All good things, must come to an end. Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. We’ve reached episode 100! What does that mean? Well, you’ll have to listen to find out. It’s a milestone and a crossroads for change. What is the future of the Online Friend Simulator? Come join the ride and…

Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. It’s Pi Day and also White Day in Japan, so I decided to talk about the not so awesome aspects of love. Well, not love itself, but finding love sucks. So I spend the episode on alternatives and just how difficult love is in general. It…

Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. It’s Valentine’s Day, and I deice to talk about love. Because, of course? We get into the romance and the changes in dating in the 21st century, and I thought I had so much to say about it, but I just run through it all, like…

Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. This time around and I have a little bit of a rant about the world today and how we used to just tell people, that if you didn’t like listening or watching something, change the channel. Like an old man yelling at the sky. Fist waving…

Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. 2022 has begun! So what are people doing to make their lives better? What can we do to keep our resolutions? I have a couple of ideas. But I think I had so many ideas, that it’s just a word vomit of things that may or…

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, And Happy New Year to everyone as we approach 2022. This is the final episode of 2021, so let’s talk Christmas, the past year, and the year to come. Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. The year is almost over, and what a year it was. But before…

We are in the holiday season, and it’s a time for positivity and not so much of the negativity that we see all around us. Do things actually get better though? Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. As we barrel through the holidays, I thought it was for some positivity. To talk…

It’s Thanksgiving time for those in the United States. Are there things worth being thankful for? I know one thing. I’m thankful for you, the listener. Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. We are officially in the holidays season and we are starting with Thanksgiving. Once thought to be a day to…

We were told that this would not be the new normal. But maybe, the fear, the uncertainty, and the dread is…the new normal. Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. We jump right into the new normal. We may never know what life will be like pre-Covid or pre-2016. It was a simpler…

Do we need real life friends, or can the likes and retweets of the internet enough? Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. Thanks for being patient as life takes me away from recording shows. This time around I talk about Ron’s Gone Wrong, a cartoon about a robot that was built to…

Are we letting people underestimate us, or are we underestimating ourselves? Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. Welcome back! Thank you to Anthony for the topic for today. I don’t know if I experience this and I may be a jerk for not knowing that. All I know is that I have…

Can we still be thankful in a thankless world? Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. Welcome back! This time around we try to be thankful for what we have. The power of being grateful can have some positive lasting effects. But sometimes you look around and wonder, what’s there to be thankful…

Isolation can feel alien. Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. Welcome back! It’s been a harrowing last couple of years, and I’ve been avoiding a topic for a very long time. There’s so much attached to the pandemic and how it has been weaponized. I try to avoid that but instead talk…

All aboard the Leader Ship! Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. Welcome back! This time around we are talking about leadership. Now, personally, I don’t know much about leadership. I just know that it’s a thing. So I use the help of Psychology Today to help break down what is needed to…

Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. First off, a big thank you to RightCowLeftCoast for the recommendation for today’s episode. He was kind enough to recommend a bunch of topics for the Simulator. So we are starting with Friendship. We start right at the beginning with a little help from the Mayo…

Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. This time around, I get a topic recommendation from Anthony on my Twitter. The question is if the fear of rejection is a rational or irrational fear. I can see why people would see it as being either rational or irrational. We don’t like rejection and…

Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. It’s been a very busy last few weeks, and I’ve just recently returned from a vacation. So this time around it’s a travel episode, where I talk about my time in Mexico City, Mexico. If there’s any advice I can give, it’s that you take time…

Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. Summer is in full swing. It’s so hot. And what’s hot right now? The art of manipulation. The people around us are ready to use us if they could. Not everyone mind you, but sometimes there are people who want to play us like a fiddle.…

Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. With this simulator, I talk about personal responsibility. Now, I could be wrong, but I feel we no longer take responsibility for our own actions and our own self growth. So I do a little, do as I say, not as I do, as I talk…

Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy. How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. A big thank you to Anthony for the topic of anger management and anxiety. I hope I help in some way with recommendations and suggestions that helped me. But I also tie this to the concept of weakness and strength. An issue we have either ignored…