Leslie Liao Wants Your Friendships to Be Less Crusty

Your adult friendships might have quietly gone crusty — and your mental health depends on fixing that. In this episode, I sit down with comedian Leslie Liao, whose hypnotic voice lulls you in until her wit snaps you out of it. She gets honest about being crusty, as we all are sometimes, and we talk about what makes adult friendships quietly dry up and what it actually takes to bring them back to life. We get into why the catch-up feels more like a quarterly review than a hangout, why voice memos feel so much more real than texts, and why I’m genuinely tempted to get a rotary phone just to bring back the mystery of picking up a call you actually want to take. We normalize boring hangs, couch days, and parallel play. We talk about needing different friends for different parts of yourself — and how diversifying your intimacy can protect your romantic relationship tooPlus mmm — Summertime Prozac.Keywords:adult friendships, friendship advice, mental health, Leslie Lau comedian, Alicia Racine Fink, Xanyland podcast, parallel play, friendship strategies, diversifying intimacy, voice memos, rotary phone, nostalgia, summertime, Prozac