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      "speaker": "Nichole",
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      "body": "I heard the stupidest fucking commercial the other"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "4.16",
      "endTime": "5.28",
      "body": "day. So"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "5.8399997",
      "endTime": "17.574999",
      "body": "there was a commercial for a fucking, like, prescription medication for something. Right? Mhmm. Probably restless leg syndrome. Again, I think we're back back around to that being a thing."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "17.735",
      "endTime": "23.575",
      "body": "It never goes out of style under late stage capitalism. Everyone's got restless leg syndrome."
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    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "24.215",
      "endTime": "43.504997",
      "body": "So there was an instrumental with this animation over it, and I was like, is that 's take on me? A rare serious brain infection that can be fatal or lead to severe disability may happen. And then at the end of the commercial, they sang the name of the prescription to the melody. So it was like..."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Clip",
      "startTime": "43.505",
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      "body": "And"
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    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "48.785",
      "endTime": "51.025",
      "body": "I was like, this is fucking dumb."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "51.025",
      "endTime": "53.024998",
      "body": "What if they called the medication on me?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "57.85",
      "endTime": "60.489998",
      "body": "Talking about love and sex and"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "60.489998",
      "endTime": "67.29",
      "body": "power, all on PolyAmateur Hour. It was right there."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "68.745",
      "endTime": "72.265",
      "body": "They could have. They didn't have to name it whatever stupid shit they named it."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "73.705",
      "endTime": "77.065",
      "body": "You should get into the biz for selling fake drugs."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "77.065",
      "endTime": "87.560005",
      "body": "I should get into the drug biz. Someone was talking to me about... Oh, we're talking about dandruff. And if dandruff is just... If if it's cured, they cure dandruff."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "87.72",
      "endTime": "88.44",
      "body": "Is it over?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "88.44",
      "endTime": "90.840004",
      "body": "Because we never talk about t gel anymore."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "91.240005",
      "endTime": "94.04",
      "body": "Yeah. Oh, t gel was a big one. Head and shoulders."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "94.04",
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      "body": "Head and shoulders?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "94.920006",
      "endTime": "97.560005",
      "body": "I use t gel, not for dandruff."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "98.12",
      "endTime": "101.125",
      "body": "For post lice? No. What?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "101.125",
      "endTime": "101.925",
      "body": "I think it was..."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "101.925",
      "endTime": "105.205",
      "body": "Fuck the post lice. You're goddamn right."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Clip",
      "startTime": "105.205",
      "endTime": "107.845",
      "body": "I want you to tell everybody what the fuck you gotta say."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "108.645004",
      "endTime": "109.765",
      "body": "Oh, my god."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "112.979996",
      "endTime": "120.1",
      "body": "No. I don't know. I think there's a period of time where my mom and I both swam a lot and were convinced that it helped get the chlorine out of your hair better."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "120.1",
      "endTime": "122.1",
      "body": "I don't know if they have T gel anymore."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "122.26",
      "endTime": "123.3",
      "body": "I can still smell it."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "123.3",
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      "body": "Can you smell it?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "123.86",
      "endTime": "125.22",
      "body": "Absolutely. Smell it."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "125.445",
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      "body": "Are we past the era where people assume uses for everyday products that are not actually on the label? Like, you know, back in the day, what you'd clean your carpet with seven Up or something or club soda. You know?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "141.26999",
      "endTime": "142.79",
      "body": "Seven Up. Whatever."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "144.15",
      "endTime": "145.59",
      "body": "I had a lot of ants,"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "146.79",
      "endTime": "148.39",
      "body": "but my carpet was clean."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "149.18999",
      "endTime": "161.41501",
      "body": "But I don't think people do that anymore. I think that people don't use the Sears catalog for toilet paper anymore. They used to, like, do commercials that you could soften your skin with palm olive just by soaking your hands in it."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "162.055",
      "endTime": "165.895",
      "body": "No. It was not by soaking your hands."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "166.215",
      "endTime": "177.12001",
      "body": "I literally saw an old ad, like, three days ago where it's showing, like, a a nail person for the people who do the nails."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "177.36",
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      "body": "A nail person?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "178.64",
      "endTime": "180.0",
      "body": "Like a nail person. Like a"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "180.0",
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      "body": "hand Manicurist? Yes."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "182.685",
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      "body": "Teaching a housewife"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "184.045",
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      "body": "I want to know what the word was after hand. Hand artist."
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      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "189.405",
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      "body": "It's their job. It's like they have a hand job. The... But I saw them I saw them showing a housewife how to soften her hands in palm olive."
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    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "200.48",
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      "body": "You're soaking in it. Dishwashing liquid? It's palm olive. Why are we talking about this again?"
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    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "207.2",
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      "body": "At the same time, we were talking about Because I challenged him that the alternative use was not to soften your hands."
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    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "217.215",
      "endTime": "221.535",
      "body": "But Daniel's insisting that this was advertised as a main use of the product"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "221.775",
      "endTime": "223.775",
      "body": "in the fifties back in his day."
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      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "223.95",
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      "body": "Back in my day. On the ads that I used to see on the Colgate Comedy Hour. He's no Roy Donk, but he was a regular guest on the Colgate Hour."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "233.87",
      "endTime": "239.335",
      "body": "Wasn't the Colgate Comedy Hour on the radio, or was it on TV? You tell me, old man."
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      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "239.415",
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      "body": "I think it was through the telegraph machine."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "242.455",
      "endTime": "242.935",
      "body": "Okay."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "242.935",
      "endTime": "246.13501",
      "body": "Oh. Calmolive softens hands. Stop."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "248.855",
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      "body": "Then how was there a photograph of it?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "252.17001",
      "endTime": "254.41002",
      "body": "Oh, sorry. It was a daguerreotype."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "255.45001",
      "endTime": "258.33002",
      "body": "A daguerreotype of a telegraph machine?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "260.81",
      "endTime": "268.36502",
      "body": "Old timey things. They're funny. Morning, honey."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "268.685",
      "endTime": "269.725",
      "body": "Hey, babe."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "269.885",
      "endTime": "274.20502",
      "body": "That's it? Hey, babe? Why, that's not funny at all."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "274.605",
      "endTime": "291.24002",
      "body": "Has this happened to you? Are you no longer able to perform your marital comedic duties? Don't worry. It's just your personality, and that's been hollowed out by the constant demands of performing selfhood in a hellscape of AI influencers and dying arts. But chin up."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "291.40002",
      "endTime": "296.675",
      "body": "All you need are more things, but not just anythings, old timey things."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "297.155",
      "endTime": "302.755",
      "body": "Oh, honey, you look so cute in your bow tie and pork pie hat. Are you gonna sing some barbershop?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "302.995",
      "endTime": "308.24002",
      "body": "Nope. I have no talents at all. But check out my collection of vintage typewriters."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "308.24002",
      "endTime": "310.96002",
      "body": "Oh my. You're so interesting now."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "311.2",
      "endTime": "322.015",
      "body": "And it doesn't stop there. Soon, he'll have non functioning cameras. Oh. An array of quack medical devices from the early twentieth century. They're so old."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "322.495",
      "endTime": "326.17502",
      "body": "And even an antique used on the radio ventriloquist dummy."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "326.17502",
      "endTime": "328.815",
      "body": "I'm Peter, the Surly Peter stall."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "328.815",
      "endTime": "350.22498",
      "body": "What? No. I'm... It's too late. He already dialed 80555 And it's all thanks to old timey things."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "350.22498",
      "endTime": "353.10498",
      "body": "Old timey things. They're funny"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "353.10498",
      "endTime": "354.145",
      "body": "until they're not."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "354.54498",
      "endTime": "357.82498",
      "body": "Great. Welcome to PolyAmateur Hour."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "357.82498",
      "endTime": "359.34497",
      "body": "I'm Laurel. I'm Nicole."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "359.34497",
      "endTime": "366.78",
      "body": "I'm Daniel. So remember that person who put up that fake PolyCule thing on the telephone pole. Right?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "366.78",
      "endTime": "367.5",
      "body": "Oh, yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "367.5",
      "endTime": "375.55502",
      "body": "And was just trying to low key make fun of polyamorous people. I saw that there was a follow-up to this."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "375.55502",
      "endTime": "377.475",
      "body": "Didn't someone write into us about it?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "377.475",
      "endTime": "382.035",
      "body": "They did indeed. So I have a lot of feelings about this. Do you have some feelings?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "382.035",
      "endTime": "384.43503",
      "body": "Sure. I have feelings about everything."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "385.715",
      "endTime": "389.52",
      "body": "So this brings us to our first segment that wasn't a question."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Song",
      "startTime": "427.52002",
      "endTime": "439.925",
      "body": "I'm okay. I I appreciate it, but, like, it's it's where that feels. No. I I know, but but it's it's cool. I I I can see it."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Song",
      "startTime": "439.925",
      "endTime": "444.58002",
      "body": "It's great. It's cool. I I really like it. Those days. Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Song",
      "startTime": "449.78",
      "endTime": "453.46002",
      "body": "Alright. You're just doing something anyway. So this"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "453.46002",
      "endTime": "456.82",
      "body": "is the segment where we give our unsolicited opinions."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "457.215",
      "endTime": "470.895",
      "body": "First of all, let's take a look at this video from the person who has finally come forth to say, I did that about the fake Polycule advertisement on the front pole."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "471.28",
      "endTime": "473.2",
      "body": "Isn't it, like, fourteen minutes long?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "473.36",
      "endTime": "475.12",
      "body": "Yeah. But we're not gonna watch it all. Okay."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Clip",
      "startTime": "475.36",
      "endTime": "490.415",
      "body": "I tricked 3,000,000 people into believing in an evil fake Polycule. Maybe more. Then I started like any other. I was feeling mischievous, and I decided to get up to no good. I scrolled through my list of ideas and decided to fabricate a nightmare polycule that was seeking a new member."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Clip",
      "startTime": "492.415",
      "endTime": "512.25",
      "body": "A few days later, it would have over 25,000,000 views, be the number one and number two topic trending on Twitter, and receive over 2,000 applications. The adverts were simple, black text in aerial font. Welcome. Thank you for your interest in joining our PolyQule. We call ourselves the Norman PolyQule, named after our leader, Norman."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Clip",
      "startTime": "512.775",
      "endTime": "531.31",
      "body": "The next day, I taped up 10 flyers while picking up my prescription from the pharmacy. To be honest, this was done kind of performatively because I wanted to post a picture of the flyer on Twitter that day. I have zero clout on Twitter. In fact, I have this sort of dual curse blessing, the kind that they do lot in fairy tales, where my schemes always go viral, but always from somebody else's post about them."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "531.38995",
      "endTime": "537.38995",
      "body": "Okay. So it's like I did something that I'm hoping to continue to monetize my mischief."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "537.55",
      "endTime": "538.91",
      "body": "I don't know that she monetized it."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "538.91",
      "endTime": "542.11505",
      "body": "Did she monetize it? This seems like a monetization thing."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "542.11505",
      "endTime": "553.67004",
      "body": "She is leveraging something as an influencer. She was like, look at how many clicks I got Yeah. On this. And it was picked up by news outlets Yeah. As well."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "553.67004",
      "endTime": "561.19",
      "body": "She goes on to say, it's just her gloating in the grossest way possible."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "561.43005",
      "endTime": "566.07",
      "body": "That's the problem with this shit. It's only funny if you just do it and disappear into the background."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "566.07",
      "endTime": "567.11005",
      "body": "Yeah. Be a Banksy."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "567.425",
      "endTime": "568.545",
      "body": "Be a Banksy."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "568.785",
      "endTime": "578.305",
      "body": "What if Banksy went on the Internet and was like... So I had this idea to destroy an artwork piece after someone paid $200,000 for it."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "578.625",
      "endTime": "581.985",
      "body": "It got picked up by international media outlets."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "582.14496",
      "endTime": "585.55005",
      "body": "It was on my list on my phone of, like, weird ideas that I have."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "585.71",
      "endTime": "591.39",
      "body": "I just went through my list of amazing ideas in the morning, which is what I do every day."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "592.91003",
      "endTime": "597.675",
      "body": "I was feeling mischievous and made some graffiti about how I don't like war."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "599.595",
      "endTime": "606.315",
      "body": "It got picked up by news media and ended up on every 14 year old's Tumblr."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "608.12",
      "endTime": "621.48",
      "body": "This makes me, like, feel super insecure about whenever I laugh at my own jokes because even though she's not laughing out loud, it is really, like, twelve minutes of her smirking at her own joke."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "621.585",
      "endTime": "626.465",
      "body": "She's not laughing because she has this really boring scripted thing."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "626.625",
      "endTime": "626.945",
      "body": "Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "626.945",
      "endTime": "632.705",
      "body": "That's like, this is my CV. But my CV is a joke poster I put up."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "632.705",
      "endTime": "633.10504",
      "body": "Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "633.10504",
      "endTime": "636.59",
      "body": "Yeah. And I just ruined the joke by making this video."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "637.79",
      "endTime": "648.43",
      "body": "So obviously, nobody asked us about this, or she did not ask us for our opinion of her. But She's bullshit. We're annoyed."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "648.43",
      "endTime": "664.665",
      "body": "Get off your foibles. Like, initially, it's like, you know, it could either be someone trying to go viral, or it could just be someone making a jokey joke. And, you know, the jokey joke got picked up and kinda spun out of control or whatever."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "664.665",
      "endTime": "668.37",
      "body": "Yeah. You could think it was art at first rather than commerce."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "668.37",
      "endTime": "680.455",
      "body": "Yes. Yeah. But then making this follow-up video, whether or not it was a joke to begin with Yeah. You just turned it into trying to be an influencer. Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "680.455",
      "endTime": "683.41504",
      "body": "Yes. And that is so boring."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "683.735",
      "endTime": "689.735",
      "body": "Can you imagine if, like, the comics that we know, like, followed up their show with"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "689.735",
      "endTime": "691.575",
      "body": "a second show"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "692.35004",
      "endTime": "696.03",
      "body": "that was annotating all of the jokes that they had told."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "696.27",
      "endTime": "699.79004",
      "body": "This joke has 32,000 likes on Instagram."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "701.79004",
      "endTime": "704.83",
      "body": "Does she address her jokes about Eugenics?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "707.215",
      "endTime": "708.735",
      "body": "Was there a joke about Eugenics?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "708.735",
      "endTime": "721.66003",
      "body": "There was a couple. She was like, we've decided that these two are optimum for the breeding pool. So if you want to be part of the breeding pool... Again, if it was coming from someone who was actually PolyAmateur or had some empathy for PolyAmateur, that would be hilarious."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "721.66003",
      "endTime": "723.26",
      "body": "Or like a real Eugenicist."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "727.34",
      "endTime": "730.94",
      "body": "Because it would be poking fun at what people think we"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Song",
      "startTime": "730.94",
      "endTime": "731.9",
      "body": "do. Right? Which"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "732.86",
      "endTime": "739.135",
      "body": "is decide who our most attractive partners are and make them breed."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Clip",
      "startTime": "742.255",
      "endTime": "747.54004",
      "body": "You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? Perfect organism."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "747.86005",
      "endTime": "752.82",
      "body": "We do have another example of a complete misunderstanding of polyamory."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "753.14",
      "endTime": "753.94006",
      "body": "Love it."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "754.26",
      "endTime": "757.30005",
      "body": "So this comes to us from Reddit. Duh."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "758.26",
      "endTime": "759.38",
      "body": "Oh, did they rebrand?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "759.72504",
      "endTime": "760.685",
      "body": "Reddit. Duh."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "760.685",
      "endTime": "761.805",
      "body": "Reddit. Duh."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "761.805",
      "endTime": "762.92505",
      "body": "That would be better."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "763.405",
      "endTime": "773.16504",
      "body": "Alright. So this is from the change my view subreddit. Change my view. Increased acceptance of polyamory and non monogamy makes dating worse for monogamous people."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "776.74",
      "endTime": "778.02",
      "body": "Love it. Love it. Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "778.02",
      "endTime": "790.98",
      "body": "I'm a 29 year old guy in The US and have become increasingly aware of the prevalence of people around my age seeking or involved in ethical non monogamy or polyamorous relationships and the increased acceptance of it as a legitimate relationship option."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "791.77496",
      "endTime": "792.495",
      "body": "Ten to fifteen"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "794.57495",
      "endTime": "804.89496",
      "body": "years ago, I remember that being poly was looked down upon as something that only Mormons did with no appeal to others. Particularly more liberal people who engage in it now."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "805.58",
      "endTime": "813.02",
      "body": "This is clearly someone who doesn't know the difference between polygyny, polyamory, ethical non monogamy, polygamy."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "813.02",
      "endTime": "816.3",
      "body": "Correct. I'm not trying to judge e and m poly people."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "817.835",
      "endTime": "819.35504",
      "body": "You're just illegitimate."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "819.35504",
      "endTime": "825.515",
      "body": "I'm not trying to. I just am. But it was better when you were all in the closet and hid your preferences from everybody."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "825.755",
      "endTime": "832.635",
      "body": "I remember when I used to have to announce my relationship style as illegitimate."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "833.77997",
      "endTime": "836.82",
      "body": "Right. Yeah. That was your your Facebook status."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "836.89996",
      "endTime": "841.45996",
      "body": "Yeah. It would... Before it wasn't Hinge, obviously, because that wasn't ten to fifteen years ago. Was like"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "841.69995",
      "endTime": "842.33997",
      "body": "Okay. Cupid."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "842.33997",
      "endTime": "847.45996",
      "body": "Okay. Cupid. And it was like relationship modality, and the options were legitimate and illegitimate."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "850.715",
      "endTime": "870.16",
      "body": "I'm not trying to judge e and m poly people for engaging in the kind of relationship they like when it's all consensual and has boundaries. At the same time as someone trying to date and find a monogamous partner, it's getting more and more frustrating to be trying to find someone through dating apps and social groups. Only to find somebody I'm interested in is PolyAmateur, E and M, etcetera."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "871.44",
      "endTime": "876.88",
      "body": "It's inconvenient to me Yeah. It's that not everybody that I encounter wants to fuck me."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "881.215",
      "endTime": "893.05505",
      "body": "Dating is already hard enough at my age in 2026. In my opinion slash experience, the increased prevalence of acceptance of being poly makes it worse for me with all these potential matches being uninterested in monogamy."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "893.06",
      "endTime": "896.5",
      "body": "They're not potential matches, you fucking idiot."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "896.74",
      "endTime": "902.82",
      "body": "And it's not that they're just not interested in monogamy. They actively do not practice monogamy."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "902.82",
      "endTime": "916.335",
      "body": "What I love about this is that he's also not saying that it's the prevalence of the nonmonogamy itself, but rather the acceptance of the nonmonogamy. Like, why are we tolerating these fuckers?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "916.335",
      "endTime": "920.815",
      "body": "I don't care that you're a lesbian. I just still want you to fuck men."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "921.055",
      "endTime": "921.775",
      "body": "Yes."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "921.855",
      "endTime": "928.48004",
      "body": "I want you to feel shame about it to the extent that you're willing to lie to me and yourself so that I can date conveniently."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "930.08",
      "endTime": "931.52",
      "body": "So the comments"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "931.76",
      "endTime": "932.08",
      "body": "Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "932.08",
      "endTime": "934.56",
      "body": "Thank god are actually trending in the right direction."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "934.56",
      "endTime": "935.12",
      "body": "Cool."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "935.12",
      "endTime": "944.375",
      "body": "One of the ones that I really liked was... To put it one way, this is like being frustrated with lesbians for not being interested in you. They were never going to"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "944.375",
      "endTime": "945.895",
      "body": "be. Nice."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "945.975",
      "endTime": "973.995",
      "body": "I mean, it strikes me as a pretty straightforward incel take, but I haven't often seen, like, poly people and nonmonogamous people, like, as the primary target for, like, an incel Yeah. Attack. But it is inherent in, like, some of the offhand comments that people have thrown at us online. Like, do you remember when we posted the pictures of us at STLV and somebody commented, why is that guy keeping all the pussy for himself?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "974.475",
      "endTime": "975.595",
      "body": "Yes. Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "975.595",
      "endTime": "984.38",
      "body": "Yeah. Yeah. Like, it's that kind of, like, attitude. Right? That somehow we're keeping people away from him."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "984.54",
      "endTime": "998.48505",
      "body": "Yes. Yeah. Yeah. They are so mired in their narrow worldview, which is, like, patriarchal and misogynistic that they cannot imagine a world in which you don't own us. Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "998.48505",
      "endTime": "1010.41003",
      "body": "Yeah. And so it is you keeping Nicole and I. Not Nicole and I being open to a myriad relationship. And having, like, free agency."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1010.49",
      "endTime": "1015.13",
      "body": "Right. But also, even if we have that free agency, we're making the wrong choice."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1015.13",
      "endTime": "1018.17004",
      "body": "Yes. Because women cannot make good choices."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1018.17004",
      "endTime": "1018.89",
      "body": "Exactly."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1018.97003",
      "endTime": "1028.765",
      "body": "And also, it's like presuming that we don't go to the, like, sex club and, like, I don't cosplay as a carnival barker, and I'm like, step right up."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1031.085",
      "endTime": "1032.685",
      "body": "Have this pussy I own."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1045.8201",
      "endTime": "1054.905",
      "body": "Okay. What's fucking wild is this guy posted again on another subreddit. Because he didn't"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1054.905",
      "endTime": "1057.3049",
      "body": "get the reaction that he wanted."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1057.865",
      "endTime": "1067.27",
      "body": "Yeah. He was like, I'm gonna waltz onto this change my mind subreddit. Get mad that all of these people changed my mind."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1067.67",
      "endTime": "1075.51",
      "body": "And he claims in the thread, in the original thread that his mind has changed. Yes. And he's like, please leave me alone now."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1075.51",
      "endTime": "1075.99",
      "body": "Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1075.99",
      "endTime": "1076.31",
      "body": "Like"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1076.47",
      "endTime": "1091.0349",
      "body": "Oh. Oh, this pussy piece of shit is like, I want people to hide who they really are for my convenience and benefit because that's what I'm gonna do on the subreddit. So you all will leave me alone Yes. Because I had a bad take."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1091.0349",
      "endTime": "1106.9501",
      "body": "Yes. So again, the tenor of the comments and the original post is basically calling him out as like, you're an idiot. Yeah. So this guy posts on the subreddit dating advice. Don't."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1108.645",
      "endTime": "1111.2051",
      "body": "Yeah. Do everyone a favor. Don't."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1111.2051",
      "endTime": "1124.45",
      "body": "Subject line. I was told my dating process is unusual and out of the norm for US dating culture. It feels perfectly normal to me. Who's right? What?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1125.17",
      "endTime": "1169.945",
      "body": "He says, I'm a 29 year old cis male living in The US. I made a post the other day on r change my view, expressing my frustration that I've been more frequently encountering poly and non monogamous women on dating apps when I'm strictly monogamous. In trying to explain why it bothers me, several people some openly identifying as poly, some I presume are, even if they don't say it, were questioning how I approach dating. The poly poly sympathetic people on my CMV post said that my way of dating was an unusual slash closed minded slash too strict way to date. It also suggested this is not the norm with dating culture in The US for people around my age, which I was like, what the fuck are you talking about?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1170.1051",
      "endTime": "1174.425",
      "body": "Yeah. Did you find any comments like this in the original post at"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1174.425",
      "endTime": "1175.8651",
      "body": "all? No."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1176.84",
      "endTime": "1178.52",
      "body": "Okay. Alright, kiddo."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1178.52",
      "endTime": "1183.7999",
      "body": "Some people just have only an out valve on their ideas. Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1185.64",
      "endTime": "1186.12",
      "body": "Right?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1186.12",
      "endTime": "1191.165",
      "body": "Yeah. Yeah. Out valve. Nothing's going in. Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1191.165",
      "endTime": "1193.965",
      "body": "But they're just churning shit out somehow. Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1194.605",
      "endTime": "1209.73",
      "body": "Yeah. And so the comments here are addressing this. It's like nobody actually went back to the old Yeah. Post and said, what the fuck are you on about, my guy? This one person was like, I'm poly and happily married and will confidently say that you're not unusual in your dating habits."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1210.05",
      "endTime": "1221.4849",
      "body": "Like so many people were like, what's the problem? I... I'm baffled. At the very least with the change my view post, he presented some kind of argument that was incredibly stupid."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1221.485",
      "endTime": "1222.8448",
      "body": "Yeah. And shortsighted."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1223.245",
      "endTime": "1227.1649",
      "body": "This is just complaining. This is just his out valve."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1227.4049",
      "endTime": "1240.9",
      "body": "It's because he's not putting it in anything. This is like... So I get fed so much content from like our Bumble, our Hinge, our Field now. I like... I think the Reddit algorithm is just like dating."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1240.9",
      "endTime": "1255.8251",
      "body": "Laurel wants to know about dating. Yeah. And all of those subredds are just filled with people who are angry that they're not good at dating and that they can't get dates. And it seems so clear that it is personal. Like, it is them."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1255.8251",
      "endTime": "1272.62",
      "body": "They are the issue. Yes. But they will do anything except accepting that they are the issue and want to complain about the entire gender that they're attracted to, about the, like, evil algorithm of dating apps"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1272.86",
      "endTime": "1273.58",
      "body": "Mhmm. Mhmm."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1273.58",
      "endTime": "1279.8049",
      "body": "Or how much it sucks that non monogamous and homosexual people are accepted now. Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1279.8049",
      "endTime": "1289.8999",
      "body": "Yeah. It's most people just wanting validation for their opinions. And it's the same thing on those dating app subreddits. It's the same thing on the PolyAmateur Reddit. Oh, yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1289.8999",
      "endTime": "1296.1399",
      "body": "Honestly, it's a lot of like, am I overreacting because my husband wants to divorce me?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1296.14",
      "endTime": "1307.255",
      "body": "Yeah. Am I overreacting because I did a lot of really good things and then this person did a lot of really bad things. Is it crazy that I'm upset about their bad things? So weird."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1308.935",
      "endTime": "1324.24",
      "body": "Have you ever had the inclination or desire to try and get that kind of validation off the Internet. I don't know that I have. Like, I think that I just wanna buy stupid, like, lamps and things."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "1324.4",
      "endTime": "1324.9601",
      "body": "What?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1324.9601",
      "endTime": "1327.4401",
      "body": "I don't know. Just like shit on the Internet. Like"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1327.68",
      "endTime": "1328.2401",
      "body": "Yeah. Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1328.2401",
      "endTime": "1331.625",
      "body": "But whatever the reason that I'm on, like, want to buy,"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1331.625",
      "endTime": "1335.7051",
      "body": "like, somebody's three d printed gibbitz for me."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1335.7051",
      "endTime": "1336.905",
      "body": "Yeah. Whatever. Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1336.985",
      "endTime": "1343.385",
      "body": "There's this guy who is using a laser printer to make decorative tortilla snacks. That sounds great."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1343.72",
      "endTime": "1344.68",
      "body": "Yeah. Give me that."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1344.68",
      "endTime": "1348.04",
      "body": "Yeah. Yeah. Give me that. I wanna go back to the lamps, though. Where..."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1348.04",
      "endTime": "1349.3999",
      "body": "Are we getting more lamps?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1350.6",
      "endTime": "1359.0",
      "body": "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't want to trigger you with PTSD because I know that you had a really traumatic lamp collector experience."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1359.3251",
      "endTime": "1360.9249",
      "body": "I'm just Oh my god. I did."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1360.925",
      "endTime": "1366.205",
      "body": "What? Wait. Number one, what? But number two, we could use some more lamps down here. That's all I'm saying."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1366.365",
      "endTime": "1368.605",
      "body": "I mean, true. Fair. Fair. True. Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1368.605",
      "endTime": "1370.125",
      "body": "You don't remember the lamp collector?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1370.2051",
      "endTime": "1371.405",
      "body": "No. What are we talking about?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1371.405",
      "endTime": "1381.0701",
      "body": "Oh, he was the guy that was also into Steely Dan so much that he called him the Dan. Yes. So then he's showing me, he's"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Clip",
      "startTime": "1381.0701",
      "endTime": "1382.83",
      "body": "got a collection of lamps."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1384.67",
      "endTime": "1402.6",
      "body": "And they are designer lamps, I guess. He puts on some music, and it's Steely Dan. And he calls them the Dan. And he's like, do you even know, like, what Steely Dan is, like, named after? Was like, yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1402.6",
      "endTime": "1405.6399",
      "body": "Like, vibrator dildo thing. Of course. Everybody knows that."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Song",
      "startTime": "1405.96",
      "endTime": "1407.72",
      "body": "And I was like, yeah. Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1407.72",
      "endTime": "1410.84",
      "body": "Yeah. Sorry. I know him as the Dan."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1410.84",
      "endTime": "1422.495",
      "body": "Yeah. Good old Lampy Dan. Lampy Dan. Anyways, those are opinions. Technically, this guy did ask for opinions."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1422.5751",
      "endTime": "1424.1749",
      "body": "He did. Yeah. This is true."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1424.175",
      "endTime": "1428.415",
      "body": "But may may I clarify? He was definitely not asking for our opinion."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1428.415",
      "endTime": "1429.535",
      "body": "1,000."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1429.775",
      "endTime": "1437.4999",
      "body": "We should go back, comment when this episode comes out, comment a link to this episode on his post."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1438.14",
      "endTime": "1444.1399",
      "body": "Yes. Yeah. Yeah. We really wanna activate the insults."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1444.14",
      "endTime": "1452.805",
      "body": "Yeah. That's that's our fan bases. We need more hate watches. Alright. What's next?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1452.9651",
      "endTime": "1454.165",
      "body": "What's next?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1454.7251",
      "endTime": "1456.885",
      "body": "Do we got an ask the amateurs?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1456.9651",
      "endTime": "1460.005",
      "body": "It is. It's an ask the amateurs. If you"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1467.65",
      "endTime": "1482.4349",
      "body": "Ask my amateurs. Oh, Liz and Vizna had put our names through the Wu Tang name generator thing so that we could have, like, business titles for our positions. And mine was amateur professional."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1482.515",
      "endTime": "1483.155",
      "body": "Amazing."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1483.155",
      "endTime": "1483.715",
      "body": "Right?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1483.715",
      "endTime": "1493.01",
      "body": "Yeah. The whole world is keyed into our vibe. Right? Because, like, two days after our, like, quackuversal episode"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "1493.01",
      "endTime": "1493.41",
      "body": "dropped"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1493.41",
      "endTime": "1496.29",
      "body": "the word of the day in Laurel's, like, word of"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1496.29",
      "endTime": "1503.855",
      "body": "the two days after. It was the day that the episode dropped. Quackiversal. Was my word of the day. On what?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1504.175",
      "endTime": "1511.135",
      "body": "I don't know how I started receiving these emails. I just started receiving emails that were, like, word daily or something."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1512.38",
      "endTime": "1517.2599",
      "body": "I know. Was it your dad that signed you up? That sounds like when Nicole started getting the comic news or whatever."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1517.2599",
      "endTime": "1518.86",
      "body": "Dear lord, the funny times."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1518.86",
      "endTime": "1519.8999",
      "body": "The funny times."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1519.8999",
      "endTime": "1523.6599",
      "body": "And we will never not get them. Oy oy oy."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1523.82",
      "endTime": "1536.415",
      "body": "Okay. Staying friends with exes. I know that Nicole is more of a they are dead to me style of ending a relationship. So there isn't much for her to answer on this one."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1536.75",
      "endTime": "1537.47",
      "body": "Thank God."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "1537.47",
      "endTime": "1537.71",
      "body": "I don't"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1537.71",
      "endTime": "1565.525",
      "body": "believe that. But how do you all navigate continuing to relate to past partners slash lovers slash connections after a de escalation in the relationship? I found that navigating previous relationships in the context of Poly and kitchen table Poly can be tricky when meeting new people and incorporating them into your established constellation of current and past partnerships. I'd love to hear how you navigate that."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1566.4",
      "endTime": "1571.36",
      "body": "I wonder what the difficulty is. I would like to know from this, Stuart."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1571.92",
      "endTime": "1573.36",
      "body": "Yeah. What's your problem?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1573.36",
      "endTime": "1576.08",
      "body": "What what are the difficulties? Is it like social? I"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1577.2",
      "endTime": "1583.4349",
      "body": "doubt that it's their problem. It sounds like it's their, like, new partners problems integrating or the old partners."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "1583.4349",
      "endTime": "1583.995",
      "body": "Or the old..."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1583.995",
      "endTime": "1585.4349",
      "body": "Yeah. Integrating."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1585.4349",
      "endTime": "1590.7949",
      "body": "One is silver. One is gold. But, like, is it social tension? Is it jealousy?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1590.955",
      "endTime": "1601.66",
      "body": "In the realm of this question, I think that I am the only person with actual exes that are, like, a regular part of my social life."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1602.06",
      "endTime": "1604.62",
      "body": "Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1604.62",
      "endTime": "1606.3",
      "body": "So I thought we might call some"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1606.3",
      "endTime": "1612.0349",
      "body": "of them. Okay. Okay. What do you think?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "1612.115",
      "endTime": "1612.595",
      "body": "Sure."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1612.595",
      "endTime": "1614.035",
      "body": "Alright. Put on your headphones."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1614.035",
      "endTime": "1618.2749",
      "body": "Oh, this is exciting. Do these people know we're gonna call them?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1618.595",
      "endTime": "1625.45",
      "body": "I just contacted them and let them know that, like, we wanted to talk about something. Oh. I know I'd give them a call."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1625.45",
      "endTime": "1629.85",
      "body": "Oh. Oh my god. They're... That would freak me out. Okay."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1630.65",
      "endTime": "1632.09",
      "body": "I would answer when are you dying?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1634.315",
      "endTime": "1638.6349",
      "body": "Alright. Let's start off with Francis."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1639.995",
      "endTime": "1642.475",
      "body": "That was the first person I thought of. Hello."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1646.58",
      "endTime": "1647.22",
      "body": "Hello."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1647.2999",
      "endTime": "1649.5399",
      "body": "Francis. Francis."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "1649.7",
      "endTime": "1652.9799",
      "body": "Francis. Francis is here. Oh,"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1653.7",
      "endTime": "1658.9",
      "body": "it's so good to hear your voice. You can hear me alright? I can hear you. Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1658.9",
      "endTime": "1664.2749",
      "body": "Yeah. You are live and being recorded right now on PolyAmateur Hour."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "1664.9149",
      "endTime": "1666.195",
      "body": "I figured I was."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1666.195",
      "endTime": "1668.835",
      "body": "I'm glad"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "1668.835",
      "endTime": "1670.3549",
      "body": "I came to the right place."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1671.715",
      "endTime": "1674.195",
      "body": "We could have been, like, savage love calling you."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "1674.66",
      "endTime": "1678.9",
      "body": "So Oh my god. Dude, fuck that guy."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1678.9",
      "endTime": "1683.62",
      "body": "He's never coming on our podcast now. No."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1686.3401",
      "endTime": "1706.5801",
      "body": "So we're calling because we got this question from a Stewart that is like, how do you deal with integrating past partners into your life with current partners? And we're, like, trying to figure out what's the problem. Like, is it the new partners that are not down? Is it the old partners that are not down?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1706.5801",
      "endTime": "1714.18",
      "body": "It's specifically exes, though. When you deescalate. Yes. By old partners, we mean deescalated relationships or exes."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1714.18",
      "endTime": "1717.14",
      "body": "We mean we mean old people like you, Francis."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "1719.105",
      "endTime": "1724.865",
      "body": "That's interesting because for us, Daniel, I feel like our relationship just changed parameters."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1725.185",
      "endTime": "1725.985",
      "body": "Yeah. Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "1725.985",
      "endTime": "1753.765",
      "body": "You know? Like, we just went into a more platonic direction, and all of our partners were okay with that and are like chill, very mature, boring people when it comes to like interpersonal. I don't know how to explain it. I feel like it definitely depends on the relationship, how the relationship was deescalated, like, how everyone feel. You know?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1753.765",
      "endTime": "1754.8849",
      "body": "Yeah. Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1754.885",
      "endTime": "1760.565",
      "body": "Did you two have, like, a conversation, or did it just naturally progress to platonic?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1760.94",
      "endTime": "1768.3799",
      "body": "I feel like you got in a monogamous relationship at the time. I... It might have been with Joe."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "1768.5399",
      "endTime": "1769.74",
      "body": "And It was with Joe."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1769.74",
      "endTime": "1779.525",
      "body": "Yeah. And... Because we were still, like, occasionally sleeping together for a while. And then you got into a monogamous relationship and it just effortlessly shifted."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "1779.525",
      "endTime": "1786.085",
      "body": "But I would still like go to your shows and stuff too. You know, we were still like in each other's lives kind of peripherally."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1786.0851",
      "endTime": "1794.11",
      "body": "Yeah, we were like artistically bonded. Yes. That's... We were art bonded. It's like fluid bonding."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1794.19",
      "endTime": "1795.71",
      "body": "Ugh. But less yucky."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1795.71",
      "endTime": "1805.365",
      "body": "And then I came along, and I was like, Francis, I love looking at you. I love being around you. You're gonna be in my life forever."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1805.365",
      "endTime": "1806.885",
      "body": "Let me look at you more."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "1807.445",
      "endTime": "1808.885",
      "body": "The feeling is mutual."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1811.765",
      "endTime": "1832.98",
      "body": "This is where I think that there's, like, an element that's kind of a little bit universal here is that I think it really, really helps when you like the person's people and the person likes your people. And there's just like, even though we have a platonic relationship, Francis, it still feels like you're kind of in my polycule."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "1833.78",
      "endTime": "1834.26",
      "body": "You know,"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "1834.26",
      "endTime": "1844.125",
      "body": "it does feel like I've kind of just been like, I'm here. I mean, I'm here, like, aromantic part. You know what I mean?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1844.125",
      "endTime": "1844.7649",
      "body": "I'm not"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "1845.085",
      "endTime": "1863.67",
      "body": "gonna do any of that stuff, but thanks for having me around. It's like really nice because, like, I feel like there's a lot of people that would not be satisfied with that, you know, like, they would Yeah. Either want the relationship to have more or less to it."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1863.67",
      "endTime": "1864.23",
      "body": "Mhmm. Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "1864.425",
      "endTime": "1874.905",
      "body": "And like, Daniel, you've been very, like, just cool about whatever. You know what I... It's... We we check-in and see, like, how does this feel for you? You know, like, how..."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "1874.905",
      "endTime": "1883.73",
      "body": "I don't know. Like, we're not having serious conversations all the time, but I still feel like we kinda are still making sure that we're both happy."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1883.81",
      "endTime": "1901.025",
      "body": "Mhmm. And it's very effortless for us to, like, just drop into that mode of, like, emotional intimacy when we see each other too, which I think was one of the reasons why we had such a lovely romantic relationship when we did. Right. You know, like,"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "1901.105",
      "endTime": "1901.6649",
      "body": "yeah,"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1901.985",
      "endTime": "1906.97",
      "body": "and in a way that never really ended. Right? Like, we still"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "1907.29",
      "endTime": "1913.21",
      "body": "No. Yeah. Yeah. I agree. It's weird because it's like, I'm very, like, sweet with my friends."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1913.37",
      "endTime": "1914.33",
      "body": "Mhmm. Mhmm."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "1914.33",
      "endTime": "1925.705",
      "body": "It's not in a sexual way necessarily. It can be bad if, like, the situation calls for it. But, yeah, I think we're both kind of sweet. Both are like that too. I think we both are sweet with our friends."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "1925.945",
      "endTime": "1935.2899",
      "body": "Yeah. Yeah. And and we have partners who are comfortable with that because they understand that's something about us. That's a... You know, that's just like who we are."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1935.2899",
      "endTime": "1935.77",
      "body": "Yeah. Mhmm."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "1935.77",
      "endTime": "1942.41",
      "body": "That's a aspect of our personalities, our characters, and it's part of why they love us. You know?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1942.41",
      "endTime": "1942.89",
      "body": "Yes."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "1942.89",
      "endTime": "1959.285",
      "body": "So so there's no, like, threat or, like, feelings of unsafety or insecurity. But I think, yeah, for this stupid question, I don't know if I'm really answering it at all or helping. But I think have, like, really perfect friends and partners."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1962.84",
      "endTime": "1969.24",
      "body": "Yeah. I think that there's some guidance that you all provide as far as like navigating that transition."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "1969.24",
      "endTime": "1969.56",
      "body": "Mhmm."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1969.56",
      "endTime": "1990.9751",
      "body": "Right? Like if you are a person who is deescalating with somebody and you want them in your life, know that it's still going to take work. Know that it's not the same kind of work as being in a romantic relationship with them or a partnership with them. But it is still being considerate of their feelings, checking in with them and to the extent that you can or want to making them feel included. Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "1990.9751",
      "endTime": "2015.915",
      "body": "Right? I think that's what you both do really well is even with me, Francis, like, with you, like, I I feel so included Mhmm. And I felt, you know, warmth from you immediately. And Daniel and I joke with another friend that we have who wasn't an ex partner of yours, Daniel. But, like, if we ever got divorced, I got her in the divorce."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2016.3151",
      "endTime": "2018.875",
      "body": "You know? Wait. I have...... Anna."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2019.61",
      "endTime": "2020.49",
      "body": "Oh, okay. Yes."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2020.49",
      "endTime": "2021.21",
      "body": "Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2021.21",
      "endTime": "2022.25",
      "body": "I was trying to think, do I have a"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2022.25",
      "endTime": "2023.8499",
      "body": "friend that I haven't slept with? You"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2024.6499",
      "endTime": "2025.45",
      "body": "do. You have one."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2025.45",
      "endTime": "2026.33",
      "body": "I have one."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "2027.61",
      "endTime": "2036.855",
      "body": "Thank you. I wanted to say I've always just felt... You've always been so nice and, like, inclusive of me as well. So, yeah, and Laurel, you as well."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2036.855",
      "endTime": "2038.455",
      "body": "Of course,"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2038.455",
      "endTime": "2054.88",
      "body": "we often talk about metamorph relationships on this podcast and how they can be like just as kind of sweet as, you know, direct romantic relationships. And despite the fact that you and I don't have a romantic relationship anymore, or a sexual relationship,"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "2054.88",
      "endTime": "2055.36",
      "body": "like"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2056.3198",
      "endTime": "2067.415",
      "body": "you, I think, have that kind of like amazing metamorphic connections. You like you've built friendships with the people that are my partners. You know? Yes. Almost all of them."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "2067.415",
      "endTime": "2074.935",
      "body": "That is true. Like, it's like, that's so funny because I do feel like that. And it's... I just have everything except for... I'm almost doing polyamory."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "2077.8",
      "endTime": "2079.08",
      "body": "I'm so close."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2079.48",
      "endTime": "2102.1152",
      "body": "Right on the verge of it. Like, something I'm noticing with, like, both you, Francis, and Daniel, and, like, I think the other exes that have, like, remained part of our lives is there is there is a certain comfortability with the permeable boundaries between friends and romance."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2102.2751",
      "endTime": "2102.915",
      "body": "Mhmm. Mhmm."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2102.915",
      "endTime": "2115.3901",
      "body": "There's some sense of more fluidity in there. Not that you are constantly oscillating between the two, but that the border between the two is not so harshly defined"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2115.79",
      "endTime": "2116.03",
      "body": "Mhmm."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2116.03",
      "endTime": "2127.2349",
      "body": "That you have to cut yourself off from certain aspects of somebody's life for, like, the sake of that border. There's something about it that is a little bit more like relationship anarchy"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2127.3948",
      "endTime": "2128.035",
      "body": "Mhmm."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2128.035",
      "endTime": "2151.9849",
      "body": "Oriented. That is more... And like you're saying, France is like being sweet with your friends. Like, is something a little bit more like, I think that all of us here treat our friends in a way that is slightly elevated than a lot of people in, like, really traditional standards relationships treat their friends. Like yes."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2151.9849",
      "endTime": "2152.785",
      "body": "I know. Yes."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2152.785",
      "endTime": "2155.585",
      "body": "Yeah. We're also always flirting with our friends"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2155.585",
      "endTime": "2159.425",
      "body": "too, to be fair. Lib Shay."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2159.505",
      "endTime": "2165.69",
      "body": "Well, we will let you get back to it now so that you don't get in trouble with the manager, I e, yourself."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "2165.69",
      "endTime": "2171.13",
      "body": "Yourself. I e, myself. I'm kind of getting my... I'm like, okay. Let me get back to"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2171.13",
      "endTime": "2172.01",
      "body": "work, Francis."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2173.2898",
      "endTime": "2174.73",
      "body": "Alright. We love you, Francis."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2174.73",
      "endTime": "2175.5298",
      "body": "Love you."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "2175.5298",
      "endTime": "2178.89",
      "body": "I love you too, all of you. Have a good day. Bye."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2178.89",
      "endTime": "2181.425",
      "body": "Bye. Was lovely. Right?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2181.425",
      "endTime": "2185.5051",
      "body": "Yeah. How much do we owe that hired actor?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2190.385",
      "endTime": "2194.225",
      "body": "What is next? What is next?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2194.8599",
      "endTime": "2196.7",
      "body": "It's one of my favorite segments."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2196.94",
      "endTime": "2201.66",
      "body": "And you you usually say that about other segments, but you're just trying not to hurt their feelings."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2202.22",
      "endTime": "2214.175",
      "body": "Yeah. But it's really segments just know that I'm lying to you now. This segment, you are really my fave. It's my own Poly Idaho. Yay."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2215.2952",
      "endTime": "2222.2551",
      "body": "Where we get to talk to you, Stu Bert, about what it's like being poly in your neck of the woods."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2222.2551",
      "endTime": "2236.25",
      "body": "Today, we have somebody reaching out to us from across the pond. Our second My Own Poly Idaho from the aisles as they are called when you're trying not to offend any of the individual aisles."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2236.885",
      "endTime": "2238.245",
      "body": "Mhmm. Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2238.405",
      "endTime": "2242.3252",
      "body": "We've got Stuart Gareth from Liverpool."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "2242.725",
      "endTime": "2243.6052",
      "body": "Yay."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Song",
      "startTime": "2244.8052",
      "endTime": "2246.485",
      "body": "Woo. They were great"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2246.485",
      "endTime": "2247.205",
      "body": "to talk to you."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2247.205",
      "endTime": "2249.0452",
      "body": "Yeah. I'm really excited."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2249.0452",
      "endTime": "2249.925",
      "body": "I learned something."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2251.29",
      "endTime": "2251.77",
      "body": "Oh, I"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2251.77",
      "endTime": "2256.1702",
      "body": "learned a few things. I learned a few things. Uh-huh. Mostly terms"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2256.57",
      "endTime": "2256.8901",
      "body": "Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2256.97",
      "endTime": "2270.445",
      "body": "That I'm going to now pepper in into episodes. And I'm gonna act like I know what they are and that I made them up. I started... They started with me."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2270.845",
      "endTime": "2284.5498",
      "body": "Now that we have properly gazumped our guest, roll tape. You have such a cool background here. What are some of the... Show us something cool from your shelf."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2284.5498",
      "endTime": "2285.8298",
      "body": "Oh, I see an enterprick."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2285.8298",
      "endTime": "2286.0698",
      "body": "Well, I"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2286.0698",
      "endTime": "2287.91",
      "body": "mean, there's a very obvious one. Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2287.91",
      "endTime": "2288.15",
      "body": "Oh, yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2288.15",
      "endTime": "2289.19",
      "body": "Is it the LEGO one?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2289.19",
      "endTime": "2290.3098",
      "body": "Yeah. That's the LEGO one"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2290.3098",
      "endTime": "2290.8699",
      "body": "there. Wow."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2290.8699",
      "endTime": "2297.095",
      "body": "That's the little shuttle craft, which means I have an extra instant row up there, which is fantastic."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2297.095",
      "endTime": "2299.735",
      "body": "Le Creuset is also doing a collab with"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2299.735",
      "endTime": "2301.335",
      "body": "Oh, yeah. I saw that."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2301.335",
      "endTime": "2302.135",
      "body": "Oh, I saw that."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Clip",
      "startTime": "2302.135",
      "endTime": "2302.695",
      "body": "Yeah. Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2302.695",
      "endTime": "2312.1301",
      "body": "I want the butter dish. Do you want the little gorn croquette? Like, it's just a gourn head, and it's green, and you make creme brulee in"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2312.1301",
      "endTime": "2312.7703",
      "body": "it. Like..."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2315.25",
      "endTime": "2319.25",
      "body": "It's adorable. The butter dish is the only thing I'll actually use."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2319.735",
      "endTime": "2321.3352",
      "body": "Are you going on a butter diet?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2322.215",
      "endTime": "2325.4153",
      "body": "Yeah. Haven't you heard of the butter diet?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2327.5752",
      "endTime": "2332.375",
      "body": "Dareth, how are things how are things today in in Liverpool?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2333.31",
      "endTime": "2342.27",
      "body": "It's been that annoying weather where it is the opposite of everything that I'm dressed for. I went out quickly to meet some friends and I wasn't prepared for rain and it rained."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2342.27",
      "endTime": "2344.59",
      "body": "Are you a born Liverpudlian?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2346.015",
      "endTime": "2356.415",
      "body": "No. No. I'm from the the Southeast Of England. I I do not have a a representative Liverpudlian or Scouse accent. I really shouldn't be speaking for this city, and yet here I am."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2356.6548",
      "endTime": "2358.335",
      "body": "Old stepped up. So... You know?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2358.335",
      "endTime": "2364.4102",
      "body": "Yeah. But you've been in Britain, you know, your whole life. And Yes. And yet you are not prepared for rain."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2365.53",
      "endTime": "2366.25",
      "body": "Oh, okay."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2366.25",
      "endTime": "2367.53",
      "body": "No. I I do see that."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2367.53",
      "endTime": "2368.33",
      "body": "I do see that."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2368.33",
      "endTime": "2383.125",
      "body": "It's... The only place windier than Liverpool that I've been is Newcastle, which is, like, further north and over to the the East Of England. But both of them, I find it impossible to keep an umbrella because it just blows inside out the second I sort of, put it up. So"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2383.365",
      "endTime": "2388.405",
      "body": "This sounds cute, though. Like, you walking down the street with a with a umbrella inside out."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2388.725",
      "endTime": "2392.6099",
      "body": "It feels And it's just a rain catcher. It feels it feels like a"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2392.6099",
      "endTime": "2395.97",
      "body": "it feels like a scene in a in a Beatles film."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2398.3699",
      "endTime": "2400.05",
      "body": "That's so racist."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2400.3699",
      "endTime": "2422.11",
      "body": "I had one of these sort of propelling ones where you just press a button and it opens itself out. I came out where I was working a few years ago and I was like, 'Ah, a little bit of rain. I'll just press my button.' And it just fell apart. It's like when everyone gets into a car in a silent film and then the doors fall off"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2422.11",
      "endTime": "2423.1501",
      "body": "or something like that."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2423.71",
      "endTime": "2436.715",
      "body": "So it was that and it was raining and I just had to like full only pick up all these pieces of an umbrella and put them in a bin whilst getting wet. It was a life changing moment, and not for the better, obviously. How"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2437.915",
      "endTime": "2439.275",
      "body": "long have you been in Liverpool?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2439.4348",
      "endTime": "2440.7148",
      "body": "Twenty three years"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2440.7148",
      "endTime": "2441.835",
      "body": "twenty three years."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2441.835",
      "endTime": "2443.595",
      "body": "Oh, then I think you can speak for Liverpool."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2444.0798",
      "endTime": "2451.76",
      "body": "It's it's over half my life, but not by much. I think I'm naturalized now. Yeah. I originally came from Bedford, in the Southeast. I went to university in Liverpool."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2451.76",
      "endTime": "2463.2751",
      "body": "I I never came back. And this is possibly the most boring thing I can follow-up that statement with. It might be to do with the fact that I don't drive. So sort of living in a big city seems to be better because there's better transport stuff like that."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2463.2751",
      "endTime": "2464.8752",
      "body": "You physically just couldn't leave."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2465.195",
      "endTime": "2467.1152",
      "body": "You're just stuck there. I"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2469.2751",
      "endTime": "2470.475",
      "body": "wanted to go, but"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2470.475",
      "endTime": "2471.435",
      "body": "I didn't have a ride."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2473.57",
      "endTime": "2478.1301",
      "body": "Just canceled all the trades after I moved here, and I've stuck ever since."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2478.21",
      "endTime": "2483.3298",
      "body": "Man, this makes the whole umbrella thing that much more tragic. Do you"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2483.3298",
      "endTime": "2488.45",
      "body": "think that could be a Truman Show situation? I wouldn't I wouldn't rule rule it out at this stage."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2488.745",
      "endTime": "2489.5452",
      "body": "Yes."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2489.705",
      "endTime": "2492.185",
      "body": "So you know why we have invited you here today?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2492.585",
      "endTime": "2494.5051",
      "body": "Hopefully. Yes."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2494.745",
      "endTime": "2502.105",
      "body": "Every time you say that, it makes the guests second guess why they're here. They're like, I thought so. But now I'm uncomfortable."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2502.3",
      "endTime": "2510.86",
      "body": "There's gonna be a surprise. Yeah. We we just recorded a naked episode, so we got that off the list. So you don't have to worry about that."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2510.86",
      "endTime": "2511.9001",
      "body": "You can keep your clothes on"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2512.06",
      "endTime": "2513.58",
      "body": "Yeah. This time. This time."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2513.98",
      "endTime": "2517.5952",
      "body": "We've invited you here for our segment, My Own Poly, Idaho."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2538.31",
      "endTime": "2538.71",
      "body": "This is"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2538.71",
      "endTime": "2543.99",
      "body": "what Okay. So this this is a little look behind the curtain here. We we don't get to hear the the jingle."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2544.0352",
      "endTime": "2560.11",
      "body": "We don't get to hear the jingle. It's just always Daniel and I pause for a minute and either dance or pretend like we're singing a song, and then Nicole points out what we're doing. And that we don't actually have"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2560.11",
      "endTime": "2562.27",
      "body": "to pause for the song. I"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "2563.07",
      "endTime": "2564.11",
      "body": "think it's adorable."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2564.11",
      "endTime": "2565.1501",
      "body": "Thank you."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2566.27",
      "endTime": "2567.87",
      "body": "I wasn't convinced by that. But..."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2569.375",
      "endTime": "2577.8552",
      "body": "Oh my god. Alright. So do we remember any of our questions? Yeah. I remember one question, but go ahead."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2578.415",
      "endTime": "2580.3352",
      "body": "Well, no. You go first because I... You know?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2580.3352",
      "endTime": "2584.2551",
      "body": "No. I remember the issue I have with one of the questions I have. Oh."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2584.3352",
      "endTime": "2588.72",
      "body": "Oh, Okay. So you're not gonna get to answer the question. I will ask the question, and then Nicole"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2588.72",
      "endTime": "2590.48",
      "body": "We'll segue into a bone to pick."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2590.48",
      "endTime": "2595.6",
      "body": "That's good. That's good. I can... As as I often say at work, perhaps a little bit too often, I could always do less."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2595.76",
      "endTime": "2603.975",
      "body": "Yes. What's unique about being polyamorous in Liverpool?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2604.055",
      "endTime": "2618.4602",
      "body": "So that's where I have the issue. Oh. How do you know how do you know what is unique if you haven't experienced other... Like, don't know, Gareth. Have you experienced other places in being polyamorous and can compare and contrast with Liverpool and the rest of the world?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2618.54",
      "endTime": "2628.605",
      "body": "No. So this is gonna be a very short segment, I think. I I would say just after I originally emailed you, somebody came on from Brighton."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2628.605",
      "endTime": "2631.005",
      "body": "Watch the tourist scatter like a flock of Frank and ducks."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2631.005",
      "endTime": "2632.685",
      "body": "Give a lot of champs and motto of the city."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Clip",
      "startTime": "2632.685",
      "endTime": "2637.325",
      "body": "Brain fox. Brain. Brain. Brain. Brain."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Clip",
      "startTime": "2637.325",
      "endTime": "2640.205",
      "body": "Brain. Brain. It's so gay as well. Brain. Brain."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2642.94",
      "endTime": "2691.575",
      "body": "I feel like I've been properly gazumped because nowhere really compares to Brighton in terms of being queer friendly, terms of being welcoming to less usual love life set ups, should we say. So I'm hoping to pivot a little bit from Liverpool in general to the entire North Of England, just to give me a bit more ammunition to fight back with. But I think Liverpool is quite a welcoming place to be PolyAmateurist because Liverpool has always cast itself as a left wing, very socialist city within Britain, sometimes referring to itself as the Socialist Republic of Liverpool. A lot of people will say they are scouts before English. So kind of it's it's got its own sort of positive siege mentality, I think is the best way to put it."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2691.575",
      "endTime": "2691.7349",
      "body": "So"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2691.7349",
      "endTime": "2693.655",
      "body": "we're gonna we're gonna"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2693.655",
      "endTime": "2694.535",
      "body": "need to we're gonna need to"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2694.535",
      "endTime": "2710.01",
      "body": "back up and collect these the the language here, the lingo so that we can create a little glossary song. Glossary song in this episode. So we've got... What did what did Brighton do to you again? They scrumpt you."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2710.01",
      "endTime": "2714.715",
      "body": "What did they do? Gazumped. Gazumped. Gazumped. Okay."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2714.715",
      "endTime": "2715.195",
      "body": "Great."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2715.835",
      "endTime": "2720.635",
      "body": "It's just a typically British way of saying they got there first."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2720.635",
      "endTime": "2722.875",
      "body": "They stole your thunder. Okay."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2722.875",
      "endTime": "2723.755",
      "body": "Yes. There we go."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2724.98",
      "endTime": "2731.14",
      "body": "And the other one that you keep saying is 'scouse'. So is that the accent of Liverpool?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2731.14",
      "endTime": "2756.28",
      "body": "Yes, the polyamoreans are often referred to as 'scousers' in other parts of Britain and also within Liverpool. Scouse, it's a Scandinavian stew that was often cooked on ships. It was like a long running... You know, like you get those forever soups where someone's kind of always cooking with some ingredients from the original soup. It's like a..."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2756.28",
      "endTime": "2758.9202",
      "body": "Just a big pot of stuff you can put on on the ship."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2758.9202",
      "endTime": "2760.6",
      "body": "Wait. Wait. I am... I do not"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2760.6",
      "endTime": "2770.605",
      "body": "I do not know about this. Because is this like is this like the sourdough starter of soups where you always take some soup from the last soup that you made and you put it in"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2770.605",
      "endTime": "2770.845",
      "body": "Yeah. The new"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2772.7651",
      "endTime": "2788.3098",
      "body": "I don't think there are really many Forever Soups, but this is a thing that I stumbled across accidentally and regretted stumbling across to be honest. So Scouse, separate to Forever Soup. In fact, let's just forget about the whole Forever"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2788.3098",
      "endTime": "2791.67",
      "body": "Soup thing. Probably love the concept of Forever Soup."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2791.99",
      "endTime": "2794.95",
      "body": "That was considered a Forever Soup and I love it."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2797.335",
      "endTime": "2821.31",
      "body": "So, Scouse is a stew of kind of lamb or beef or something like that, vegetables. You can cook it down for ages till it's thick, so it makes sense to sort of do when you're on long journeys and stuff like that. And because Liverpool is a port city, it was very important to see trade in the British Empire. That's how scouts stuck as a euphemism for being from Liverpool. Wow."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2821.5498",
      "endTime": "2828.715",
      "body": "And it's still like the regional dish. As well. Most most kind of pubs and restaurants will do scouse in some way, shape, or form. Oh, okay. It's quite nice as well."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2828.715",
      "endTime": "2832.715",
      "body": "Very, very warming and hearty, particularly when you're dealing with radiant cold weather."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2832.715",
      "endTime": "2833.5151",
      "body": "So Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2833.915",
      "endTime": "2835.435",
      "body": "Just like polyamory."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2835.435",
      "endTime": "2836.635",
      "body": "So I know everyone has"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2836.635",
      "endTime": "2843.3901",
      "body": "to gather their PolyKuil and go to Liverpool and share a pot of scouse together."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2843.3901",
      "endTime": "2849.79",
      "body": "Every PolyCule in Liverpool has a scouse that is at one central house."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2849.79",
      "endTime": "2854.895",
      "body": "Oh, and are you initiated into the Polycule when they offer you a cup of scouse?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2854.895",
      "endTime": "2863.135",
      "body": "Yes. And then you take that cup of scouse. And you bring it back to your house, and you start new scouts from... Oh my god."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2863.8098",
      "endTime": "2867.97",
      "body": "Is the like... I'm gonna use... I'm giving you the term that you guys don't like. Okay? Uh-oh."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2867.97",
      "endTime": "2871.97",
      "body": "Okay. Uh-oh. Is... Or is like Oh, no. Is like the polycule Oh, no."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2872.13",
      "endTime": "2878.385",
      "body": "Is the polycule fluid bonding situation that we have kind of a Forever Soup? No."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2887.745",
      "endTime": "2890.305",
      "body": "Daniel will not be returning to PolyAmateur, Alan."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2893.58",
      "endTime": "2896.86",
      "body": "I'm really regretting introducing this whole Forever Soup."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2896.86",
      "endTime": "2901.9001",
      "body": "You you should be. You should. This is all your fault, Garrett. Okay."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2902.7",
      "endTime": "2911.335",
      "body": "Now that we told you how Poly polyamory is in Liverpool, we decided that it was soup based. Alright. Tell us what it actually is like."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2911.575",
      "endTime": "2914.455",
      "body": "You're expanding to the entire North Of England. Right?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2914.455",
      "endTime": "2915.095",
      "body": "Yes. Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2915.095",
      "endTime": "2933.695",
      "body": "Yes. Yes. Because, I I mean, the problem with me being the person to speak up for Liverpool is that I haven't always lived here. And the problem with me being the person speaking up for PolyAmateur and Liverpool and community and so on and so forth is I am quite antisocial. I would cast myself as solo Poly."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2933.935",
      "endTime": "2946.175",
      "body": "Live in a flat on my own. One of my partners lives in the same building as me. That's really nice. There's good autonomy. And then my other two partners live elsewhere in the country, not very far."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2946.18",
      "endTime": "2948.0999",
      "body": "So we get to see each other a fair bit, which"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2948.0999",
      "endTime": "2952.1",
      "body": "is all good. Is your partner in the next apartment over?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2952.42",
      "endTime": "2953.3",
      "body": "No. No."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2953.3",
      "endTime": "2956.74",
      "body": "No. You... I was I was gonna say you could do a glory wall, but..."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2956.74",
      "endTime": "2962.715",
      "body": "Moving on. Yeah. If you don't want your security deposit back. Yeah. Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2962.715",
      "endTime": "2963.675",
      "body": "I mean, okay."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2964.5552",
      "endTime": "2967.195",
      "body": "I've actually three floors below them, which would be a bit of a stretch."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2967.195",
      "endTime": "2968.875",
      "body": "But Yeah. You need a pneumatic"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2968.875",
      "endTime": "2974.8398",
      "body": "tube. Yeah. What problem can't you solve with a pneumatic tube?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2974.8398",
      "endTime": "2975.24",
      "body": "Right?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2975.24",
      "endTime": "2981.0",
      "body": "Oh, it's very sucky. It's very"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2981.32",
      "endTime": "2986.04",
      "body": "sucky. I know. We need we need to bring those back. That was good technology."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2986.04",
      "endTime": "2986.28",
      "body": "Mhmm."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2986.5352",
      "endTime": "2990.135",
      "body": "I haven't answered the question, but have I, about what it's what it's like to be polyamorous in"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "2990.135",
      "endTime": "2990.855",
      "body": "the future? Get to"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "2990.855",
      "endTime": "2991.5752",
      "body": "the point."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "2991.5752",
      "endTime": "2992.3752",
      "body": "That's our fault."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "2994.695",
      "endTime": "3021.555",
      "body": "We do have sort of meetup groups and organizations. There was a point where me and my partner of ten years, who is called Kat, we were sort of seeking a bit of community, I suppose, because sort of starting off on non monogamy sort of journey and just thinking, it would probably be nice to meet some people who don't look at us like we've three heads if we say we've got more than more than one partner. We found a meetup group. Literally only tried the one. We're still mates with those people."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "3021.555",
      "endTime": "3035.97",
      "body": "Sort of seven, eight years on. It's a monthly thing and we just sort of go along. And half the time we're not even talking about polyamory. But it's just nice to know that if you do, it's going to be fine. But there's a few groups of that sort."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "3035.97",
      "endTime": "3046.2852",
      "body": "There's also a good queer scene in Liverpool. I have to fess up. I am straight but obviously I'm queer adjacent and nonbinary. Just... I..."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "3046.2852",
      "endTime": "3048.925",
      "body": "Sorry. I I feel like I'm throwing that in as an excuse."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Frances",
      "startTime": "3048.925",
      "endTime": "3050.205",
      "body": "But... It's a..."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "3051.645",
      "endTime": "3053.165",
      "body": "Well, if you're nonbinary,"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "3053.165",
      "endTime": "3066.9302",
      "body": "you can't really be straight at the same time because you're a little gay because you're because you're on the both sides. You're also just a little you're also a little lesbian at the same time as being straight. So, you know."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "3066.9302",
      "endTime": "3073.955",
      "body": "Yes. I I have proudly proclaimed that all sex would be is technically gay sex. Yeah. Yeah. So we've got a forget."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "3073.955",
      "endTime": "3083.795",
      "body": "I think it's referred to as the the Rainbow 0.25 now. Which I I live quite close to. It's sort of like Liverpool has a very compact city centre. Okay. Which is another thing I I like about it."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "3083.795",
      "endTime": "3096.4202",
      "body": "Can sort of walk across it in twenty minutes. You're absolutely fine. And we have the Pride March every year. We have a Trans Pride festival now as well, which was a couple of weeks ago, which was really good. That's growing and going for strength."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "3096.5",
      "endTime": "3102.4348",
      "body": "And we have Hobbitopia, which I think is sorry. I'm gonna have to refer to my notes at this stage."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "3102.4348",
      "endTime": "3102.755",
      "body": "Yes."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "3102.755",
      "endTime": "3107.235",
      "body": "Yeah. I love that Gareth is the one who brings notes to this. Why"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "3109.075",
      "endTime": "3109.955",
      "body": "would we?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "3111.2349",
      "endTime": "3112.6748",
      "body": "We're just here to learn. Okay?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "3113.6301",
      "endTime": "3155.6648",
      "body": "Hobbitopia, which is The UK's longest running LGBTQIA plus God, can tell I'm reading this, can't you? Arts and Culture Festival and a year round creative force showcasing courageous art since 2004. And if you expand sort of all of this to the North Of England, then Leeds and Sheffield I always hear about have got quite vibrant poly scenes in terms of having a lot more sort of community and meet up groups and so on and so forth. Manchester as well, this is blasphemy to say as a Liverpudlian or a naturalized Liverpudlian, but Manchester, it's that step further forward in terms of activities and resources for people."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Clip",
      "startTime": "3155.6648",
      "endTime": "3166.385",
      "body": "This is a liberated area. The sexual revolution has been won. You can finally be free. The news have fled. There's somebody for everybody."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Clip",
      "startTime": "3166.385",
      "endTime": "3167.1848",
      "body": "That meets you,"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "3175.6602",
      "endTime": "3180.855",
      "body": "Yeah. And I think that's also reflected the PolyAmateur scene being that little bit sort of bigger."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "3180.855",
      "endTime": "3190.455",
      "body": "Our Brighton buddy was like Manchester is still the gayest city in Britain, you know, with the man in Manchester."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "3192.135",
      "endTime": "3214.335",
      "body": "Absolutely, I was in Manchester yesterday, not putting the ban in it, because again, binary. The gay village there is much bigger than our Rainbow 0.25. It's a tourist destination for queer tourism as well. So yeah, there's a lot going on. The North Of England is always that much more sort of vibrant than the South."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "3214.335",
      "endTime": "3242.7852",
      "body": "Obviously the South has London and London is the big cheese when it comes to everything in Britain. But I know there are more sort of poly and and non monogamous people out there that are that are in the groups that I'm aware of as well. So you know there's a there's a lot sort of going on. And yeah it's it this would all sound really really impressive if it wasn't for the fact you'd already heard about Brighton. Do do try and use that as, like, a weighing measure, when you, take this into account."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "3242.945",
      "endTime": "3246.465",
      "body": "I'll tell you what. You get a rap song too. You get a rap song."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "3246.5452",
      "endTime": "3247.745",
      "body": "You get a rap song."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "3247.745",
      "endTime": "3255.84",
      "body": "Do did you hear our Brighton anthem? We'll do a one for Liverpool as well, but kind of more about how it's mid. God."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "3256.8",
      "endTime": "3258.0002",
      "body": "So rude."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "3258.48",
      "endTime": "3275.7952",
      "body": "So this this was not the impression I wanted to get across. I get that. So I I could really do with not being run out of the city and repatriated to Bedford. I was also thinking if you're do a song, it kinda has to be a Beatles one, doesn't it?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "3276.115",
      "endTime": "3278.835",
      "body": "Yeah, does. Oh, so not a rap song. Yeah."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "3278.835",
      "endTime": "3285.03",
      "body": "Well, you can use a Beatles song as the backbeat. Right? Oh. Sample a Beatles song."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "3285.03",
      "endTime": "3285.99",
      "body": "A mashup."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "3285.99",
      "endTime": "3288.15",
      "body": "Yes. Like I did like I did for Brighton. Exactly."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "3288.47",
      "endTime": "3289.27",
      "body": "With sampling"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "3289.27",
      "endTime": "3290.31",
      "body": "And you"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "3290.8699",
      "endTime": "3292.95",
      "body": "better rhyme scouse with house."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "3296.3948",
      "endTime": "3298.7148",
      "body": "There's a lot of things that you can rhyme scouse with."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "3298.7148",
      "endTime": "3299.435",
      "body": "Mouse."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "3299.755",
      "endTime": "3301.675",
      "body": "Louse. Touse."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "3302.4749",
      "endTime": "3305.115",
      "body": "Douse. Louse. Fouse."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "3305.115",
      "endTime": "3305.6748",
      "body": "Grouse."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "3307.93",
      "endTime": "3314.25",
      "body": "Nouse. Alright. We lost one last minute."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "3314.57",
      "endTime": "3324.0352",
      "body": "Alright. Anyways. Anyways. On the far left of Britain just before you hit Wales, there's a town where you can fit in and be female or male."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "3324.195",
      "endTime": "3330.435",
      "body": "Ripped by seagails from where the fab four hail at the house of the scouts don't need to ring the doorbell."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "3330.435",
      "endTime": "3337.23",
      "body": "Get your ass to masquerade, follow your stumbling feet. Let's get some bastards laid down on Cumberland Street. You'll catch"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "3337.23",
      "endTime": "3338.8298",
      "body": "me mumble and sweet to lads"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "3338.8298",
      "endTime": "3340.99",
      "body": "with humble and seat. Let's hit posty"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "3340.99",
      "endTime": "3343.47",
      "body": "then spit roast me till I'm a crumbling heap."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "3344.3499",
      "endTime": "3356.405",
      "body": "I really shouldn't be speaking for this city. Yet here I am. Yet here I am. I really shouldn't be speaking for this city. Scouse, it's a Scandinavian stew."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "3356.405",
      "endTime": "3360.29",
      "body": "The possibilities are myriad. Let's get some peer head. Put a"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "3360.29",
      "endTime": "3362.13",
      "body": "bull cock in my old dock. We can sleep"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "3362.13",
      "endTime": "3369.65",
      "body": "when we're dead. Stick it in my mercy site. You'll need some knee braces for my pussy. My ass and my mouth, the three graces."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "3369.65",
      "endTime": "3376.0151",
      "body": "Gonna need a couple perverts, but a lecture will do. We'll shoot a shot in your hot pot perpetual stew."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "3376.0151",
      "endTime": "3382.8152",
      "body": "I think you mean Forever Soup, and I haven't had enough. Let's take this clever loop in here. I'll add some stuff."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "3383.615",
      "endTime": "3385.615",
      "body": "The Socialist Republic of Liverpool."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "3400.845",
      "endTime": "3408.845",
      "body": "Nearly gay as Manchester. Bunch of scallies getting bevy, your walls don't know the lingo. Every scousers in a poly coup with John Paul Georgian lingo."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "3408.845",
      "endTime": "3415.165",
      "body": "Drop your trousers, townhousers going feral on the whirl, where oral is integral, and they have some lovely murals."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "3415.34",
      "endTime": "3417.1",
      "body": "But what's the moral, Laurel?"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "3417.1",
      "endTime": "3422.06",
      "body": "Just do our duty civic. Is Albert Stocker's royal god. Gotta pay the town a visit."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "3422.54",
      "endTime": "3428.46",
      "body": "The socialist republic of Liverpool. Very warming, very warming, and hearty."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "3446.8801",
      "endTime": "3466.3252",
      "body": "Like, our listenership in the aisles is rapidly increasing percentage wise. Like, you know, probably because everywhere else is falling quick. But the aisles are now seven or 8% of our listenership fluctuating worldwide. Okay. So Wow."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "3466.3252",
      "endTime": "3467.0452",
      "body": "Yeah. Alright."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "3467.0452",
      "endTime": "3474.33",
      "body": "So we will be The UK hub of PolyAmateur Yeah. Here in Oregon."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "3475.45",
      "endTime": "3484.885",
      "body": "If anybody out there wants to, go on a date with Gareth, please donate to PolyAmateur Hour."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "3484.885",
      "endTime": "3485.285",
      "body": "--."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "3485.845",
      "endTime": "3493.685",
      "body": "That's ko-fi.com/polyamateurhour."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "3494.2449",
      "endTime": "3498.3499",
      "body": "Gareth, this is really why we asked you here today. Oh, so you can help us ring."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "3498.3499",
      "endTime": "3500.67",
      "body": "Got more feeling I'll be dragged into a PolyPyramid scheme."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "3500.67",
      "endTime": "3505.31",
      "body": "Yeah. We're actually... We're gonna auction you off. We're gonna have to do a live auction for you"
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "3506.75",
      "endTime": "3509.3098",
      "body": "for a date with Gareth from Liverpool."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "3509.3098",
      "endTime": "3512.495",
      "body": "And Stuber's. Gareth Gareth is pretty cute."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "3512.495",
      "endTime": "3513.0552",
      "body": "Pretty cute."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Daniel",
      "startTime": "3513.0552",
      "endTime": "3516.495",
      "body": "Gotta say. Yep. Get on. Gotta say. And you can play with their enterprise."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Laurel",
      "startTime": "3516.495",
      "endTime": "3517.935",
      "body": "Oh my god."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Gareth",
      "startTime": "3519.135",
      "endTime": "3521.135",
      "body": "I'll just say, you only want me for my Lego."
    },
    {
      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "3526.24",
      "endTime": "3556.86",
      "body": "This has been PolyAmateur Hour, a production of RISA Records. If you have a question for Ask the Amateurs, a recommendation for Insta's Poly, or a sweet little something for any segment, please email us at polyamateurhour@gmail.com or message us at polyamateur hour dot com. If you enjoyed the show, and you know you did, you perv, please subscribe to us on your podcatcher of choice. Write us a five star review, and most importantly, tell at least one person in your life to check us out. But we hope you tell three or four."
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      "speaker": "Nichole",
      "startTime": "3557.1802",
      "endTime": "3581.155",
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}