Hello and welcome to Hysteria. I'm Aaron Ryan. This week Kyren Deal and Grace Para joined me to have a shodenfreude gasm over the

Manifort and Cohen legal trouble, assess the state of the Me Too movement in light of the

Asia Argento news, and talk about how hard it is to get movies

made starring people who aren't white dudes and keep listening to find out how

abortion ice cream tastes. So I'm at the point in the news cycle where we're recording this on Wednesday morning.

I am tired of jokes about how there's no news happening.

Like there's so much news happening that everyone has made the joke that there's

too much news happening. Before we get to the news I wanted to get into some

housekeeping. Outside outside lands that was so

fun yeah thank you to everybody who came to our first live show and thank you to

Phoebe Robinson who was an incredible guest and we're looking forward to at some point doing more live shows in the future so that was really fun.

Thank you to that picture of you guys looking like wood nymphs. We did look very

adorable. We're so selfie. One more housekeeping thing more women than ever before have won major party

primaries for governor that's super exciting there was an Alaska primary this week as well

last week there was like Minnesota Wisconsin a bunch of different

places also I think Wyoming which yeah Trump's guy lost but women are kind of

of kicking ass which is great and that that's good but let's get into the Schoddenfreude part of today's

episode of Hysteria. Oh yes. The Germans have a great word for the the

shameful joy you feel when bad things happen to people you don't like.

Donald Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen is going to jail, likely,

after admitting while pleading guilty that, among other things, at Trump's direction he paid women off to stay quiet about sexual relationships

Dattle Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manifort was also yesterday found guilty of eight counts of various financial skull duggery that veered into

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