May I recommend Listening to podcasts featuring friends talking about things? I love a podcast. This is not a particularly avant-garde thought, but I feel a little defensive, because I’ve loved podcasts since 2007 when my friend Amy told me about a weird little NPR program called “This American Life.” We lived in Belgium at the time, and I would march myself into the centre of town to go to the shoe store, or greet our latest visitors arriving by train, all while listening to the soothing tones of Ira Glass as he investigated “loneliness” or “unexpected gifts.” Connecting so intimately to people with North American accent telling me happy and sad stories while I stumbled over uneven cobblestones and got sneered at by g
Funnily I started listening to the Friendship Onion because LotR, but stayed because of the bosom buddy interaction.