Hello and welcome to Hysteria. I'm Erin Ryan.

And I am Alyssa Master Monaco.

Alyssa, what do you make of Christy Noem being appointed probable Homeland Security Secretary by incoming President Trump.

Bad for America, bad for dogs?

Yeah, I mean, you know, America, a country that notoriously dislikes dogs.

I think it's going to go great.

Okay, let's get to the show.

Welcome back. You're listening to Hysteria, the podcast for bitches who are ready to stop being

polite and start getting hostile. Alisa, you and I have discussed this. This is going to be a

hostility forward for years, I believe. Ready for it. Last week, I feel like between Tuesday and Wednesday, I had all these imaginary

conversations with myself, like pep talks with myself. Then I was like, I don't want a pep talk.

Alyssa and I talked. And I felt like I spent so much time working through what I was thinking

and how I was feeling. And since then I feel like I've just been straight up

dissociating. So I really would like to kind of stay in the space of dealing with the shock

of this election, dealing with how we move forward and dealing with, you know, just how are we

going to just carry on in our lives. And because I'm out of words, I've said all

of them, we have assembled a hysteria super team this week to join us to make sense of what the

hell just happened and how we can move forward. So let me introduce the panel without further ado.

Our first panelist is a political commentator and editor at

large at the 19th. Aaron Haynes. Hi, Aaron. Good to be with you. How are you? I feel like I'm going

to ask every panel. How are you? I mean, how is anyone? You know, I'm here. I'm here. We're here.

We're doing it. We're here. We're getting ready for the holidays. We're finally on the other side of this election and what an election it was.

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