{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Ten Thousand Things","title":"Letting go of friends","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3512,"description":"The team discuss the art of letting go of friends. Outgrowing friends or just growing in different directions? Joe says if you start judging friends it’s the beginning of the end. We get into painful friendship break ups.\nPlatonic friendships – are men just biding their time? Sam recalls dating the hottest woman on Brunswick St, just to put it on the public record. Joe & Ali discuss their own weird bipolar friendship. Sam sings some Peter Allen.\nDeep conversations between men without mind altering substances – are they possible?\nEveryone wants to tell Ali and Joe their darkest secrets on dates but never want to see Joe again and want to be with Ali forever.\nSam discusses his major bromance break up.\nWe discuss money and class coming between people.\nSam talks about making friends his family at boarding school and that influences his adult friendships. \nWho can we really reach out to when we’re depressed?\nWe talk for twenty minutes after we say we’re wrapping up and it’s all gold!\nLinks to article and movies mentioned:\nThe problem with empathy, Vox, 2017. The article discusses the book Against Empathy - by Paul Bloom\nTwo bipolar romance movies\nKatie Holmes - Touched with Fire\nJennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook\n\nIf you like the show, tell a friend where to find us -> pod.link/tttt. Compliments, complaints, corrections at Insta/Threads, we're all in the metaverse dammit.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/2JAtfDhLe02gUO4tZQPGVO8knrF2fc46Ed_F40DCEtk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQzNzU5LzE2OTEw/MjExMTItYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}