The One With The Two — Mo! & Doc Ayomide

On Being Friends Across Space & Time

The best friends to talk with are those friends that you agree enough that you can talk endlessly but you disagree enough that you can debate forever — Doc Ayomide (he heard it from another friend)

Today is officially my first episode with my very good friend and co-host, Doc Ayomide, and we are talking about friendships. Doc Ayomide has been a friend throughout the years, and it’s great to have him on the show and, of course, here. Ayomide isn’t new here, as he has been twice — first to talk about our friendship and mutual love for CS Lewis and techy stuff and my experience with a Korean fringe church, aka cult.

Ayomide is a medical doctor, psychiatrist, and writer and has been my friend since 2004 — eighteen years to be precise! My first memory of him would be at the Christian Fellowship Group (CFG) on campus. We would always chat after fellowship with a few others, and the more we talked, the more I realized I had a lot of things in common with him — C.S Lewis and more… and even when I went through an existential crisis at one point in my life, he was the one person I knew I could talk to. Ayomide is quite thoughtful and that friend who gives judgment in a loving way. He has informed my creative process, especially on mental health and critical thinking.