Alex Karev and Meredith Grey’s Friendship in ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ | What About Your Friends?

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🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Further exploring the theme of platonic friendships between men and women in pop culture, Erika is joined first by Steven to talk about the concept of “my person” that ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ brought us, and whether that type of friendship is possible between a man and woman (0:30). Then, she’s joined by writer Rae Witte to deep-dive Alex Karev and Meredith Grey’s friendship evolution (14:35). If you have thoughts about the friendships in ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ or want to share your favorite platonic on-screen duos, email us at [email protected]. Hosts: Erika Ramirez and Steven Othello Guest: Rae Witte Producer: Sasha Ashall Theme Music: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.0	Hi, welcome back to what about your friends.
0:35.2	A podcast dedicated to the many lives of friendship and how it's portrayed in pop culture.
0:39.3	On this week's episode, we're talking about platonic friendships through the lens of Meredith
0:43.2	Gray and Alex Carrab's friendship on Grey's Anatomy. My favorite show ever.
0:48.3	How's your heart? My heart feels good. I sense a May 1st. I was like,
0:55.0	you know, I'm going to be disciplined and go to the gym and watch what I eat, all that type of
1:00.3	stuff. So it's been like one day at a time and giving myself the grace. So my heart feels graceful
1:07.6	right now. Congratulations because discipline is hard to maintain.
1:12.8	Right, right. Yeah, it's been up and down on a daily, but I think that giving myself grace
1:19.5	makes it a lot easier for me to accept it all, you know? Yeah. Where? How's your heart?
1:25.7	What do you call it when you're excited, but anxious about the future? Whatever that is.
1:32.3	I started running again. I also commend you for your discipline because it's hard
1:41.2	to maintain some sort of habit, but makes me feel good. So, you know, I call you my best friend,
1:47.9	clearly, facts, but I've also called you my person inspired, inspired by Christina Yang and Meredith
1:56.4	Grey of Grey's Anatomy. How do you feel about that? The fact that I call you my person?
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