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Our next guest, John Paul Brammer, writes the popular column, Ola Pappy, which he started in 2017 when dating app

Grindr launched the LGBTQ site into and needed steady content.

He soon realized he tapped into a trove of unmet demand for gay dating advice from how to survive bullies to how to survive the pandemic while single.

Brammer, who grew up in rural Oklahoma, has written for various publications, including The Guardian, Teen Vogue, The Trevor Project, Condonass, and Netflix.

He joins us now to talk about his new memoir, Ola Pappy, how to come out in a Walmart parking lot and other life lessons.

It is based on his column.

John Paul Brammer, welcome to Forum.

I'm happy to be here.

Thank you for having me.

Well, I'm happier here. I've been having a lot of

fun reading your advice columns, which are really more like memoirs, snippets of your life.

I want to know, you know, to start with sort of how this came about. I mentioned that

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