How To Find Friends in Unexpected Places
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Love typically reigns in February. But, here at How To!, we are giving friendship its due. For the next three episodes, we're going to teach you how to find friends in surprising places, how to grow and change in your friendship during life transitions, and even how to recover from a friendship breakup.
So today we're starting with a potential cure for our epidemic of loneliness: intergenerational friendships. Emily is in her early 20s and has been rethinking who she considers to be potential friends. On this episode of How To!, Courtney Martin brings on Marci Alboher, a friend and VP at CoGenerate, an organization that brings generations together. She's got some amazing tips for finding connections across ages.
Make sure to tune in next week to learn how to evolve your friendship. In the meantime, check out:
How To Make Friends as an Adult
How To Make Friends… Like a Man
How To Show Up For a Friend With Cancer
Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at howto@slate.com or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Subscribe for free on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen.
How To's executive producer is Derek John. Joel Meyer is our senior editor/producer. The show is produced by Rosemary Belson and Kevin Bendis.
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| 0:33.3 | Welcome to how to. I'm Courtney Martin. And I'm Carvel Wallace. Carvel, you know, it's February, peak season of the romantic industrial complex. |
| 0:43.3 | I love love. I do. But you know what I don't love? |
| 0:47.3 | What's that? |
| 0:48.3 | The outsized focus on romantic love in particular. |
| 0:52.3 | Yeah, there's like a lot of different kinds of love and it's weird that |
| 0:56.3 | we are so obsessed with romantic love because there's like parental love, there's brotherly love, |
| 1:01.0 | there's neighborly love, and maybe even the best of them all is love between friends. |
| 1:05.9 | I mean, what is more central to joy and resilience and fun and like all the good things in life |
| 1:12.1 | than a motley crew of friends? |
| 1:14.0 | Which is why even though it's kind of cheesy, I sort of love this like more modern |
| 1:18.5 | concept of Palantines Day. |
| 1:20.8 | Yes, I'm 100% about Palantines Day for sure. |
| 1:24.3 | You know, the Surgeon General of the United States is saying that there's actually a loneliness epidemic. |
| 1:28.8 | So some people are declaring this a friendship recession. So like friendships are really no joke. |
| 1:34.5 | Speaking of which, I mean, how is your friend life these days, Carvel? |
| 1:38.1 | I'm pretty serious about my friend life. I actually prioritize it over my romantic life. And I am reaping the reward of that. I feel good about my friend life. That's awesome. What about you? My friend life is also solid. I got art friends. I got activist friends. I got new friends. I got old friends. Do you mean old friends, like friends who've been your friends for a long time? Or friends who are themselves old? My longest friend is my friend since |
| 2:02.1 | third grade. Shout out, Megan. But I also have a lot of elder friends. Like I love nothing more |
| 2:08.1 | than like an old slightly kermudgeony woman with like a deep well of wisdom who just makes me not |
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