Recode Decode: Aminatou Sow

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Call Your Girlfriend co-host Aminatou Sow talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about upcoming book with Ann Friedman, Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close. Sow discusses "how [she] got bamboozled into getting business-married” to Friedman, why they went to therapy together, and why talking about your friendships with your friends is so important. She also talks about why she refuses to hang out with friends on Zoom, the assumptions we all make about other people's friendships, and what you should do when you and a friend have opposing political views. Featuring: Aminatou Sow (@aminatou), co-author, Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close Host: Kara Swisher (@karaswisher), Recode co-founder and editor-at-large More to explore: On Reset, Arielle Duhaime-Ross explores why — and how — tech is changing everything. On Recode Media, Peter Kafka interviews business titans, journalists, comedians and podcasters about the collision of tech and media. On Pivot, Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway talk about the big tech news stories of the week, who's winning, who's failing, and what comes next. And on Land of the Giants, Jason Del Rey chronicled the rise of Amazon. Season 2 will focus on Netflix and is coming soon! About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Follow Us: Newsletter: Recode Daily Twitter: @Recode and @voxdotcom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	When you drive a Chevy electric vehicle, you're getting more than a way to get from point A to point B.
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1:04.0	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor-at-large Bricode. You may know me as someone who never liked hugging her friends, so let's just keep social distancing forever.
1:12.0	But in my spare time, I'm just a reporter and you're listening to Ricoh D-Code, a podcast about power change and the people you need to know were part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
1:21.0	Today in the red chair is actually a friend that I do like to hug. Amina, so the co-host of the very popular podcast, call your girlfriend.
1:30.0	She and her co-host Anne Friedman have written a book about friendship that comes out July 14th called Big Friendship. How we keep each other close. Amina, welcome to Ricoh D-Code.
1:40.0	Cara, I miss you a lot. I miss you. I know. I don't want to be social distance from you. I don't like this. I don't like this.
1:47.0	Yeah, where are you socially? Where are you right now? You're in a good way.
1:51.0	I'm socially distancing with my quarantine pod in Long Island, New York for the first time in my life.
1:58.0	I am surrounded by many children and it's 100% a challenge to my work life. So I salute all of the parents out there. I don't know how you do it.
2:08.0	Because as a tenth of a parent, the disruption is real. So you'll probably will hear all of my kids on this podcast.
2:17.0	You know, I have children you are very lovely to my kids. Love you. You're great.
2:22.0	You would be a wonderful parent. Let me just say you would be a wonderful parent.
2:26.0	Thank you Cara for that vote of confidence.
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