Hello and welcome to hysteria. I'm Erin Ryan. This week, Alyssa Mastermonico and

Michaela Watkins join to tackle the following questions. Which women should Joe Biden pick

to be his running mate? Why are we putting so much effort into protecting extremely

non-essential athletes and so little effort into protecting extremely essential school

and nursing home workers? And what's a bitch anyway? All this and more right now.

So by this time next week, we might know who Joe Biden has picked to be his running mate.

He has promised that he will pick a woman, so we know that at least. But the field is pretty wide

open because none of his potential running mates, according to reports, check all the boxes for him.

I feel like finding a perfect beef is a little bit like finding the perfect American city. And

that it doesn't really exist. Like New York is expensive and dirty in the trans break all the time.

Alyssa is really spread out. Public transportation is bad. And sometimes it feels like six cities

competing to be the actual city. Chicago is very cold for five months of the year and is still

extremely segregated. And Austin is in Texas. So if you live there, Ted Cruz is your senator. You get

my drift. So to talk about all of the pluses and minuses of some of the leading

leap contenders, I'm going to call my friend. She is the former White House deputy chief of staff

under President Barack Obama and a future jam. Maven, I guess we can call her. It is Alyssa

Mastimotica.

Hi Alyssa. Hi Aaron. I have a funny at home anecdote. I'm still in Wisconsin, still in my childhood

bedroom. I'm still in the addicts. So tell me. Okay. So my dad is in his 60s and he during the winter,

he earns extra money as a basketball ref for high school basketball games in the area.

And he was just telling me this morning that he was kind of sad that he doesn't think he'll be

able to do that this season just because he hopes that schools are responsible enough to not have

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