So Bob, people keep sending in questions for you and me to answer on the podcast.

What do you say? We read those questions and answer them.

Let's read them and then answer them. Let's not do it in the reverse order.

Well, yeah, that would be weird.

So this is the Psychology and Seattle podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda, I'm a therapist and a professor.

Who are you, Bob?

I am your friend from graduate school and a

therapist in practice here in Seattle as well.

So this first question is from upper tier patron Kathleen.

She asks,

what is your criteria? to your friend

friends mostly male or female. So let's take this last part first, which is our most of your close friends, or most of your friends

male or female Bob.

Oh, I'd say it's probably like 60, 40 men, women.

Yeah, I'd say that's probably, well, maybe 70, 30, I don't know, somewhere in there.

What about like, most of my friends are male, but most of my friends are in couples and I'm friends with both people in the couple.

Right, I'd say the same. What about for close friends like best friends throughout

your life? I've had a couple of close, really close women friends but I'd say most of my best

friends have been men.

Yeah, I'd say the same.

Yeah.

The when I started this podcast almost 12 years ago, by the way,

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