Things That Scare Us

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

From snakes to ocean waves to people's unstated political ideologies, we talk about our fears. Plus, journalist Eva Holland on how fear lives in the body and her new book where she unwinds trauma, phobia, and grief.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend!
0:04.0	A podcast for long distance festies everywhere.
0:07.3	Oh, I'm Amami Natooso.
0:09.7	I'm Anne Friedman.
0:11.3	So today we're talking about fear,
0:13.2	and our guest a little bit later in the show is the journalist,
0:17.1	Eva Holland, who has a new book out called
0:19.6	Nerve Adventures in the Science of Fear,
0:23.0	which feels kind of timely.
0:25.1	Hi, friend.
0:25.7	Hi.
0:26.7	It's the rough day over here.
0:27.9	How's it going?
0:28.9	I'm doing okay.
0:30.1	You know, minute to minute day to day, I guess, is the answer?
0:40.6	I feel like my temptation is like when I am texting friends to check in or whatever,
0:54.8	to ask for the like,
0:57.6	how is this week so far, or like really limiting the amount of time,
1:01.2	because it's just such a hard...
1:03.1	How is this moment?
1:04.7	Yeah, how is right now this moment for you?
1:08.4	Right now this moment for me is rough, but the show must go on, so let's do it.
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