Jangling Keys of Friendship

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Is it childish to call people Best Friends? Who holds the various keys to our hearts and identities? And what dreams of the past and future are getting us through the pandemic? Aminatou discusses travel, religion, finding ourselves and how we use coded language to find our people with Jedidiah Jenkins. His new book Like Streams to the Ocean is out Feb 2.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend.
0:02.9	A podcast for long-distance besties everywhere.
0:05.7	I am, I'm not too so.
0:07.2	And I'm Ann Friedman.
0:08.6	Hi Ann Friedman, I heard you've been traveling around the world.
0:11.8	What's going on?
0:12.6	Woo, it's been a whirlwind, you know, just got off a multi-stop international flight.
0:19.1	I'm, you know, just taking a moment to chat to you before I go to like a huge party
0:24.4	with my friends and so many strangers all in one room.
0:28.2	And then this weekend I'm gonna, you know, like fly to see my grandma and hug her.
0:32.5	The usual.
0:33.5	And it's joking for anyone who is horrified right now.
0:39.9	This is obviously a sick fantasy that none of us can partake in.
0:44.2	Hey, you say sick fantasy, I say rich interior life, okay?
0:59.6	This is like reminding me, you know, of the people who are definitely traveling and
1:18.9	partying, but are painstakingly making you aware that they believe that they're being
1:23.5	safe right now.
1:24.5	We're thinking, yeah, but we got tested or we're so safe.
1:27.8	And I'm like, this is like a, like a taking a pregnancy test before you have a raw sex
1:34.9	with someone and then telling me that you are still not pregnant.
1:38.1	Have fun with that.
1:39.1	Yeah, there is no cheap swab for morality.
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