The Highlander of Black Intellectualism
Call Your Girlfriend
Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow
4.7 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Wondering what it's like to see us live? We share one of our favorite nights of 2018, when we visited Seattle and discussed Ted Cruz's love of Disney movies, Megyn Kelly's obsession with blackface and why one of our favorite writers, Ijeoma Oluo, would be perfectly happy if white people wanted to take up the hard work of talking about race.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, so I know we've been plugging our tour constantly. |
| 0:03.9 | Call your girlfriend.com slash tour to get all the dates. |
| 0:07.2 | Detroit, Houston, Denver, Toronto, Austin, we're coming for all these places. |
| 0:11.6 | But we wanted to give people in those cities and also people who live elsewhere |
| 0:15.7 | a little taste of what the CYG live experience is like. |
| 0:19.1 | Not to mention, we're sitting on a few really great interviews from last fall's tour |
| 0:23.1 | that we have been saving, just like squirreling away for a rainy day, to share with you. |
| 0:28.8 | And one of those interviews is with one of our favorite writers, |
| 0:31.6 | Ejoma Aluou. |
| 0:33.1 | There are a couple of dated references because this event happened right around Halloween. |
| 0:38.6 | So you'll hear us talk about spooky season. |
| 0:40.8 | But honestly, Halloween is kind of evergreen, right? |
| 0:43.8 | Yeah, and please enjoy a little taste of our live show from Seattle in October of last year. |
| 0:49.9 | And don't forget to get tickets for this year's tour at callyourgirlfriend.com slash tour. |
| 0:55.8 | This is Anne and Amina. |
| 0:57.7 | We're calling from Gernwald. |
| 0:59.8 | We met at a mutual friend's gossip girl viewing party in 2009. |
| 1:06.3 | And it was love at first commercial. |
| 1:10.1 | We laughed at all of each other's jokes and we really wanted to be friends. |
| 1:14.9 | But when we were leaving that night, we walked in opposite directions. |
| 1:20.8 | Honestly, we became such close friends, but it foreshadowed a life of us living |
| 1:25.8 | kind of far apart from each other and having to persevere and be like the besty-besty-besty- ANYWAY. |
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