Goody, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. Here's a dangerous idea for you.

You open an app on your phone. You identify someone who you might like to have sex with.

You chat with them briefly. You give them your home address. They come over. You have sex with this random individual.

They leave. And you expect that to fulfill you, to fill you up and provide you with some sense of meaning and connection

in your life.

That is and has been the modus operandus of many a young gay person for the past few decades. And where is it leaving

them all? Is there something to be said for the social conservatives call for fidelity and

monogamy to be somewhat elevated as an aspiration, as a better way of life? These are the kinds

of issues that are being wrestled with.

In a new play at the Sydney Opera House,

it's been a smash hit at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival,

produced by the same people who brought you Fleabag and Baby Rainier

to humongous British television shows that also began as one-person shows

at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. And so the star of the show,

who is a two-time Tony nominated actor and the writer of the show, also an award-winning

playwright and screenwriter, came by the Uncomfortable Conversations studio on the day of their

opening night at the Sydney

Opera House to wrestle with these ideas with promiscuity and fulfillment and grief

and self-worth and mental health and cultural malaise, sex on stage and why Australians and

Brits seem so allergic to American notions of self-help.

This was a wonderful chat.

I hope you enjoy as much as I did.

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