Episode 75: You Are Fake News

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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It's Ann's birthday week! We ponder decorating dilemmas, too much time spent with institutional racists and Batman villains on cable news, plus the obstinate toddler (aka President-Elect)'s press conference outburst. And, we speak with two organizers of the upcoming Women's March on Washington. More at womensmarch.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend, a podcast for long distance festies everywhere.
0:05.0	I'm Amina Tussau and I'm Anne Friedman. This week on Call Your Girlfriend, we talk about
0:12.0	decorating dilemmas and New Year's resolutions that are not resolved and watching too much
0:18.7	cable news and politics, our sentient Chido President, and we talk to some of the amazing organizers
0:25.7	for the upcoming Women's March in Washington.
0:28.7	If you find out more about the March at womensmarch.com.
0:55.7	Hey, hi, Anne Friedman. Happy birthday!
1:01.7	I mean no longer my birthday, although I do celebrate for at minimum one week.
1:05.7	Birthday is a birthday week. I'm sorry. You gotta accept my birthday greeting for the next
1:11.7	like six more days.
1:13.7	Listen, it is not hard to sell me on continuing to celebrate my birthday.
1:18.7	Birthdays are a very important holiday. It is not tied to any civic religious old school
1:26.7	nationalistic holiday. It's totally just like everybody gets one.
1:30.7	The most democratic holiday. I love them so much.
1:33.7	Can you believe if you had to do some civic show for your birthday that would be insane?
1:38.7	Exactly, but I'm just saying all other holidays or days off work or breaks you get
1:42.7	to come with some sort of religious or like loaded civic meaning.
1:47.7	The birthday is just like the best.
1:49.7	When I'm king, I'll put you in charge of the mastery of birthdays.
1:54.7	Oh my god, I would totally be your birthday czar.
1:58.7	I don't know why you just don't quit Journal of Limon do that full time.
2:03.7	Oh my god. I wonder if I could carve out a fake career as like a birthday consultant slash
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