Friends Like Us
Hosted by Marina Franklin · Friends Like Us
4.7from 452 ratings
- 217
- Episodes
- 121
- Transcribed
- 452
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 1M
- YouTube views
About Friends Like Us
A podcast featuring women of color with different views on topics hosted by Marina Franklin.
- Publisher
- Friends Like Us
- Category
- comedy · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 4 May 2022
- Latest episode
- 14 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
121 of 217 episodes have a transcript.
14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
To AI Or Not To AI: That Shouldn't Be The Question
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Bridging Generations Minus The Ice Coffee
23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month and Tackling Topics
Inside a recent episode
To AI Or Not To AI: That Shouldn't Be The Question
Published 14 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] That's marketing. That's sales 101 all the way back. Where do you think the AI got the information from? It just looked at history. How do we get people to buy widgets? We tug on the heartstrings. We give them clever market, whatever. We connect with them emotionally or what have you, even though we don't have a soul. We're just going to try to connect. And I could see how people are getting getting confused and thinking that these little chat bots are perfectly fine human, emotional human beings when they're not. They're just computers. And we really need to promote that, that these things are just computers, that someone off in Silicon Valley somewhere just put a group of data together and say, hey, make sure we present it this way. […]
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Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Ant Pruitt
- Alexis Bradby
- Sara Contreras
- Kimberly Clark
- Rob Haze
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 1,103,040
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 416 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 36 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 85 / 100
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- Quality
- 97
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 97
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Who hosts Friends Like Us?
Marina Franklin host the show. Published by Friends Like Us.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes weekly, based on its RSS feed.
Does Friends Like Us take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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