Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend. A podcast for long distance besties everywhere. I'm Ann Friedman and I'm Amina Tuso. And this is a special little off week episode. I

Maybe our first ever two weeks in a row publishing your podcast. But a big milestone.

Are we have a little goal to in the awesome of our off weeks?

Hit you with like a mini episode or a phone-a-friend conversation with someone who we know who is doing something cool

Which is exactly what you did this week. Yeah, so this week I talked to our core lady and

Really badass feminist a Ren Carmon about the new RBG book that she has out notorious RBG

If you don't own it you should buy it. It's amazing. The life and times or something like that. What is the subtitle?

It's about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Yeah, it's like the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A huge icon for both of us and

I described the book to everybody as a feminist and Mazusa Jewish reference for you people out there have one in your house

Make sure all of the people that you love have one as well. I definitely bought several copies for the feminist lawyers in my life and sent them

Along with love notes for using the power of the law to advance our feminist aims

Shedding a single tear right now because of how proud I am of them. I know I ordered so many of them that the post office lady made

Fun of me and then I gave her a copy and she was very happy

And you were like here now you'll understand. I'm swimming and RBG books amazing. So so yeah, so you talked to her in

Yeah, you know, I talked to her and she made this like really important point about dispelling the notion that just because

Young women care about something that it has to be frivolous because so much of the press around this book is oh

Wow a tumbler turn into a book or oh wow young women have turned a meme and you know like

A book that's probably you know like let's be honest going to be on the best style of a list very soon. They're doing so well

right and

So many of the older or like more established journalists writing about this are just like

Always asking like why do you think RBG is having a moment and it's like well

Because RBG is like embodies everything that strong women love are you kidding me? It's so obvious

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