean, you are not alone. But look at this. It’s, it said, like four out of five people. So, you know, do your best. And you know, if, that’s part of the solution, what Isabella said, which is self care, wellness, rest, even if that doesn’t fix it, it’s gonna fix so much in your life, because the it’s there’s so much good stuff that comes from fucking getting rest and taking care of yourself. There’s no downside. So no one’s like, oh, I fucking took care of myself and got rest and I still have HPV. All right, fine, but a lot of other things will be great, much, much better because of it. And you’re not alone and you’re not weird and you didn’t do anything wrong. Okay?

 

Isabella  43:22

And one last thing, just because I know, I happen to know a lot about this, yes, is that you can get vaccinated for HPV. So if you know that you’re with someone, and you’re expressing it, and that’s a partnership where it makes sense for them to invest in it, it doesn’t prevent from all strains of HPV, but it decreases your likelihood of contracting it by a law if you get vaccinated.

 

Sarah Silverman  43:43

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