Hello and welcome to Hysteria. I'm Erin Ryan. And I'm Alyssa Mastermonico. Happy 2026, Alyssa.

Ah, 2026. Year of the horse. A year? Oh, well, not yet. Not yet. Early February.

The year of the snake and then lunar new year is at the beginning of February.

Year of the Horse.

Hey, I'm into it.

I'm done with snakes. Me too. I'm ready to be done with snakes. Time to move on. So at this weekend's Critics Choice Awards, Stars of Hacks, Meg Stalter, and Paul Downs, walked the red carpet dressed exactly like Timothy Shalomey and Kylie Jenner at the premiere of Marty Supreme a few months prior

Stalter completely deadpaned Walked the red carpet dressed exactly like Timothy Shalome and Kylie Jenner at the premiere of Marty Supreme a few months prior.

Stalter completely deadpan claimed that she and Downs had borrowed their outfits from friends,

implying that they borrowed them from the aforementioned couple, and mugged like a Kardashian for the step and repeat.

It was fucking...

It was fucking delightful. It was very funny. Stalter is one of the funniest women in America. One of the funniest people in America. She is. Very much so. Absolutely so fucking funny. Alyssa, if you had to borrow somebody else's iconic red carpet look for an award show, whose would you borrow? You know, Erin? I don't know. Maybe I'd have a little fun. Maybe I'd do the Bjork swan dress. You could rock that. Don't you think? I feel like you have to be short. I don't know why. You have to be small and whimsical. They have to envision my legs underwater paddling quickly. I think that I would go with. It depends on like if I'm trying to be funny or if I'm like, I can't pull off funny right now. But if I was trying to be funny, it'd be the Britney Spears denim strapless dress. Oh, that'd be good. Or alternately the Justin Timberlake denim, like suit that he wore. That was quite a look. Didn't they go matching? Right? They were matching that year. Yes, yes. They went as a denim duo. And I think it'd be really fun to go like, as a, like a woman doing a Canadian tuxedo on a red carpet, I think would be a lot of fun. We have found next year's Halloween costume. Oh, my God. Okay. Yes. I'll think more about this when

the show is over. Also, the Princess Diana Revenge dress would be a fun one. Yeah, gorgeous.

Gorgeous. 100%. On today's show, we dive into the latest Epstein files drop. We talk about what

happens now that the Obamacare subsidies have expired. We talk about Barry Weiss's new town hall series. I bet that's going to be great. And Trump's crusade against federal child care funding. Then we talk about the new Netflix show, Members Only Palm Beach, a show that's... Mar-a-Lago. Oh, sorry. A show that scared my four-year-old, which should just be called the Real Housewives of Mar-a-Lago, as you mentioned.

And then, of course, Sandy Petty.

Okay, now let's get to the show.

This is Hysteria, the podcast for people who are choosing between which world war they're going to hyper fixate on over the next few weeks. So many to choose from. As a coping mechanism. No, I mean, like, that's true. But there have been other, like, large conflicts that you could hyperfixate on, I think, as a way to try to understand what we're doing right now. Like, you could go Quagmire. You could try to hyperfixate on Vietnam if you really want to get into a Quagmire type situation.

You could try to hyperfixate on Vietnam if you really want to get into a Quagmire type

situation. You could like really learn about what happened in Panama with Noriega. Yeah, you can get into the

Noriega thing. Me personally, I'm still on a Hitler kick, learning a lot about Hitler. Some of it is

encouraging, not like Hitler did good things, but

encouraging in that there are very marked differences from the period of time we're living in

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