It's - how are you doing?Īminatou: It feels like every. Īminatou: Listen, I know like you said we're not allowed to be excited about things but this is definitely the highlight of the pandemic for me so I am going to be excited about it. Sam: I'm trying to sound very chill because I know we're not allowed to be excited about things anymore but I'm so excited to talk to you. This is like the highlight of my life talking to you. And for someone who writes so much about not having their life together she is an incredibly confident writer and I think it's the perfect recommendation for this moment of pandemic because who doesn't need a laugh and who also doesn't need to be reminded of other problems in life? She writes about lust, her marriage, aging, chronic illness, her what she calls detachment parenting from her two white stepchildren. But I think if you hold all of it together it's actually a very generous body of work about how to be a person in the world.Īminatou: Sam has a new book out called Wow, No Thank You that is just as funny as everything else she's written. Everything from talking about the gross parts of your body to talking about money and being poor and being depressed and being mentally ill, all of these things. Sam's body of work truly is delightful because on its face she writes these very humorous essays that are on the human condition I would say. And so like I just feel so honored that she would take the time to speak with us.Īnn: How would you describe Sam's work? Like humorist? Essayist? General like hilarious phenom? I don't know.

Simply iconic, delightful, an amazing writer, and honestly a wonderful human being. I'm a super fan.Īminatou: I mean super fan is only scratching the surface about how we feel about Sam Irby in this family. Ann and Aminatou and Gina, original queens of social distancing.Īminatou: Well for the agenda today one very delightful thing: I spoke to friend of the podcast Sam Irby.Īnn: Ahh! I'm so - sorry, I'm so excited about this. 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 circumstances.

Like when have the long-distance besties been more everywhere? Like truly. That's all I have to say about our intro. This intro gets more and more relevant with each passing week. Īnn: Oh, I was going to say - no, just kidding.

Aminatou: Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend.Īnn: A podcast for long-distance besties everywhere.Īminatou: Doing a podcast for socially-distanced friends everywhere.Īnn: A podcast for all of us very, very far from the people we love in many places around the globe, like truly.

Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby