Better With Friends
By Andrea & Lorilee
Better With FriendsJun 27, 2023
Ep86: The Mandela Effect, Disappointing TV shows and a Sewer Backup
Do you know the American peanut butter brand name that starts with a “J”? Or when Nelson Mandela died? Lorilee tests Andrea’s memory with a shortened quiz that demonstrates the Mandela effect. They also discuss book and tv recommendations, being sportsy (or not), and getting shorter with age.
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Ep85: Shapeshifters, Food Waste and Podcasting Woes
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Canadian true crime story and new tv series “Under the Bridge”
City of Calgary Interview Method and Sample questions
Lorilee’s Current Read Tracy Wolf vampire series “Crave”
Shmoo
Andrea’s Current Read Mr. Churchill’s Secretary
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Ep84: Lipstick, Sad Work Coffee and Pet Psychics
This probably isn’t the most random grouping of conversation topics, but it will come close! Andrea bemoans the state of coffee at the office, Lorilee shares her very interesting Easter family dinner conversation (spoiler: it involves puberty), and they have a general chat about lipsticks.
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Ep83: Lavender Lattes, Making Bread and Reality TV
Lorilee and Andrea branch out into trying Starbucks Lavender drinks and baking sourdough bread, discuss extravagant vacations by our Prime Minister, and reality tv shows - new and old.
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- The Popcast Episode 548: The Kate Middleton Mystery Explained
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Ep82: Mattresses, Feline Dynamics and Transitioning Back to the Office
The girls contemplate the misalignment of supply and demand for mattresses and how to sleep when you need a new one and Andrea introduces her new cat. Lorilee talks about fitting in responsibilities of life as a full-time working mom, and gets some tips on fitting exercise into a full life. Related Show Links: Tips on transitioning back to an office setting Balance 365 Episode 59: How to Simplify Your Fitness Routine Stacy Shines Joy Midsize Fashion + Curvy Mom Style on Instagram Book Recommendations: “Die Again” by Tess Gerritsen “The Book of Two Ways” by Jodi Picoult Music "Sad Violin" by Oleg Kyrylkovv from Pixabay Get BWF merch here We'd love to hear from you! Instagram: @betterwithfriends.pod Email: Betterwithfriends@outlook.com
Ep81: BWF Adoption Episode
The Presidential Hotel Beijing
Face Changing Dance
Chinese Tea Ceremony
"Pee-Pee Boy" - Tea Pets Explained
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Ep80: 24 Sussex, Home Improvement Shows, Church Communities
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Lorilee’s book pick
Andrea’s book pick
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Ep:79: Recent Reads, Fantasy Careers & Tickling
Are you a multiple-book-at-a-time reader? Andrea and Lorilee chat about reading methods and their own habits, careers they’d like to have at this point in their lives, and the horrors of being tickled.
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What is a Wenus?
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Ep78: New Year, New Books & New Kitchen
The girls reconnect after the holidays, and we let you in on what we’ve been reading (including a stinker of a book). Lorilee has begun a kitchen renovation, and Andrea realizes she set herself up for failure.
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Ep77: 80s TV Theme Song Quiz
We test our memories from our childhood with varying degrees of accuracy. Can you beat our score?
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Ep76: Christmas Traditions, Surprise Animals & Sewing in the 70s
In this episode, we do a little follow up from last week’s podcast, plus Andrea gives a furniture update. Lorilee describes a childhood outfit that sounds suspiciously familiar and they both chat about holiday traditions, new and old.
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Ep75: Our Christmas Lists for 2023 - A BWF Supersized Episode!
We took a page out of Oprah’s magazine today and reviewed some of our favourite things to inspire your own Christmas Lists and help with gift-giving this year! Buckle up, because these show notes are extensive…
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Lorilee’s Favourite Things:
Bryan Anthonys jewelry
The Leftover Woman: A Novel by Jean Kwok
Along for the Ride by Sarah Desson
The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanowich
Happy Place by Emily Henry
Lush-Dream CreamLush- Lime Bounty Body Butter
Lush-Lust Perfume (Jasmine)
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Ep75: Homework, Seasonal Decorating and Junk Rooms
Tis the season to decorate for Christmas…. Or is it? Andrea and Lorilee chat about when to pull out the seasonal decorations, how to help (or not help) your kids to do homework, and the feasibility of craft markets.
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Ep73: Early Mornings, Sleeping Temperatures and the Desirability of Concert-going
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Scandinavian Sleep Method
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Ep72: Toad in the Hole, Lying and Book Reviews
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Toad in the Hole
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Book - Remarkable Bright Creatures
Book - The Only One Left
Book - Killers of the Flower Moon
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Ep71: Grad Dresses, Maintaining Adult Friendships & Hand Surgery
Andrea & Lorilee discuss their upcoming graduating children, which naturally leads to reminiscing about their own grad dress sagas. Andrea updates on her missing cat status and recent hand surgery (spoiler: use SPF on your hands!!) Lorilee leans on her community to get her kids to school, and together they muse about challenges of maintaining long-distance friends with different schedules.
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Ep70: Life Updates, Working Mom Wardrobes & Sickness Must-Haves
They are back! After a summer hiatus, Andrea and Lorilee get caught up on the important life changes, discuss the challenges of Lorilee’s work wardrobe and agree on the best self-care when being sick.
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Episode 69 - Lorilee and Jennifer
Lorilee enjoys catching up with her Winnipeg buddy, Jennifer. They share mental health experiences, talk about Lorilee’s brand new job and how Jen had influenced this turn of events, as well as ideas about restorative justice and animal therapy! And, just to be trendy, they also discuss the Barbie Movie. Guess who wasn’t a fan? Related Show Links: Sweet Soul Instagram
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Ep 68: Andrea and Ashley
Andrea sits down with her internet friend Ashley - their first time talking in real time! - and they chat about what brought them together as friends, Cleaning Clubs, Mormonism and polygamous family trees, and how the internet can broaden our worldview.
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Ep67: Highs and Lows of Summer
Bugs, sunscreen and ice cream - oh my! We chat about our favourite and not so favorite things about summer.
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Ep66: BWF News & Rewind
This week Andrea & Lorilee announce that the Better With Friends podcast will shift to being released every other week, and they re-release Episode 21, originally aired September 13, 2022.
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Ep65: Andrea & Chelsea
This week Andrea sits down with her friend Chelsea and chats about being a working mom and entrepreneur, getting married young, losing a parent, thrift-shopping and a lot more!
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Ep64: Lorilee & Shallon
On this BWF summer series, Lorilee chats with Shallon - fellow grade 5 kid Mom, fellow creative, world traveller...it was supposed to be a 15 minute episode but once we got started, we couldn't stop!
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Ep63: Did Hell Freeze Over? We're doing a Twilight episode!!!
We've invited Twihard, Aimee Redmann, to join us on this auspicious occasion to chat about everything Twilight. Andrea shocks and surprises by watching not one, but two Twilight movies!
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Ep62: Jars of Teeth, Neck Stretches and Disposable Utensils
Our summer series kicks off with a conversation about keeping our kids’ teeth in jars and other weird things we hang on to, stretches to deal with the consequences of working at a desk, Indiana Jones and Asterix (the character, not the punctuation)
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Ep61: Carnival Foods, Fireworks and Cereal
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Ep60: Family Recipes, Gift Giving and Life-Changing Events
Do you have favourite family recipes? Andrea and Lorilee talk about memories centered around recipes and ways of preserving them, giving gifts, and events that changed the direction of our lives.
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Ep59: BWF After Dark Episode
They really tried to be a bit spicier this episode since it was recorded after suppertime, but the girls settled into their typical banter, including the challenges of kid schedules and subsequent transportation conflicts, inappropriate Siri moments and online shopping hits and misses. But we do learn Lorilee’s favourite spice!
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Ep58: Watermelon vs. Cantaloupe, Teeth Whitening and Naps
Do you prefer watermelon or cantaloupe? This is one of the few things that Andrea and Lorilee do not agree on. They also chat about Andrea’s big year end concert and the stage make up she had on, taking naps at parties and their TBD summer plans.
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Ep57: Cow Anatomy, Meal Kit Hacks and Pickle Pizza
Do you know how bulls are sterilized? If you listen to this episode you will! Lorilee also shares interesting facts generated by Siri and possibly convinces Andrea to read a Twilight book. Also discussed are the finer details of pickleball and pickle pizza.
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Ep56: Smoky Air, Bad Camping Stories and Waterslides
It's no surprise that we aren’t campers, but in this episode Andrea tells her Worst Camping Story Ever. We also discuss spring planting, the perils of the smoky air from Alberta Forest Fires this week, and waterslides.
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Smoky Air in Calgary this week
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Ep55: Geriatric Pregnancies, Music Lessons, and Your Rich Life
The girls discuss Robert DeNiro’s new baby and their takes on being pregnant in midlife. They also chat about being constantly distracted, the benefits of music lessons and living “rich”
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Ep54: Vampires, Politics and Emergency Preparedness
The "Bloody Episode"!
Andrea tries to solve a mystery for Lorilee and ends up creating a new one. We chat about being prepared for a power outage, some of Lorilee’s kitchen experiences living in Kabul and ... vampires.
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Find where you stand on Alberta’s political spectrum
How to know if you are eligible to give blood (in Canada)
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Ep53: Candy, Plants and Side Hustles
What’s your favorite childhood candy? We discuss nougat, fancy chocolates, the challenges of springtime planting, Tupperware and Pampered Chef, and losing teeny tiny remotes.
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Ep52: ONE YEAR of Better With Friends!
Ep51: Rubber Rings, Balloons and Skiing Stories
Andrea introduces Lorilee to a new product, Lorilee (finally) gets new glasses and they both tell their skiing stories (spoiler - neither one had a good experience).
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Mount Agassiz (Manitoba skiing)
Traditionally it was 2 months salary for an engagement ring, but here are some other considerations
Best of [year of birth] t-shirts like Lorilee’s
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Ep50: Family TV Watching, Time Travel and Fixing Cars
We’ve reached the BIG 5-0!!
Andrea and Lorilee bemoan car maintenance surprises, teenager milestones and discuss time travel - which decade would you have liked to have been born in?
Look for a Gift Economy on Facebook in your area to find free stuff in a neighborhood near you!
Veronica Mars Timeline
Season 1: 22 Episodes From September 22, 2004 to May 10, 2005
Season 2: 22 Episodes September 28, 2005 to May 9, 2006
Season 3: 20 Episodes October 3, 2006 to May 22, 2007
The Veronica Mars movie March 14, 2014
Season 4: 8 Episodes released on Prime July 19, 2019
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Music and Sound effects by Pixabay
Ep49: April Fool’s Day, Online Selling & Scams
April Fools!
In this episode, Lorilee shares her almost FB Marketplace hoodwinking experience. Thankfully, she wasn't fooled by "Walt Smith". Andrea and Lorilee discuss other online selling experiences- is there an etiquette reference guide for this stuff?!?
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Ep48: Allergies, Love Languages and Heating Pads
Lorilee doesn’t do herself any favours regarding tech savviness. Andrea, Lorilee (and Olivia) learn their “love languages”- spoiler alert: sleeping and coffee related acts of services are not officially on the list but we think they should be!
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The Love Languages Quiz Take it here!
Get your own amazing heating pad (not a sponsor!)
Are you a new person(-ish) after 7 years? (not a scientist!)
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Ep47: Brushes with Celebrity, Big Glasses Frames and Family Movie Watching
This week Andrea had some brushes with celebrities and got some new glass with unexpected results. Lorilee falls asleep during another movie.
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Jason Hildebrand and his House of David project
Try on some stylish blue glasses here: Zeelool
‘Call Me Kat’ glasses frames
Andrea Martin as Edith Prickley
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Ep 46: Odd Spa Procedures, Figure Enhancements & Fairy vs Faery
Here at BWF, we ask the tough questions like:
How DO you wipe your butt with freakishly long nails?
How well do the silicone shoulder pads stay put?
How many junk drawers are too many junk drawers???
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The closest thing we could find to the “cobra” leg massage machine
Court of Thorns and Roses book by Sarah J. Maas
Jack Noble Series
Kathy Reichs books -Tempe Brennan “Bones” series and The Virals (with Brendan Reichs)
Dal Tile Memoir Cosmic Blue
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Ep45: Disney Recap, Home Design and Marriage Counselling
Ep44: Where the Crawdads Sing Part 2
We really enjoyed the movie (and book) Where the Crawdads Sing, and we invited Lorilee's daughter to join our conversation discussing the themes and theories about this book.
This episode contains spoilers. So read the book or watch the movie before listening if you don't want to ruin the surprise.
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Ep43: Where the Crawdads Sing Part 1
We really enjoyed the movie (and book) Where the Crawdads Sing, and we invited Lorilee's daughter to join our conversation discussing the themes and theories about this book.
This episode contains spoilers. So read the book or watch the movie before listening if you don't want to ruin the surprise.
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Ep42: Grainy Photos, Mixtapes and T-shirts in Winter
Andrea and Lorilee meander through topics like the existence of grainy profile pictures in this age of technology, budgets for kid birthday gifts, the art of making a mixtape, souvenirs from trips and various ways to display Lorilee’s mug collection.
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Estimate how tall your children will grow
Celsius to Fahrenheit conversion chart
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Ep41: Band Concerts, Cinnamon Bun Trials and the Positives of the Pandemic
Lorilee updates us on the Junior High Band concert she attended, Andrea reveals her “50 by 50” intention for this year and they both discuss death of a loved one.
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I’m Being Eaten by a Boa Constrictor song (link provided by Lovely Loyal Listener Lisa)
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Ep40: Indoor Skydiving, Prescription Glasses and VR
Andrea updates Lorilee on the indoor skydiving experience (click here to see an example), Lorilee considers reusing a friend’s frames for her own eye prescription, and we discuss lifelong motion sickness which might actually get worse with age?? How rude.
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Motion Sickness: Symptoms & Treatment (clevelandclinic.org)
How do Progressive Lenses work?
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Ep39: Irrational Fears, Viva Magenta & Sleep
This episode starts with sleep and ends with sleep! Andrea and Lorilee discuss irrational fears that become recurring nightmares, interior design color trends and why they are dumb, and end with things that help us fall asleep (and what doesn’t work).
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Incredible story of a python that ate a farmer…whole
Pantone Color of the Year 2023
Insight Timer App
John Mulaney’s Bit about Quicksand
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Ep 38: Dishwasher Rage, Beans & Moral Dilemmas
Lorilee is still learning (or remembers for the very first time) new things about Andrea! After all this......year!
Andrea also gives an update on Lily's session with her animal behaviorist and shares some wisdom from The FlyLady.
(Wonder how the FlyLady got her name?
When Marla found the www.SHEsintouch.com website three years ago, she needed a username. When they found out that she loved to flyfish and she taught it at a local college, they came up with the username “FlyLady”.)
Is dishwasher rage a thing? If so, Lorilee has it.
In this Episode:
Emeril Legasse’s Super Stuffed Burritos
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Ep37: Vampires, Pinterest Shelf Fail & 90s Pop Culture TV
The Summer I Turned Pretty (Summer, #1) by Jenny Han
The Summer I Turned Pretty Series
Twilight Saga books
Vampire novelist Anne Rice
Awful DIY shelf hack
True Classic Tees
Not “roofie” but Rofye 😂
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