Time and Memory

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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How do we remember a decade of life and friendship? How do we visualize time? And how do we have compassion for our past selves? Aminatou and Ann reflect on who they were in the 20s, the pleasure of having older friends to look up to, and realizing that our younger friends may have different reference points.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend.
0:02.1	A podcast for long-distance besties everywhere.
0:04.9	She's Amina Tussaud, and she's Anne Friedman.
0:08.2	Wow, you know, the reverse intro has the benefit of pronoun clarity?
0:12.7	Like, I will say that.
0:14.7	Also, you've got to switch things up every once in a while.
0:17.8	I'm not upset about it. It felt kind of good, like crossing your legs the opposite direction.
0:21.9	Ah!
0:23.9	Really ring the pressure.
0:25.5	How you doing over there?
0:26.7	Oh, you know, I was gonna say Happy Gregorian Calendar New Year,
0:30.3	but I guess it's also Happy Gregorian New Decade?
0:34.3	Okay, can I say something about that?
0:36.2	About the Gregorian Calendar?
0:37.8	The decade, according to the Gregorian Calendar, starts on the one.
0:42.0	So, like, all these people who are, like, so freaking out and excited,
0:45.3	I was like, you got 365 more days of this decade.
0:48.7	But not to be technical about it.
0:50.2	I mean, actually, I think that's the greatest gift we can give anyone who is like,
0:53.6	oh my god, what are all these, like, decade-in-review things saying about my personal decade-in-review?
0:59.6	Being like, you know what? You got another year to assess.
1:02.5	Yeah, you got another year to make your playlist of your, like, 1000 songs you liked the decade.
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