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A podcast for long distance festies everywhere. This week on our agenda we'll be talking about the midterm elections, Taylor Swift and Beyonce updates.

We'll have a rapid fire where we couch up on everything we've missed on the internet including Ebola and Gianga Meshie and everything you need to know about when women boxers menstruate.

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I feel like we have to start with the midterms. Sure we start with the midterms.

Obviously I just got back from DC working on election stuff and election night was very very depressing but also very predictable.

The only kind of crimson wave we don't like. Right, yeah mother Jones had like an incredible graphic for this or it's just this like red tidal wave.

I was like well done graphic department, some other Jones. But yeah you know it's just I don't know it's like abortion and women lost like everywhere.

So the worst state to live in the country I think is probably Tennessee. Yeah so it's like how fun if you live in Tennessee you know but then there's also all this like crazy stuff.

What's her name? The Iowa woman? Joni Ernst. Okay this is striking really really close to my heart.

Yeah that woman that's like the woman who thinks that like you get Ebola from Twitter and like she's like she's going to be in Congress now.

I want to like tear my hair out. I mean this is a woman who wants to abolish the environmental protection agency.

And I don't know I see women like her and I'm like you don't have 10 million kids. How can you be super super anti choice?

Because obviously you've used concert reception like at some point in your life.

Otherwise you would be having babies and caring for them all the time not being a crazy person running for the Senate.

Yeah no it's crazy. In North Carolina they also push through like a million restrictions and abortion access.

Scott Walker like went crazy and signed all these restrictions also even though he like positioned himself as a moderate and he got elected like that.

Good nice try Scott Walker but also like actual nice try the worst.

Yeah so you know I mean but also none of it was was unexpected so I think that you know that's what like tempers that tempers like how upset I am.

But I'm also just can't handle this like every two year cycle of like we like we're ecstatic and then tears later it's like wow like they're taking away everything.

Well but the real talk is like is like women did not vote in his grade of numbers as we did two years ago or even four years ago in the midterms.

That is the sad truth. Young people didn't vote you know like I always stand up for millennials because they're my people but this was really depressing to see.

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