Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend.

A podcast for long distance festies everywhere.

I am Amina Tussaud.

And I'm Anne Friedman.

On this week's agenda, it is our five-year anniversary,

and we are talking about the ways that doing this podcast has affected our friendship.

And we're also taking a little stroll through our archive and playing a little taste of

what we were airing in real time for each of the five years that we've been around.

And before we do all of that, if you live in the United States, like us, you are probably

fuming mad about what's happening in Alabama and in Georgia and in a lot of other state

legislatures around abortion access.

It is really maddening and we are trying not to be discouraged by this.

If you remember, we did an episode called Abortion is our right in March.

We'll link to it in the show notes.

You know, that was really expanding on the fact that abortion rights are under attack.

And that was true.

It was true in March.

It was true.

Last year, it was true 50 years ago.

And it's true right now.

The opponents just like always come out of the woodwork.

And it really feels like a particularly like vindictive assault right now.

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