Radio Blogs: Jason Made a Friend

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
These are the radio blogs on the Fred Show. Oh
everyone like for running in our diaries, except we say
them a loud we call them blogs. Jason, Yes you
got one? I do you ready? Yes?

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Take it away, Thank you, dear blog. So I've been
saying for a while now, I don't understand how adults
make friends, because literally everyone that is a friend of mine,
like my closest friends, either work here currently or have
worked with me in the past. Like I don't have
friends that like live by me, or neighborhood friends or
anything like that. All Over the weekend, we went up

(00:31):
to the lake to Mike's parents' lake house, and I
started talking to the daughter of the neighbor. We're about
the same age, and she was like telling me she
just like had some hard times with her boyfriend and
to move back, and her parents just like a lot
of like rough things happening to her. So like I
obviously like am listening. I'm trying to be an active
listener and like whatever. So then we exchange numbers and

(00:54):
then we've been texting and I'm like, wait, do I
have a friend now? Like I have an adult friend.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Do you have a friend or just someone that you're
are you a car because like, yeah, right, but you're miserating.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
I have a lot of friends that I just like
trauma dump on. So is that a friendship?

Speaker 1 (01:09):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Am I friends with her? Are you friends with her?
Am I friends?

Speaker 1 (01:12):
I think you're doing a nice thing by listening. Yeah,
but is that the only Yeah? Right, well that was
my That was my question was is that the only
sort of nature of the conversation?

Speaker 2 (01:21):
It was like that, and then yeah, and then she
like she was it was her and then her she
was like her talking and me listening and being like, oh,
you don't need him, like you know, you deserve to
have a night out with the girl. So she was
going like a girl's night out. I was like, yes,
go says and then she left. I'm like, are we
friends now?

Speaker 1 (01:39):
I mean, so hopefully she does something for you in
the near future and then you're a little more getting
to tell me.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
How my relationships normally go. So we'll see how it goes.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
I mean, you're doing a nice thing. You're obviously helping her,
you know, by listening, So that's nice. Whether as a friendship,
I don't know, but I will say it is very
difficult to make friends as a grown up, especially as
a single grown up. And I know you're not single,
but like I mean, like I don't get invited to
the couple stuff. Other single people tip, we don't get
invited to the couple stuff either, so if you do,
it's like weird. It's a weird sort of like everyone

(02:10):
knows why those two were here, yep kind of thing.
And then I don't know, it's hard to make friends
as it grown up, it really is.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
And also like people my own age because Mike is
fourteen years older than me, so like all his friends
that we hang out with, like there's a generational difference there,
you know. Like so to have someone that like doesn't
work here that is my own age, Like maybe we're
friends though, yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Close to the cabin two is fun.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yes, I have like someone up there till I hang
out with.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, well you know, tooken bitch to you and so yeah,
what's in this for you? I'm wondering, let's put it
to work? Yeah, well yeah, so maybe you made a
new friend. Yeah I don't know, And I'll tell you.
I'll tell you. Here's how you know, is if if
she resolves that problem one way or the other, and
then you guys still talk and about other things. And

(03:02):
if she's an equal listener, then you have a friend.
If you stop hearing from her once she works out
her problem, then you know that it was not a
real It was not it was you were simply a conduit.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
By Okay, Well, time will tell, we'll see.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Because how many people do you know? And I'm guilty.
I know I've done this before to people, but I
know it's been done to me. Where you don't hear
from somebody for a long time they're going through something hard.
Then you hear from them, and you hear from them
during the hard part, and then when they either resolve
it or they you know, move on from it, then
you go back to not hearing from them as much anymore.

(03:34):
And then you realize, like they'll listen. Maybe this is
a friendship, but maybe there's like the basis of a
friendship here, Like maybe you're a decent person, but it
sounds like you were just sort of using me to
commiserate with you. Yeah you know what I mean. Oh yeah,
I have friends like that, but they're still like I
still consider them friends, you know. Yeah, I kind of
attract mental issues. We look where you are surrounded. That's

(03:59):
like a zoologist sitting. I attract to animates, Like, what
the means? What did you think was gonna happen when
you God, you look at the fread show more, fread
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