Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend! A podcast for long-distance besties everywhere. I'm Amina Tussau,

and I'm Anne Friedman. On this week's agenda, cramps, hysterectomies, and the quest to make doctors

believe women's pain. Mike Pence's abortion delusions, what Parkland teens do, and don't have

in common with Black Lives Matter teens, and why the only glock we want in schools is the Glockensprio.

Um, I can't believe I'm even a gemstone to saying I can't say I'm anybody's life.

I do think that you singing Finn Lizzie hits some kind of like, like Midwest dive bar classic rock,

like Ben Diagram, where I'm like, hmm, keep going.

Well, I'm just excited because it's the first time that we're recording this podcast since December.

I know that the user experience, like people think that we've been around every week,

but truly like since December, I've been in like, cancer land, so this is a, it's exciting to

be back. I mean, love having you back. There have been approximately one million things that I

have wanted to process with you in the news, but like, you know what, it's also good sometimes,

I think, to like take a step back and be like, let's talk about the stuff that is not commanding our

attention, like on the front page of the paper. I listen, as somebody who knows nothing about

the news recently, I don't tell you. It's true. I like kind of don't know anything.

Things happen at a clip that I literally cannot process, but also on my cancer journey,

I love the phrase cancer journey. First of all, I'm taking a lot of naps, like at menopause is kicking

my ass, so I am just like, I've reverted to full baby and I take approximately two naps a day,

and I literally don't know what's happening in the news. Like if it's not in a friend's Instagram

story, I don't know what's going on in the world. Okay, but also everything is fine. You're timing

of like jokes about Hope Hicks hair is also still impeccable, so you can't pretend to be that far

off the news cycle. Okay, first of all, Hope Hicks is more than politics. Hope Hicks is culture, you know,

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