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Hysteria

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.77.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Erin Ryan and Alyssa Mastromonaco dive into the highs (WNBA breaking records, Abbott Elementary winning Emmys) and the lows (the proposed federal abortion ban, the mess that is the GOP) of the latest national news. Then, Kiran Deol and Kara Klenk join to discuss why Americans are so bad at unplugging when they’re OOO. Finally, we’ve chosen a name for our I Feel Petty and Sanity Corner combo: Sani-Petty!

 

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0:00.0

Hello and I'm Alyssa Mastor Monaco.

0:08.0

Hello and welcome to Hysteria.

0:10.0

I'm Erin Ryan and I'm Alyssa Mastromonico. Now, Alyssa, we know that there's no such thing as a good billionaire.

0:17.0

Right. No such thing. But is Mackenzie Scott the closest thing we have to one?

0:22.7

I think she is absolutely the closest thing

0:25.3

to a good billionaire we will ever see.

0:27.4

Yeah, in addition to doing things like take a $55 million

0:32.0

mansion and donate it to the fight against homelessness in Los Angeles

0:38.8

to provide people for low-cost housing.

0:41.0

That was amazing.

0:42.0

And giving money to art centers that

0:44.9

facilitate the art of like marginalized communities. Yeah. She also, I love the

0:51.0

way she does it where she just like organizations that have gotten money from her will be like yeah one day we just were like yeah,

0:57.3

Mackenzie Scott's given us 50 million dollars. Yes, she doesn't do the like let's have a press conference with some lovely examples of the people who I'm helping so the rest of the world can pat me on the head and be like what a good lady.

1:11.0

Yeah, she's like Batman kind of except not with money well Batman has money but

1:16.3

she's using her money to like give it away not just like buy herself gizmos and

1:20.3

get in fistfights. Right.

1:23.0

Also, I gotta say, I really appreciate the extent

1:27.0

to which Mackenzie Scott is making her ex-husband

1:30.0

Jeff Bezos look like a clown,

1:32.0

like a literal clown a clown

1:34.1

Erin it is back to school season how many times if we said it we are giving Jeff

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