Welcome to another episode of Out of the Pods. I'm deep tea. And I'm Natalie. I just

want to say one thing before we start today's episode. After last week's episode where

we talked about long distance flings as one of our topics, we got so many like beautiful

love stories, a people who were in long distance flings and they churned into really successful

relationships. And I don't know, okay, this is so cheesy, but I'm like after reading all

of them, I'm like, I think that I can do this. I think I'm like a pessimist at heart,

but I think I also, people are like, well, the way you talk about it is like you really,

really like them, so don't downplay it. And you're totally right. Like I think I'm downplaying

it because I'm a little bit scared. And I don't want to make something out of nothing.

So I think I just need to acknowledge that, but kind of take me ways of faith. Yeah,

like a lot of your stories, like a lot of your DMs or emails, like really played a part

in that. So I'm going to keep you updated. I'm definitely going to see how it goes. I

think one big update is I mentioned in last week's episode that I'm dating other people

here in Chicago. I've kind of ended those things. I've kind of slow faded or how deep

do you like to say it's slow burn or let it slow burn? Because someone DMs me this and

they're like, you're kind of like hurting that other person you're dating or like wasting

their time just like how I don't want to waste my time. And they're completely right.

Like I don't think it's even though dating is like you should be dating other people,

I think like multiple people when you date, but you're right. Like I'm not trying to also

lead other people on just for selfish reasons. Right. And that's why oh my gosh, I think

that's why I love that we're building this community through this podcast because honestly,

it just connects us in so many ways because we're going through similar experiences and because

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