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  • Julia Katherine!!

    This week I’ve got a very special guest on the show lawyer, retired barista, and one of my sister’s best friends, Julia Katherine.
    Julia and I discuss the Vancouver Island culture of making friends, learning how to speak confidently in front of sleeping judges, abandoning time limits as personal development, blue angels, and so much more!
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    54 min
  • Joshua Muise (My Brother-In-Law!!!)

    This week on Friendless I have special guest video game designer, illustrator, and my brother-in-law, Joshua Muise!
    Josh and I discuss the unexpected perks of working from home, jocks making video games, joining the Avramenko clan, friendship as a radio dial, and so much more!
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    57 min
  • Dirk Van Stralen

    This week on Friendless I have on special guest, actor, director, historical interpreter, and professional drawer Dirk Van Stralen!!
    Dirk and I discuss giving art away, the power of the viewer, entangling self-worth with artistic production, the pits and perils of interpretive theatre, what self-love really looks like, and so so much more!
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    1 hr 1 min
  • S.E. Grummett aka Grumms!

    This week on Friendless, I unfriend Fringe Festival star and Travelling Wilbury S.E. Grummett aka Grumms!
    We chat about lockdowns in Australia, screaming at strangers to follow the arrows, lacking object permanence, trying to stay soft in a world that wants to harden you up, being the elder guide on baby’s first MDMA trip, and so much more!
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    51 min
  • Jane Sanden

    This week on Friendless, I unfriend UVic alum and charcuterie extraordinaire Jane Sanden!

    We discuss the perfect charcuterie board, Rocky Horror Picture Show, reintroducing ourselves after being deceived by beards, learning to appreciate flaky friends, and so much more!

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    51 min
  • Jensine Emeline Trondson

    This week on Friendless, I unfriend miniature painter, Theatre tech Swiss army knife, and music impresario, Jensine Trondson.
    Jensine and I discuss her miniature painting series, letting art be imperfect, how to be friends with everyone you meet, holding people accountable for yourself and not performatively, verbalizing your gratitude for others and so so much more!
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    51 min
  • Bob Orlando

    This week on Friendless, I welcome Bob "The Builder" Orlando, 3D printer technician, poker wildman, and Dungeon Master extraordinaire.
    Bob and I talk about the intimidation factor of ghost towns, 3D printing prosthetics, Vegetarian pep talks, taking the blame for house parties at other people’s houses, projecting insecurities onto Dungeons and Dragons characters and so much more!
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    48 min
  • Katie-Ellen Humphries

    This week's guest on Friendless is competitive swimmer turned standup comedian, Victoria's own Katie-Ellen Humphries!!
    We talk about theatre kids only being vulnerable when drunk, the superstars of Kaleidoscope Theatre, using performance as coping mechanism, athletes dreaming of being artists, turning my butt into a Pink Floyd prop, how to not be so goddamn precious with your terrible art, and so much more!
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    52 min
  • Forget about it Jennica, it's Carantane
    This week on a very special episode of Friendless, my sweet wife Jennica returns in our attempt at a glimmer of levity in reflecting on the past year.
    We chat about regrettable quarantine purchases, the traumas of travel, levelling up new skills, love bombing old friends, and making a playlist of 2020 cultural moments (spoiler: it ain't great). All that and so much more on this very special episode.
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    46 min
  • Sara Tuppen Veloso

    This week on Friendless, I unfriend Tourguide to the stars and linguistic mage Sara Tuppen Veloso!
    We talk about day trips in Europe, learning languages for fun, the cultural resurrection of Love, Actually, that one James Bond where he fights Russians, shit-talking on Japanese transit, exposing oneself appropriately to negative content, the labour of giving yourself pep talks in the mirror, and so much more!
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    48 min

About Friendless

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Friendless is a podcast about the strange, tender, often painful work of staying connected. Host James Avramenko talks to writers, thinkers, activists, and everyday people about…