Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend.

A podcast for long distance festies everywhere.

I'm Amina Tusso.

And I'm Anne Friedman.

On this week's agenda, we have Chido Watch featuring the crumbling of characters like Mike Flynn and Andy Puzder.

And the decline of Kellyanne Conway plus a powerful handshake with Justin Trudeau.

We also have an interview with the incredible Tiffany Dufu, who is a writer, a speaker, and activist

who's written a book called Drop the Ball, Achieving More by Doing Less, which don't we all want that.

The Chido is crumbling. That is like the headline.

Orange Dust has fallen all over America.

We are still in resistance mode, but some things are maybe starting to give.

I don't know. That's the headline of what I have been paying attention to for the week.

I'll be frank. There's some B-level news, but that's the headline.

Here's the problem with all the news.

Is that you will literally step away to do your real work, or I don't know, take the train for 30 minutes,

and some big news has happened.

I just, the pace is unsustainable.

Did you see there's a website called What the Fuck Happened Today that aggregates at all?

There are some things like that that I appreciate, but it doesn't actually reduce the overwhelm for me to read it all in one place,

or read the news at night and check back.

I went to the spa for four phoneless hours yesterday and still felt overwhelmed when I checked in.

And the government had crumbled, literally.

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