Hello and welcome to Hysteria. I'm Aaron Ryan. This week, Alissa Master Monaco and I chat about the last year in garbage and how to stay happy

when things keep getting worse.

Then Crooked Media's own Prianka Arabindia's in studio, along with Kiran Deal and Megan Galey, to talk about crying. And as always, the Hills Will Die on. before we get to the show a little bit of housekeeping. If you want to submit a hill you'll die on,

record a 30 second voice memo on your phone

and send it to hysteria at crooked.com.

You can also send other correspondence

in that direction, but keep in mind that more people besides me check it.

Caroline also checks it.

So send love notes and hate mail to our personal addresses.

Also, merch is in the works and I'm biased, but it's really great.

And also I see all the gifts you're tweeting at me people about how

merch has taken a long time and I appreciate them and I acknowledge the fact that I'm

somewhat owned by them but it is in the works it's really cool I can't wait for you to see it. I'm trying a new thing where I give a shout out to a special group of listeners this week. I want to give a shout out to people listening to hysteria from another country. And on that note, if you're listening to this, I'm currently on vacation.

We pre-recorded this episode.

So if everything went to shit and we're not talking about it on this episode, it's because

I've successfully fled and I live in Italy now.

Now let's get to the show.

Hi, Alissa.

ERG, what's happening, my sister?

ERG. EGR. Yeah.. ER. Oh my God I always write ERG. Wow there's going to be

a callback to this later in the conversation. Absolutely.

Melissa Maestro, Monico?

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