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

And I am Alyssa Master Monaco.

Alyssa, I got to say I'm disappointed.

Oh, by what, Erin?

You're not wearing your robe.

You said you'd wear your robe today.

Well, Aaron, I put on my navy blue t-shirt and put a little cream blush on for you.

And that's all I can really ask on a date like today.

And it's all I can offer.

You're listening to Hysteria, the podcast for people who probably haven't gotten very much sleep over the last couple of nights.

Not much.

Not much sleep.

And aren't sure they're ready for a joke yet.

Not ready for a joke.

No.

Okay.

So here's how the show is going to go today, folks. Alyssa and I are going to talk about some of the races that we have been tracking on the show for better or for worse. And then we are going to talk about kind of what it all means. And there's going to be a lot of what it all means in the coming weeks. There's going to be reporting coming out. But we know that you guys tune in because it feels like we're all kind of besties at a hang.

In it together.

In it together.

And so we are going to just kind of go through all the ugly and the optimistic and the ways that those two things intermingle, if at all.

So let's get to the facts first. Alissa, let's talk about the races

that we tracked this cycle. Well, we are so excited. We were able to have... You sound so excited,

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