Join Adele and Zoe discussing possibly the best TV programme ever made in Friends From A to Z. Episode by episode they dig into the detail, laugh at the best bits and call out what’s unusual or just plain weird twenty something years on in Friends Thru A Lens - plus they have condensed each episode into a limerick! Could a Friends podcast BE any better?
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The next generation of investors, entrepreneurs, and creators has arrived. Join your host, Ben Phillips, as he interviews successful investors, CEO's, author's, and seasoned professionals who are inspiring Generation-Z to change the world. Ben also interviews 'Zoomers' who are laying the groundwork for our future by creating businesses, products, and services, that are revolutionizing the way we live and work. Take this incredible opportunity to hear the stories behind how each guest became ...
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Rachel and Danny’s relationship sparks a debate about the best and worst couples of all ten seasons, which has some surprises of its own. There’s discussion of the reverse Dickensian theme in this episode and a lot of puzzling about why the Ross and Joey dynamic here is perhaps less successful than the Monica and Chandler storyline is echoes from a…
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**Note that this episode was recorded before the untimely death of Matthew Perry** We had one of our favourite things with this episode: seeing it in a new light and with more layers than before. We learn that the edit choices around Ross’ sandwich have resulted in a creative magnifier that unfairly taint the episode in our memories, there’s endles…
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**Note that this episode was recorded before the untimely death of Matthew Perry** This is an easy favourite, with lots to love. There is also, though, a lot to forgive with several plot holes revealed through the discussion, but that doesn’t prevent this from being a classic. There’s surprise at Adele’s favourite joke, Friends-thru-a-lens makes an…
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There’s a surprise in store for Zoe with a very special Epidimerick. There’s a lot of debate about possible explanations for very curious behaviour from Rachel, Zoe learns a new social hack and an iconic hand gesture takes the conversation from sitcom to psychology.Por Adele and Zoe
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Does Phoebe have any way of justifying wearing the fur coat? There's a discussion about a possible flaw in the Danny storyline - is Rachel really ready for this yet(i)? And Zoe blows Adele’s mind by spotting that Emily and Ross are Ross and Rachel in reverse.Por Adele and Zoe
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We're off to a racing start in this one with a cracking cold open and, despite it having a title that Zoe really (really!) doesn't like, it's jam packed full of fantastic laughs and stuff to discuss; Does Monica have the wrong idea of what a perfect weekend away should be like? Even though the weekend went a bit wrong, are they in a better situatio…
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Apologies to any US listeners who will cringe at our lack of knowledge about PBS, but hopefully that doesn't distract from the discussion too much! Adele wonders what the plan was for Emily if the actress hadn't got pregnant when she did (meaning Emily is not only written out but also filmed only from the neck up). Zoe on the other hand isn't sure …
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It's The One Hundredth and that's not the only landmark thing about this episode. Elsewhere, Zoe reveals an improvised moment by Lisa Kudrow that never made it to air (understandably, when you know what it is!), we discuss why a tiny bump in the road for Chandler and Monica is so significant and we marvel at how an actor can make repeatedly deliver…
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Michael Batnick is the Director of Research at Ritholtz Wealth Management. On today’s episode we discuss: Michael’s opinion of the Fed policy and where next... How to survive bear markets and inflation. When will young people be able to buy a house? Gen-Z option trading on Robinhood! Why the night he met Josh Brown changed his life. For more of Mic…
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We start the second half of 2022 off with a cracker of an episode as I am joined by Crypto Consultant and fellow Gen-Zer, Nate Fowler. If you are like me (totally overwhelmed by the crypto markets) and want to learn more, but don’t know where to start, well look no further as this educational episode is for you! We discuss: · What cryptocurrency is…
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On todays episode I sit down with Logan Lebouef, Director of Marketing at Knit, to discuss: -What Gen-Z like to eat, drink, and do in their free time. -How brands are embracing crypto and NFT's. -The best strategies to capture Gen-Z’s attention. -Why all companies should have a ‘Gen-Z strategy.’ With currently $150bn in spending power, and soon to …
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Important turning points here when another Rachel and Ross chapter closes, Monica and Chandler's story develops and Phoebe's life is about to change. We discuss why it's the right decision for Rachel to tell Ross she loves him, we find out what prompted Zoe's three smiles in the margin of her notes and we as why Monica and Chandler decide to have a…
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Creating a New Investing App with Vesti Social Co-Founders Will Brokaw and Quinn Mitchell
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In today’s episode I sit down with not one, but two, young founders who are launching a new investing chat app and social network for the next generation of retail investors. Will and Quinn have been friends since the 1st grade and are now on the cusp of launching their new investing social app in the App Store this Summer. During the episode we di…
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On today’s episode of 'Gen-Z and Friends' I chat with fellow Gen-Z’er Cliff Cornell of Bone Fide Wealth about the current financial markets and economy. We walk through several charts to breakdown and discuss: -What happened in Q1? 💥 -The migration from SF to Miami 🏄♂️ -Why following the VIX is important 📈 -How to view price vs equal-weighted ETFs…
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On today’s episode I speak with Brian Portnoy, Founder and CEO of Shaping Wealth. Brian is one of the world’s leading experts on the psychology of money. He is a CFA Charterholder and earned his PhD at the University of Chicago. Brian has written multiple bestselling books, including The Geometry of Wealth and How I Invest My Money with Josh Brown.…
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Welcome to Gen-Z and Friends! Today's guest is Jesse Kay, the Founder/CEO of Vyber Media and Co-Founder of the Makin' Lemonade Fund. Jesse works with Fortune 500 brands and professional athletes to better connect, engage, and monetize their relationships via social media and digital marketing strategies. In today's conversation we discuss Jesse's j…
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Today I am joined by the Founder and President of Bone Fide Wealth Management, Twitter celebrity, girl Dad, coffee enthusiast, and creator of the CryptoDrip NFT project, Douglas Boneparth! In today's episode we discuss how Doug became one of the best-known financial advisors in the country, what Gen-Z should be doing with their money, and the real …
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In the first episode of 2022 I sit down with Shane Fan to uncover how he built a social media following with over 4 million followers and more than 2 billion views. We discuss Shane’s social media strategy, his time at UC Berkeley and Harvard, career advice for the Gen-Z community and young entrepreneurs, why tracking current market trends is SO im…
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We’re back for Season Five and what an opening episode - the resolution to one of the greatest end-of-season cliffhangers in television history. So much here to discuss including of course the big question of just what it *did* mean that Ross said Rachel at his wedding, what to make of Emily’s reaction and just why it is that we’re so happy to ship…
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Hello and welcome to Gen-Z and Friends! Join the community here: Website / Twitter/ Instagram / YouTube Today we welcome Gen-Z Founder Justin Van Loan to the podcast. Justin is co-founder of Trendsetters, a community of traders and investors that provides watchlists, bots, and technical analysis to Discord Servers and individual investors. Justin i…
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Welcome to Gen-Z and Friends, today’s guest is Evan 'Thor' Torrens! Evan is an entrepreneur, web designer, and early crypto investor. Evan has also worked in the entertainment industry where he picked up an Emmy Award and was an ex-special assistant to President Donald Trump. In today’s episode we discuss cryptocurrency, Web 3.0, and NFTs. So if yo…
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Welcome to Gen-Z and Friends! Join our community here: Website / Twitter/ Instagram Today's guest is Leanna Haakons, Leanna is the Founder of Black Hawk Financial, Author of Amazon’s No.1 Bestseller “Young, Fun & Financially Free” and a regular guest on CNBC and Bloomberg. Leanna is a true advocate for woman in finance and an expert in financial li…
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FFAtoZ The Reunion
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A feature length episode to cover everything that happened in The Reunion... and there was a lot! The memories! The tears! The surprises! The special guests! The table reads! The unseen footage! The list goes on... We discuss how much of the plan had been revealed and what was genuinely new to the cast. We figure out which guest star we liked the b…
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FFAtoZ S4 Eps 23 & 24 Ross' Wedding
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Christmas is a time for giving and, to round off the year, we’ve got an extended episode to cover off both parts of Ross’ wedding and two episodes means two epidimericks! We break down why these episodes are so beloved, which celebrity cameo is the best, how our knowledge of what comes next for Monica and Chandler shapes our response to the big twi…
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Two episodes (well, one and a half) for the price of one here because we’ve wrapped up TOW The Invitation with TOW The Worst Best Man Ever, because The Invitation has very little original content. However, this does mean we’re double-epidimericking! There is a brief but interesting discussion about the Invitation episode, including Zoe inventing th…
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It’s (another) one with the lockdown, which means we’re back on Zoom for our recording of this discussion (and the sound quality is a teeny bit affected by that). There’s a debate about whether the wedding dress storyline stands up to 2020 scrutiny and whether it retains its humour with multiple viewing. Questions are raised about what’s going on i…
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This episode’s easy to love for so many reasons: echoes of TOW The Embryos, Joey and Chandler solid bromance moments and significant storyline progress. Despite that, it does raise many question: Is Rachel counter-intuitively the reason why Ross proposes to Emily so quickly? How long does it take to pack up and move an entire apartment? And has Zoe…
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There is one standout storyline in this episode which is undeniably great for a number of different reasons. Beyond that, there’s plenty of debate about ‘that’ dress - not just the dress itself but several questions about the set up and the outcome of that storyline. Elsewhere, how do we feel about Ross’ paranoia 20 years on and why did no one have…
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Interesting trivia right off the bat with this one and its main storyline, which also leads to a mass debate trying to make sense of a group of friends sitting around watching this particular type of TV channel. What does this tell us about how TV has changed in the intervening years? Elsewhere, which is better, Relaxitaxi or Relaxicab? Is there a …
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This one might contain a fake party, but it’s the real deal when it comes to Friends episodes. There’s a lot of appreciation for the quick-fire funny lines and for Jennifer Aniston’s tour-de-force performance. There are also lots of questions to debate: why does the public at large not feel the same way about this episode? Just how many times has P…
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There’s plenty to discuss about why this one gets the IMDB rating it has. Is it because 15 Yemen Road, Yemen is so iconic? Is it because Janice is back? Is it the shape-shifting accents that Emily’s rugby pals seem to have? In Friends Thru a Lens, we ask who would have thought that Toxic Masculinity would be so prolific in 22 minutes of television …
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It’s fair to say this isn’t a favourite episode of Season 4 for Adele or Zoe or indeed the audience at large. That said, this is a really important one because we meet for the first time one of the most disruptive and memorable characters of all ten seasons. It does raise a number of questions though: why does Emily sound like she has a fake Britis…
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Not the most popular episode of Season 4, but given the real life trivia around this one, there’s a great deal to discuss. There’s an in-depth exploration of Joshua’s background and a hypothesis that Joey might have unwittingly helped us understand the chemistry (or lack of) between him and Rachel. That’s not the only storyline that doesn’t really …
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Is there such a thing as 22 perfect minutes of television? Not only do we think so, but, arguably, THIS IS IT! This is not just a good episode of Friends, this is one of if not THE best episodes of Friends ever made. All of the many (many) features that earn it this mantle are explored, but how can we possibly pick a favourite joke? Well we have to…
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Another one where the rankings differ between the people at large and the hosts - this time totally inexplicably because this is a great episode! All three storylines are not just funny but play a role in raising issues into mainstream culture that were interesting and brave, so we get our Friends Thru A Lens all over that. There’s an interesting d…
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There’s a lot packed in to this one with four storylines and three of them scoring big points for great jokes (one not so much). We wonder whether the title of this one might explain the difference between our rating and the one on IMdB and Zoe has an idea for how to improve the summaries for all the episodes. There’s a lot of admiration for a clas…
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There are very mixed feelings about where this one ranks amongst the episodes of Season Four but no such disagreement with another favourite joke snap. Zoe’s initial insight into Rachel’s promotion storyline is surprising to Adele to say the least. There is an epiphany about the choices made by the writers when Monica and Phoebe don’t get to see ou…
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You may not expect a storyline with Chandler in a box to connect to mythology and ancient religious rituals but it does in Adele’s head. There might be only one hole in Chandler’s box but, one of the storylines has so many holes in its credibility that it’s blowing our tiny minds (even though we can forgive it because it’s very funny) and Friends T…
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A classic episode here, which means it’s fun to talk about and there’s loads to get your teeth into. Not only is this one choc full of great story and some iconic moments, but the discussion around Chandler, Joey and Kathy unearths a whole load of interesting debate about the deeper psychology of this storyline. Ross’ ‘sound’ is one of the most mem…
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There’s no debate over whether this is a favourite or not, but there is significant debate over both Chandler’s endgame here and (not for the first time) some of the choices made around how Kathy’s character behaves. Zoe has some interesting trivia about the Dirty Girl herself (as well as her real life husband), the favourite joke snaps reach unpre…
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This is one of those episodes that’s scoring quite high but not from how many laughs it contains, more for the depth of character and narrative importance. There’s a lot of debate over exactly what Kathy is thinking and a lot of love for the ridiculous dating circumstances Rachel and Ross find themselves in. Phoebe’s storyline clocks up a possible …
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**APOLOGIES** There was a sound error with the first upload of this so it is being posted again!! I'm "sorry" (as Joey would say!) We need the extra large machine for Friends Thru a Lens this episode as there are things in every storyline that don't quite feel right 23 years later, but there is one thing that was very insightful at the time and rem…
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Cuffs, cleverness and quiches collide, Adele has a theory about strengths and flaws in all three. Zoe has her assumptions about who or what Milton Berle is thoroughly challenged and there are no fewer than three candidates for Friends Thru A Lens that show how much the world has changed since this episode first aired in the late 90s. Also, can we b…
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This is a tough one to rate because of brilliant highs and not so brilliant lows, but there’s plenty of interesting discussion about it all. Chandler and Joey being robbed provides a Favourite Joke snap and Monica dating Chip provokes a debate about how much this storyline reflects today’s views on weight and self-worth. The storyline about the cat…
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We were on a break! No, we really were… that break was officially for Zoe to have her baby, but little did we know a global pandemic would arrive shortly after, meaning that the sound will be a *bit* affected as we’re recording remotely. We’re off with a bang though with a universally loved episode that's got strong Rank Bank potential. Popularity …
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We made it! We’re at the Beach (house?) which means it’s the end of Season Three! This episode contains the single biggest cliffhanger of Adele’s TV watching history and her second all time favourite Ross and Rachel kiss - but there’s a lot of discussion about what leads up to that moment. There’s a discovery of two words - critical to this episode…
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It’s time for the (pen)ultimate fighting champion episode, introduced with some trivia about the cold open that Adele gets particularly excited about. Despite having to search more than usual for the good jokes there’s lots to discuss: there’s something about the Chandler butt-slapping storyline that’s making it not quite sit right, there’s a happy…
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Full agreement on the rankings of this one in Season Three and lots to discuss. There’s plenty of Friends Thru a Lensing with Pete’s tech-laden den and how it compares to the similar things we have today that are now commonplace. What can explain the uncomfortable reaction both Adele and Zoe have to Phoebe’s double-dating, and Zoe has a theory that…
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We may have a record gulf here between Adele and Zoe’s opinions of the screamer (both the man and the episode), we’ve got a rank bank feature for one and literally almost the worst episode of the season for the other - but that’s OK because it sparks a lot of debate! One thing that is agreed on, is the lovely real life link between this episode and…
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There’s a lot of debate about Monica’s behaviour towards Pete and whether one kiss could really take him from zero to hero. Chandler and Joey’s new roommates are a welcome addition and Ross’ decision to forego a TV appearance to care for Rachel is closely dissected, leading to several u-turns and the invention of a new word. Oh - and Adele promises…
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