Welcome back to the peripheral. It's been a long month of trying to get these episodes out,

so I have two that are almost ready to go. Funny enough, I'm sitting in a parking lot in my car

recording this intro, so that gives you any insight into the way my life's going. Somewhere between

traveling and having to tear down my entire home office so they can do drywall and electrical work,

it's good times. On this week's episode, I speak to a very special guest.

By the way, everyone that comes on my show is special and awesome.

But when I was up in Philly doing the podcast movement, I met Josh, who had a very unique story to tell.

It does deal with sexual assault and rape, so just a heads up.

An interesting thing has happened in the last few months where I've received a lot of messages from men who have suffered from abuse and sexual assault. I don't want to put out

episode after episode on this topic, so I'm going to do my best to mix it up with other topics.

Also a very special listener named Kathy,

she asked if I was ever going to do a happy episode.

And I think that a lot of my guests have stories that have happy endings.

But I do think I have something on the horizon that is going to be a little bit more

uplifting, but in my own peripheral kind of way.

So let me get around to introducing Josh and letting you guys hear his story.

Thank you. around to introducing Josh and letting you guys hear his story. Introduce yourself and your podcast.

And then told the story.

I know it's not related to your story, but, you know, it's like a free plug, right?

Yeah.

And I actually did an episode that kind of touched on this, so it'll be a nice

little companion. Yeah, like a follow-up reference to. Okay. And usually when I do this, I spend

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