Hello and Aaron Ryan. This week, Alyssa Master Monaco and Dana Schwartz joined to ask the following questions.

Is Chief Justice John Roberts back to being disappointing again?

What does it mean to stand up for yourself?

And what country should be welcomed into the next Eurovision

song contest? All this and more right now.

We have a fun show today. I've been thinking a lot about asking for what you're

worth and how hard that is and because of Michaela Cole and Fandy Newton I've

been thinking about how

fucking awesome it is when a high-profile person talks honestly about it.

So today we're gonna talk about that but first we have some news to get to, some discouraging developments in the Supreme Court involving birth control and discrimination.

Some tragic developments in the Vanessa Guyan case and I would say some schadenenfroidistic developments in the Gilane Maxwell case.

To get through all that I'm going to chat with my friend, former White House Deputy Chief

of Staff under President Obama and the Julia Child of Jam, Alyssa Master Monaco.

Good day to you, Aaron.

So today is one of the days that we get to engage in, I would say, one of America's creepiest traditions,

which is, which is old men making decisions on what women and people with

utresses are allowed to do with those utresses. These old men are also not doctors generally speaking and they're almost

never they've never been my doctor. My doctor has never personally been involved in any Supreme Court decisions.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court handed down two rulings

that did not make Chief Justice Roberts into the hero that we thought he was going to be.

Basically two cases did not go our way today.

One of the cases was a case about whether or not religious organizations are subject to

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