Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend!

A podcast for long-distance besties everywhere.

I'm Ann Friedman and I'm Amina Tussau.

On this week's episode, we discuss criticism and feedback from a previous episode,

our gift-giving dilemmas, the TV shows and podcasts that are distracting us from the election,

and so much more.

Give your reasons.

Say it's not her fault.

But you just met somebody new.

Hi, Ann, how's it going?

I mean, it's good. I am, uh, I'm many hours ahead.

I still, so I'm drinking a hotel happy hour beer and I'm eating beetroot potato chips, which,

can I have a pause button here? Why do you hear PNC beetroot?

No one says carrot root, potato root, like all the other vegetables.

All the other vegetables that are root, we don't go out of our way to add root.

It's only beetroot here. It makes no sense.

Oh my god. You know what? I had honestly never thought of that.

I know, I'm just like the editor in me once, once it consistent.

Well, but the thing is that like there's beetroot, but I like there's definitely also like you,

like is different than like a golden beets or like garden beets or like tablebeets.

But it's not called golden beetroot, but no, it's not called golden beetroot, but it's like the same

goddamn thing. I don't know. I'm just like the like minor linguistic mysteries of being in another

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