The thing that allows a relationship where you see someone only twice a year to you know like not atrophy

Is the vulnerability of saying I want to see you more as your responsibility shift your time changes and all of that

But you can still decide that you're in a period where you're like I really need to be making some friends right now like this is the car

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Hello, and welcome to wise this happening with me your host Chris Hayes

We are doing our special future of series continues this week and

I'm really excited for today's guests two guests people whose work I've followed

Who brought a really cool book that we'll get into in a second which just felt really distinct and kind of genre bending and also

Delightful and exuberant and real and it's on a topic that is very near and dear to my heart which is

You know in the category of human relations. We've got

Sort of like four categories I would say

Basically, there's family. That's a big category and a very important one. There's colleagues like people you work with

There's romantic relationships relationships that you know run the spectrum of

Romantic love those can be purely physical they can be dating they can be lots of things in between and then their friendship

Which is this category that exists

Around and in between all these other categories we have you can have colleagues that are friends and family that are just family

But then their family that are kind of friends like siblings that you actually hang out with and and I think that in some ways

You know friendship is in some ways like one of the most important relationships we have but also one of the least

artistically represented

oftentimes I feel like dramas tend to particularly in the canon tend to revolve around

Families basically family members are lovers are like the two like highest stakes most dramatic kinds of relationships

Like that's where we get like hamlet, you know, it's like well you killed my dad and I mean love with you and Romeo and Juliet and those sorts of things

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