Salmon Alito w. Monica Potts
Hysteria
Hysteria
4.7 • 7.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Erin Ryan and Alyssa Mastromonaco cover the latest: Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito doesn’t understand what the big deal is about accepting a free luxury vacation from a billionaire megadonor and not reporting it, SCOTUS is finishing up their session, and self-described misogynist and incel influencer Andrew Tate gets indicted. Then, Monica Potts joins to discuss her new book about women in rural America, The Forgotten Girls. Next, Grace Parra-Janney and Dana Schwartz join to discuss weddings: planning them, Instagramming them, paying for them, the works. Finally, Sani-Petty (we’re improving our handwriting and seeing Stevie Nicks live).
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Show Notes
The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America by Monica Potts (Bookshop)
Quiet ‘epidemic’ of drugs, alcohol and suicide has killed half a million middle-aged white Americans (Princeton)
Justice Samuel Alito: ProPublica Misleads Its Readers (WSJ Op-Ed)
Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court (ProPublica)
THE FAKE POOR BRIDE: Confessions of a wedding planner (The Atlantic)
Noble Blood podcast
Solar Opposites on Hulu
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and I'm Alistamast Monaco. |
| 0:02.0 | Alyssa, do you know, |
| 0:04.0 | go. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello and welcome to Hysteria. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Aaron Ryan and I'm Alistamash Monico. |
| 0:12.0 | Alyssa, do you remember like five years ago when I'm Aarron Ryan and I'm Alistamast from Monaco. |
| 0:12.8 | Alyssa, do you remember like five years ago when air plants were everywhere? |
| 0:17.0 | What's an air plant? |
| 0:18.2 | It was just a plant that they were like, it doesn't need dirt, |
| 0:20.9 | it just sits in the air. |
| 0:22.5 | I knew nothing of this bad. |
| 0:24.3 | Oh my God, it was all over in gentrified Brooklyn. |
| 0:28.2 | There'd be these little like pots with air plants in them. |
| 0:30.6 | If you went to a fancy plant store, |
| 0:32.4 | they'd be like like you can get an |
| 0:33.3 | air plant I don't think they were ever real because I don't see them anymore |
| 0:37.4 | anywhere seems like they might have died they were always fake I think they all |
| 0:42.0 | died I think they all died. I think they all died. They never were going to make it. |
| 0:44.9 | I mean Aaron you and I are plant people and I've never heard of an air plant so I think it was fake. |
| 0:49.2 | I really fell for it. I had a couple airplants and I was like I'm a failure. They've died. No, I'm a sucker. I thought they might live. |
| 0:59.0 | This week we're joined by Monica Potts, Grace Parajani, and Dana Schwartz to take on the following questions. |
| 1:09.0 | So is Samuel Alito actually friends with that billionaire mega donor, or does he just go on vacations with strangers? |
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