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Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast

Some of my richest insights into ageing, health, love and grief, come from conversations with friends. This podcast is the audio version of those reports from the friend front, from the technology front, and from the reluctantly encountered shittiness epidemic. Topics include love, sex, technology, money, and very little politics. joannapiros.substack.com

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7:17

We Cannot Just Be Friends

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/21

There’s nothing wrong with saying “we were friends” or “we used to be friends” or even “we will become friends” because each of them reflect the passive, or active, nature of those relationships. “We are friends”, however, simply cannot be. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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9:33

For the Love of All Things Edible

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/21

I baked a beautiful cheesecake today, the traditional New York dense kind, not my recently acquired favourite, the fluffy Basque cheesecake. (Fabulous flavour but keeps wanting to separate, GROAN.) I even smashed up chocolate wafers to make a chocolate crumb crust as the Christie cookie company has discontinued its bags of crumpled up Oreos. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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4:00

Rediscovering History

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/21

I had a vaguely alarming experience recently when two colleagues, reminiscing about our shared media past, related an incident that involved all three of us. It was one of those media events where various TV and radio personalities take part in risky, ill-advised and potentially fatal activities, such as riding race-horses and flying upside down in open airplanes. This particular event was a wind-surfing foray (it would be silly to call it a race) around English Bay. The point was to surf out to the

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4:00

I Haven't Interviewed in Years

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/21

Must be something in the water. I thought that by now the dust would have settled from the Great Attrition, the Great Resignation, the Great Lateral Promotion…but nope. This week saw half a dozen conversations and coaching sessions with people looking for tips on how to navigate employment or promotional interviews because they haven’t interviewed in years! Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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13:31

How They Met, part 3

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/21

30 years ago Darryl was a PhD candidate in Australia, moonlighting as a nightclub bouncer. One night the boss announced he had hired a female bouncer, given the number of unruly drunk women his crew had to contend with. He assured the boyos she could look after herself. Name was Martha. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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28:18

Chasing Ghosts in the Fog

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/21

I received the phone call the other day, the same one you probably get every couple of months/years/weeks. The one that asks, did you spend $4500 on a Turkish carpet at Carpetmania, many miles from where you live? Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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6:57

It's Not Me; it's U(niverse)

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/21

What the hell is wrong with everyone? We’re surrounded by incivility, incompetence masquerading as caution, and a complete lack of ambition. It’s a pandemic of shittiness which has taken hold of the world and until we figure out what’s causing or contributing to it, we can’t take any steps to turn back the tide of awful offal. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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6:14

Knocked Out

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/21

How do you feel about blackouts? About losing time and memory? About general anaesthetic? Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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3:19

Ain't No Hood Like Mamahood

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/21

You can never “look back” on motherhood because, once you become a mother, you remain one forever so the looking is equal parts remembering, experiencing and anticipating. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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1:57

Build Your Own Blue Zone

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/21

You know when you’re flying into Palm Springs, for example, and every other yard has a pool? Think of that as mini Blue Zones all over the world. That’s the dream. For those unfamiliar with the concept, Blue Zones are places in the world where people live inordinately healthy and long lives. Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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3:50

Please allow me to introduce myself

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2025/02/21

Hello and thank you for being here! If you subscribed to my enewsletter I have taken the liberty of migrating you to this Substack instead. Of course you can always opt out, unsubscribe, leave a flaming bag of dogshit at my front door. I promise to not take it personally, at least I’ll try. So happy to have you here! Get full access to Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load at joannapiros.substack.com/subscribe

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13:24

How They Met - Part 2

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2024/12/11

YES I want to hear about how you met your partner, best friend, first baby, dog or cat, or any other significant OMG it’s YOU kind of story, please and thank you!This week’s offering starts off with Sue’s account of how a truly fabulous beginning turns to shit in the longer run. It was, however, a movie-worthy start:After a long, boring summer job and before heading to graduate school I needed a week oﬀ. So I gathered up my aunt and best granny (who was in serious need of some R & R) and headed to a

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11:20

Death of a Fighter

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2024/12/04

There’s a moment of weightless limbo when you move from one state to another, liquid to gaseous, for example. Or from independent adult to fatherless child. That moment came for me last Wednesday at 11:35 a.m. when my father died. You might be taking exception to my framing his death as my loss, my experience, but how else to understand the event except through my eyes, brain and heart? Even a recounting of the facts of his life are framed through the lens of how we understood them, how we heard

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28:18

Chasing Ghosts in the Fog

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2024/11/13

I received the phone call the other day, the same one you probably get every couple of months/years/weeks. The one that asks, did you spend $4500 on a Turkish carpet at Carpetmania, many miles from where you live?Speaking with Cherise, the helpful credit-card rep, I realized it had been a few years since one of my cards was scammed (only paying subscribers receive my PIN number), and that time it was by someone who had purchased a MacBook Pro online and arranged to pick it up at a mall not too far

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8:55

Flight 719

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2024/11/06

The man sitting next to me is a tightly wound bundle of energy, or ADD, hard to tell. He is in his 60s, lean and wiry like a crazed marathoner, and does everything quickly and with gusto. He stuffs a laptop and a book, Michael Lewis’ Premonition into the seatback pocket and pulls out a large plastic bag which contains, as it turns out, multiple sandwiches and some blue cheese (for which he apologizes later. We agree boiled eggs would have resulted in a seat change request.)Reading on my phone, I

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7:15

Can Illiterates Read Minds?

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2024/10/30

My Friday morning yoga instructor announced today she was leaving and I became ridiculously sad and emotional even though I don’t know her all that well. I attend most of her sessions and have done for a couple years; we chat often, mostly ritual how-are-you’s but occasionally more personal. I don’t know much about her outside of the studio. I know she has a UK accent, pronounces something and anything as if they ended with the letter k, and is always smiling and welcoming. I know she struggles with

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0:11

UNSOLICITED

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2024/10/02

Those of us with grandchildren already know how precious time spent with them is, and how much we miss when we are apart for long stretches. Sometimes it’s illness that keeps us apart, sometimes it’s distance and travel but oftentimes it’s because, well, they just don’t want you over because your grandparent comments and behaviour make them crazy.New parents are already stressed out by the realities of bringing a baby home and being ultimately responsible for this little human, so they have thin

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9:33

For the Love of All Things Edible

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2024/09/04

I baked a beautiful cheesecake today, the traditional New York dense kind, not my recently acquired favourite, the fluffy Basque cheesecake. (Fabulous flavour but keeps wanting to separate, GROAN.) I even smashed up chocolate wafers to make a chocolate crumb crust as the Christie cookie company has discontinued its bags of crumpled up Oreos.As I worked on it, swirling the melted chocolate into the cheesecake batter before popping it into the oven, in my mind were all the nears and dears who would be

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14:40

Everything to Live For

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2024/08/14

During my time in junior high school, a boy in the senior grades committed suicide in the family home. This wasn’t a boy who was in trouble, skipped school and so on. He was an A student, a little quiet but popular and friendly. The overall conversation, after the initial shock, was stunned disbelief that someone with “everything to live for” could commit suicide.Recently, two young men whose lives are within the circle of my adult children, took their own lives within a couple weeks of each other

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20:34

Mansober

Talking With Friends, Sharing the Load Podcast ·

2024/08/07

I caught an interesting piece from CBC news recently, which described a new-ish trend amongst young women (and men) who have chosen to remain celibate and, in many cases, forgo dating and that whole hot mess of online match-ups. It’s called “boysober” which I thought was pretty darned clever so I’ve adapted it to suit what I hear from my own demographic, i.e. not 20s and 30s anymore. It’s more than simply celibacy; it’s about taking time away from the relationship struggle to focus on yourself and

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