Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend, a podcast for long-distance besties everywhere.

I'm Amina Tussau, and I'm Ann Friedman.

On the agenda, we answer listener questions, including how to handle group travel,

our origin story, and the TED Talks you might actually want to watch while

stoned and writing your New Year's resolutions.

Let's see.

We are a group of six semi-long-distance besties scattered across the East Coast in Philadelphia,

Maryland, New York, and Boston.

We recently discovered your podcast, etc.

Basically they want to take a big trip together.

It says you both seem like well-traveled individuals with respectable tastes.

So we're hoping you can shed some light on interesting experiences you've had or other

suggestions for what we should or shouldn't do on a trip together.

Additionally, we'd love to hear stories from any memorable trips you took in your 20s

with your girlfriends for some jet-setting inspiration.

I feel hopeful about this.

I mean, we got this. We take really good trips.

We do, but they're not very- they're mostly working trips.

I think it's at 50-50.

I mean, so I don't know. I will speak for myself.

I think I go on fabulous vacations with my friends.

First of all, I think that we have a commitment to luxury.

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