Summary
This week Erin Ryan and Alyssa Mastromonaco discuss the Texas abortion bill that pits neighbors against each other, Governor Abbott’s threat to arrest Texas Democrats who’ve fled the special session on voting rights and the Democrat budget reconciliation compromise. Joe Manchin, you’re doing great sweetie! Then, Megan Gailey and Dana Schwartz join to discuss the 20th anniversary of Legally Blonde, its cultural impact and when ‘playing dumb’ can be weaponized and when it can be harmful. Then, why hasn’t science mastered the arts of tags in shirts and pants and other pettiness in I feel petty.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and I'm Alyssa Master Monaco. |
| 0:03.0 | Alyssa, I'm going to |
| 0:08.0 | Hello and welcome to Hysteria. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Erin Ryan and I'm Alyssa Master Monaco. |
| 0:13.0 | Alyssa I'm going to ask you a little bit of a probing question. |
| 0:16.0 | Okay. |
| 0:17.0 | Coming in hot early in the morning. |
| 0:19.0 | When's the last time you had a breakout, like a teenage teenage reminiscent teenage breakout on your face. |
| 0:25.8 | A teenage breakout. Aaron I'm gonna be honest with you I get one right around this time |
| 0:30.4 | every month on my chin my adult cystic acne is brought on by my period it |
| 0:34.8 | lasts for three weeks just in time to get it again oh wow what a gift what |
| 0:40.6 | 40s are awesome I awesome. I can't wait. |
| 0:44.0 | So, you know, I was told, I was told by pop culture that when you get pregnant your skin glows you get great skin and great hair |
| 0:55.8 | False false my pores are partying like it's 1999 on my face this entire time I like I've never had a problem with acne |
| 1:07.0 | thank goodness it sounds like a really awful thing to go through but my skin is |
| 1:12.4 | at its worst right now it's it's it's never even when I was a |
| 1:16.6 | teenager it was never like if you get up close to it it's like gah and and to make matters worse because of the delta variant, I'm |
| 1:25.8 | wearing, I'm masking. |
| 1:27.2 | A delta variant plus like immune system |
| 1:29.7 | being repressed by my condition. I'm masking when I go into like mixed company indoor |
| 1:36.9 | spaces now and so I'm getting like mask knee plus whatever this hormonal |
| 1:42.3 | shit is. |
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