The IBS in Me Recognizes the IBS in You w/Caroline Moss

Thanks For Asking

Feelings & Co.

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

This is a PSA: you’re not too old to make a best friend. Just because you no longer have assigned seating in a classroom or a playground or playdates doesn’t mean you can’t find your best friend in the whole world on Twitter (we’re never calling it X) or Slack or… a hospitalization program? The point is, putting yourself out there can be embarrassing, but you never know when you’re going to stumble across the person that is going to change your life. In this episode, Nora is joined by her platonic soulmate, Caroline Moss of Gee Thanks, Just Bought It! to read your adult bestie stories and tell their own. Watch us on YouTube here! Get this episode ad-free here! Listen to Geoffrey’s album on Spotify and Apple! Shop my favorite bras and underwear at ⁠⁠SKIMS.com⁠⁠. After you place your order, be sure to let them know I sent you! Select "podcast" in the survey and be sure to select my show in the dropdown menu that follows. Go to ⁠⁠indeed.com/TFA⁠⁠ for all of your hiring needs! Head to ⁠⁠cozyearth.com ⁠⁠and use my code NORA for up to 20% off! Find your fall staples at ⁠⁠Quince.com/TFA⁠⁠! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi. Hi. Hi. How are you there? Hi. Hey, Nora.
0:11.8	I'm Nora McInerney, and this is thanks for asking, a call-in show about what matters to you.
0:27.0	Hi, everybody, it's Nora McInerney. This is, thanks for asking, a call-in show about what matters to you.
0:32.4	And what matters to everybody, it seems, is friendship, especially the trials and challenges and joys of
0:42.3	making friends and keeping friends and navigating friendships as adults. When we're younger,
0:49.8	it's relatively simple. We are friends with people that we are in proximity with. The person who
0:56.5	sits next to us in class are, you know, our parents' friends' children, or in my case, my cousins,
1:03.0	who for a while were kind of my only friends in adulthood. When I moved back to Minneapolis
1:08.0	after living in several places as an adult, I'm trying to avoid being made fun of by my dad husband who used to say in conversation, did you know Nora lived in New York City?
1:19.0	Wow.
1:19.7	Oh, boy.
1:21.2	Wow.
1:21.6	Yeah, she lived in New York.
1:22.7	She never talks about it.
1:24.0	Okay.
1:25.8	Okay.
1:26.3	Okay.
1:26.5	When you move back to your hometown and your hometown is in my
1:30.6	case, when you move back to your hometown and your hometown is in my case in the Midwest and you
1:37.3	have not lived there since you were 18 years old, technically an adult, but as we know,
1:41.1	not a girl, not yet a woman. And your friends from high school have mostly,
1:48.6	you know, moved on, moved to other places. And you are kind of trying to make friends for the
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