For every great friendship story, everyone has at least one friendship breakup. In this podcast, award winning author Lillian Li collects a friendship breakup story from an anonymous volunteer and shares it with one of her dearest friends.
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Today my guest is healing justice practitioner, artivist, and virgo: Kulkiran Nakai. Kulkiran and I have been friends for a few years and met in the Ann Arbor improv scene. Our friendship story comes from a person, let’s call her Robin — a true adventurer with a Russian nesting doll friendship break-up story of near-death experience and near decades of attempted reconciliation.
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15 Jul 2026
How to Be the Bigger Friend
Today my guest is mother, educator, Jersey Girl at Heart: Julie Emra. Julie and I have been friends for about 2 years and met because a mutual friend noticed our bellies were the same size (AKA we were pregnancy pals). Our friendship story comes from a person, let’s call her Paloma — a former summer camp counselor with an open door for a friend who’s left her calls unanswered.
The Why Can’t We Be Friends podcast is produced by JT Godfrey, edited by Jonah Brockman, music by Mads Henke (https://aboynamedmadelyn.bandcamp.com/).
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17 Jun 2026
How To Pin a Social Butterfly
Welcome to the first ever episode of Why Can’t We Be Friends! I’m Lillian Li and I’m kind of obsessed with friendships and friend breakups. I wrote an entire novel, BAD ASIANS (https://bookshop.org/p/books/bad-asians-a-novel-lillian-li/536aea0d7121761b?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=dsa_nonbrand&utm_content={adgroupname}&utm_term=dsa-19959388920&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=12440232635&gbraid=0AAAAACfld41cVzS09ekjy_qYV7rywMm9Z&gclid=Cj0KCQjw_vnQBhCxARIsADcZyxJ71WJ-dc65f4D6xbw5Xs0VQpVd0LmjaDIwSdKVlL71x-7KxncmYHkaAsMXEALw_wcB), centered on a huge friend breakup, and it’s a topic I feel like so many people share, but also one that not that many people talk about, even though these breakups can be as hard, or sometimes harder, than a romantic breakup.
So I started this podcast, where every episode I take a friendship breakup story shared by an anonymous volunteer, and I go through it with one of my dearest friends: from the conflict to the resolution to the reflections. Throughout we also share our friendship highs and lows.
Today, my guest is Sam Krowchenko, a writer, a bookseller, my friend for 11 years, and my husband for 2. Our friendship breakup story comes from a man I’ll call Peter, who is 88-years-young, a true social butterfly whom I met swimming at a local pond.
The Why Can’t We Be Friends podcast is produced by JT Godfrey, edited by Anita Li, music by Mads Henke (https://aboynamedmadelyn.bandcamp.com/).
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