Hello and welcome to Hysteria. I'm Erin Ryan. This week, Alyssa Master Monaco and I talk about world leaders insulting each other's wives as the world

literally burns. Then comedian Kara Klink makes her hysteria debut to chat

about back-to-school season with Dana Schwartz and Naomi

Perigan. Then as always, our Hills.

Before we get started, a little bit of housekeeping. If you want to submit a hill that you'll die on,

you can record a 30 second voice memo on your phone and send it to hysteria at crooked.com.

If you want to submit a question for

dude you asked please send it to us at hysteria at crooked.com. You can also

submit questions via Twitter and Instagram and don't forget to check out the

segment on IG TV on Crooked Media's

Instagram. This week I want to give a shout out to a special group of listeners.

Shout out to all the college freshmen listening, all of the people who are at college

freshman orientation and specifically all of the college freshman at

my alma mater the University of Notre Dame remember for better for worse

college isn't forever. Hey!

Hello? I thought the song was just going to play forever. It would be terrible if we were not connected.

That would be the worst. So, Alyssa, remember last week when we talked about how Bachelor in Paradise traced the evolution of suburban American women's

wokeness?

Yes, it was one of our best conversations ever.

I'm pretty proud of it, but I was thinking in light of this week's news and some other, you know, deep introspection I've been doing,

that Bachelor in Paradise won't be fully woke until Paradise sinks into the ocean

and the group learns an important lesson on climate change.

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