Hello and welcome to Hysteria. I'm Aaron Ryan. This week on a very special Valentine's Day episode,

Alyssa Master Monaco joins me to cut out some paper hearts

and break down the already broken news cycle.

Then, Megan Galey and new members of the Hysteria fam, Tian Tran,

and Danish Schwartz, join me to answer the question,

How much trouble is sex worth? And finally, the hills we will die on. A quick note,

this episode we talk explicitly about sex, dating, and pornography.

So if you're sensitive to that sort of thing, you might want to skip ahead after the first ad break.

If you're not, feel free to pledge ahead.

We should probably get into the news because we should

into the depressing news.

Yeah, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Well people are going to be listening to this on Valentine's Day and I thought a good

way for us to get into the depressing news was to kind of I wanted to ask you how what what religious tradition are you embracing this Valentine's Day are you celebrating Valentine's Day or are you celebrating the discount candy day on the 15th?

So honestly I celebrate the construction paper glue stick and scissors holiday because I just love cutting things

into the shape of hearts.

I too love that. I love elementary school Valentine's Day I love making boxes and

those little tiny perforated things you know those that were like thicker than

paper that you would get that had like oh like a doily well that you had no, we had like little Valentine's that came in a box that like were in

on big sheets and you like, you pulled them apart and you put them in tiny on the books.

Oh, yeah, of course they were like, they were almost like cards but like postage stamps.

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