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The Princess and the Pod w. Akilah Hughes

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Hysteria

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.77.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

This week Erin Ryan and Alyssa Mastromonaco discuss Gavin Newsom’s resounding recall win, the Larry Nassar hearing, Joe Manchin and the confusion over booster shots. Then Dana Schwartz and Akilah Hughes join to discuss princess culture and it’s lasting pervasiveness in our culture. Finally, is the Met Gala grotesque or fun!?



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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to hysteria. I'm Aerren Ryan. I'm Alyssa Mastramonico.

0:13.0

Alyssa, I don't want to give you like anxiety, but when you're in the car, do you ever have a moment of like mild panic?

0:20.0

When you think about how much of the safety features in your car were

0:23.9

developed and tested without considering that women exist at all. I mean I

0:28.8

haven't thought of it that way but yes yes well like the other day I was in I was in my car and I the thought

0:38.2

occurred to me had the inventor of the three-point seatbelt ever touched a boob. Had he been familiar

0:45.9

where boobs are on the human body? Like it's just like a three-point seatbelt

0:50.0

itself is just like this doesn't feel like it's made for me.

0:54.0

How about the fact that you can't wear a ponytail and sit in the seat?

0:58.0

Yeah, that seems like an oversight.

1:00.0

It's like bad for your neck.

1:02.0

It's bad for your neck. It's bad for everything. It's I why can't they just make a

1:06.7

ponytail hole? You just need a hole also I'm just gonna say they're while we're on the

1:12.3

topic cars are not made for my size.

1:14.8

Everything is too big.

1:17.2

Yeah, you know what?

1:17.8

I read recently that women are something like 73% more likely

1:22.4

to get injured in car accidents and part of the reason

1:25.3

is because until recently they've only used male crash-chest dummies.

1:31.2

Well Aaron that doesn't surprise me as when I got into my car

1:35.4

accident my seat belt burns were in not the normal spot. Oh yeah and you know I'm

1:40.4

so now I'm like eight months pregnant yeah you are super pregs

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