Wow, No Thank You

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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We talk with national treasure Samantha Irby about her hilarious and confident writing about all of her foibles and insecurities. From dealing with money and contracts, to love, her white stepchildren, and her fondness for TV's Judge Mathis, Sam is the antidote to all of our cooped-up sadness right now. Her latest book, Wow, No Thank You is out now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend!
0:04.0	A podcast for long-distance besties everywhere.
0:07.0	Do you mean a podcast for socially-distance friends everywhere?
0:11.0	A podcast for all of us very, very far from the people we love in many places around the globe, like, truly.
0:19.0	I mean not to sew.
0:21.0	Oh, I was gonna say no, just kidding. I'm Ann Friedman.
0:24.0	Hi!
0:26.0	This intro gets more and more relevant with each passing week.
0:28.0	That's all we have to say about our intro.
0:32.0	Like, when have the long-distance besties been more everywhere?
0:36.0	Truly, like, truly, truly.
0:38.0	We've been doing this podcast for how many years only to see this intro really come into its own under the most difficult and tragic of circumstances.
0:45.0	I know.
0:46.0	And Ann Aminato and Gina, original Queens of social distancing?
0:50.0	What's on the agenda today?
0:53.0	Well, for the agenda today, one very delightful thing.
0:57.0	I spoke to friend of the podcast, Sam Erby.
1:01.0	Ah! I'm so excited about this.
1:04.0	I'm so excited about this.
1:06.0	I'm a super fan.
1:09.0	I mean, super fan is only scratching the surface about how we feel about Sam Erby and this family.
1:15.0	She is iconic, simply iconic, delightful, and amazing writer, and honestly, like a wonderful human being.
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