Long-distance friendship is hard. We'd know. We’re Lucy Cotto and Annika Carlson and we’re best friends... who live 2,600 miles apart. To make it through, we regularly check in with one another and there’s a lot to talk about— current events, personal anecdotes, shared grievances, individual opinions, questions, comments, and general concerns— so we often keep it simple and begin our chats with “How’ve you been?”. But living so far apart means we lead pretty separate lives so we decided to convene each week, introduce some of our favorite people to each other, and share a bit of good old-fashioned conversation always kicking off with our classic “How’ve you been?”