How to make the best kind of friends
Short & Curly
abcpodcasts@abc.net.au
4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Making friends and keeping friends can be hard. Sometimes you like someone a lot and then one of you changes and your friendship ends. The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle thought friendship was one of the most important things in life and he came up with three main types of friendships. This show lets you think about what kind of friends you have and why.
This season is a special collaboration between the ABC Audio Studios and WNYC Studios in New York City.
Hosts: Carl Smith and Shumita Basu
Series Producer: Kyla Slaven
Executive Producers: Emily Botein and Ian Walker
Producer: Amy Pearl
Sound Engineers: Isaac Jones, Hamish Camilleri, Jolen Camilleri
Production Support: Sarah Sandbach and Brigit Berger
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, Carl here. I'm in New York for a special series of Short and Curly. I'll be back in Australia |
| 0:07.4 | with Molly for our next lot of shows, but right now I'm hanging out with my American co-host |
| 0:13.2 | Shumita. We're like New York besties already. Anyway, on with the show. |
| 0:20.3 | Hello and welcome to Short and Curly. My name's Carl. And I'm Shemita. And we're basically best friends. Wait, what? Well, you know, we've been working on the show for a while, and I figure we've become more than just colleagues now, Shemita. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay. You're right, we get along pretty well, but Carl, I've only known you for a couple weeks. |
| 0:41.3 | So what? |
| 0:42.3 | I guess I don't like just throwing around the word friendship so easily. |
| 0:45.3 | Okay, but we're friends on Facebook. |
| 0:48.3 | So? |
| 0:49.3 | So it's official. |
| 0:50.3 | Okay, look, Short and Curly's a show to get kids and families thinking and talking about some of life's trickiest questions. |
| 0:58.5 | So maybe today we need to look at friendship, at our friendship. |
| 1:02.6 | Exactly what makes someone a friend. |
| 1:05.3 | And why is friendship even important? |
| 1:07.8 | And I want to know why sometimes someone's your friend one minute and then |
| 1:11.6 | the next minute they're just not anymore. These might seem like easy questions, but sometimes |
| 1:16.5 | making and keeping friends is hard work. But don't stress out. We're here to help. |
| 1:24.0 | Hello and today you're listening. Short, you're listening to Short and Curly. |
| 1:29.7 | Yay! |
| 1:30.7 | Short and Curly! |
| 1:33.0 | Curly, Curly, Curly, Curly, Curly, Curly, Curly, Curly, Curly, Curly. |
| 1:41.1 | So, Shameda, you think we're at least close to becoming friends now, right? |
| 1:46.2 | I guess it kind of depends on how you define friendship. |
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