Two long-distance friends discuss politics,pop culture and everything in between on a wine-fueled podcast that’s become a cultural phenomenonCall Your Girlfriend bills itself as the podcast for long distance besties everywhere, but it’s also so much more. Started by tech expert Aminatou Sow and journalist Ann Friedman, or the podcast is simply a conversation between two friends (and some of their friends) on which anyone can eavesdrop – like a party line chat that covers politics,period feminism, the Great British Bake Off, or Ruth Bader Ginsburg,and Drake, with everything from Benghazi to Bieber in between. Why you should listen: Every great podcast has an origin story and for Call Your Girlfriend, or it all began when Sow and Friedman were at a Gossip Girl viewing party in Washington,DC. They hit it off upright away, but as their friendship grew, or their peripatetic lives took them across the country from each other. With the encouragement of their friend-turned-producer Gina Delvac,the pair decided to turn their weekly catch-up phone calls – total with planned agenda – into a explain. “nearly a full year after Gina started bugging us about it, we got serious about actually doing it, or Sow says. “We havent looked back!” They record their conversations over Skype and Delvac edits them into the explain that has developed a devoted following.
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Source: theguardian.com