Episode 8: Emotional Detox

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2014

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

We discuss digital detoxes, Ferguson fallout and what it takes to get white people to care about police brutality, summer camp for adults, and our ideal retirement situation.
Reading list:
A year-long digital detox
Different rules apply if you're white
The white mom of a black son gets a rude awakening
On the likelihood of bumping into a police officer
Adult summer camp, not as sexy as it sounds
"we watch an early-sixties blonde seduce a mid-thirties male"

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend. A podcast for long distance besties everywhere. I'm Anne Friedman
0:06.9	and I'm Ami Natozo. On this week's agenda, digital detoxes and why they may or may not be kind of
0:14.5	bullshit, we're finally going to talk about Ferguson and modern race politics and what it takes to
0:21.1	get white people interested in causes like police brutality, adult summer camp because we need a
0:27.7	break from all of that and also maybe a little chat about retirement and awesome older ladies getting
0:34.0	theirs.
0:57.7	Anyway, hi Boo, where maybe you should tell everyone where you are. Hi, I am live from Bed
1:18.0	Stuy from a really good friend Mercy and Ryan's apartment. They're out of town this week.
1:25.2	Their space is really awesome. It just feels so much like them so even though I miss them, I feel like
1:30.4	they're here. Staying at design oriented friends places is the best. I know it's so crucial. I'm
1:37.6	going to rob them. Ryan has these timbulans I have my eye on and I'm definitely going to take them
1:42.2	with me. New York is just me power zone. I'm happy here. Do you feel sad that you're coming back to
1:49.1	California or is that a loaded question? I mean, I don't feel sad that I'm coming back to California.
1:54.9	I'm like an adult person. We all know adults don't get sad ever about it. No, it's just like,
2:05.4	come on. I'm not sad to go back to California. I'm actually kind of excited because I finally found
2:10.4	an apartment in San Francisco. It's going to be a total of impacts and boxes. I have to start
2:16.3	thinking about how swimming gives for you now. I want everything. So the other day I went to West
2:22.8	Elm with Cecil, a crucial core lady, Cecil, and had a meltdown shopping for a couch. I realized
2:31.4	that I just never buy anything in stores. I'm such an online shopper. When I had told
2:36.3	Cecil that I was going to buy this couch online and she was like, that's crazy. Let's let
2:40.4	Lisa go sit on it. I mean, that's a good advice. No, I mean, right? It's great advice. I'm just like,
2:46.3	I return everything. If I hate this couch, I'm going to return it. Who cares?
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