Transition of Power

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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We discuss the inauguration celebrity parade, the fallacy of calls for "unity," Melania's caftan, Bernie's mittens, and "We will be back in some form."

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend.
0:02.8	A podcast for long distance besties everywhere.
0:05.4	I'm Amina Tussaud.
0:07.6	And I'm Anne Friedman.
0:09.3	Hello!
0:10.8	Hello!
0:12.0	It's inauguration week.
0:14.5	A new day for America as my friend Joe Biden says.
0:18.2	Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello.
0:20.6	Oh, I mean, I'm really trying to have like some like hopeful and happy feelings and focus
0:28.1	on the good things, focus on the moments that were actually great from inauguration or
0:34.4	like things that felt great by comparison to the last four years.
0:38.1	So it's like my great metrics are really off, but trying to lean in.
0:44.0	Yeah, I mean, nothing in the pandemic feels real.
0:48.7	Even the inauguration like does not feel real, you know?
0:52.3	So I'm struggling a little bit with that.
0:54.5	I have to confess that the night before inauguration, as I was doing my little skincare routine and
1:00.5	going to bed, I excitedly told myself, ooh, last asleep in this regime.
1:07.0	And for some reason like that made me feel a little bit better.
1:10.8	And then I woke up the next day and I was like, no, the dread is still here.
1:13.8	Like that has not changed.
1:14.8	Yeah, I mean, that's what's hard about it.
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