Sweet friends, it is I, detrustle, and you are listening to the Dunk of Trustle Family Hour Podcast.

And one thing I've learned over the years of doing this podcast is that if I'm having a hard time

getting a podcast intro recorded, it's because there's something I'm afraid to talk about.

And the way I deal with this is I will either sort of skirt around the issue.

I'll do the ultra cop out, which is like, we got a great episode, no need for an intro.

Or I'll try to do some kind of like really psychedelic, funny, weird thing in the beginning.

But all these are usually attempts to

procrastinate saying what's going on. And I think that's not necessarily the worst thing in the world,

because sometimes it takes a little bit of time to really figure out what it is you're thinking or what it is that you're going through.

And yet I always feel a kind of

aching guilt when I'm not honest with you guys about what's happening because over the years that I've been doing this thing,

what I've learned is whenever I'm honest with you, usually the feedback I get is thanks for being so honest that helped a lot.

And then you'll often give me little tips or advice or things for me to think about

that encourage me to be more honest the next time.

So I always feel like I'm letting you down a little bit if I don't fully report in.

So fuck it. Here's what's going on. I'm just going to say it.

It's probably going to come out in some imperfect way, of course, duh.

But I'm just going to say it and then we're going to dive into this hilariously weird episode with Johnny Pemberton.

All right, here's the thing. Since that Chris Ryan episode,

I have been

experimenting with

non-monogamy polyamory. I've been seeing two wonderful beings who have a lot of experience being

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