Cherie Brooke Luo & Jean Luo

How to know who your real friends are.Four games. Pick one below.

From three girls’ trips in two weekends. Nothing you type leaves your browser.

The friendship audit

Deal the deck.Six cards. Answer honestly.

The episode's own mini exercise, from 30:55. Use it for one friend or for a whole group chat.

Stars are for honest, specific answers. It never tells you whether the friendship is good. Answering “defensive” earns the same star as “curious”.

Card 1 of 6 · about this person

Do I like who I am around this person?

“Are you being 80% yourself? Are you being 10% yourself?” 31:10

How much of you shows up?
Not yet: AnsweredA few words at least.
Not yet: SpecificTen words or more, about something real.
Not yet: Picked how much of you shows up
An open topic

“Am I an alien?”On taking the other path.

At the Maine bachelorette, Jean was the only single woman there. Everyone else was married, and all but one had kids. “There were points in the conversation where I obviously had nothing to add.”

“My first thought was, they are so different. But then I took a step back and I was like, wait, I’m the different one.”

Jean · 24:06

Her takeaway was to build friendships with people in a similar life stage, because “for a weekend it was beautiful,” but every day “I would start to feel bad.” This is for anyone who has felt like the different one at the table: single at an age when that comes with a look, child-free, a career detour, a move nobody else made.

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Prompt 1 of 6

When did you last feel like the different one at the table?

“Wait, I'm the different one.” 24:06

Prompts proposed, built from Jean’s words
Superfan round

Were you listening?Pick an answer, then find out.

0/60 of 6 answered
  1. Where was the bachelorette Cherie went on?

  2. On Jean's Portugal weekend, what was the main activity one day?

  3. Whose face was on the shirt Cherie gave Jean for Christmas?

  4. What did Jean do to Cherie's hair in 2020?

  5. Cherie's friend Isa knows her from where?

  6. What does the sister of Cherie's book friend do?

Only facts the captions tie to one sister. The trips to Japan, the matcha farm and the friendship-breakup tears are left out until we know who said them.

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This all came from here.Three girls' trips, two weekends.

Just the two of them, back from a wholesome bachelorette in Vermont, a countryside weekend in Portugal and a bachelorette in Maine. Along the way: the difference between a holiday and a vacation, a COVID bob, a Jeff Probst shirt, and the friendship audit.

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Part two · coming next

Friendship breakups.“Who here has cried inconsolably from a friendship breakup?”

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