Brian Laird on WNYc and we're going to wrap up the show today by inviting phone

calls about your intergenerational friendships. Why? There's a great short

essay on Vox that celebrates intergenerational friendships in part for their

potential to widen your world and quote offer us a longer view and a reminder of all the varied

experiences beyond our day-to- day. The name of the essay,

You should have more friends of all ages. And the author of the piece, Charlie Lock, joins me now.

Charlie Lock is a freelance writer who often focuses on youth and

elders. Charlie, welcome to WNYC. Hi, thanks so much for having me. And

listeners, we invite you in. Do you have an intergenerational friendship that you would like to tell us

a little bit about? How have you cultivated and maintained it? How did it start in the first place?

Like if you're 25, you don't wind up usually befriending

some 60 year old you meet, or it doesn't even have to be that intergenerational, but talk about

your intergenerational friendship, how perhaps it surprised you, how it started, what you each get out of it, whether you're a younger person or an older person you were invited in.

212 433 WNYC 212 433 9692.

Call with your intergenerational friendship stories or you can also text that

number if you want to write it down.

212 433 962 and let me say, before we really dive in,

that yes, we are aware that there's a new movie out

called May December, which is really not about this. So that's not what we're asking about.

Those of you who know what May December really is about,

we're dealing strictly with platonic relationships.

Different kind of relationships.

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