My Favorite Scammer, Wendi Deng

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Our favorite scammer Wendi Deng Murdoch is back, and possibly a spy? A contraception app scammed its way into regulators' hearts. Kim's baby is here & DJ Khaled is repping Weight Watchers. CVS is banning photoshop. And, our feelings about the backlash against #metoo. (Content warning: while we do not discuss allegations in detail, if you need to skip this segment, we understand. We love you. This episode is long and intentionally front-loaded with fun stuff!)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend!
0:01.6	A podcast for long distance festies everywhere.
0:04.3	I'm I'm gonna to sew.
0:05.9	And I'm Ann Friedman.
0:07.6	On this week's agenda, an update about one of our favorite scammers, Wendy Deng,
0:11.8	a nightmare contraception app that is scamming the women of Europe.
0:15.5	Kim K, Heter Baby, DJ Khaled is repping Weight Watchers and CVS is trying to get woke.
0:21.6	Plus, content warning as we delve into the MeToo backlash and talk a bit about
0:27.3	what the movement's critics are getting completely wrong.
0:57.3	Hey, girl. Hey, hey, hey, how you doing?
1:05.3	I'm like fake upbeat, but yeah, doing great.
1:08.9	I am also fake upbeat, aka sick with a cold and day two menstrual and worried about the
1:14.5	apocalypse.
1:15.5	Yo, like that sneezing plus bleeding sensation.
1:22.2	The worst.
1:23.2	There's a lot of dripping happening over here.
1:25.0	I'm sorry for the graphic depiction, but like it is, yeah.
1:28.9	You are not even sorry.
1:32.2	I'm not even sorry, you're correct.
1:34.9	Lots of I had like a news free weekend and so I'm also coming back to, you know, the
1:41.7	news, which is like a calm down, not like a comeback.
1:44.8	Nothing happened while you were away.
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