Aminatou Sow, Ann Friedman And Their 'Big Friendship'

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🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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All relationships have a backstory, even friendships. Best friends Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, hosts of the podcast Call Your Girlfriend, are out with a new book called Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close. In it, they write about their friendship story and they share lessons for all of us about how to keep our own friendships strong. Sam chats with them about going to friend therapy and what it's like to have a deep friendship with someone of a different race.

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0:00.0	All relationships have a backstory.
0:02.4	Even friendships.
0:03.4	I am Amina Tussaud.
0:04.9	I am the co-host of the podcast, Call Your Girlfriend,
0:08.9	and the co-author of the book, Big Friendship,
0:11.9	along with Anne Friedman.
0:13.3	Hi, I'm Anne Friedman.
0:14.6	I am the co-everything that Amina Tussaud just mentioned.
0:18.0	It's kind of nice to have the joint bio these days.
0:21.8	Amina Tussaud and Anne's friendship began with the meet-cute.
0:25.5	We were set up.
0:29.2	We showed up at Dio's house to watch the television show,
0:32.4	Gossip Girl.
0:33.5	This is the era in which you had to show up
0:36.3	in front of a television to watch TV.
0:39.1	The feelings we both felt when we met
0:41.2	were like a kind of attraction.
0:43.2	Every joke that she made, every observation she made
0:46.1	was just 10 out of 10.
0:47.7	You know, not romantic or sexual,
0:49.6	but we both instantly wanted to be in each other's lives.
0:53.7	Her outfit was flames.
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