Here to Make Friends

The indie pop duo Tegan and Sara helped an entire generation through breakups and breakdowns. Tegan Quin — who is more than a musician — talks about her newest novel “Merry Christmess,” analyzes Liz and Jessi’s dreams, and gives the masses the concert etiquette guidelines they need to hear. » FOLLOW Jessi on Instagram: / youracquaintancejessiklein » FOLLOW Liz on Instagram: / thelizfeldman Subscribe to the show: @HereToMakeFriendsPodFollow us on Instagram: @heretomakefriendspodFollow us on TikTok: @heretomakefriendspodSend us an email: [email protected] and Rate Here To Make Friends on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and leave us a review to read on a future episode!Here to Make Friends is an Acast Production. Our producers are Carmen Borca-Carrillo, Adrien Behn, Sara Schleede, and Avery Loftis. Our executive producers are Jenny Kaplan and Emily Rudder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Minds meld, thoughts are read, and ideas are born in today’s episode with documentarian and podcast host Ky Dickens. Ky joins Liz and Jessi to discuss the origins of her massively successful podcast The Telepathy Tapes, the mysteries of creativity, and whether they are a skeptic or believer.Subscribe to the show: @HereToMakeFriendsPodFollow us on Instagram: @heretomakefriendspodFollow us on TikTok: @heretomakefriendspodSend us an email: [email protected] and Rate Here To Make Friends on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and leave us a review to read on a future episode!Here to Make Friends is an Acast Production. Our producers are Carmen Borca-Carrillo, Adrien Behn, Sara Schleede, and Avery Loftis. Our executive producers are Jenny Kaplan and Emily Rudder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Comedian and intrepid journalist of the “Epstein Files Bookclub” Jena Friedman joins us in the studio this week to discuss secrets of national importance, including: scaling Splash Mountain with a 3-year-old; the etymology of a “Motherf*cker;” and why puking in a flat is actually sort of chic. Catch Jena’s show “Motherf*cker” off-Broadway Nov 14-24!Subscribe to the show: @HereToMakeFriendsPodFollow us on Instagram: @heretomakefriendspodFollow us on TikTok: @heretomakefriendspodSend us an email: [email protected] and Rate Here To Make Friends on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and leave us a review to read on a future episode!Here to Make Friends is an Acast Production. Our producers are Carmen Borca-Carrillo, Adrien Behn, Sara Schleede, and Avery Loftis. Our executive producers are Jenny Kaplan and Emily Rudder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Actress, writer, and comedian Kerri Kenney-Silver joins Liz and Jessi to talk all about her iconic MTV sketch show, The State, Kerri’s latest acting venture in The Four Seasons, and the time Kerri accidentally ate potpourri. Subscribe to the show: @HereToMakeFriendsPodFollow us on Instagram: @heretomakefriendspodFollow us on TikTok: @heretomakefriendspodSend us an email: [email protected] and Rate Here To Make Friends on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and leave us a review to read on a future episode!Here to Make Friends is an Acast Production. Our producers are Carmen Borca-Carrillo, Adrien Behn, Sara Schleede, and Avery Loftis. Our executive producers are Jenny Kaplan and Emily Rudder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Beginning in 1993, Vanity Fair magazine ran its first “Proust Questionnaire” on the back page of its print issue. The questionnaire was popularized by the French author and essayist, Marcel Proust, who thought the collection of 35 questions could reveal a person’s most authentic self. Liz and Jessi think sometimes quickly, and sometimes way too deeply, about these questions, discuss being drawn as a cartoon, and ponder how they would like to die. Subscribe to the show: @HereToMakeFriendsPodFollow us on Instagram: @heretomakefriendspodFollow us on TikTok: @heretomakefriendspodSend us an email: [email protected] and Rate Here To Make Friends on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and leave us a review to read on a future episode!Here to Make Friends is an Acast Production. Our producers are Carmen Borca-Carrillo, Adrien Behn, Sara Schleede, and Avery Loftis. Our executive producers are Jenny Kaplan and Emily Rudder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Liz and Jessi are joined by the eternally funny and effortlessly stylish Michelle Buteau. They discuss the final season of her Netflix series, Survival of the Thickest, her intention around queer and POC stories, her openness about her fertility and surrogacy journey, and her newest movie Spa Weekend (please listen to this episode in shavasana with cucumbers on your eyes and a jade roller in hand). Subscribe to the show: @HereToMakeFriendsPodFollow us on Instagram: @heretomakefriendspodFollow us on TikTok: @heretomakefriendspodSend us an email: [email protected] and Rate Here To Make Friends on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and leave us a review to read on a future episode!Here to Make Friends is an Acast Production. Our producers are Carmen Borca-Carrillo, Adrien Behn, Sara Schleede, and Avery Loftis. Our executive producers are Jenny Kaplan and Emily Rudder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Tony-award winning voice of a generation Laura Benanti joins the pod! She tells Liz and Jessi about what it was like to be born as an 18-year-old ingenue, how she plans to resist the upcoming robot revolution, and the deeply beautiful yet unhinged apology letter she writes every year. Go see Laura's one-woman show, "Nobody Cares," in LA at The Wallis Oct. 1-Oct. 4!Subscribe and Rate Here To Make Friends on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and leave us a review to read on a future episode!Here to Make Friends is an Acast Production. Our producers are Carmen Borca-Carrillo, Adrien Behn, Sara Schleede, and Avery Loftis. Our executive producers are Jenny Kaplan and Emily Rudder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Liz and Jessi are joined by Emmy-award winning actress, comedian, and notable Wife Guy Robby Hoffman. The three get to the bottom of important questions facing our world today, including: How do lesbians pull so hard in high school? Do you ask for birthday gifts beyond the age of 12? And what the hell is the name of this podcast?!Subscribe to the show: @HereToMakeFriendsPodFollow us on Instagram: @heretomakefriendspodFollow us on TikTok: @heretomakefriendspodSend us an email: [email protected] and Rate Here To Make Friends on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and leave us a review to read on a future episode!Here to Make Friends is an Acast Production. Our producers are Carmen Borca-Carrillo, Adrien Behn, Sara Schleede, and Avery Loftis. Our executive producers are Jenny Kaplan and Emily Rudder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Supermodel, actress, writer, and newly minted podcaster Paulina Porizkova joins Liz and Jessi to talk about her long career in modeling, life behind and in front of the Iron Curtain, aging gracefully, late-in-life romances, and finally feeling like herself. We recorded before Paulina got married earlier this summer– congratulations, Paulina! Subscribe to the show: @HereToMakeFriendsPodFollow us on Instagram: @heretomakefriendspodFollow us on TikTok: @heretomakefriendspodSend us an email: [email protected] and Rate Here To Make Friends on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and leave us a review to read on a future episode!Here to Make Friends is an Acast Production. Our producers are Carmen Borca-Carrillo, Adrien Behn, Sara Schleede, and Avery Loftis. Our executive producers are Jenny Kaplan and Emily Rudder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Liz and Jessi are joined by comedian, writer, reality TV host, and all around dream boat, Sabrina Jalees. Liz and Sabrina bring Jessi into the loop around queer lingo; Sabrina recounts the odyssey she went through to meet her wife and future sperm donor (Nolan was not involved), and Jessi shares a (not so) near death experience she had with a moose. Watch Sabrina Jalees as a fox in the new Netflix series Mating Season.Subscribe to the show: @HereToMakeFriendsPodFollow us on Instagram: @heretomakefriendspodFollow us on TikTok: @heretomakefriendspodSend us an email: [email protected] and Rate Here To Make Friends on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and leave us a review to read on a future episode!Here to Make Friends is an Acast Production. Our producers are Carmen Borca-Carrillo, Adrien Behn, Sara Schleede, and Avery Loftis. Our executive producers are Jenny Kaplan and Emily Rudder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.