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- Ep95: What To Do with Plums, McDonald’s for Neuroscientists and Things We Will Never Do
It’s not unusual for the girls to talk about food… this time it’s the finer points of making fruit perogies from scratch. Andrea and Lorilee discuss past and future fast food prices, and muse about things they will never do.
Related Show Links:
- Is fast food affordable anymore?
- Recipe for Plum Platz
What We are Reading:
- It Ends with Us - Colleen Hoover
- Deaf Utopia: A Memoir—And a Love Letter to a Way of Life - Nyle DiMarco & Robert Siebert
- Morrigan's Cross - Book by Nora Roberts
Do you have a topic you’d like to hear us discuss? We'd love to hear from you!
Email: [email protected]
Instagram: @betterwithfriends.pod
44 min - Ep94: Pie Crawls, Berry Picking and Dorm Room Decor
What if there were Pie Crawls as well as Pub Crawls? We think that’d be a great idea! Also discussed is a game from Lorilee’s childhood that Andrea has never heard of and the necessities and frivolities of dorm room decor.
Related Show Links:
HiHo! Cherry-O Game
Dorm Room Decor Ideas
Cherry pitter
@penalty_penner10
Marc Anthony Strictly Curls Line and Volume Spray
Do you have a topic you’d like to hear us discuss? We'd love to hear from you!
Email: [email protected]
Instagram: @betterwithfriends.pod
Get BWF merch here42 min - Ep 93: Fashion Trend Yuck and Yums, Weather Woes and Job News
Calgary was hit with a heat wave this past week which neither Andrea nor Lorilee appreciated. There is new news on the employment front, and they discuss fashion trends that they probably will not try.
Related Show Links:
Socks with Sandals - Summer’s most Divisive Trend
Beat the Heat - Stay Cool during a Heat Wave
Job Hunting is Exhausting - How to Keep Going
What we are reading:
The Alice Network
What Happened to Goodbye
What we are watching:
The Gilded Age
Find Me Falling
What to avoid:
Everything Sad Is Untrue
Do you have a topic you’d like to hear us discuss? We'd love to hear from you!
Email: [email protected]
Instagram: @betterwithfriends.pod
Get BWF merch here
49 min - Ep92: Instagram Workouts, Fostering Cats and Movie Genres that are a Hard No
Andrea and Lorilee discuss the end of parenting (sort of), getting fit, the possibility of fostering a cat (maybe) and movies we are never going to watch.
Related Show Links:
Tracy Campoli Instagram account
Dean Koontz’ Intensity
How to use a Tide-to-Go pen
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We'd love to hear from you!
Instagram: @betterwithfriends.pod
Email: [email protected]
45 min - Ep91: Oh Canada, Ripsticks and 50s Bingo
We aren’t entirely convinced that anyone reads the show notes anyway. But if you do, know that in this episode Andrea and Lorilee discuss being Canadian, eating Kraft Dinner and Slurpees and updating our 50s Bingo Card.
Related Show Links:
History of the Canadian Flag
How to ride a Ripstick
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We'd love to hear from you!
Instagram: @betterwithfriends.pod
Email: [email protected]
45 min - Ep90: Dream Interpretation, Career Woes and Publishing a Book
In this episode, Andrea tries her hand at interpreting Lorilee’s dream from the night before, they discuss the progression of careers in midlife, and talk about self-publishing a book.
Related Show Links:
Dreaming about Bears
Midlife Career Changes
Book Rec: Listen for the Lie
Please feel free to support Hailey and Emerson: Where’s My Buddy
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We'd love to hear from you!
Instagram: @betterwithfriends.pod
Email: [email protected]
47 min - Ep89: BWF Rewind - Y2K
There’s full circle moments as Andrea follows through on some previously mentioned hobbies, and Lorilee makes a movie recommendation, and there is a high school graduation update. They also bring it back 24 years and discuss what their respective lives were like in the year 2000, discuss of the popular pop culture moments of that year.
Related Show Links:
What happened in pop culture in the year 2000
Love at First Sight on Netflix
9 minute watercolor tutorial for beginners
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Instagram: @betterwithfriends.pod
Email: [email protected]
43 min - Ep88: BWF Deep Dive: The Idea of You
Podcast listener and friend Aimee joins Andrea and Lorilee to discuss the recent Prime Video release “The Idea of You” Starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine. Lorilee compares the movie with the book, and together they discuss age differences in relationships, and the pros and cons of the movie.
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Email: [email protected]
55 min - Ep87: Pocket Privilege, Wardrobe Levels and Instagram Algorithms
Do you know what to wear for a dinner at a family restaurant on a Wednesday evening? Andrea proposes a grading system for wardrobe decisions, the girls discuss pockets vs. purses and the Instagram accounts they enjoy and the ones they unfollow.
Related Show Links:
The History of Purses
Lorilee’s Instagram follows: Tyler Butterworth and Kenzie Ervin
Andrea’s Instagram follow: Celeste Barber
Wayne & Shuster Goodbye song courtesy of Internet Archives
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Instagram: @betterwithfriends.pod
Email: [email protected]
35 min - Ep86: The Mandela Effect, Disappointing TV shows and a Sewer Backup
Do you know the American peanut butter brand name that starts with a “J”? Or when Nelson Mandela died? Lorilee tests Andrea’s memory with a shortened quiz that demonstrates the Mandela effect. They also discuss book and tv recommendations, being sportsy (or not), and getting shorter with age.
Related Show Links:
Britney Spears and The Mandela Effect
Nightwatcher by Wendy Corsi Staub
Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham
Get BWF merch here
We'd love to hear from you!
Instagram: @betterwithfriends.pod
Email: [email protected]46 min
About Better With Friends - Conversations with Andrea and Lorilee
From the publisher's feed
Having spent several years in their 20s getting the same degree and taking the same classes at the University of Manitoba, Andrea and Lorilee never got to know each other. Meeting again almost 25…
years later, they soon realized they have a lot in common and became fast friends! Listen in as Andrea and Lorilee discuss their lives in midlife - from parenting to pop culture, work lives to social lives - and everything in between!