Real Friends vs. Fake Friends

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:18.5	Remember, you can hear my radio program daily on Sirius XM Triumph and connect with me 24-7 at
0:26.6	Dr.ora.com.
0:28.5	I thought this would be a very interesting topic.
0:32.8	Real friends versus fake friends.
0:35.0	Natasha Ivanovick wrote a little blog on that. I'm going to excerpt some
0:39.3	things from it. Add, subtract, multiply, divide. I spent an hour on the phone last night with a dear
0:45.6	friend who just opened up her heart totally, and we've known each other for years and we've been friendly and relatively
0:56.9	open nothing major but last night we were both it was just like we both dove in now because
1:07.1	i'm dr lorris lessinger i have to be a little more careful than the average bear.
1:13.7	About trusting.
1:16.4	It's a little harder for me because it's a bigger risk.
1:20.4	Nonetheless, I'm a person and I need friends.
1:23.9	Unfortunately, I have friends and good ones.
1:27.1	And this good friend, we went to a deeper level. It was amazing. And fortunately I have friends and good ones.
1:27.6	And this good friend, we went to a deeper level.
1:31.0	It was amazing.
1:34.3	I lay down in bed when I was finished because it was pretty late.
1:37.9	And I felt very fortunate.
1:42.8	So we're going to talk about the difference between real friends and fake friends.
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