"Culture War Zone" w. Jena Friedman

Hysteria

Society & Culture, Politics, News

4.7 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Erin Ryan and Alyssa Mastromonaco celebrate their 250th episode (!!!) by answering some listener questions peppered throughout the show! In news, we cover the abortion showdown in North Carolina, Philadelphia one step closer to electing its first female mayor — after electing 99 male mayors prior — and a new menopause drug. Then, Jena Friedman and Megan Gailey join to talk all things culture war, from Bill Cosby to “wokeism” to the latest Succession election episode that made everyone lose sleep, even after taking an edible (spoiler alert). Finally, in Sani-Petty: the NBA Playoffs, TikTok’s TattooGate, and more.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to hysteria. I'm Erin Ryan and I'm Alyssa
0:10.9	Mashramanico. Alyssa, we are celebrating 250 episodes today. Wow. 250. What's
0:18.7	something that you've done 250 times that you love this much? Nothing. Not even
0:23.3	making jam? Eat and butter. Yeah. Jam. I've definitely made jam 250 times. But
0:31.0	this is better. This is your real jam. Yeah, I mean that I do by myself. This is the jam.
0:34.7	This week we're joined by Jennifer Edmund and Megan Gayley to take on the
0:41.1	following questions. What did one Democrat do to doom abortion rights in
0:45.4	North Carolina? When do culture wars become actual wars? Why did this week
0:49.8	succession fuck us up so badly? And what NBA players have the cutest kids? All
0:55.2	this and more right now. And welcome to hysteria the show for people who
1:00.6	usually ended up just doing most of the group project themselves hosted by two
1:05.6	people who did end up doing 100% where we see you. We understand you. We are
1:12.0	you. We are you. We are you. We are view. So before we get into the news, oh my
1:17.1	gosh, Alyssa. Yes. 250 episodes. Are we in love? Does this mean we're
1:22.5	officially in like we've been in 250 episodes? Oh, I think we're common law
1:26.6	married at this point. Yeah. 250 episodes of a podcast with somebody. Although I
1:31.1	was on maternity leave for a bit and you like we haven't you know been here. I
1:34.9	didn't cheat. But this is but this is our daughter. This is our daughter. This is
1:38.6	our daughter. She's still here. Our beautiful daughter hysteria is 250 years old.
1:43.5	And so we wanted to answer some of your listener questions. We are going to
1:47.7	be sprinkling the questions throughout the episode. So if you want to know if we
1:50.4	chose yours, you got to listen till the end. Okay. First question. I will read
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