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

I'm Amina Tusso and I'm Ann Friedman.

Today we're talking about books! Jessica Valenti has a book called Sex Object

and the second person that I talk to is Jessica Bennett who has a really fun book coming out this fall

called Our Feminist Fight Club. A real quick note before we get started.

If you live in Los Angeles or you like visiting Los Angeles, which that's everybody,

you should join us for a very special live show at the A theater downtown on Thursday, August 18th.

We'll have many many many special guests including Steph Beatrice, the genius behind the

Instagram account official Sean Penn, and our friends from Who Weekly and we'll keep announcing

more guests as the show date gets closer. But see you in LA August 18th at the A theater downtown.

You can find information to buy your tickets at CallYourGirlfriend.com.

Hello! Oh my gosh, I am loving there is like a chill quality to your voice today. I feel like it's

I'm not gonna call it LinkedIn voice but maybe like PBS voice. You sound very like just very even right now.

Um let me tell you I'm in a tiny studio and the air conditioning is just right. That's really what it is.

Perfect air conditioning. Why is it so hard to find? It's like the Holy Locks Purrits.

Yeah and then I also had like a full scrub one of those like Korean bodies grubs.

Oh my god. And for the first time I asked the woman to just I was like can you choose harder?

And she's like are you sure? And so like my skin is raw but soft. I picture you like the body's

exhibit like you're just open muscles now like if you got a harder version of that scrub.

I know I'm also wearing like the tiniest heel that I'm like happy with. I'm experimenting with

like wearing like taller shoes and I don't know it's like everything's working for me today.

I even like I even got to the studio like early I got time I don't know I'm having a great day.

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