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

She's Anne Friedman. She is Amina Tussaud.

I love saying your name does not get old.

I mostly, I love it when we say each other's name because I am remembering the troly piece

of mail that we once got about how someone thought that we were being mean to each other

by not saying each other's names.

So whenever I do it, it's a nod to that, where it always makes me laugh.

Here's a thing that I thought about when we got that email, but also in general, when

I watch TV with bad dialogues, sometimes this comes up, which is it's pretty rare that

I say my friend's name while in conversation with them.

Everyone's not, I'll be scandalized and say, oh, I mean not to or something like that.

But I know what the full name is so strange.

It's so strange, but it's also weird because it's not like I'm sitting down for a formal

interview with you frequently and being like, well, that's a good question.

I mean not to.

I just don't interject my friend's names in conversation that way.

And I know that that's the intro to our show.

We're saying who we are, but in the flow of the conversation part of it, it feels profoundly

weird to pause and address by name the person I'm talking to.

Well, honestly, Anne Friedman, I find it really strange that you know that that's weird

for you because I clearly do that all the time.

So yet another thing, another difference we have.

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