Reese Witherspoon
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157 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 10 May
Reese Witherspoon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What's the worst thing that could happen? Or be vulnerable. I will tell you when I had no friends in Los Angeles, I moved right after college. I stopped out of Stanford because I got this job and I moved into this apartment. I didn't know anybody who was 19 years old. I had no friends. And my mom came to visit me. go, mom, I have no friends. And she's like, well, there's a girl across the hallway.
I had to do it like Betty Witherspoon. There's a girl across the hallway and she looks like she's about your age. And I think you should just go over there and you should just ask her if she wants to have some coffee. And I was like, really? Yeah. So I knocked on her door and I was like, hi. And she goes, she goes, hi. Hi, I'm Reese. I'm I'm 19. She goes, I'm 19 too. My name is Heather.
And I was like, I don't know anybody. I just stopped out of Stanford. I'm here by myself. She goes, I just stopped out of Berkeley. I was like, oh, I'm working. She's like, I'm working too. I was like, do you want to get coffee? She's my best friend to this day.
She's my very best friend on planet earth.
How do you... Half of my life is just like jumping into a freezing cold pool. Think about all the things that you have to do to just get to there and then get to there and get to there.
It's like, oh, I've done much scarier things than introduce myself. Yeah, that's good. That's good.
Wow. I hope I figure it out quickly, but like I do have a really good group of girlfriends around who will say to me, Hey, he just wants to be your friend. Cause he's trying to, I don't know, write an article. It becomes pretty apparent pretty quickly. Again, withdrawals, no deposits. Okay. That's how. That's how. Okay. That's good. And also, y'all, don't you feel like you have such limited time?
Friendship is like this very important thing, but you got to have friends who, first of all, be able to put them on your speed dial. They'd show up if your kid was sick. And then you have to be able to hang up the phone immediately and they don't get their feelings hurt. Right. I gotta go. Click. Yes.
Literally, when you call them three days later, you just start talking about whatever you were talking about when you hung up the phone, right?
Maybe you just need friends who like to come to your house.
Oh gosh. I think my friends are going to be like, what is she going to say? Random check-ins. Like not just your birthday, like random check-ins. Like you're on my mind. What's going on? How are you girl? Like that's my favorite kind of friend. That's good. And we don't have to see each other. We don't have to like FaceTime. It literally just a text. I like a voice memo too.
I think making a lot of deposits. I keep saying this over and over again. It's really on my brain a lot. I think I'm in an evaluation place because during the pandemic, I think everybody reevaluated everything during the pandemic, right? You reevaluated your job. You reevaluated your friendships. You reevaluated your relationship, your relationship with your children. I got two dogs. Yes.
We got one extra. Yeah. So much behavior changed in such a short amount of time. And you think about it, like I moved and I've really been, I have to be honest, like I've been kind of looking for friends in this new place I live and it's hard. It's really hard. Adult friendship is hard. So I just try and tell myself to be patient. And then of course my husband goes out and he has like
a hundred people to hang out with. He has like a standing Wednesday coffee and a Thursday night guy's night. And I'm like, how did you do that? How did he do that? We should get him here. He's the best friend ever.
Or fun. We get out of the house for a minute. I just want to have some fun. And then I run back to my house. It's a lot of pressure.
Well, I've had to break up with friends and I, in full candor, I've handled it really poorly and I think I've handled it really well. So it's usually probably my age. I thought I was terrible at it when I was in my twenties, even my thirties, just, I kind of drift away because I'm busy and I'm busy a lot. Right. But that's not fair. You know, I think it's not fair.
It's important to be clear with people. And I haven't always been clear with people. But as I've gotten older, I try harder to be very, very clear and succinct and without putting any sort of spin or shame on it. And I think I have to have boundaries, I guess. You have to have boundaries, right? Yeah.
Yeah, it's not cool. And I have to be honest, I don't feel good about some of the friendships that I, you know, in my 20s I drifted away from because I didn't know how to have the conversation.
I just didn't know how to do it.
Well, I started when I was 14. So I was just felt so lucky to get a shot. You know, when you have a dream and then you get a chance, you'll do anything. Like I would do anything to have that shot at a movie. I would stay up all night, whatever they said, work all night, you know, don't sleep or come in the next day, three hours later.
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