Origin Stories: Summer of Friendship #1

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

We kick off a summer dedicated to friendship—its joys and its difficulties—as we get ready for the release of Big Friendship. On this episode, we talk about our friendship origin story, and interview our mutual friend Dayo Olopade about how she knew we'd hit it off. Also, we're looking for your voicemails about long-term friendship—stories about difficult patches you've survived, and also your questions for us about keeping friendships strong in the long term. Leave us a message at (714) 681-2943.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend!
0:03.1	A podcast for long-distance besties everywhere.
0:05.8	I'm Amina Tussaud.
0:07.2	And I'm Anne Friedman.
0:08.8	Welcome to the Summer Friendship Anne Friedman!
0:11.5	I really am so looking forward to everything that we have virtually planned for this summer
0:18.4	because it is all virtual.
0:21.2	Summer of our book, summer of friendship.
0:23.2	You know I love a celebration about friendship.
0:25.9	So in honor of the fact that our book is coming out in mere weeks July 14th,
0:31.6	we have planned a special 10 episode series all about the different facets of friendship,
0:39.8	specifically big friendship, which is a term we coin and explore in our book.
0:45.5	So it is definitely distinct from the book.
0:48.4	You should obviously still buy and read that,
0:51.4	but it is kind of a deeper dive into some things that we wanted to talk about more in this format,
0:58.2	which is fundamentally different than the process of writing the book together.
1:02.0	100% and if you've been listening to our podcast from the beginning,
1:05.7	some of the stuff will seem very like duh, aficionato magazine to you.
1:10.6	And you know, you would have picked up on some like autobiographical details how we met and
1:16.4	you know like where we've lived and you know what jobs we've had and stuff like that.
1:20.0	But the truth is that it was not possible for us to tell that story in a podcast format.
1:26.7	And so we really had to write a book to get all of it in one place because chronologically,
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