The Manosphere Grift
Hysteria
Hysteria
4.7 • 7.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Erin and Alyssa react to the bombshell reporting on civil rights activist Cesar Chavez and the allegations of a lifelong pattern of sexual abuse. They also cover the election results out of Illinois, the latest on the SAVE Act in Congress, Louis Theroux’s new Netflix documentary on the Manosphere, and how the right is shaping culture from sex education to reality TV.
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More coverage on the Cesar Chavez accusations on the Hysteria YouTube channel
AIPAC faces calls to reassess strategy after split results in Illinois (Politico 3/18)
GOP tempers flare over how to pass SAVE America Act (The Hill 3/18)
Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years (NYT 3/18)
Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power (The New Republic 3/12)
Louis Theroux on the Manosphere: ‘It’s Highly Profitable to Be a Dick on the Internet’ (Wired 3/11)
The Fight for Facts: Defending Access to Comprehensive Sex Education from the Anti-Abortion Agenda (Guttmacher 3/16)
Ex-‘Bachelor’ Host Chris Harrison Sets New Dating Series on Fox Nation About ‘Traditional Marriage’ (Variety 2/26)
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| 0:00.0 | The country feels like it's falling apart right before our eyes and the people inside it are being silenced. |
| 0:07.4 | So we're going to East 26th Street and Nicolette Avenue, which is where Alex Pready was executed by ICE and Border Patrol. |
| 0:18.8 | That is not a headline. That is a human life. And it is all happening |
| 0:22.7 | right now. Do you worry about your own safety being involved in all this? Yes, but it doesn't |
| 0:30.3 | really feel like there's another option, you know? And of course, they use a five-year-old child |
| 0:36.5 | as bait. And of course they're doing all-year-old child as bait. |
| 0:42.4 | And of course they're doing all these horrible, bad things because they don't know what they're doing. |
| 0:47.4 | They've been told that they're going to get rid of the worst of the worst. |
| 0:49.3 | Then they have absolute immunity. |
| 0:54.6 | And they've been told that nothing they do, will they ever be held accountable for? |
| 1:02.0 | On my show, Runaway Country, we go where the headlines hit home, from communities under threat to the people fighting to be heard. |
| 1:04.7 | New episodes of Runaway Country drop every Thursday. |
| 1:08.1 | Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or watch on YouTube. |
| 1:20.5 | Hello and welcome to hysteria. I'm Erin Ryan. |
| 1:23.9 | And I'm back. I'm Alyssa Master Monaco. |
| 1:26.0 | Welcome back, Alyssa. How are you doing? |
| 1:28.5 | I'm okay. You know, one day at a time. |
| 1:34.6 | One day at a time, but you're back. I missed you so much. I missed you guys. I am, I am healing and nurses are angels. |
| 1:42.3 | Incredible. Okay, Alyssa, in the spirit of DHS secretary nominee, Mark Wayne Mullen's ongoing confirmation hearing. |
| 1:46.4 | And the fact that Senator Mullen never served in the armed forces but talks like he did to the point that a former member of Congress who did serve |
| 1:51.8 | was like, this is kind of stolen Valerie. |
| 1:54.4 | I saw that. |
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