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Call Your Girlfriend

Episode 25: Comfortably Chic

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.74.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2015

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

We love Janet Mock, Kim K's selfie book, Bruce Jenner's incredible interview, power lady obituaries, Amy Schumer feminist commentary and so much more.
Reading List:
Shine Theory: Janet Mock on Super Soul Sunday
Feminist sefies
Kim K selfie book
We love you, Bruce
Jean Nidetch, Weight Watchers boss lady / “Compression is just so 15 years ago”
"You'll be the hottest girl in the nation with just a touch of foundation"
Diva cup of doom || bleached tampons
greek heroism

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend! A podcast for long-distance besties everywhere.

0:05.5

I'm Amina Tussau and I'm Ann Friedman. This week on our agenda we have a shine theory update.

0:11.8

Janet Mach was on Super Soul Sunday. We'll be discussing feminist selfies, the Kim Kardashian

0:18.0

selfie book, the Bruce Jenner interview, Weight Watchers, Spanx, the Amy Schumer makeup sketch,

0:25.6

the Diva Cup of Doom and Bleach tampons as well as Greek heroism.

0:56.0

What's going on with you, Ann?

1:00.2

I have to tell you about this absurd thing I did today. With several ladies we know and love,

1:06.9

I went to an outdoor fair market thing in Topanga Canyon. Oh my god. I know exactly what you're

1:15.0

talking about. I've been dying to go to that. Okay, it is a very hashtagged on Tumblr and Instagram

1:20.6

event and I have never been somewhere where it's like there was not an explicitly communicated

1:26.8

dress code but everybody dressed in like such and the exact same style. Wait, pause. Does that not

1:33.4

happen at the Rose Bowl fleet because that definitely happens at the Alameda fleet? Okay, everybody

1:38.7

is like dressed for like Instagram. Right, there's a strong subset of Instagram dressers at the

1:44.3

Rose Bowl fleet but then you also have like normal humans and this was an event where there were

1:49.9

none of the normal humans from the fleet. Like the guy selling lemonade Iseas or like who's just

1:55.2

wearing jeans and sneakers. Like those people were nowhere to be found. It was like all of the vendors,

2:00.1

all of the babies were wearing like baby moccasins and like flowing burlap dresses.

2:07.9

There's nothing I love more than an early morning shopping event you have to dress up for.

2:13.2

Let me tell you, I almost bought a sack with straps on it for $70. I didn't. I didn't. But

2:22.4

the light was golden. There was a woman singing a song about pentagrams and like playing a xylophone

2:30.6

and really into witchcraft lately. You know, witchcraft is unavoidable in Los Angeles. This is

2:36.4

what the New York Times won't tell you. Maybe, maybe you're just attracting witchcraft and I don't know.

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