Online Friend Simulator

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 … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – All Good Things… →

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, … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – Love Sucks →

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 … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – Love And Romance →

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 … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – Listen to Something Else →

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 … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – Survival of the Fittest →

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 … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – Merry Holidays & Happy New Year →

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? … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – It Gets Butter →

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. … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – Happy Turkey Day →

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 … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – The New Normal? →

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 … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – Making Robot friends →

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 … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – Estimate The Underestimated →

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 … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – Grateful #Blessed →

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 … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – An Alien Isolation →

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 … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – Boarding 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. 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 … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – Recipe for Friendship →

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 … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – Fear of Rejection →

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 … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – Mexico City, Mexico →

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 … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – The Art of Manipulation →

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 … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – Responsibly Irresponsible →

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 … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – Anger Management →

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 episode, I find that I can’t always walk the line. That no matter what you do, you represent a side, whether you like it or … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – The Culture Battle? →

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. After some time away due to illness and vacation, I’m back with a whole new idea. Let’s step away from doing our socializing online and get … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – The Real 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. We need to find a way to be well, at the very least. I feel we have found ourselves in a situation where fear controls us. … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – The Fear!!!! →

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 week, I felt like we needed to talk about you and me. We need to approach the world with not just an open mind, but … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – You →

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 episode continues my train of thought on navigating the world today. It’s so tough when people are out to get you and you can just … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – Ostrich Sized Minefield →

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. I’m doing well myself, but I have NO idea what to talk about. So I ramble. I think it makes sense. So take a listen as … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – I was Born A Rambling Man →

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 kind of a continuation of the last episode, I talk about making friends again when things start getting more “normal”. There’s a mine field to … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – Keep An Open Mind →

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 the world slowly opening up again and people getting their vaccines, it may seem we’ll be able to socialize again. So I talk about how … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – Light At The End Of The Tunnel →

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. Many people aren’t doing well, unfortunately, as loneliness grows around the world. Japan needed to appoint a Loneliness Minister, there is an epidemic of loneliness, and … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – The Loneliness Epidemic →

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. Better late than never I suppose, as I give you the Valentine’s Day Live Stream with the hosts of the Points of Interest Podcast, Josh & … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – The Valentine’s Day Live Stream →

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, as we prepare for Valentine’s Day, I try to look at the trends of relationships during this weird time. Are more people getting … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – All the Single Ladies / All the Single Laddies →

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 is episode 69, and it wasn’t a sexy episode! Instead, I talk about finding friendship online outside of the usual haunts, like Twitter and Facebook. … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – Are We Borg or Cobra Kai →

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. Time to step away from the frustration of the outside world and go back in time. I talk about how I’m actually an introvert and how … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – Friendly Curiosity →

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. I, on the otherhand, may not be doing so well? I feel like the world has gone topsy turvy and that sanity is in short supply. … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator – I am a moron →

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 is the live stream from New Years day, where we talk about the year that was, and the year that will be. Oh, and we … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator Ver. 0.066 – New Years Live Stream →

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 is the live stream from Christmas Day, where we talk about the holidays and the end of the year. Take a listen if you missed … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator Ver. 0.065 – Christmas Live Stream →

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 is the final recorded episode of 2020, and it’s more or less like every other episode. I reminisce about the past year, a little. Then … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator Ver. 0.064 →

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’re almost at the end of the year and the holiday season is in full swing. It’s difficult to find a way to mend the broken … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator Ver. 0.063 →

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 is the Thanksgiving live feed I did on Thanksgiving day to hopefully give some company for those celebrating alone. We mostly talk food, but it’s … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator Ver. 0.062 →

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. There’s a lot to unpack after the last few weeks, as we continue to struggle to find our place in the world. And as such, I … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator Ver. 0.061 →

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 week, and everyone has been feeling the ups and downs. And people are angry and retaliating and those folk who think they’re the … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator Ver 0.060 →

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 close to some big events, like an election and the turn of the year. So what is happening as a result? We are becoming … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator Ver. 0.059 →

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. Due to some injuries and recovery over the last few weeks, I did an episode and never posted it. As such, I forgot what I talked … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator Ver. 0.058 →

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 week, we continue to make it through this roller coaster ride called 2020. And in 2020, we try to make sense of the madness, and … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator Ver. 0.057 →

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. But unfortunately not everyone is feeling all that great. This time around, I talk about people who love misery. Everything they tweet and talk about is … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator Ver 0.56 – Misery Loves Company →

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 world moves at you fast. This time around, it’s all about opportunity and serendipity. You never know when something good is around the corner, and … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator Ver. 0.55 →

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. Life continues as the pandemic moves on. This time around, I witness something I thought I would ever see in person. Someone so in denial of … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator Ver. 54 – People v. Narcissist →

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 have Anthony Davis as a guest on the show. He wanted to talk about the Golden Rule, where you treat others as … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator Ver. 0.053 →

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. Change may or may not be happening as society goes through protests, through a pandemic, and through all forms of emotions raging and swirling all over … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator Ver. 0.052 →

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 on the Online Friend Simulator, we find that life comes at you fast. No frills, just a talk, stuff to get off my chest, … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator Ver 0.051 →

Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy with Autumn the Author of Sad Things. How are you doing? We hope you’re doing well. As we find ourselves confined to our homes, Autumn and Francis talk about what we can do to keep … Continue reading Online Friend Simulator Ver. 0.050 →