Hello, friends. Grab a chair, grab your wine. You are listening to the Close

Friends podcast, where we hit record on our in real life conversations as friends, trying to

survive, but also trying to have a really fucking good time. I am joined by my host Sarah.

Hello. And Lucy. Hi. And Lucy has the close friend of the week. I do. It's actually a photo of

Tara's screen because I delete the podcast app for storage. We have a close friend of the week though and it's called don't start

me off tarra's mum that is the subject line and the comment is actually do when i say this

podcast is incredible i mean this podcast is incredible and that's in stars i binge listen to every episode

over the course of three days and I'm still hungry for more.

As an almost 24 year old woman progressing through adulthood, one slip at a time,

I resonate with every single episode as a host so maturely and so eloquently share their

experiences as women, adults, millennials and offer pragmatic advice on how to handle life as such.

This message is so lovely.

She's rounded it off by saying thank you, Sarah, Lucy, Tara and of course Shirley.

And Stan, Stan has not listened to the podcast at all, so fuck Stan.

And keep offering free lube, even if it is inadvertent.

Sophie, Little Pav, love heart.

Thank you so much, Sophie.

That was great.

That was pretty iconic, actually.

So this week, you can probably tell by the production quality,

we are actually in a legit studio, and we are all here in person. I'm not going to lie, I'm struggling to

like make effective eye contact because I'm usually just looking at a screen. It feels really weird.

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