Resilience

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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What allows people to endure and try again? In the first of a series tackling big ideas that are helping us get through these deep-feeling quarantimes, we talk with Lulu Miller about a scientist who lost everything - again and again - and somehow was never fazed. Plus, Amina's love of country music, and how friendship is a beautiful unexplained anomaly in an often-selfish world.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend.
0:03.7	A podcast for long distance besties everywhere.
0:06.2	I'm Amina Tuso.
0:07.5	And I'm Ann Friedman.
0:09.3	What are we talking about this week?
0:11.3	Well, this week we are talking about resilience and chaos,
0:16.7	but talking about loss, love, and the hidden order of life.
0:19.9	The hum, that is literally the subtitle of Lulu Miller's new book,
0:27.0	Why Fish Don't Exist, a story of loss, love, and the hidden order of life,
0:32.2	a book that I have greatly enjoyed.
0:57.0	Hello.
1:01.0	I love we were so low energy in the intro, and then you really just brought us back up
1:07.2	to 100.
1:08.2	I am.
1:09.2	So low energy doesn't even begin to explain the level of just like,
1:16.0	despondency and sadness of the last couple of days for me.
1:22.8	I was talking to my dear friend Jade Chang yesterday, and she was asking me why or whether
1:30.4	we were feeling like we should be addressing this moment, T.M., like more directly on the
1:36.4	show.
1:37.4	And I was like, which moment?
1:38.4	I have like 50 different moments every minute, you know?
1:42.1	How do I even begin to talk about like where, what, how is going on?
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