Hello and welcome to nobody panic. I won't be doing that again. Ever. No, it was awful. I'm Stevie with Tessa Coates. Yes. Yes. And you the listener. And you the listener.

And you the listener. And to you the listener.

Would you like to be our friend?

That's great.

That's lucky.

Done.

This podcast is about how to make friends.

Because it's so easy when you are a little child

and you're like, oh, well, you're

next to me in the sand pit.

Would you like to place sand please? And then they like yes and then you just are best friends that's it

even when you're at uni I remember one of the biggest differences when I graduated was like oh there aren't like new people all the time or I don't like bump into my

friends every two seconds and people aren't like I've brought these five housemates

from a house party like oh everyone's spread out and I don't know how to make

friends anymore. Well fact an early fact from the University of Norway.

Please. After the age of 25 that's your cut off when your friends start to decline.

Good God!

That's rapidly, which I guess is the point where you've sort of run out of the compulsory like, and

now it's the start of term and now everyone has to make

friends yeah now it's this like kindergarten the whole thing is just to make some

friends I mean your life is just friend making that's it of course if you're you're like, I didn't make any friends as a child. We're here for you. At school, I made no friends either, so we can deep dive into that together. But you will, when you look back over your life there will be certain

stages where you're like well I was thrown together with a load of people yes and then

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