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Having spent several years in their 20s getting the same degree and taking the same classes at the University of Manitoba, Andrea and Lorilee never got to know each other. Meeting again almost 25 years later, they soon realized they have a lot in common and became fast friends! Listen in as Andrea and Lorilee discuss their lives in midlife - from parenting to pop culture, work lives to social lives - and everything in between!
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Andrea and Lorilee discuss the decline of 24 Sussex (our Prime Minister’s official residence for our non-Canadian listeners), the reality of home renovation shows, and the pros and cons of establishing a community outside (or inside) of church.
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24 Sussex is asbestos free
Do the Property Brothers fake their shows?
The Candace Cameron Bure podcast on mental health
Lorilee’s book pick
Andrea’s book pick
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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.
Related Show Links:
Sourdough Bread recipe and process
The Popcast Episode 548: The Kate Middleton Mystery Explained
007: Road to a Million
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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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Skin cancer prevention
Choosing a Graduation Dress
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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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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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Longevity Care
Are High Tax-Rate countries the happiest?
Shop Amazon Canada Local-to-you shops!
What animal personality are you?
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Well, we did it! One whole year of podcasting! Andrea & Lorilee reminisce about past episodes, follow up on a few favourites and pass along fun tidbits. Thank you for joining us on this ride!
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Kitchen scissors
I Love Hue app
Scavenger Hunt (by Popcore) app
LLLL in Denmark
Switzerland and horse meat
Mel Robbins Podcast
Human Hope podcast
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Lorilee gives us some DisneyWorld (Land??) tips and discusses the challenges of home design with a spouse. Andrea talks about luggage and it’s more enticing than it sounds.
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Disney’s Flight of Passage
Under the Influence podcast
Burn for Burn, Fire for Fire, Ashes to Ashes books (Don’t read the description of the books on Goodreads - they contain major spoilers)
Daisy Jones & The 6
Amazon Prime Reading
Night Court (original)
Friends don’t let friends watch: Midnight Mass
Friends don’t let friends read: When No One Is Watching
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There's no easy way to describe the variety of topics discussed in this episode, so please enjoy these links:
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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BWF Introduces Nudity Corner...will this become a regular feature? Probably not...
Clip from Seinfeld with Teri Hatcher
Look up some Prussian/Russian Mennonite Geneology
Calgary’s Nude Beaches
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Andrea opens up about her dating life, Lorilee voices her frustration with technology and we discuss the difference between Winnipeg and Calgary winter drivers.
Writing the perfect online dating profile.
Why you should have an emergency kit in your home
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Andrea & Lorilee discuss their Christmas Preparations (including craft markets and cookies), our current reads, and Andrea blows Lorilee's mind by making an actor connection between 2 favorite TV shows. In this Episode: Ashton Hall by Lauren Belfer Unsolved Mysteries Netflix Veronica Mars Investigations Podcast Class Mom, You’ve Been Volunteered, Yoga Pants Nation books by Laurie Gelman Kolache Recipe Poppy Seed Noodles Recipe
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Our Loyal Listener Lisa (and mutual classmate from the 90s) joins us to chat about Disney vacation planning, children and how early is too early to start playing Christmas music.
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The Queen of Christmas has been crowned (and it’s not Mariah Carey!)
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Did you love the extra hour of sleep this month? Did you GET an extra hour of sleep where you live? How do you feel about the time change?
Lorilee gives an update on her Magnetic eye liner and lash experience. And explains why she won’t get braces.
Halloween got a bit crazy in one Winnipeg neighborhood this year. Find out what was given out to several children (and it wasn’t just a full size candy bar!)
Andrea describes a winter wish of hers…and then it comes true!
In this Episode:
Andrea’s Exciting Snow Scraper
North Pole Instagram
The Unbelievable Halloween News Event from Winnipeg
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In this Episode: Lorilee and Andrea get nostalgic about game shows, have their first (and last) discussion regarding sports, discuss getting fit and all of the various options on socials that may or not help with that.
FitOn app
The Hormone Balance Bible by Shawn Tessone, MD
Password with Jimmy Fallon and Betty White
Hollywood Squares with Robin Williams
The Price is Right Bloopers
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In this Episode:
Listen in as Andrea & Lorilee enjoy some pina coladas (on some very creaky chairs-sorry!) while chatting about phone app maintenance, the joys of Alberta liquor availability (vs Manitoba)
Links related to this episode:
Get the Waterllama app if you need to be reminded to drink water (we don't benefit at all)
"Habit Stacking" and other good tips from Balance 365
Kiss your daily emails goodbye with Unroll Me
Enjoy some sea lions on the California Sea Lion webcam
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In this Episode:
Listen in as Lorilee gets litigious, Andrea breaks Lorilee's naïve recycling heart, and they discuss the good, the bad and the romantic of "reality" TV.
Links related to this episode:
Small Town Dicks podcast
Tracking Your Trash: Exposing Recycling Myths *beware- you may never recycle again!
The 32 Best Reality Shows of All Time (Not necessarily our opinion!)
20 Longest running Reality Shows - Newsweek (Just in case you were curious. And...32 years?!?)
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In this episode:
Andrea chats with her fellow podcaster friend Jameson DeBruyn (Unexpected Experts) about variations on a nickname, the upsides of sunburns and what it does and doesn’t take to make a podcast.
Links: Unexpected Experts S2Ep8 featuring Andrea
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Andrea’s son Isaac joins the podcast this week to chat about summer plans, becoming an adult (eventually) and taxes.
From this episode:
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas 'Heat Wave'
New West Student Ensemble (in Calgary) more info here
And if you really want to know, here is an overview of the Canadian Tax system.
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From This Episode:
The New York Times games; Try "Letter Boxed" & "Spelling Bee" if you like word games, or "Tiles" if you'd like to do something mindless and relaxing.
Play Heardle
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