Summary
Erin Ryan and Alyssa Mastromonaco discuss the new study that links cash stipends and higher brain development in children, the child tax credit, a Florida judge who denied a teen an abortion on the grounds of her GPA, and Sarah Palin’s libel case against the New York Times. Then Tien Tran and Kiran Deol join to discuss how they met their partners, West Elm Caleb, and trials and tribulations of dating. Finally, is Che Diaz the most unhinged character ever written? The gang breaks it down in I Feel Petty.
Show Notes:
WSJ: Cats on road trips: what could go wrong?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and I'm Alyssa Master Monaco. |
| 0:03.0 | Alyssa, |
| 0:05.0 | Ghe, go. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to Hysteria. I'm Erin Ryan. |
| 0:11.0 | And I'm Alyssa Master Monaco. |
| 0:13.0 | Alyssa important news this week from the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:15.6 | The Wall Street Journal reports that the new hotness is people taking their cats on road trips. |
| 0:20.4 | What do you think of this trend? |
| 0:21.4 | Something tells me that you were ahead of the game. |
| 0:24.0 | Aaron, let's just say back in the early aoths, I was driving cross country in my very old car with my very big cat. |
| 0:31.0 | Shrum was the hit of I-90. |
| 0:34.9 | Really? |
| 0:35.7 | Yes. |
| 0:36.7 | Would he like put his paws up in the window and stuff? |
| 0:39.0 | He would put his paws up on the dashboard, |
| 0:41.2 | like he was surfing, and when the big trucks would go by they would beep beep at him because they thought it was so funny |
| 0:47.3 | So the Wall Street Journal piece which we'll put in our episode notes seemed to indicate that cats were not great road trip |
| 0:54.4 | companions compared to dogs but I'm going to go ahead and beg to differ I used to |
| 0:57.7 | drive with Eleanor from Chicago all the way up to Frederick to visit my family in |
| 1:01.2 | Wisconsin and she was great as long as I didn't make her stay in her carrier and I didn't have to like stop and let her go to the bathroom I just like had a little litter box in like the back seat which is gross but that's how we did it. That's um are you kidding me I had a |
| 1:15.1 | Tupperware that had litter in it. Of course. I hope you like clearly labeled it so that was |
| 1:20.7 | never repurposed to store food. It was 100% recycled. It was 100% recycled. |
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