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Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Purging our archives, mailing care packages in lieu of clothing swaps, confronting our own consumerism, who we imagine perusing our estate sales, secret talents, and some delightful things we're watching (including cults and sexy chess of course).

Watch List:

The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix)
Both versions of The Thomas Crown Affair
The Vow (HBO Max)
Seduced (Hulu)
The Great British Bake Off (Netflix)
My Octopus Teacher (Netflix)
Golden Girls (Hulu)
The Host (Hulu)
Kramer vs. Kramer
Everything on Criterion

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend!
0:03.0	A podcast for long-distance besties everywhere.
0:05.5	I'm Amina Tussaud, and I'm Anne Friedman.
0:08.5	On this week's agenda, we are talking about being at home,
0:12.0	what we're doing, the stuff we're surrounded with, and what we're watching.
0:37.0	Hi, Amina Tussaud.
0:40.0	How's it going?
0:43.0	Oh, I mean, I don't know.
0:46.0	I'm okay.
0:47.0	How are you?
0:48.0	You know, Anne, I'm still here.
0:50.0	So, let's count our blessings.
0:53.0	I will tell you I am embroiled lately in a very intense sorting process of my books,
1:00.0	my papers, my closet, and my craft supplies.
1:05.0	And I will tell you that it is really something at the end of this year to be confronted with all of these artifacts of the before times.
1:14.0	Like, I'm having a real personal reckoning to use the parlance of 2020 with all kinds of things I saved from the past.
1:22.0	It really stresses me out how much stuff I personally accumulate.
1:26.0	You know, why are humans such pack rats?
1:29.0	And I say this is someone who lives like a pretty compact life, but it's still just like too much stuff.
1:34.0	Like, it's too much stuff.
1:36.0	I feel like that's true, but also, you know, so I have this habit of whenever something appears in print.
1:43.0	It's like, you know, stuff related to our book, or like things I wrote for really small magazines like eight years ago, or like a friend.
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