hi hello hey, get ready for a real love fest today

Do you ever spend so much time with someone that you slowly start becoming them? Or worse… you start liking things you swore you’d never like?

After nearly 12 years of friendship (and almost 6 years of being best friends), we’ve influenced each other in ways both small and genuinely life-altering. From music, style, and products to deeper things like our perspectives, habits, and who we’ve grown into as people, we honestly wouldn’t recognize our lives without each other in them.

This episode is exactly what it sounds like: a cute, sappy, slightly embarrassing bestie love fest. We talk about the ways we’ve shaped each other—sometimes intentionally, sometimes completely by accident—and how we’ve made each other better along the way.

So grab a cozy drink, settle in, and blame it on bestie.

Have we influenced you in any way, big or small? We’d love to hear about it! Send us an email at hello@rarewithflair.com.

for episodes we mention in this one, check out:

• 137. sorry, my brain was buffering our most recent episode on visual processing
• 135. our most ambitious vision boards yet!! for our 2026 vision boards
• 93. the great cardigan debate: our style roots for proof Cass used to be a cardigan hater
• 61. is reading an audiobook really reading? to hear about Cass’ grad school project on reading with low vision (and BARD Mobile!)
• 46.5. pale skin & green thumbs on our love for plants
• 34. shouting from the rooftops about assistive technology for proof Case used to be a dark mode hater
• 7. thank you for the music for proof that Cass used to be a Taylor Swift hater
• 1. intro: welcome to rare with flair! for our incentive of hearing Case’s “dog voice” for Rupert if we hit 100+ reviews
  • 51. blind beauty tips for actually hearing Case’s ridiculous dog voice (that is now part of Cass’ life)

for other cutesy episodes about friendship:

• 89. the moments that defined our ten-year friendship
• 77. only disabled friends talk about this
• 73. the alternate life where we wouldn’t be friends
• 34.5. are we really best friends? the ultimate friendship test