What Now?

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

As we await final results, we share our election week feels and discuss some of the racist scams that undergird the American electoral system - like the Electoral College itself - with Heather McGhee, author of the forthcoming book, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. Plus, the local gains, newly minted officials and old timers (like Nebraska's Ernie Chambers) who are giving us hope.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend.
0:02.9	A podcast for long distance besties everywhere.
0:05.6	I'm Amina Tussaud, and I'm Anne Friedman.
0:09.3	Hi Anne Friedman.
0:11.1	Hi Amina Tussaud.
0:13.4	How's it going?
0:16.4	Um, rude question, but I'll take it.
0:21.5	I'm here for the rude questions.
0:24.7	I don't know.
0:26.2	I mean, yeah, actually I'm just gonna leave it at that.
0:29.3	I don't know, said in a semi-plaintive wail, like is really the only way for me to answer
0:35.9	that question right now.
0:38.5	What's happening over there?
0:41.0	I mean, what's not happening over there?
0:44.8	You know, this week has been so strange for me because I have not been feeling well at
0:49.1	all.
0:50.7	And there's like, apparently we're waiting on results from the presidential election
0:56.9	in the background of that.
0:58.0	So it's funny to be like, are you waiting for something?
1:01.6	I'm not.
1:02.6	Listen, I'm just trying to wait through my own personal crisis.
1:05.6	So it's just, you know, who knows?
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