Welcome to… the future? The present? Just life? When a listener wrote in to Jen and Hayley to ask about “de-intensifying the friend hang,” the geminis were immediately intrigued. It’s true, things HAVE felt very intense for a long time. And it hasn’t been easy to get back to the chill, spontaneous atmosphere they were in before. Listen to them wax poetic on seeing people during a pandemic, transitioning to “the new normal,” and communicating expectations moving forward.

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