The Future of Friendship with Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow (2022)

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Happy holidays! As our team takes some time away for a break, we're re-sharing another part of our "Future of" miniseries that originally aired in March 2022. From the original description: BFF connections have transformed rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic. FaceTime calls, Zoom happy hours, voice memos, group chats and virtual game nights, in many cases, have reworked our in-person interactions of the past. What does the future of friendship look like? Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow have been friends for over a decade, twelve years to be exact. Living on opposite coasts for years now, they had a head start on managing a long-distance friendship. Ann, a journalist, essayist and media entrepreneur and Aminatou, a writer, interviewer and cultural commentator, co-wrote “Big Friendship,” a book all about maintaining their close bond. They join for an inspiring conversation about the future of friendship and what it takes to stay connected for the long haul.

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0:00.0	Hey there's Chris Hayes host of Wises happening with the New Year upon us
0:03.7	people probably making New Year's resolutions which is an incredibly trite
0:09.5	cliche and yet and yet I find that I do it I don't know if you're listening this right now, finding
0:14.8	that you do it, but I do. And one of the things that I think you always end up assessing
0:19.9	in the New Year is like what's important, what I want to do, self-improvement, what I want to spend more time doing.
0:26.0	And one of the things I've been thinking about a lot recently is how important friendship is,
0:30.4	particularly as you get older, particularly this period that I'm in my life, my family
0:35.7	obviously comes first and we spend a lot of time together, but it's easy between work and family
0:41.2	and those things at this age to, you know, go long periods of time without
0:45.2	making time for friends and friendship is really important. And so this week we're going to
0:50.5	re-share really meaningful and memorable conversation with Aminato Soe and
0:55.8	Anne Freeman who are co-authors of the book Big Friendship.
0:59.8	This episode was first released in March 2022.
1:02.8	Thanks for listening.
1:04.2	The thing that allows a relationship where you see someone only twice a year to, you know, like not atrophy is the vulnerability of saying I want to see you more.
1:22.0	As your responsibility shift, your time changes and all of that,
1:25.3	but you can still decide that you're in a period where you're like,
1:28.8	I really need to be making some friends right now, like this is the carve out in the calendar.
1:33.0	Hello and welcome to why is this happening with me your host Chris Hayes. We are doing our special future of series continues this week and I'm really excited for today's guests, two guests, people whose work I've followed,
1:57.6	who wrote a really cool book that we'll get into in a second, which just felt really distinct and kind of genre bending and
2:04.5	also delightful and exuberant and real and it's on a topic that is very near and
2:09.2	dear to my heart which is you know in the category of human relations, we've got sort of like four
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