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

I'm Ann Friedman and I'm Amina Tusso. On this week's agenda, the first presidential debate,

highlights and lowlights, a rob and block China update, power posing, that study turns out was

maybe flawed. Plus a draw-dropping story about men tracking their female colleagues period,

what some weird California government conspiracy theories and general political ramblings.

I don't even know where to begin. And we're recording this so late in the evening, which for

you know what I mean? This is new for us. I mean, normally, I have to say, my best hours are not

after 10 pm. My sharpest, wittiest hour is not the 10 o'clock hour and on work.

You know, that's not true for me. But I know that's what I mean. I think you're great this

hour. Yeah, it's like my brain is finally awake now. I could go to work right now. These are my best

hours. In a just world, you could be going to work every day at 10 pm if you wanted.

Exactly. But you know, it's like we like the struggle is real at like Team CYG this week.

This has been a week of struggle, like beginning with the debate. My god, where did you watch the debate?

I watched the debate at my friend Morgan's house and it was the kind of a perfect setting because I

hate trying to watch stuff like this in like really big groups where not everyone is paying full

attention. I want to be like in an enough of a group that you can complain and make the occasional

comment, but not in a group so big that you're distracted. That's amazing. I watched the debate in

a 10 can AKA a virgin flight and let me tell you, did you cry? If I watched the debate on a plane,

I would have no, so it was so it was great. It's like it's the first time I've ever bonded with

my seat mates. Like we were all on the same page. It's like we like got in. It's like I I had like

priority. I was like in the first three rows. I like boarded first. You know, it's like thank god

for those miles whenever they're like military families and people with like this status. I'm like

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