You're going to be. Hello and

I'm Brian Lauter, an editor at Slate's LGBT-podcast.

I'm Brian Lauter, an editor at Slate,

and I'm your loyal host for this week,

which is a very good week indeed because it's time again for advice.

Not only that, but we have a very special theme for that advice, Polyamore.

Before we get to that, I just want to give a big thank you out to those of you who send in letters and listeners just a reminder to please send in more.

We are doing these advice episodes monthly or thereabout so the more of your problems, low stakes or high drama,

that we can get the better this is going to be. As always, send voice memos if you can. We love the voice

memos or letters to outward podcast at slate.com. Okay like I said the theme this time is

polyamory why well because we seem to be in something of like a capital M moment

for poly at least in terms of mainstream cultural interests. Obviously a lot of us have been Polly for a long time but

the mainstream cultural institutions are paying attention right now. In the last few months we've seen magazine cover stories we've seen think

pieces buzzing memoirs whole segments of the view about it for some reason for better or

worse the debut of this show on Peacock Couple to Thruple which we might talk

about in a future episode.

We'll see.

A lot of this has felt, I don't know, for lack of a better word, like kind of straight to me.

So we thought it would be good to address a few advice questions about Polyamory here amongst queer family.

As listeners probably know, I myself fall under the Poly umbrella in one of those thruples, but

I do consider my experience to be pretty basic, things considered so we wanted to bring a real expert on to help with your metamore and nesting partner conundrums and that wonderful expert is Ashley Ray. Ashley Ray is a comedian, actor, writer, and podcast host

currently based in Los Angeles.

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