Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend, a podcast for long distance festies everywhere.

I'm Amina Tussau and I'm Anne Friedman. On this week's agenda,

science shows menstruation brain is not a thing. Obituary's for a couple of inspiring women,

arch helis predatory behavior and the people who enable it, plus harassment in space science,

a blacklist for sexist tech investors and the new movie Girls Trip.

Hi Anne Friedman. Hey, I'm Anachi So, how's it going? Girl, pretty good. A little tired, but good.

I know. We had kind of a marathon week doing our live shows. I feel like I have a whole new

respect for touring musicians now. I'm like, wow, getting up and doing it every night. Yeah, it's

not play. It's work. But it's also like it was super fun. Yeah, I know. It's a hard thing to be like,

oh, that was super fun. And also, I have nothing left to give. I've seriously just been like

reading books and watching TV and getting stoned and eating homemade foods since then.

That's true, surely. I've been eating hummus and watching. I've seen every episode of American

grades since it's insane. Oh, your safe space, American greed. You know it. Okay, what are we

talking about today? I don't know. What do you want to talk about? Light or heavy? Let's start light.

Tell me one good thing. Tell me one light's chill thing. Okay, well, I'm going to hit you with

well, okay, it's a science daily headline, which means it's not really that sciencey, you know,

like they like summarize research that real journals do in like the most headline-friendly way.

But I got to tell you, okay, this is this is the headline I read. menstruation doesn't change how

your brain works. Period. Which could I tell you? I mean, like, okay, and let me read you the

summary. The summary actually says this in like sciencey vibes. It says, quote, it has long been

assumed that your period affects your brain's performance. Who is assuming this? Okay, you know,

but you know how you feel like you're not in your right mind when the cramps hit so bad.

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