Polychat

Welcome to 2017! It’s weird, but we’re going to muddle through anyway. We answer plenty of your questions and follow up with a previous questioner. As always, thank you for your continued support and insightful questions. If you would like to ask us a question that will be answered on a future podcast, please e-mail us at questions@polychat.org. Listen to Episode 37 here. Show notes: Pricing and Ethical Guidelines

We hope your winter solstice plans for merriment are met roundly with mirthful success. In the meantime, please enjoy the last Polychat of 2016, in which Tran and Caleb are joined by playwright Adi Eshman, who has a few questions of his own. Listen to Episode 36 here.

We could all use a little pick-me-up as America descends into stark raving madness, and who is better to serve up a much needed dose of realness than Jackie Stone, writer and director of the hit web series “Compersion.” Tran and Caleb speak with Ms. Stone about her wonderful show that thrusts polyamory into the limelight, and together answer your questions. Listen to Episode 35 here. Show notes: Ms. Stone’s literary, cinematic and musical inspirations include… Toni Morrison Alice Walker Gloria Naylor Jesmyn Ward Maya Angelou Zhang Yimou Sidney Lumet Rodrigo Garcia Meshell Ndegeocello “The numbers all go to eleven…” Enchant TV Compersion Episode 1 JackieJStone.com The Indiegogo campaign for Season 2 of Compersion Tran’s Instagram Caleb’s Instagram

Tran and Caleb found a secret stash of questions cleverly hidden by Tumblr’s best of breed UI, so they decided to answer as many as they could. Listen to Episode 34 here. Show notes: The True Meaning of HIPAA Re-examining the effectiveness of monogamy as an STI-preventive strategy. A Comparison of Sexual Health History and Practices among Monogamous and Consensually Nonmonogamous Sexual Partners.

Hello, good tidings to all you lovely folks out there. In this episode, Tran and Caleb stave off the political toxicity of the final presidential debate by answering your questions, emailed to us via SMTP to questions@polychat.org. We’ve finally caught up with our e-mail backlog, but I’m just discovering that our Tumblr “Ask us anything” inbox is quite full as well! So stay tuned for the next episode, we’ll get to those questions ASAP. And as one helpful commenter noted, we should probably move that link way up the page into a position of prominence. Consider that advice received and acknowledged! Listen to Episode 33 here. Show notes: “One must always choose the lesser of two weevils.”

Our sincerest thanks to our beleaguered fans who have been anxiously awaiting another episode of Polychat. Your moment of triumph and reunification is at hand! Zounds! Tran and Caleb begin to answer the mountain of letters that have piled up over the summer. And as always, we entreat you to send us more via our e-mail, questions@polychat.org. Listen to Episode 32 here.

Hello everyone! We’re posting from Paris, France where we’re having the dreamiest time. Before leaving, we recorded a podcast with a long time Polychat collaborator, filmmaker Kevin Losani of Elite Daily. Kevin was instrumental in making a short documentary about us, and he ended up learning a bit more about himself during the process as well. Listen to Episode 31 here. Show notes: The Elite Daily video about Polychat Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Danish sex education Elite Daily’s Surrogate Motherhood video Hedonism II “I’m gonna get weird with it!”

The wonderful poly couple Katy and Angel11:11 join Caleb and Tran for a double date episode. We answer your questions and ask a few of our own of our eloquent guests. Find out about plant intelligences, transitioning from poly to monogamy and back again and more! Listen to Episode 30 here. Show notes: MAPS, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Erowid, a diverse storehouse of information and resources about various mind-altering plants and chemicals. Visit AudibleTrial.com/Polychat and sign up for a free 30-day trial, you’ll help Polychat keep our servers running and you can listen to the Ethical Slut, Sex at Dawn, Opening Up or many other lovely tomes available in their digital library.

Tran takes the reins on this episode as we take on some of your fascinating letters and share our recent experience meeting Madison Young. Listen to Episode 29 here. Show notes: Madison Young Stealth Audible.com promotion: We didn’t mention it on the podcast today, but if you visit AudibleTrial.com/Polychat and start a free 30-day trial, we’ll get a small referral fee that we can use to pay our bandwidth bill. Plus, you get to listen to a audiobook, any book, for free! We’ll recommend The Ethical Slut and Sex at Dawn.

Tran and Caleb have a pre-interview interview with Maria, a Brooklyn-based documentarian working on a project about polyamory and the folks who practice it. Also, we answer a question from a younger listener who has not yet been in a relationship, but wants their first to be poly. Your applause, please. Listen to Episode 28 here. Please send your questions to questions@polychat.org and we will answer them in a future podcast. Show notes: “The Ethical Slut” by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy "Sex at Dawn” by Cacilda Jetha and Christopher Ryan (and the accompanying TED talk) Who is Mephibosheth? Methuselah?

Tran shares with us a lovely tale of birthday pizza brunch and changes of heart, and together with Caleb answers our beautiful-inside-and-out listener’s questions. Listen to Episode 27 here. Show notes: “Very rare.” Have you heard of this Dan Savage character?

Tran and Caleb are back with more of your questions and letters. We follow up on episode 24 with one poly woman’s experience coming our to her family and tackle some very difficult scenarios. Listen to Episode 26 here. Show notes: Love – Alone Again Or (and Calexico’s fantastic cover) Find sex positive therapists who are kink-aware, LGBTQ and/or poly friendly at sexpositiveprofessionals.org.

Tran and Caleb speak to Sumati Sparks, a mid-life polyamory coach in the Bay Area.  Her 16 years of experience with polyamory speaks for itself, so we get out of the way and let her lend her wisdom to your queries. Listen to Episode 25 here. Show notes: Sumati’s spiritual teacher, Mata Amritanandamayi US Center for Disease Control San Francisco Sex Information Hotline  Recommended reading – “Sex at Dawn” by Christopher Ryan You can reach Sumati Sparks via e-mail. She offers free 1 hour consultations if you’re considering polyamory or would like support and professional advice.

It’s Polychat’s first transcontinental interview! Tran and Caleb chat coast-to-coast with Magenta, a polyamorous, bisexual mother of two from the Bay Area about what it means to raise your children in a poly household while experiencing the difficulties, joyous triumphs and heartbreaks of dating.  Listen to episode 24 here. One technical note for our audiophiles: this interview was recorded over the internets, and as such can sound a little tinny and robotic at times. Never fear: our next remote interview will have a different, hopefully superior recording setup.

Tran and Caleb are joined by balls of aquatic moss to answer your questions. If we’re being perfectly honest, the moss is better at listening than responding. We discuss poly triads, issues of disclosure and modifying a Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy. Listen to Episode 23 here. Show notes: Marimo balls are mossy. Jules et Jim is a pretty great film.

Our dear friend Mitchel joins Tran and Caleb to experiment with changing the format to “The Lizard Show,” but abandon that idea almost immediately in favor of answering your fantastic questions. Listen to Episode 22 here. Show notes: Mitchel recommends reading “Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled (Sexual Cultures)”

Dear friend of the podcast, road trip companion and all around creative force Sebbe joins Tran and Caleb to answer your questions, talk about past threesomes, accidental foot fetish modeling and more. Listen to episode 21 here. Please send your questions and comments to questions@polychat.org. We’ve received a fantastic volume of mail in recent weeks. It’s thrilling to hear from so many of you, and if you don’t hear your question answered this episode, be patient, it’s coming very soon! Show notes: Sebbe’s instagram and tumblr, for your perusal.

Editor-in-Chief MacKenzie of Math Magazine sits down with Caleb and Tran to share how she became an indie pornographer. Your questions are answered, and just by the way: we love you. Listen to episode 20 here. No really, we love hearing from you. Please send your questions to questions@polychat.org. Show notes: Math Magazine and its tumblr. Sly & the Family Stone’s “Family Affair.” Neko Case is a babe with a golden voice, and I Wish I Was the Moon Tonight. Lenticulars are cool.

Tran and Caleb keep each other company in the absence of a guest for this episode, but there’s lots to talk about. For those who have just joined us this episode, welcome aboard! We welcome any questions and comments at questions@polychat.org. Listen to episode 19 here. Show notes: Our interview with THE EDGE! 96.1 Sydney’s Mike E and Emma. The Elite Daily video, “Polyamorous Couple’s Guide To Sleeping With Multiple Partners” Math Magazine

Tran and Caleb’s most prolific questioner and collaborator Chris joins them for a jumbo edition of Polychat, recorded in automobile-filled Dallas, Texas. Listen to Episode 18 here. Show notes: Hacienda Village