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On this episode of Good Friend, Jamie Lee Curtis talks with her friend Senator Amy Klobuchar about how she maintains friendships with her punishing political schedule, how she navigates conflict, and how being loyal to childhood friends actually makes her a better elected official. Jamie and Amy became friends when they worked together on Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and Amy laughs remembering the multitudes of Halloween fans who would crowd into the shopping mall where the campaign headquarters was. “I had to tell the other Hillary supporters, ‘Don’t worry, there’s people in the back with daggers, but they just want me to sign them,’” Jamie recalls. Jamie also once made Amy stop the car during a brutally cold Iowa day “so I could take a picture of a drainage ditch that I thought was pretty.” Now that’s a good friend.
Amy is still very close with her best friends from high school, two other Amys and one woman named Heidi. She recounts a great story about the Three Amys performing in their high school’s Gong Show, tap-dancing to “Once In Love With Amy” in tight red tops and short white shorts. All her friends are still close with her today; Jamie says that must make her a better politician, because she’s still dialed into regular constituents’ lives and issues, rather than living in a bubble where her whole social circle is also politicians. Amy says she’s “never thought about it that way before” but agrees that being able to stay loyal to friends over decades could mean that you knew how to be equally loyal to your constituents.
They also dig into their roots; Amy tells Jamie all about her grandfather, who did well in school and dreamed of joining the Navy, but after both his parents died and left his eight younger siblings orphaned, he became a coal miner and raised them himself. His two sons went on to brilliant careers, and now his granddaughter is a senator, because of his sacrifices. Jamie says that’s a lot like her father’s story, Tony Curtis, recounting her grandparents’ immigration from Hungary and Tony’s experiences in World War II. “That’s why I do this job, because our country allowed us to do this, for immigrants to rise out of nowhere,” Amy says. “That’s what motivates me.” Hear their entire fascinating conversation on this episode of Good Friend.
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