From NPR, this is Invisibilia. I'm Kia Miyakanatees, and today with me is producer Abbey

Wendell. Hey Abbey. Hi Kia. So you know Tracy Clayton, right? The writer and podcast host.

Yeah, love Tracy. So I called Tracy up because we're doing a season on friendship. And as

far as I can tell, Tracy coined the term for a very particular kind of friendship.

Poop friends. Poop friends never heard that. What's a poop friend? Well a few years back,

Tracy says she was talking with someone and somehow this topic came up. And the

person that she was talking to had never heard of this either. They were like,

ew, what do you mean a poop friend? I'm just like, it's somebody that you talk about.

Poop with. What do you mean everybody needs a poop friend? You got to have a poop friend.

They were like, no, that's actually an odd thing that does not exist. And I was like,

hmm, I wonder if this is a me thing. Is this like a phenomenon thing to other people have

poop friends? So you know, Tracy did what any self-respecting millennial would do. She asked

Twitter trying to do some very scientific research, of course. She tweeted, everybody has a

poop friend, right? The friend you can talk about your poops with, tag your poop friend.

And the tweet, it went like a little viral, not like pandemic scale viral, but a good

stomach flu passed around the office viral. Is it too early for a pandemic joke? I don't

know. We'll find out. Anyway, Tracy's tweet, it got like more than 2,000 likes, hundreds

of people replied, tagged folks. Oh, wow. And I just want to show you this Twitter thread.

Okay. Oh my gosh, someone said they've got a poop clan. Yes. Someone married their

poop friend. There are several poop osols. People asking their friends to be their poop

friend. Some people got really specific. One person said that like, extra special dairy

related conversations are for at Lindbergh. To which at Lindbergh replies, like, I just

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