This is a Global Player Original podcast.

Welcome to this dirty motherfucker quickie.

This is your podcasting bit on the side with me, Anna White House,

and me, Polly Hazelwood. So, we have covered the Platonic versus the romantic relationship

and how we're leaning more into the platonic at the moment, not at the cost of the romantic.

There's room for all. But there was a stat out this week, which we're going to be digging into a bit more on Thursday's podcast with the iconic, I'm going to say, scummy mummies.

That's Helen Thorn and Ellie Gibson.

We're going to be talking about friendship.

Off the back of the fact that 40% of us have reported losing contact with some of our friends since COVID.

40%.

That's such a big number.

It's huge.

And I think a lot of the reasons listed here are to do with a lack of social interaction in that period and then not feeling confident in yourself.

You know, once you see people,

you see more of people. It's a bit like, I can't believe I'm using this in a platonic sense,

a bit like when you have sex, you want more of it. When you don't have sex, you don't really

know how to do it. Nice. Nice. It's a bit like having kids, isn world and socialise. You've sort of lost a part of yourself and it's not like riding a bike actually.

No.

It takes a minute for you to kind of put yourself out there, be bold and start talking to people.

I used to pretend, well I used to practice stories that I could tell people because I felt

I was so boring, so dull.

All I did was breastfeed and sit in my house, you know, trying to make the baby sleep.

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