F*ckery Afoot w. Senator Mazie Hirono
Hysteria
Hysteria
4.7 • 7.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
This week Erin Ryan and Alyssa Mastromonaco go in on GOP fuckery and the Senate’s new COVID-19 aid package with Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono. Then Kiran Deol joins to talk about the economic effects the pandemic has had on regular people— from overworked nurses to underworked entertainers. And! A check in on those quarantine creatives masterpieces they promised themselves they would definitely start. And for dessert: a much needed Sanity Corner!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Hysteria. I'm Aaron Ryan. This week I'm |
| 0:09.2 | joined via the miracle of technology by Senator Maisie Horono, |
| 0:12.6 | Alyssa Master Monaco and Kirundiel to ask the following questions. |
| 0:16.1 | Will the Senate's $2 trillion COVID-19 aid package help the average American |
| 0:21.2 | or is their grifty fuckery afoot? How can we fight the |
| 0:25.0 | pandemic if we aren't taking care of the people who are the front lines of |
| 0:28.3 | fighting the pandemic? How are those quarantine creative masterpieces we all |
| 0:32.3 | thought we'd work on going? |
| 0:33.6 | And what classic movie is too good for even a hilariously bad Nicholas Cage performance to ruin? |
| 0:39.9 | All this and more coming up right now. |
| 0:46.9 | How are you pandemicking? My dog is having one of the greatest weeks of his life. |
| 0:50.1 | He's gotten played with so much. |
| 0:52.2 | People who have two girlfriends who didn't know about each other |
| 0:54.7 | before the pandemic are probably having a tough week. Meanwhile, the All Lives Matter crew decided |
| 1:01.0 | this week that actually some lives don't matter. |
| 1:03.1 | As some politicians suggested that the right path forward during the pandemic is to let people |
| 1:09.3 | die on the altar of the stock market. The lieutenant governor of Texas actually suggested that some grandparents would be willing to die |
| 1:17.0 | in order to save the economy for their grandkids. |
| 1:21.0 | Really? |
| 1:22.0 | Has he heard about the global shrug in response to climate change? |
| 1:25.1 | Ran Paul went to the gym as he awaited his test results for COVID-19, which did turn |
| 1:30.4 | out to be positive. I was trying to come up with a villain of the week to |
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