0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend, a podcast for long distance besties everywhere.
0:05.0	She's Anne Friedman. She is Amina too, so on today's agenda we are talking about
0:11.5	American dirt who the big literary machine backs and who it doesn't back and also our weird 90s fashion trauma
0:30.0	give your reasons say it's not her fault
0:46.0	Woo look at that um what is it week 17 of the year week 10 week 5 we're still doing our
0:52.3	week 666 I know what week is it is it is it still February?
0:57.6	I am emotionally still in January this whole year is January for me it was I don't really know what is time
1:04.6	You know the problem is that like January is 700 days and then the rest of the winter just kind of flies by right
1:11.9	I mean technically we are like halfway through February like high consumers holiday Valentine's Day is upon us and that is the halfway point of this month
1:20.3	We are there
1:23.3	Definitely this is adult life just counting down the calendar until you die um okay how you do it over there?
1:31.3	You know counting down the calendar until I die I'm fine over
1:38.3	Are you reading any are you reading any fun books lately?
1:41.3	Oh man I mean I am reading the Patrick Radenkeef say nothing book which is about it is sort of like a
1:50.3	tick-tock reported historical account of the troubles in Northern Ireland it is kind of intense I am
1:58.3	I love the troubles love the troubles it's a favorite historical period of mine thank you
2:04.3	I am interspersing it with a gift that a friend recently got me which is the illustrated Greek myths so like like a child after after I read my like you know stories of
2:15.3	You know sectarian violence and intense cultural conflict I open up the illustrated Greek myths and I read one illustrated story and put myself to bed like a toddler
2:24.3	Oh my gosh I love this I thought you were gonna say that your friend gave you the new novel American dirt by Janine Cummings
2:31.3	Oh my god that was an artful artful transition I'm applauding you from over here are you reading are you are you reading
2:41.3	Seminole American novel American dirt and you know that fiction is hard for me so I
2:47.3	I'm likely not reading American dirt but I have to say that I was in a bookstore recently a bookstore that I really like and that I go to
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