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and welcome to Hysteria. I'm Erin Ryan.

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And I'm Alyssa Mastromonaco. Alyssa, I've got

0:49

an important question for you. Yes, ma'am.

0:52

Why are so few things spangled?

0:55

Like the flag is the star spangled banner,

0:57

but like what else? Why

1:00

isn't it festooned? You know what? Why

1:02

Francis Scott Key would have been like

1:04

the star festooned banner. Erin, let's bring

1:06

back festooned. The emblazoned banner. But yeah,

1:08

no, I don't think we should bring

1:11

back festooned because that's a weird word.

1:13

I think we should bring back spangled.

1:15

More things should be spangled. Like I arrived

1:17

at the crime scene and the wall was

1:19

spangled with blood. See, I like to say

1:21

my nails are spangly today. Okay,

1:24

okay. That's fine. We're bringing

1:26

back spangled in 2024. You

1:30

are listening to Hysteria, the podcast for people who

1:32

agree with what Will Ferrell said at the Women

1:34

in Entertainment Gala. Forget about the entertainment

1:36

world. Isn't it just time? Isn't

1:40

it just time for women to run the planet? I

1:46

mean, I'm not just trying to placate you,

1:48

I swear. I

1:52

don't know what else to do because we, men,

1:57

we've been running the show since what, 10,000 BC?

2:00

something like that. And

2:02

we're not doing so good. So please,

2:07

can you guys just take over? Okay, but I

2:10

but I want to add the caveat that it's

2:12

classic America to have something that women have been

2:14

saying for many years to finally go viral when

2:16

a dude says it. Okay,

2:20

let's get today's very special end of

2:22

year episode and news which 2024

2:24

episodes started, I'm going to bring in our panel.

2:27

Our first panelist is the author of your episode.

2:29

Is the author of You sound like a white

2:31

girl available wherever you get books to Lisa are

2:33

saying welcome to hysteria. I am so excited to

2:35

be in the studio. I think this

2:37

is the first time I've been here. I don't

2:40

know since before, since before the

2:42

pandemic. Oh my gosh, really? Yes. In fact, I

2:44

didn't even remember if I was in the right

2:46

place when I got off the elevator. I was

2:49

like, am I in the right place? I don't remember

2:51

this. I'm so

2:53

excited to be here so many lights. I forgot

2:55

what it was like to like be in the

2:58

studio. And I'm kind of I feel like nervous.

3:00

Yeah, you know, in studio, I think also like

3:02

after you have a baby and you start doing

3:04

human things again. It's like, oh,

3:07

how do I do this? I don't know.

3:09

Yes, I am very much aware of my

3:12

breath. I'm like,

3:17

please hang on. Like, work with

3:19

me. You can do

3:21

it. You can go down until 1130. Can

3:23

I tell you guys a really funny boob

3:25

story? We're all we're all pals here, right?

3:28

Sure. A lot of boob talking about HR.

3:31

So, Histeria had a

3:33

live show in October

3:35

of 2022. And

3:37

at the

3:40

time I was breastfeeding. And when

3:43

I would get nervous, I would like leak.

3:46

And so I was wearing an

3:48

all white cover all outfit. And right

3:50

before the show, I was like, oh

3:52

no. And I had to change because

3:54

I leaked breast milk into

3:57

my outfit. I was gonna wear it for the

3:59

Histeria live show. That's fine. I wear it. I

4:01

wore a cuter outfit. Anyway, there you go. It was

4:03

meant to be yeah It was 100% meant

4:06

to be speaking of boobs Our next

4:08

panelist is a writer and producer on

4:10

Star Trek lower decks and Hulu's solar

4:13

opposites grace Parajani Welcome to hysteria speaking

4:15

of boobs guys grace Parajani here. So

4:17

excited to I'm virtual this

4:20

morning Because I'm pumping away from

4:22

home. I Also

4:25

the baby we have a lot of babies

4:27

in this crew, which is very exciting I

4:29

know single-handedly sustaining the American population we

4:33

are the hysteria crew and Not

4:37

somebody's stating the human population, but sustaining the

4:39

dog population Our final panelist is an actor

4:41

and comedian known for SNL you hurt my

4:43

feelings and much more Michaela Watkins area Hi,

4:48

I'm also leaking now Not

4:52

at my boobs I had I had this

4:55

bronchitis that lasted like a month and a half and

4:58

New things happen to your

5:00

body as you age like yes,

5:02

ma'am you take a little when you cough

5:06

When you laugh you think oh when you talk you think

5:08

oh when you jump up and down It's

5:10

just do your cake. Oh, are you

5:12

jumping up and down a lot? Oh, I'm so

5:14

excited about that reading the world is great And

5:18

I just can't stop jumping up and down and

5:20

peeing my pants. But um, do your

5:22

cake. I'll stay your cake Drink

5:24

in that pelvic floor new mom do

5:27

it. Oh I've

5:29

already got so much to do. I don't know. I'll pencil it in.

5:31

We'll see if I can get to in 2024 Everybody's

5:34

doing it right now All

5:39

right, so we have reached the end of 2023

5:42

which weirdly felt like a less bad year

5:44

than the last few years It was kind

5:46

of like still pretty bad but compared to

5:49

like other stuff. We've been working with it's

5:51

like, all right Well, I guess it

5:53

was like yeah less bad than the

5:55

other things and in that spirit What

5:58

I was hoping to do is that we

6:00

could kind of do our own little 2023

6:02

awards show with our own made up category.

6:05

And so what I'm going to do is going to

6:07

go from panelists to panelists because we're hybrid remote in

6:09

person. So I got to keep this

6:12

kind of organized so it doesn't devolve into us just like

6:14

laughing and shouting at each other. 2023 is

6:16

drawing to a close. Let's

6:19

talk about the stories that

6:21

maybe weren't the most important stories of the

6:23

year, but that left big impressions on us.

6:26

So let's get started. I know a couple

6:28

of people prepared this best moment that was

6:30

bad for America, but funny. Julissa, you want

6:33

to go first? Yes. And

6:35

I couldn't remember his name, even though I know who

6:37

he is, but George Santos. I

6:39

mean, obviously it is absolutely horrible that

6:41

somebody like him could get elected

6:43

and it's like only in America, but

6:46

it's also been fucking hilarious.

6:49

Like everything he has done, like his

6:52

whole persona is so funny to me.

6:54

And like, yeah, that's obviously we

6:56

don't want, you know, people getting elected

6:59

who like lied about everything in

7:01

their lives and who are

7:03

stealing money from their donors. All

7:06

that's terrible. But

7:08

it's also, like I said, bad

7:11

for America. Really hilarious. And

7:13

he has provided a lot of entertainment

7:15

for me. And Julissa, he is thriving.

7:17

He is actually living the life he

7:19

wanted to live now. He made more

7:22

money on Cameo so far

7:24

since he was ousted than he made as

7:26

a congressman. There you go.

7:28

I mean, it's I mean, America, sometimes

7:30

you really do have to love it

7:33

like this shit in America.

7:35

So the American dream, baby. What happened

7:37

to George Santos now in 2024? What

7:40

is his next year look like? I agree. He's

7:43

thriving. He's probably doing he's going to have a better year

7:45

than any of us, I think. I mean, you know what?

7:47

He's going to end up getting like endorsement deals. Like brands

7:49

are going to pay him. Warby Parker.

7:52

Yeah. Warby Parker. A hundred percent.

7:55

Oh, my God. A hundred percent. Where we're going

7:57

to be wearing Warby Parker glasses. Like

8:00

Alyssa said, he said he'd make you more money, post,

8:03

you know, as a disgraced congressman, which by

8:05

the way, like tracks, you know?

8:08

Highly tracks. I worry that we

8:10

are on the precipice of a

8:12

nihilistic era, and that completely would

8:14

work. Him being a corporate

8:17

spokesperson during an era of everyone being

8:19

like, fuck it, fuck it, nothing matters.

8:21

I mean, I think it could go

8:23

one or two ways, honestly. I think

8:25

either what you just said, Alyssa, or I think

8:28

he turns up in like the Hudson

8:30

River and it

8:34

becomes like Ryan Murphy's next

8:36

like real crime thing. And

8:39

he's like post-mortem, he's so

8:41

famous because nobody can like

8:44

who killed Santos, you know?

8:47

It's a two part SVU episode. Yes, exactly.

8:49

And it's like... More than you episode of

8:51

Only Murders in the Building. Yeah,

8:54

it's like a two-pack thing where for generations,

8:56

they're going to be like, you know,

8:58

there's going to be fringe right wing

9:01

groups that are going to think like he faked

9:03

his death and came back, which knowing him, he

9:05

probably would. But and it's

9:07

going to be like, you know, JFK

9:09

Jr. There's going

9:11

to be Santos sightings. That's my prediction.

9:13

Okay. Okay. Alyssa,

9:15

is there a news story or a news item or

9:18

happening in 2023 that you want to nominate in

9:21

a category and explain? No,

9:24

I mean, I really I thought the

9:26

best moment we had one other I

9:28

thought best moment but terrible for America,

9:30

which was the journey of our friend

9:32

Mike Heaven from 15 rounds to

9:36

try to get into not that many

9:38

to force him out. And and

9:41

now he's taking his toys and he's going home. And it's

9:43

very funny. But now we've ended up with an even

9:45

darker, crazier person and Mike Johnson. Mm

9:48

hmm. Yeah. And that's

9:50

kind of Kevin McCarthy. I think bad for America but funny.

9:53

Grace, do you have a bad for America but funny

9:55

moment? I'm not sure this is bad for America, but

9:57

I have I have an

9:59

organization. that didn't need more love and

10:01

is getting so much more love than anticipated.

10:04

And that is the NFL with

10:06

the relationship of Taylor Swift and

10:09

Travis Kelsey. I don't think the

10:11

NFL needed more love and

10:13

yet here we are, here we are. Now as

10:15

a sports fan, it's kind of exciting to see

10:18

a meld of two worlds that

10:21

I didn't anticipate. But I do think that

10:23

it all feels a little orchestrated. Sorry, Swifties.

10:25

I know Swifties are going to come after

10:27

me, but it does feel a little put

10:29

on. I'm here for it, but it's

10:32

a little put on. It's a very convenient

10:34

relationship. I wouldn't go so far to

10:36

say it was orchestrated, but it's very

10:38

conveniently good PR. For

10:40

honestly, football is really bad. It's

10:43

bad for America, kind of. I

10:47

mean, kids shouldn't be doing it. I know.

10:50

And it's very dangerous and bad and it hurts the people

10:52

that play it and stuff. But you

10:54

know, it's fun. But

10:56

I really hope Texas makes it to the national

10:58

championship. Oh, yes. Yes. And

11:01

I already bought plane tickets to go to

11:03

Houston. I mean, I know. I

11:07

don't know. I feel like my sinking feeling is

11:09

it's going to be Michigan, the cheaters, because we

11:12

love to reward cheaters. It can be Michigan,

11:14

Texas. That's right. As long as

11:16

Michigan is... That's right. As long as Michigan

11:18

is... Humiliated. ... in Alabama and then we're

11:20

playing Washington. Right. So it's harder to be a Texas

11:22

Michigan. Right. Because it's a tough time to suffer

11:24

from cheating. Right. On behalf of Texas,

11:27

we would be glad to do that for you.

11:29

Agreed. It would be cool to see a

11:31

big 12. Wait, the big 12? I don't even know if conferences exist

11:33

anymore. Okay. Mikayla,

11:35

do you have any nominees? No. Everything's

11:38

bad for America. Nothing is funny. Okay.

11:40

Well, what was the most cursed piece of news

11:42

from the last year? Oh, God. I

11:45

mean, define cursed. What is your definition? Do

11:47

you mean cursed? Like cursed. I wish I

11:49

never knew. I wish I never knew that

11:51

this was a thing. You

11:55

know, I wish I... I

11:57

want to go back to... When

12:01

deep fakes in AI were a

12:03

concept and not a reality, that

12:06

is to me the most cursed

12:08

thing. It was fun

12:10

when we were like, one day this

12:12

is going to be an issue and

12:14

it's like that day is today. That

12:16

day is about four days ago. That

12:22

to me is that it's

12:24

progressed so much further than

12:26

anybody thought and

12:28

that they had tried

12:30

to fire the CEO but then he was going

12:33

to Santos it and go get more successful

12:36

somewhere else. And so they're

12:38

like, all right, you could come back even though you're going to

12:40

build robots that are going to kill us all. And

12:44

so, yeah. Yeah, I

12:47

mean, yeah, yeah, the AI stuff is kind of

12:49

cursed, I think. And then also,

12:51

like you said, AI generated deep fakes,

12:53

cursed. Like there are a couple of

12:55

stories of female streamers,

12:58

like Twitch streamers who had like deep

13:00

fakes made of them doing sexual things.

13:04

And yeah, I mean, as

13:06

someone who has my faces in a lot of places, I

13:10

don't know what am I going to do?

13:12

You know, a friend of mine who whose

13:14

agency is CAA, not my agency, their

13:18

agency is doing a thing where

13:20

they have a pilot program where

13:22

you can get fully body scanned

13:24

and then have a trademark of

13:27

your being of yourself. So anybody

13:29

who tries to use it is

13:31

violating a trademark and it's

13:34

going to be available to everybody, but it's going to

13:36

be wicked expensive. They're doing it free

13:38

for some of their clients and stuff. You

13:42

know, it's going to be very expensive, but

13:44

also would it be, you know,

13:47

I don't know if it would

13:49

be something that would make you not work

13:52

or get hired because they're like, oh,

13:54

you're expensive because your trademark is too

13:56

expensive. I don't know. Like

13:58

we're entering this whole. crazy realm there.

14:00

Yeah. It kind of sounds like a

14:03

vaccine to me. Like the kind of

14:05

thing that you are gonna want for

14:07

insurance purposes. It's not necessarily fail-proof

14:10

but also like you should get it

14:13

done if you can. Here's my question

14:15

though. If you trademark your body, your

14:17

physical body, if you end up getting

14:20

like violently murdered, can

14:23

you also trademark your death so

14:25

that like a true crime podcast can't

14:27

sell better help ads? Against your family's

14:32

trauma? Because that'd be

14:34

cool. That is beautifully said. I

14:36

thought I was coming for like

14:39

a fun outfit. I

14:41

should have stayed home. Grace,

14:44

let's move on and talk

14:46

about 2023's most annoying person.

14:54

I assume that you have some people in mind.

14:58

Where do I begin? We're talking public figures

15:00

or like the public figure. I mean if

15:02

you want to like blow someone up right

15:04

now then that's fine but only a few

15:06

people are gonna know who you're talking about.

15:08

I mean I just, the first most annoying

15:10

person who comes to mind is the anesthesiologist

15:12

who gave me my epidural who was like

15:14

moaning and groaning. She was so annoyed with

15:16

the fact that she like couldn't get my

15:18

back straight enough when I was in the

15:20

middle of contractions to give me an epidural

15:22

and was like, have you been diagnosed

15:25

with scoliosis in the middle of me having

15:27

the worst contractions of my life? And I'm

15:29

like, A, no, B, if I had been

15:32

I would tell you? I would tell you. And

15:34

anyway, the epidural went fine after

15:37

many minutes of pain but that is

15:39

my 2023 most annoying person of

15:41

the year. Alyssa, do you

15:44

have a most annoying person of 2023? Yes,

15:46

the weekend when he was on the idol. Expound.

15:53

I have never seen like, there

15:56

are so many stories about what

15:58

happened around this show that The

16:00

original director was kicked off and then,

16:02

you know, the weekend wanted to be

16:04

more in charge because he like literally

16:06

wanted to make out with Lily Rose

16:08

Depp and it was just he was

16:10

the grossest most no redeeming qualities just

16:12

a Horrible character and it was like

16:15

in real life. He seemed really into

16:17

who he had played on TV So

16:19

therefore highly annoying uplifting that the show

16:21

got canceled I

16:25

watched every fucking I

16:30

watched like the first one and I think I can't

16:33

I've got a finite amount of years in my life

16:35

I watched it for all of us. Oh

16:37

my god, didn't you also watch all of it

16:39

just like that? You made it all

16:41

the way through. Of course, I think it got in my cultural

16:45

emotional cutting Mikayla

16:49

do you have any good happy moments from

16:51

this year? Oh, I don't get to talk

16:54

about annoying I Was

16:57

really my happy place. Yeah, it was the

17:00

most annoying person. It's really a toss-up between

17:03

there's between like sort

17:05

of a macro group of people

17:08

on on Instagram

17:10

who are between

17:12

the ages of like I wanna say like 19 and 22 and

17:17

they're experts apparently and That's

17:20

fine that's fine that they're experts but

17:22

there's this new intonation that

17:24

has like taken place in like men

17:26

and women between the ages of 19

17:28

and 22 Where

17:31

everybody talks to you like this like you're

17:33

a fucking idiot and they're just gonna

17:36

tell you exactly how it works Everybody

17:38

if you want to know why

17:40

the blah blah blah and it's

17:42

like come some conspiracy with like

17:44

masses Omissions of facts and

17:47

it's just everybody talking to you like you're

17:49

stupid idiot and I'm the smartest person in

17:51

the world and I Can't

17:53

stand it. It's like it started out with people

17:56

doing it legitimately who are just like hey everybody

17:58

if you want to know how how to

18:00

beat the system at the airport, do this. And

18:03

then it became this, everybody

18:05

knows everything about every goddamn

18:07

thing that exists in the entire

18:09

world. And you're such a stupid

18:11

idiot, so please subscribe to me.

18:14

And so that's a toss

18:16

up between that and Kathy on the

18:18

Golden Bachelor, if anybody watched the Golden

18:20

Bachelor. Kathy, who found

18:23

her catchphrase, zip it, and

18:26

can't use it enough. And

18:29

I think Kathy's going to have

18:31

like zip it, cookies coming out soon, zip

18:34

it purses. Oh my

18:36

god. So Kathy, I can't

18:38

wait to play Kathy someday. I'm

18:41

going to play Kathy in the biopic

18:43

of Kathy. Oh my god. Julissa, who is

18:45

the most annoying person in 2023 to you?

18:50

I got one, if you want to have

18:52

a couple minutes in the morning. Elon Musk.

18:54

Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. I

18:57

think that's it. He's an annoying

18:59

person. He loves

19:01

being a villain so much. It's been

19:03

really fun to watch him sort of

19:05

publicly not be

19:08

smart. He was so touted as this genius for

19:10

such a long time and not to sound like

19:13

a hipster. But I thought Elon Musk was a

19:15

big fucking idiot before it was cool. And it's

19:18

nice to see all these people being like,

19:21

I guess maybe he's dumb. Or maybe he's not

19:23

a business genius. Or maybe if you just have

19:25

like billions and billions of dollars, it takes work

19:28

to travel between any like echelons

19:30

of the economy. Like if you're

19:32

handed billions of dollars or millions

19:34

of dollars, it

19:36

takes work to go down just as it

19:38

would take work for someone to go up.

19:41

And like this guy is such an I

19:43

love seeing the Cybertruck being a piece of

19:45

shit. Oh, yeah. Love it. And Aaron just

19:47

earlier, he has now let Alex Jones, Sandy

19:49

Hooks denier, back on acts. Who still owes

19:51

those parents a lot of money. A lot

19:54

of money. He's been moving stuff around so

19:56

he doesn't have to pay the parents a

19:58

lot of money. Twitter slash

20:00

X has become a total cesspool. Sometimes

20:02

check it. Oh my God. Just a

20:05

pool of cesspool. Sespool.

20:08

And he's just like such an idiot. And

20:10

then also remember his rocket blew up. And

20:12

people are like, it's still a success. And

20:14

it's like, no, it's not. Because it didn't

20:17

meet its goal. It's not a success. It

20:20

took off, but I could take

20:22

off. You know? You know? Light a

20:24

Roman candle in my ass and I

20:26

will take off. And

20:29

explode after a few seconds. So

20:32

yeah, it's been really interesting to watch Elon Musk,

20:35

his reputation as a smart person

20:37

go up in flames. And

20:40

his, yeah. And

20:42

just watching him just be annoying and

20:44

people be like, shut up. I think

20:46

it's great. Okay, Julissa, why don't you

20:48

finish off our 2023 awards? What

20:50

would you like to award and to whom?

20:53

Okay, so we're talking about most annoying.

20:55

I don't have the most annoying person,

20:58

but I do have a

21:00

most annoying MLS move. So

21:03

I am a big LAFC fan, right? And

21:09

last season we had this incredible

21:12

player, Chicho Arango. He was

21:14

our number nine, our striker. Like best

21:16

fucking player. Also he's kind of hot.

21:19

And many soccer players. They just

21:22

run around. Daddy Belanga. I mean, if

21:24

you do not know about Denny Belanga,

21:26

who we have nicknamed Daddy Belanga, we

21:28

need to look him up. And like

21:30

your day will be infinitely better. Like

21:32

I'm looking it up right now. Denny

21:34

Belanga, like hottest player. But we're not

21:37

talking about Denny Belanga today. We're talking about Chicho Arango.

21:39

And the fact that LAFC let him go. They

21:41

do not renew his contract. They didn't want to

21:44

pay him. And then we

21:46

got some other Sarriast number nine, another striker who

21:48

doesn't even play. And we just

21:50

lost in the MLS finals this weekend. And

21:52

I couldn't help but think that if we

21:54

had had Chicho Arango on our team, we

21:56

would have repeated because we're the champions from

21:58

last season. We would have repeated. this year

22:00

if only we had had Chi Chua Rango.

22:02

Meanwhile he's in Medellín, you know, living his

22:04

best life because his team was already out

22:06

of the playoffs and I just think

22:08

it's really annoying that LAFC didn't want to pay Chi Chua

22:10

Rango what he was worth and I

22:13

really miss him. I miss him every game. I miss

22:16

him. I wish he could be back and

22:18

LAFC is still wrong for having Chi Chua

22:20

Rango for letting him go and I

22:22

think they should break him back. I don't know how that would

22:24

work but... Well at least the

22:26

Dodgers got, you know, paid.

22:28

At least the Dodgers paid, I don't know, $30

22:31

billion? $700 million? Like Chi

22:33

Chua Rango did not need $700

22:35

million. But

22:40

I get, you know, anyways that's my most annoying because

22:42

I mean I guess that's from last year but

22:45

we're feeling the effects of that move

22:47

totally. You're annoyed now. I'm annoyed. I'm

22:49

annoyed at every game we play and

22:52

I don't see Chi Chua Rango on the field. I'm

22:54

like why is he not on the field? And also

22:56

did you guys look up Denny's long up because he's

22:58

got a good smile. Yeah I

23:01

get it. I love him. I get it. Okay

23:04

so we're gonna wrap up 2023. I'm just

23:06

gonna try to put a bow on it

23:08

right now guys. I think 2023 was the

23:10

year of the implosion. Yes. The Titan sub,

23:13

implosion. Joe

23:15

Jonas and Sophie Turner divorce and the

23:17

story he tried to put out about

23:19

her, implosion. Trump's legal

23:21

woes, implosion, also bad for

23:23

America but funny. And

23:26

we had a her-a-quake. Yeah. We had

23:28

a her-a-quake. Forgot that that was

23:30

his year. We had a her-a-quake. Yeah I

23:32

had to extend a vacation to avoid it. It

23:34

was horrible. No it was it was fine but

23:36

there were all of these things where it was

23:39

like the chickens are coming home to roost and

23:41

things are just imploding. And

23:43

it was it was like I don't

23:46

know it felt like a theme like

23:48

Lizzo's reputation. Like

23:50

she went from being like Miss Congeniality

23:52

of America to being like

23:54

oh she seems like maybe she was

23:56

kind of mean to a lot of

23:58

people. The cryptocurrency thing implosion. in

24:00

this week. Signature, or this year, Signature

24:02

Bank collapsed, First Republic Bank collapsed, Tucker

24:04

Carlson was fired from Fox News after

24:07

a $787.5 million settlement because of their lies

24:12

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24:15

U.S. Women's National Team imploding at the

24:17

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24:19

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24:21

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24:23

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24:25

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24:27

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29:25

2024 predictions though. Grace, let's start

29:27

with you. What do you think is going to happen in 2024?

29:29

Okay, so if 2023 was the year of the implosion, which I

29:31

agree with you

29:33

completely that it was, I think 2024 is

29:35

the year of consolidation. I think we're going

29:38

to see a lot of these major corporate

29:40

organizations merging. Like there's not going to, sorry

29:42

to say it, there aren't going to be

29:44

35 streamers in another year. Not

29:46

if Lena Kahn has anything to do with

29:48

it. The head of the FCC, who

29:50

absolutely hates mergers. So we'll see. It'll be

29:53

fun battle royale. Yes, fun battle royale. I

29:55

really believe that's going to happen. I

29:58

believe also that This

30:00

is an overall trend. I think

30:02

celebrities are gonna start consolidating their

30:04

public images because it's too insane

30:07

And and and and and crazy to put your

30:09

shit out there constantly and to live like life

30:11

like an influencer I think people are gonna be

30:14

reigning it in the big celebrities You know what

30:16

I mean? Like what Beyonce

30:18

does with with like just

30:20

just kind of creating her image in a

30:22

very careful Manner, I think

30:24

is something that a lot more celebrities are gonna be

30:26

doing there has been this pressure To be a public

30:28

figure and to put every element of your life out

30:30

there in the world But it's too

30:32

scary between a I and between cyber

30:34

attacks between like rabid fans it's

30:37

just I think it's getting to a point

30:39

where the fever pitch has Has

30:41

been released and I truly believe that for high-profile

30:43

people and by the way, that's gonna work its

30:45

way down So fewer of like us normal people

30:47

are gonna be using social media in the same

30:50

way, too A lot of this has to do

30:52

with like X for instance Just being a cesspool

30:54

as we've talked about like I don't want to

30:56

post things anymore If it's just gonna be, you

30:58

know read by like a budget assholes

31:01

of bots and asshole bots Mm-hmm

31:03

and people who don't wash their ass. Yeah, yeah, this

31:05

is now a Social platform

31:07

for people who do not who never thought

31:10

to wash their best Okay,

31:16

I think that that's that's that's an interesting

31:18

prediction Alyssa What do you think

31:20

is coming in 2024 you guys my

31:22

prediction is one that I need for my own

31:24

mental health Because it's been a very

31:26

hard year. I need Tom Wamskans

31:28

and Cousin Greg to have a spin-off. Yeah What

31:33

happened to waste our Raiko under

31:35

the reign of Tom and Greg

31:38

I think it's the comedy we could

31:40

all use and so I am hoping

31:42

to manifest my prediction. I Love

31:46

how hopeful that is Sweet

31:48

and pure and good. I'm gonna put that on my

31:50

dream board. I know we all should make green board

31:52

Dream boards are gonna be back in 20 Green

31:56

boards dream catchers. We're all going to

31:58

try to manifest things in a

32:00

way that is culturally sensitive. Okay,

32:03

Julissa, what is your 2024? I

32:06

think 2024 is going to be the

32:08

greatest year ever for everybody. All

32:11

of your dreams will come true. Everything

32:13

you have been working towards will

32:16

come true. Everything you have been

32:18

building and putting the

32:21

grind in for will

32:24

come to fruition in 2024. I

32:27

love that. It's going to be

32:29

a wonderful year. A year full

32:31

of happiness and love and

32:34

lots and lots

32:36

of oat milk lattes. I

32:41

love that. Man. That's lovely. I'm just

32:44

going to sit in that

32:46

for two seconds. I'm

32:49

really trying to believe that. Marinate there.

32:51

As someone who only recently re-upped my

32:53

crooked media hysteria contract, like a cop

32:55

being like, I'll work one last case.

32:58

I'll work one last presidential election,

33:00

guys. I feel like before the

33:02

end of 2024, I'm

33:04

going to lose a limb. That's my, I

33:07

feel like something bad's going to happen. You're just going to chew

33:09

your own hand. I'm going to chew my 127, or 127 hours

33:11

with my foot or

33:16

something like that. Just not for any reason

33:18

besides the fact that I'm a election cover.

33:20

I'm terrified. Okay, Mikayla, what

33:22

do you think is going to happen in three? Three

33:25

big, big, mark them, mark

33:27

me. These are my three big predictions

33:30

and you heard it here first. Big

33:32

shoes are out, small shoes are in.

33:34

Ballet flats coming back. I just have

33:36

a feeling. Here's

33:39

how I know everything that's going to happen

33:41

fashion wise. As soon as I'm on board

33:43

with it, it's done. So

33:46

I have some great, so many great

33:49

pairs of shoes. I have no ballet

33:51

flats, none. And so

33:53

I'm certain those are back.

33:55

Okay, secondly, I think that

33:58

live theater is going to happen. have

34:00

a renaissance. I

34:03

think that I

34:05

feel like there's an energy lately where

34:07

people want to convene in person

34:10

and see

34:12

things that aren't going to be on

34:14

their cell phones. They want to see,

34:17

they want to sit next to somebody in

34:19

a theater and laugh and cry and they

34:22

want to buy tickets and they want to show up and

34:25

they want to be part of

34:27

an experience that is only for

34:29

that moment. I feel

34:32

like that's the new kink is live

34:34

performance. I even

34:38

went to a show, a concert and

34:40

there were less cell phones like people

34:42

filming the concert. So

34:44

I think people are more interested in

34:47

being present with other people right now

34:49

probably because the news is so

34:52

harrowing and so

34:54

awful constantly and

34:56

this brings me into my third prediction

34:59

which is about, it's kind of with you Grace,

35:01

like about social media. I think

35:03

because we are starting to

35:05

see that the algorithm is designed

35:07

in a way to make us anxious

35:10

and fearful and angry

35:13

and stimulated and triggered

35:16

that we're going to sort of balk

35:18

at our phones more and balk at

35:20

social media because the algorithm is actually

35:22

trying to kill us. I think to

35:24

stay off our phones we're going to

35:27

have to like sit across from people

35:29

and look at each other's eyes and

35:31

have conversations again. So I

35:33

think conversations are back, big

35:36

shoes out, small

35:38

shoes and live

35:41

theater. Okay, so here are my 20s, 24 predictions. Some of

35:43

them are hinged and others

35:45

are very unhinged. I

35:48

predict that there's going to be a

35:50

giant volcanic eruption. We have been

35:52

seeing a lot, I know I've gotten obsessed with this and

35:54

it might be the algorithm trying to kill me but I

35:56

have been being fed

35:58

a lot of volcano and

36:00

earthquake content. So there was an evacuation in

36:03

Iceland over the fact that there

36:07

was an eruption that I

36:09

don't know has even happened yet. Mount

36:12

Etna is erupting in Sicily. Again,

36:14

there's been a bunch of seismic

36:17

activity near Mount Vesuvius in the

36:19

other volcano, near Mount Vesuvius. There's

36:22

been a lot of weird seismic activity. I

36:24

just think that we're going to see a

36:26

super volcano or some kind of like giant

36:29

earthquake in 2024. Just

36:31

because it's maybe the aliens aren't

36:33

from space. They're under the underground

36:35

man. They've been here all along.

36:37

They've been here a lot. That was my favorite news

36:40

story of 2023. By the

36:42

way, aliens are real aliens are real.

36:44

It came out on my birthday and

36:46

I went outside and I just like

36:48

looked at the stars and I was

36:50

like, that's fucking crazy. Okay. Okay. Here's

36:53

what I also predict that Gen

36:55

Z, multiple members of Gen Z will

36:57

die, drinking charged lemonade borgues.

36:59

Is that what a borg is? A borg

37:02

is like college kids

37:06

now when they're going to parties, they'll fill

37:08

like an empty out a jug, like a

37:10

gallon jug and fill it with like this

37:12

very alcoholic concoction. And that's

37:14

their drink. That's a borg. They carry it with

37:16

them when they're tailgating, when they go to house

37:19

parties, whatever. Which on one hand is like very,

37:22

I guess it's like epidemiologically sound because you're not

37:24

sharing drinks or drinking out of like a punch

37:26

bowl. Yeah. It's less likely that you're going to

37:28

get roofied by the way, which is I'm kind

37:31

of pro board. Yeah. Yeah.

37:33

Well, do we need to put it in a

37:35

gallon jug? Can we put it in a pint?

37:37

Yeah, maybe. We do it in a smaller, like

37:39

a two pint thing or whatever. Like a 16

37:42

ounce water bottle. Yeah. Yeah. But well, you

37:44

got the handle. B Y O G. Yeah.

37:46

Yeah. So I think that we've got charged

37:48

lemonade. It's still legal. The for loco of

37:50

our time is still legal from Panera bread.

37:52

And I think that somebody is going to

37:54

make a borg with charged lemonade and they're

37:56

going to die. I think that that's. Yeah.

37:59

Okay. Look, kids are stupid always. But

38:01

they're making their own moonshine, I think.

38:03

They're essentially making their own moonshine. I

38:06

think there's gonna be more dating shows and

38:08

reality shows starring old people who are looking

38:10

for love, and fewer reality shows starring religious

38:12

Sundays with like a million kids because I

38:14

think a lot of people are really grossed

38:16

out by that because those people are gross.

38:19

Get ready, Kathy. We get ready coming

38:22

back. Zip it, zip it, Michaela. I

38:25

think that Nathan Fielder will start dating

38:27

some huge star that everyone is gonna

38:30

be like, what? It's gonna be like a

38:32

Sofia Vergara level. Oh my God. Great beauty.

38:34

He's gonna start dating a great beauty, and

38:37

it's gonna make a weird kind of sense. I

38:40

think that Vivek Ramaswamy will drop a racial

38:42

slur into a hot mic and end up

38:44

getting a show on Newsmax as a result

38:46

or a podcast in an attempt to become

38:48

the next provocateur, but nobody will really bite

38:51

because he's very annoying. George and Vivek, is

38:53

it gonna be a little two-hander with George

38:55

Santos? No, see, because here's

38:57

the thing. I think we

38:59

just did a video for

39:01

Vivek Ramaswamy for this fucking guy, and

39:04

I did a deep, deep dive into this man,

39:07

and one of the things that said in one

39:09

of the profiles about him was that, despite the

39:11

fact that he's been trying to make friends in

39:13

conservative circles, he's not had very much luck making

39:16

friends. I don't think he's a very likable, not

39:19

a very likable guy. I think that I've noticed-

39:21

You took an improv class. You

39:23

took a stand-up comedy class. Oh, God. I

39:26

know. I wanted to make jokes about it, and I was

39:28

like, you know the type of

39:30

guy who went to law school and then takes

39:32

a stand-up comedy class? Blech. I

39:34

think Jacob Elordi is the new Robert Pattinson.

39:36

I will not elaborate further. I

39:39

think that we are experiencing

39:41

a backlash to consumerism. I

39:45

think that we're gonna be seeing a lot of things. It's like, oh, here are

39:47

the trends in 2024. We're gonna be wearing this

39:49

color. We're gonna be doing this thing, and I think a lot of

39:51

people are kind of fed up with the pressure

39:53

to consume, and so if there was this

39:56

New York Times thing that was predicting 2024,

39:59

everyone's gonna be wearing this. I'm not going

40:01

out and buying brown clothes. I'm not doing it. I'll

40:03

go thrift them. I'll thrift them if I like

40:05

them, but I'm not going to do it. I think there's a lot

40:07

of people that are kind of tired of just buying

40:09

shit, filling their houses with stuff. I'm

40:12

so tired of stuff. You need to. I hate stuff. And

40:14

I want to throw everything in the house away. Yeah, me too. I

40:17

know. And then like, you go to

40:19

Goodwill and it's like bales and bales of stuff. And

40:21

it's like, I don't want,

40:23

I'm done. I'm done with stuff. So instead of

40:25

having a clothes swap, we should have a clothes

40:27

burn. We

40:30

have some predictions from our Discord

40:32

about what's going to happen in 2024. And

40:35

I'm going to read them to all of you

40:37

right now. So CR, that's Caroline

40:39

Rustin, predicts chunky

40:41

jewelry and color tights will come

40:43

back in style. Ivanka

40:46

Trump will dye her hair brown and

40:50

like over her life. Real morning

40:52

show moves. Free weather things. I

40:54

know. I'm really excited. You know what? I

40:57

am going to, I am going to, I am going to bring

40:59

the colorful tights back.

41:02

Okay. Because I really miss

41:04

them actually. Now that you said that, I realize

41:06

how much I miss them. They were so fun.

41:08

They were so fun. Yeah. Yes.

41:11

I'm going to bring them back. I mean, I'm going

41:13

to bring them back. I'm going to wear them next

41:15

weekend. Okay. Let me know. I

41:17

think I still have a couple pairs. I'm going to have to dust them off. Damn

41:19

it. I just said I didn't want

41:21

to buy stuff. And if I want some of them,

41:23

I know. I guess that's how they feel trends are.

41:26

Like what do people most least likely have in their

41:28

closet? Right. That's the trend. Go buy it. Yeah.

41:31

Carsey M predicts that tights and leggings under

41:33

jean shorts will come back. Wow. Guys

41:36

remember 2012 in New York City? 2010 to 2012. I

41:39

remember when I moved there, I was like, everybody's

41:41

wearing like cutoffs over holy tights.

41:45

Anyway, I thought fine. Bring it back. I

41:48

still got some holy tights. Jeans under dresses are going

41:50

to come back is a prediction by Amanda. Amanda

41:53

J. Wait. Jeans

41:56

under dresses. That was a thing. That was the thing.

41:58

I remember when we were early on. Yeah,

42:00

yeah, yeah, I remember like I feel like Hilary

42:02

Duff was no after I leave not I'm

42:06

not allowing that one. It's like it's

42:08

like a Western version of a sorry I

42:10

would say yeah Yeah, there's like a there

42:13

was like we were wearing long shirts because our jeans

42:15

were so low And then the shirts just kept getting

42:17

longer and it was like oh, I guess now we're

42:19

wearing dresses over jeans Yeah, it sort of was like

42:22

a natural. We didn't go out and say I'm putting

42:24

a dress over these jeans You're just

42:26

like oh my shirts now technically we in there tight

42:29

Yeah, technically a dress. Mm-hmm. Okay,

42:31

Lady Gaga will return to pop

42:33

music is an Amanda J prediction

42:37

Her Amanda J's wish not prediction is I

42:39

wish for an iOS update that allows Siri

42:42

to understand two-step commands Mainly

42:44

shuffle playlist name but start with specific song

42:46

That's I didn't trying to download whatever new

42:49

update thing to my computer and it's like

42:51

I don't have enough space Yeah, and I've

42:53

spent days trying to clean up my computer

42:55

And so I'm like how that I can't

42:58

download it, but then my safari doesn't work.

43:01

I don't know what to do Throw it

43:03

away. Throw it away. Yeah, throw it away. We

43:05

don't need him anymore We're

43:07

done Live theater autumn

43:09

predicts that Steve kornacki's khakis will create

43:12

a market-moving event that will make 2020

43:14

is 90% gap sales Booth

43:17

with a piece of old tackle Are

43:20

we gonna be wearing khakis again I They're

43:23

easy to sit there easy to sit crisscross

43:25

applesauce on the couch if you're wearing khakis

43:27

and versus jeans, but okay Gabby

43:30

predicts white kitchens will officially be a thing

43:32

of the past. Oh Wow That's

43:35

fine. I mean they show dirt so bad. They do. They

43:37

really do. I have a white you too. Yeah Yeah,

43:41

I kind of love it them. We tried

43:43

Nancy Meyers we Uh Marianne

43:47

predicts someone is going to figure out

43:49

how to successfully ban tiktok That's

43:52

I think that's a pretty good prediction And

43:55

then also more of reality dating shows in the

43:57

vein of Golden Bachelor same wavelength Marianne And

44:00

then, let's see, prediction for Vivek Rameswamy when

44:02

he bows out of the primaries. I feel

44:05

like maybe this is in the air. By

44:07

the time this airs, Vivek will have dropped

44:09

out or something. I think he's been angling

44:11

for Trump VP for. Okay,

44:14

here's the thing. Trump is gonna pick for

44:16

his VP a woman who looks like a

44:19

woman who would be cast as a VP in a

44:21

movie. But with

44:23

no other qualifications like Kerry Lake, Kristi

44:26

Noem. Trump would not appoint someone to be

44:28

his VP that didn't look like a Miss

44:30

Universe contestant. Yeah, you're right, you're right. Literally,

44:33

that's him. Or he's

44:35

gonna pick like a- Ivanka Trump. Oh my

44:37

God, she's trying to make her life over.

44:40

Oh my God, she's trying to make her

44:42

life over. That is wild, that is a

44:44

wild prediction if that happens. Has anybody ever

44:46

chosen their child to run with them? I

44:48

don't think so, right? Has anybody

44:50

else made public comments about how

44:52

sexy their child is? Yeah,

44:55

no, I mean, he's an unprecedented guy.

44:58

I think that he'll

45:00

either pick someone who looks like she

45:02

would have been a news presenter or

45:04

like a beauty pageant contestant that has

45:06

very little else going for her. Kerry

45:08

Lake, do you think? Yeah, like a

45:10

Kerry Lake type person. Or he'll pick

45:13

like a war criminal who he pardoned.

45:15

You know, like a real butch, like

45:17

Marines guy who are like, this guy

45:19

is definitely, he's not a safe person.

45:23

Yeah, it's his bouncer. Yeah, yeah,

45:25

yeah. He'll nominate like Dan Scavino,

45:28

or Scavino, Scavino. Dan Scavino, he

45:30

used to be his caddy. And

45:33

now he's like one of his most trusted aides. And

45:35

he just looks like a bulldog. So

45:37

yeah, I mean, we'll see. I don't think he's

45:39

gonna pick Vivek. Cause Vivek isn't butch enough and

45:42

Vivek isn't a hot woman. Do

45:44

you think Trump might win? I

45:47

do do. I know. And I think,

45:49

I mean, there was a whole Atlantic article that,

45:51

or a whole Atlantic issue that you came up

45:53

with. I do not think he'll win. No, I

45:56

don't know what will happen, but

45:58

I don't think it's necessarily easy. you're good,

46:00

I think, but I do not think he will

46:02

win. I hope

46:04

you're right. I hope you're right. There's going to be

46:06

some sort of major consequences. He doesn't win. You

46:08

know, it's not like he'll just go quietly into the

46:11

night. No, yeah. I

46:13

mean, I don't think it's easier, pretty.

46:15

I think it and this is

46:17

an unfortunate thing I was thinking about this morning

46:19

is I

46:22

think that there is legitimate criticism

46:24

of the Biden administration's handling of

46:26

international, like things are happening

46:28

internationally right now, legitimate criticism. And

46:31

I agree with a lot of it. But

46:33

I don't think that American voters

46:36

tend to punish politicians

46:38

for doing things they don't like overseas

46:41

when it's the alternative will impact them

46:43

personally and immediately, even if it's to

46:45

a lesser extent. And by that, I

46:47

mean, like, I think that people

46:49

who are scared of

46:52

a Republican administration that would further

46:54

restrict abortion, for example, we see that abortion

46:56

is a winning issue over and over again.

46:58

I think that voters are more likely to

47:00

vote in favor of abortion access than they

47:02

are to punish Democrats for what's

47:05

happening overseas. And

47:07

that's just because that's how people vote. They're more

47:09

likely to vote for the thing that benefits them

47:11

than avoid the thing that hurts

47:13

them. Yeah. And even if you don't like

47:15

what's happening overseas, what do you reckon a

47:18

Trump administration would do? Exactly. That's the

47:20

part that I think is like, I

47:22

think we were talking about like rational

47:24

people who were kind of making those

47:26

considerations. Yes. But I think the

47:29

reason I think Trump has a chance

47:31

of winning is because most people are

47:33

not thinking like that, right? Like they're

47:35

still just like, they're still just like

47:37

in conspiracy theory world, they're still just

47:39

in, they like Trump because he says

47:41

how it is because he's a businessman,

47:43

he's successful. You know what I mean?

47:45

Like I think, I think the sort

47:47

of like, those are people

47:50

who are going to help Trump either

47:52

get elected or like it's still going to be a really

47:54

close election when it shouldn't be. You

47:57

know what I mean? Like Trump couldn't even be the

47:59

Republican nominee. I also worry that

48:01

the rightful criticisms of the Biden administration are

48:03

going to just compel fewer people especially fewer younger voters

48:05

to get excited to come out at all Right because it's

48:07

a pain in the ass to vote If you live in

48:09

a state that makes it a pain in the ass to

48:12

vote and there are a lot of Republican officials who have

48:14

deliberately tried to make it a pain in the ass to

48:16

vote like it's hard to mail vote by mail You

48:19

have to vote in person. There's specific long hours

48:21

these long lines like I'm sorry grace. I know

48:23

no no I agree I agree with all that

48:25

But I just I don't know I don't see

48:27

young people getting pumped to vote for Biden round

48:30

two unfortunately I mean, I'm not that

48:32

young and I'm not that pumped I

48:34

know I know I know yeah, I mean And

48:37

I don't know how that narrative changes I don't

48:39

know how we get more excited or how we

48:42

galvanize younger and younger voters I don't know because

48:44

I'd like to think get people excited about vote

48:47

for what you want not for what you don't

48:50

want right, but I I just don't know what

48:52

to do because I Don't

48:55

think we survive a Trump administration

48:58

I don't think we survive it so net then

49:00

it's just like really those are my time He

49:02

knows what all the buttons do now like he

49:04

you know what I mean like before he was

49:06

just like a monkey in a cockpit Like hitting

49:08

like random buttons and now he's a monkey in

49:10

the cockpit who knows how to crash the plane

49:12

right and like I'm Yeah,

49:15

I'm worried about that. I'm worried. I think

49:18

that something That bodes

49:20

well for Democrats or bodes well for

49:22

Joe Biden and

49:24

again, I am Definitely worried

49:27

that Trump could win I

49:29

think something that bodes well is

49:32

that there are issues that really rile

49:34

up Democratic voters

49:36

and Republicans can't fucking

49:38

leave them alone like like okay

49:40

what's happening in Texas right now

49:42

like we're recording this like mid-December

49:44

so by the time Everybody

49:47

hears this there's going to be more developments

49:49

in the case But in the last week

49:51

there was a case of a woman who

49:53

was pregnant with a fetus with a fatal

49:56

unsurvivable chromosomal defect

49:59

and And the state of Texas is doing

50:02

everything it can to force her to carry

50:05

that child to term

50:07

in a way that endangers her health,

50:09

her future fertility, and doesn't save anybody's

50:12

life. And they said she doesn't

50:14

meet some criteria to have an

50:16

abortion. Even

50:19

though a judge said that she does. It's

50:22

like Ken Paxton, this

50:24

crime loving AG, who again in 2023 somehow again

50:26

evaded legal punishment

50:30

or like any kind of repercussions whatsoever for

50:32

all of his crime doing. Ken

50:35

Paxton is fighting these battles for what?

50:38

Who is this? Who is this

50:40

for? Like who is this winning over? This is not

50:42

like, I don't know a single conservative and I believe

50:44

it or not, I have like some

50:47

conservative friends, many of

50:49

whom are like very pro-life. I don't know a single

50:51

one that was like, I'm so glad Ken Paxton's doing

50:53

this. This is a fucking

50:55

hill to die on. It's like, so

50:57

I think that Republicans can't resist doing

51:00

that dumb shit. Mike Johnson, speaker of

51:02

the house, sounds like a crazy man

51:04

saying that God told him he's like

51:07

Moses in the House of

51:09

Representatives. Like they

51:11

can't resist doing the things that make Democrats

51:13

be like, whoa, well,

51:16

gotta vote, gotta do it, gonna do it,

51:18

gotta do it. Can't have these people in

51:20

charge. Yeah, no, you have,

51:23

I mean, it's insidious, but also

51:25

like at the end of the

51:28

day, like, hey, I'm from America

51:30

where we elected a criminal. Like

51:33

I'm from America where a guy

51:35

planned, you know, an insurrection

51:38

and now he's back.

51:40

Like that is the

51:42

story of every single

51:45

dictator. So just

51:48

please vote and please don't let

51:50

this guy become our fucking president.

51:52

You know, we had astrologer Chani

51:54

Nicholas on this podcast back in

51:56

October and I adore her. I

51:59

think that even if you think astrology is

52:01

not relevant to you, she gives really good

52:03

advice, just period. She gives really good advice

52:06

and has really good perspective. And she said

52:08

that in 2024, we're going to have to

52:10

look at it as a series of sprints.

52:13

And to like, instead of looking at the year

52:15

as like, okay, we got to get all the

52:17

way to November, like take it in small, manageable

52:19

chunks. I think it's going to be a difficult

52:21

year for a lot of people because of the

52:23

anxiety surrounding the election. But if we take it

52:25

like, okay, we're going to

52:27

get to the Iowa caucuses. This is this is

52:29

mentally what I'm doing. I'm getting to the Iowa

52:31

caucuses and then I'm doing what I

52:33

can do in the next stage. I think thinking

52:35

of it in small pieces is better than being

52:38

like, I got to fucking drag my carcass to

52:40

November. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

52:43

Yeah. This is why I was saying 2024. Just

52:46

a year of dreams. Yeah. Yeah.

52:49

Oh my God. I look back. I

52:52

downloaded my Twitter slash X archives shortly after Elon

52:54

took over because I was like, I think I

52:56

might nuke this thing. And

52:58

one of the things that I did in like the end of 2019

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was do 2020 predictions. And

53:02

one of my 2020 predictions was I'm going to

53:04

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I did. I did. It was

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a monkey paw like, err, err, err,

53:13

err, err. Like now you're going to do it. Anyway,

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think in a world that feels so like incredibly

1:00:51

dark, I'm going to cry. That

1:00:53

was like the most fucking

1:00:55

wonderful. Yes, thank you. I'm

1:00:58

going to try and do something. It'll never be as

1:01:00

nice as what he did, but I just thought that

1:01:02

was like a pretty inspiring way

1:01:05

to end the year. So

1:01:07

thank you, Dr. Quain Stewart. And I

1:01:09

think he's out by you guys out

1:01:11

in California. That's wonderful. Oh, that

1:01:13

is so great. All right. Alyssa's

1:01:15

got a boogie. See you later, Alyssa. Happy

1:01:17

New Year. Happy 2023. All

1:01:19

right. Grace, Grace Parra. You are up. I

1:01:22

have a, I have a petty this week

1:01:24

as, as a new mother, I'm constantly washing

1:01:26

my hands. I'm constantly thinking about bacteria, constantly

1:01:28

thinking about the things my son's already putting

1:01:31

in his mouth, which is everything. So

1:01:34

I go to the grocery store trying to buy

1:01:36

some soap. Okay. I constantly err

1:01:38

on the side of buying antibacterial soap, soap

1:01:41

that's labeled antibacterial. But then

1:01:43

I'm like, wait a second. Isn't all soap

1:01:46

antibacterial at its core? Why

1:01:48

is it that some soap is labeled antibacterial soap

1:01:50

and then a whole bunch of other soaps are

1:01:53

not labeled antibacterial, but isn't the whole point that

1:01:55

you're fighting bacteria? So what's the difference? Maybe

1:01:57

it's going to be solved with a simple Google. I

1:02:00

don't know, but I do know that it angers

1:02:02

me and I don't like it. And I think

1:02:04

that if there's some sort of different types of

1:02:06

bacteria that are being killed by the antibacterial soap,

1:02:09

then we got to know about that. And it

1:02:11

needs to be labeled something other than antibacterial because

1:02:13

to me also is antibacterial and I get really

1:02:15

confused. And am I damaging my son before he

1:02:17

can even speak? I don't know. Wait, so you

1:02:20

don't have an answer to this because now you've

1:02:22

put it in my head. I'm so mad at

1:02:24

you now. I'm so

1:02:26

proud. I hate the answer. All

1:02:29

soaps matter. Now I'm like, oh my God, is

1:02:31

this soap I have at home? Antibacterial?

1:02:34

Wait a minute. I need

1:02:36

to go buy a different soap on my way

1:02:38

home. So here's what I learned.

1:02:40

I haven't specifically addressed

1:02:43

that question myself, but I learned that the way

1:02:45

that soap gets bacteria off your

1:02:47

hands is you have to use hot water and

1:02:49

the bacteria gets trapped in the soap bubbles. The

1:02:52

hot water and the soap bubbles trap the bacteria

1:02:54

and then you rinse it down the sink. That's

1:02:56

why you have to wash for a while because

1:02:58

it's like you're not killing the bacteria. You're just

1:03:00

removing them from you by trapping them in there.

1:03:02

You're like slopping it off. You're like also removed.

1:03:05

Right. So that's why if you just

1:03:07

go like this real quick, you're not really doing

1:03:10

anything. It's why you've got to wash

1:03:12

for a long time. And that's why

1:03:14

if you've got old haggard hands like

1:03:16

me, it means that you've washed your

1:03:18

hands. Me too. I

1:03:21

know. I wish I would have taken better

1:03:23

care of the more little dainty glove. Oh

1:03:25

yeah. It's a little negative. Antibacterial, antibacterial. So,

1:03:27

right? Right. Yeah. So,

1:03:30

it's just dirt. We're just like washing our hands in a

1:03:32

litter box. I

1:03:35

started going like this and for listeners,

1:03:37

I'm like using the back of my hands on my face

1:03:40

after I do my night routine, like my

1:03:42

face routine. And I put a little bit

1:03:44

of everything I've put on my face on

1:03:46

my hands. Smart. Because I'm like

1:03:48

you can't have like a face that looks like

1:03:51

this and then have like you know wrinkly hands.

1:03:53

Yeah. And I'm like I gotta

1:03:55

take care of my hands because if somebody ever looked at my

1:03:57

hands they would know I'm 40. Yeah. at

1:04:00

my face they don't know that. I've

1:04:03

started to put a little cream on my

1:04:05

hand. Is there hand Botox? Because I feel

1:04:07

like that could be a 2020 floor. Oh

1:04:09

my god. They do have that. They do

1:04:11

have hand rejuvenation. Yes. They

1:04:14

do have that. It's a real thing. What? What?

1:04:16

What? What? Yeah.

1:04:18

Okay. So long story short, I used

1:04:20

to go get Botox at this place

1:04:22

in Beverly Hills where Courtney Cox also

1:04:24

used to get her. Oh. And they

1:04:26

had a hand rejuvenation package that you

1:04:28

could buy. Yeah. I think it's like injections

1:04:30

and like a facial for your hands or whatever.

1:04:33

But yeah, anything that you want to look younger,

1:04:35

someone's going to charge you money and convince you

1:04:37

they can do it for you. Okay. That's the

1:04:39

most part. They also have neck rejuvenation, which is,

1:04:41

I'm not doing that. Okay.

1:04:44

I've got a, I feel petty

1:04:46

about this, but I also think it

1:04:48

could evolve into a sanny. So

1:04:50

there's like, I don't know, this is tedious. I'm not going to

1:04:52

name check any of these brands because like, fuck them. But

1:04:55

there's a brand of beer that was supposed

1:04:57

to be like an anti-woke beer that

1:05:00

put, I know it's an anti-woke beer.

1:05:02

Okay. Drinking is in and of itself

1:05:04

anti-woke. It is poison. You're putting poison

1:05:06

into your body. So like, there's no

1:05:08

political ideology behind alcohol consumption or whatever.

1:05:10

But anyway, it's an anti-woke beer. I

1:05:13

think in response to the whole Bud

1:05:15

Light fracas from earlier this

1:05:17

year, when people were like shooting their cases

1:05:19

of Bud Light or whatever dumb shit they

1:05:21

were doing. I don't know. I don't, even

1:05:24

when I was drinking, I was not drinking Bud Light because

1:05:26

it tastes like somebody already drank it and peed

1:05:28

into a hit. But

1:05:30

there is a, this woke

1:05:32

or this anti-woke beer company put

1:05:35

out a calendar that it is

1:05:37

offensively calling the real women of

1:05:39

America calendar featuring women who I

1:05:41

guess are chromosomely and to their

1:05:44

definition, biologically female. And that

1:05:46

is again, in response to the

1:05:48

fact that Bud Light had a

1:05:51

trans woman do a

1:05:53

couple of social media posts for them. They're

1:05:55

just absolutely losing their marbles. But

1:05:57

here's the thing. I just want to point out. out

1:06:00

that the people that are like really

1:06:02

into like real women and using the

1:06:04

term oh real real women real women

1:06:06

are completely grossed out by

1:06:09

the biological experience associated

1:06:11

with having 2x chromosomes of a vagina

1:06:13

and a uterus. They don't want to,

1:06:16

those are the people that are least

1:06:18

likely to be able to label a

1:06:20

diagram of the female reproductive system you

1:06:22

know. Explain, oh you love you love

1:06:25

real women so much? Okay,

1:06:27

explain how menstruation works. Why is the

1:06:29

inside of my underwear brown on the

1:06:31

last couple days? Why is that, can

1:06:33

you explain why that's a trivia question?

1:06:35

It's because it's old blood you know

1:06:37

there you go. You know

1:06:39

the cervix, what does it do? How thick is

1:06:42

it? How thin does it get? How much of

1:06:44

face does it get in order for a baby

1:06:46

to get out of it? How open does it?

1:06:48

Can you show me 10 centimeters with your hand?

1:06:50

How big of a wound does the placenta

1:06:54

leave in the inside of the

1:06:56

the uterus after birth?

1:06:59

Okay, you love real women so much

1:07:01

you love real women so much? We

1:07:03

grow an organ that's not even ours.

1:07:05

That's not even ours. It doesn't even

1:07:07

have our, it has like the baby's

1:07:09

DNA. It's not even, it's an alien

1:07:11

organ that like okay cool what's end

1:07:13

of me? Guys I grew on accessory

1:07:15

placenta. Did you know that? Oh

1:07:17

my god. It's like a second placenta.

1:07:19

Yes it's like a little handbag for

1:07:22

the placenta. Oh

1:07:24

my god. What?

1:07:26

They're insane. That is

1:07:29

ridiculous. My doula

1:07:31

held mine up and was like look at it like

1:07:34

she was presenting me with a bottle of wine. And

1:07:38

I was like whoa that's really

1:07:40

gross. Yeah, you love real women so

1:07:42

much. How does the placenta look? Honestly,

1:07:44

can I say something about placenta? This

1:07:48

is weird. I've never had kids but I

1:07:50

watched the special on placenta and

1:07:52

I had this overwhelming urge to

1:07:54

eat it. Wow. And I am

1:07:56

iron poor. I am

1:07:59

anemic. And I think it's very

1:08:01

rich in iron and nutrients. And, but

1:08:03

I've always thought like frying up a

1:08:07

placenta would be delicious.

1:08:10

I know, the same. In the birth community. I'm

1:08:13

a weirdo. No, you're not weird. You actually

1:08:15

would probably get along with my doula. In

1:08:17

the birth community, that's like a common, they

1:08:19

say like animals in the wild when they

1:08:22

give birth usually eat the placenta. And we're

1:08:24

like one of the only mammals that doesn't

1:08:26

eat the placenta after birth. So you're not

1:08:28

that weird. That's not like a Domoresk compulsion.

1:08:30

That's like kind of normal. It

1:08:33

just looks so like delicious.

1:08:35

Meaty. Yeah. It

1:08:38

looks like that cured ham. Yeah.

1:08:44

What is cured? Salami. That's like salami. It's a ham

1:08:47

and then you cured it. It

1:08:49

looks like veiny salam. Like carne

1:08:51

asada. A big

1:08:53

like record size, like a playing,

1:08:56

music record size, veiny. It looks

1:08:58

like something you could make go

1:09:00

really come out. Okay. Yeah. You

1:09:03

could, yeah, it's pretty veiny. It's very vascular. I'm

1:09:05

out. No veiny. Here's the

1:09:07

thing. This conversation would

1:09:10

make Mike Pence faint. And

1:09:12

those are the people that are the most

1:09:14

like real women, real women, real women. Like

1:09:16

what the fuck are you talking about? What

1:09:18

the fuck are you talking about? Okay, what

1:09:20

is perimenopause? You love

1:09:22

real women. What's perimenopause? What's

1:09:24

menarche? You know, like what's

1:09:27

the hymen? What about the nine

1:09:29

year fart when you take your

1:09:31

spanks off? I

1:09:37

mean, it's all of these people who claim

1:09:39

they want real women, just want women

1:09:42

who are bloodless, painless,

1:09:45

powerless, hairless, silent,

1:09:51

stretched out on a calendar for them. And that's

1:09:53

not even a real organism. That's just

1:09:55

a fucking fantasy. And like,

1:09:59

you're gross. Your people are gross. And

1:10:01

honestly, if you're really interested, if these people

1:10:03

are really interested in real women, I can

1:10:05

go ahead and share tips on my little

1:10:08

postpartum bathroom caddy and all of the steps

1:10:10

I had to take to clean my stitches

1:10:12

out and stuff. Because you love real women.

1:10:14

You know, they love real women. They love

1:10:18

real stitches and all. Women.

1:10:21

Yeah, fuck, fuck these people. I hate

1:10:23

them so much. I just want

1:10:25

to gross them out. And the cool thing is, as

1:10:28

somebody who has menstruated and has given

1:10:30

birth, I have all of this information that is

1:10:32

so gross to them. And I

1:10:34

think that other people listening who have

1:10:36

similar information should willingly and

1:10:39

aggressively share it with these people.

1:10:41

They love real women. Real

1:10:43

women. Real women. Let's

1:10:46

all tweet pictures

1:10:48

of our placenta as two magpens. Oh

1:10:51

my god. This

1:10:54

is a risky admission, but this is our

1:10:56

end of the year show. And

1:10:58

this is the end of the show, the end of the

1:11:01

year show. So I feel like only the

1:11:03

real ones are listening right now. But I

1:11:05

got my placenta encapsulated. You did. Amazing.

1:11:08

And I took them. And

1:11:10

I don't know if it made a difference whatsoever.

1:11:14

You probably have very strong blood. Yeah. I

1:11:16

don't know. How many pills did it come in? I don't know what

1:11:18

to do with it. It was like

1:11:20

a little, like the size of like a medium

1:11:23

size ibuprofen bottle.

1:11:25

Wow. I would say maybe

1:11:27

like 50 or 60 pills. That's a good

1:11:29

amount. I would get it put into pills,

1:11:31

Jelissa, because you know if your power goes

1:11:34

out and you're like you have to call

1:11:36

the electric company and tell them your placenta

1:11:38

is defrosting. I've got to get that.

1:11:41

I'm going to plant it. That was actually my

1:11:43

mind. That's lovely. I'm going

1:11:45

to plant it with like a fruit tree. Ooh.

1:11:48

I'm like kissing. It's like life

1:11:50

giving. It's like a green burial. That's great. That's

1:11:52

my plan. But I just haven't gotten around to

1:11:54

it. All right, Jelissa, what are you feeling? Okay.

1:11:57

So this is Sammy Petty. in

1:12:00

one. Erin, I text you about this. I asked

1:12:02

you to get read that

1:12:04

Vox article about how

1:12:08

million a woman dread motherhood or what

1:12:10

it cost million a woman to dread

1:12:12

motherhood. And you know I read the whole

1:12:14

art. First of all it took me three days to

1:12:17

get through this article. Which is another

1:12:19

reason to dread motherhood. Exactly. Because of

1:12:22

motherhood. And you know at

1:12:24

various points of this article I found

1:12:26

myself feeling very vindicated,

1:12:28

feeling very seen by

1:12:31

the difficulties that the author,

1:12:33

I forgot I don't remember her name,

1:12:35

but the author points

1:12:37

to as the difficulties of motherhood.

1:12:40

And then other times I felt

1:12:42

very annoyed by this sort of

1:12:44

insinuation that we

1:12:47

should have better messaging around motherhood

1:12:50

so that other women want to be

1:12:52

mothers. That's kind of how

1:12:54

I took this article that it

1:12:56

was like we need, that conservative

1:12:59

women sort of have it down and the

1:13:01

messaging of family values and how good it

1:13:03

is to be a mother. But that progressive

1:13:05

women we have to do a better job

1:13:07

on like selling motherhood or like we have

1:13:09

to have better messaging around it. And

1:13:12

I found that very annoying because it is

1:13:15

fucking hard. I just felt like saying to

1:13:17

this author like I hate to break it

1:13:19

to you but everything you've been told that

1:13:21

is making you dread motherhood is

1:13:23

for real. And if you become a

1:13:25

mother you are going

1:13:27

to experience some of these things and

1:13:30

it's just a fact of

1:13:32

life. And could motherhood be made easier

1:13:34

by changes in policy? Ask the

1:13:37

fucking lutely. Like if I didn't have to

1:13:39

worry about how am I gonna make money?

1:13:42

For sure I could take a year off

1:13:44

and just be with my child who I

1:13:46

love spending time with when I'm not also

1:13:48

thinking oh shit I should be writing or

1:13:51

you know or like this

1:13:53

morning like coming to the studio and now I'm

1:13:55

like shit my nanny called in

1:13:57

sick on the one day that I'm not

1:13:59

home. and my husband has to go to work, right?

1:14:02

So now he's gonna be late to work

1:14:04

and whatever. So yes, there

1:14:06

are policy changes we can make, like,

1:14:08

you know, parental leave and

1:14:12

paying women more money throughout their career.

1:14:14

So we are able to save more

1:14:16

money, like having better healthcare, all of

1:14:18

that. Yes, yes, yes. But I'm sorry,

1:14:20

it is not messaging that needs to

1:14:22

change. If anything, I feel like we

1:14:25

need to tell women more about

1:14:27

the difficulties of motherhood, because I

1:14:30

felt like I was not prepared. Granted, nothing

1:14:32

could prepare you for motherhood, like nothing, nothing,

1:14:34

nothing. Like none of the books that I

1:14:36

read, none of the things my friends told

1:14:38

me when people said like, you won't sleep.

1:14:40

I didn't realize what it actually meant to

1:14:42

not sleep. My God, Melissa, I thought the

1:14:44

exact same way. Yeah, and like not only

1:14:46

you're not sleeping, like I am, my

1:14:49

body is getting drained every time I'm feeding this

1:14:51

child. So like I am sleepless and I am

1:14:53

depleted of all of my nutrients. So like I

1:14:55

never understood what that was and I don't think

1:14:57

you can understand it until you actually go through

1:14:59

it. So like I actually think- But

1:15:02

I actually think to deprive us of that information.

1:15:04

Yes, but I actually think when, I actually think,

1:15:06

I actually think, you know, I actually think we

1:15:08

need to tell more women about

1:15:10

how difficult it is, because

1:15:12

I do feel like I would have gone into

1:15:14

it with different expectations

1:15:16

that may have eased some of

1:15:19

my experience in the early days

1:15:22

and weeks of motherhood. Well, and then the good

1:15:24

stuff is like when you say the, I mean,

1:15:27

for me, I don't know if I'm just like

1:15:29

a woo woo, but when you say the good

1:15:31

stuff out loud, people are like kind of give

1:15:33

you the side eye and are like, you're crazy.

1:15:35

So the good stuff is like, you feel so

1:15:38

powerful. Oh yeah. The power that you have

1:15:40

to create, like I am a

1:15:42

portal through which life and death

1:15:44

pass. And you

1:15:46

feel, it's like, and the bond that

1:15:48

you have with your child is completely,

1:15:51

it is different than anything anybody else can

1:15:53

have. And like, it is

1:15:56

so special and so incredible. And,

1:15:58

but it's hard to even articulate. because we

1:16:00

don't have like the word. Yeah. And

1:16:03

it's like, yes. I

1:16:05

thought, like, I didn't want

1:16:08

to have an epidural. I didn't have

1:16:10

an epidural. I gave birth to this

1:16:12

child without an epidural. Yes, I felt

1:16:14

fucking like, man, I am a fucking

1:16:16

warrior. Yeah. You know, like, I fucking

1:16:18

took that pain. And like, bam,

1:16:20

I did it. You know, three hours late. Granted,

1:16:23

my labor was only three hours. Three hours. Boom.

1:16:25

Just out. You know? And

1:16:27

so like, yes, all of that. And

1:16:30

also, it's been

1:16:32

really difficult. It's really hard. And to your point, like,

1:16:34

there are moments where I just feel like, oh my

1:16:36

god, like, this is everything I ever dreamed of. You

1:16:38

know, like, Sunday morning, my husband and I were laying

1:16:40

in our bed with like our baby. She was like

1:16:42

rolling around. She was like, she's starting to crawl. And

1:16:45

she was laughing. And she was like making little bubbles.

1:16:47

Like, oh god. And we just thought it was like

1:16:49

the cute. And there was a moment where I was

1:16:51

like, this. Like, this

1:16:53

is what I imagined it would be.

1:16:56

You know, like, this little family that

1:16:58

we're building, it's beautiful. And like, there

1:17:00

are so many beautiful things about it.

1:17:02

And also, it's really hard. Like, even

1:17:04

going to a restaurant, my friend and

1:17:07

I try to go to brunch. And

1:17:09

these like hostesses at the restaurant,

1:17:12

we're looking at us like so annoyed that they had

1:17:14

to find a table for us that could also fit

1:17:16

our stroller. You got to take that. And I'm like,

1:17:18

children are a part of society, guys. Children are a

1:17:20

part of society. And then you see things like,

1:17:22

oh, we should have planes without kids. Like, I

1:17:24

was on this plane. This woman gave me the

1:17:27

dirtiest look because my baby was crying. I'm like,

1:17:29

you think I want my baby to cry? Like,

1:17:31

no, I feel terrible for my baby because she

1:17:33

wants to sleep and she can't. So I gave

1:17:36

that woman an ugly look right back. And if

1:17:38

you know me, you know. What are you doing

1:17:40

on a plane without headphones anyway? Yeah, but my

1:17:42

husband said, you know what? It's 2023. And

1:17:45

if you do not have noise canceling headphones, that

1:17:48

is on you. Yes. Not on me and my baby.

1:17:50

And if you know me, I can give a very,

1:17:53

very strong ugly look. Oh

1:17:56

my God. And

1:17:58

so this article both made me. feel

1:18:01

vindicated because I'm like, yes, I feel all these things.

1:18:03

And also I felt really annoyed throughout reading there because

1:18:05

I was like, girlfriend, if you're trying to convince yourself,

1:18:08

you need to have kids. Like

1:18:10

you should, I had to convince myself, but

1:18:12

also know that the things people are telling

1:18:14

you are real. Yeah, that's I completely agree.

1:18:17

I kind of am over in 2024 articles

1:18:20

about having children written by people who don't have

1:18:22

children. And no offense

1:18:25

to people who don't have children. I just think

1:18:27

that like, it's sort of analogous to like, if

1:18:29

you have children, you know what it's like to

1:18:31

not have children. And if you don't have children,

1:18:34

you don't know what it's like to have children.

1:18:36

And so I think that perspective is valuable. I

1:18:38

thought the Vox piece was very nuanced and like

1:18:40

the best version of that, like somebody who was

1:18:42

writing about an experience that they haven't had with

1:18:46

a sense of like honesty and awareness of

1:18:48

how much what where their limitations. So like,

1:18:50

I thought it was good. Definitely. Yeah, I

1:18:52

didn't hate it. It's just, yeah,

1:18:54

it's just sort of like, I

1:18:57

just kind of don't really need, I don't

1:19:00

know how valuable a perspective on an

1:19:02

experience that doesn't include the experience itself

1:19:04

is, you know, like I've never played

1:19:06

football, and I'm not writing articles about

1:19:09

like how to play football, you know

1:19:11

what I mean? Like, or, anyway, that's

1:19:13

that was just a that was a bad first pitch. All

1:19:16

right, we could do an entire show on this. And

1:19:19

we should, by the way, I love that idea.

1:19:21

Or we should all just get together and,

1:19:23

you know, have a have a we should

1:19:25

do that first. Yes,

1:19:27

go ahead and do that anti woke beer

1:19:30

together. Oh,

1:19:33

real women, real women is

1:19:35

so stupid. Like, what is

1:19:37

it even? Anyway, Michaela.

1:19:40

Yeah. Oh, boy, this is

1:19:42

gonna have so trite and stupid. Yeah,

1:19:44

but it's called a field. Yeah, I

1:19:46

know. But but I just mean after

1:19:48

this beautiful poetic, you know, delightful

1:19:51

experience of motherhood and

1:19:53

then and lamentation. And now here

1:19:55

I am, like, so I'm

1:19:57

reading this book about decluttering. Tell

1:20:00

me about it. I need that. It's

1:20:03

called it. It's a book that somebody gave

1:20:06

me a long time ago and I it just

1:20:08

resurfaced in my

1:20:10

house and I just started reading it

1:20:13

and I was like this is brilliant.

1:20:15

It's decluttering for artistic people for creative

1:20:17

people. It's specifically

1:20:19

decluttering for creative people and I'm enjoying

1:20:22

reading it so much. I haven't lifted

1:20:24

a finger and decluttered a single thing

1:20:27

but I love it's like do you

1:20:29

ever lay in bed and watch people

1:20:31

like do stretches that like are meant to take

1:20:33

the pain away from your back and you never

1:20:36

actually do them but you watch somebody like put

1:20:38

themselves in a pretzel and you're like God that

1:20:40

must feel really good but you

1:20:42

never actually do it but you never

1:20:44

actually get yourself into that position and

1:20:47

actually carry your own back. So that's

1:20:49

what I'm doing with this book but

1:20:52

it's very relaxing to me because I'm

1:20:54

also having this feeling of wanting to

1:20:56

purge and get rid of things and

1:20:58

simplify. It's

1:21:01

called A New Order and it's written by a woman

1:21:04

named Faye Wolf who is a actress and a

1:21:07

musician and she

1:21:09

also started a business as you

1:21:11

know we have these side hustles

1:21:13

and started a business to declutter

1:21:16

people's homes and realized that it's a very

1:21:19

different kind of beast when you have like

1:21:21

an ADHD creative person trying to get rid

1:21:23

of things because you have things like well

1:21:26

these are ideas I wrote on a notepad

1:21:28

you know however many years ago. It's very

1:21:30

different than you know doilies

1:21:33

right? So

1:21:36

I've just been reading this and it's so helpful

1:21:41

and gratifying to see that there one day

1:21:44

when I stopped reading the book and I

1:21:46

actually do the things that I meant to

1:21:48

do that I could

1:21:50

have someone

1:21:52

who speaks to my you

1:21:54

know neurodivergent artistic

1:21:57

side and be able to

1:22:00

to get out from under all

1:22:02

my crap that I'm weirdly

1:22:04

way too attached to that I'm never

1:22:06

going to need. You know?

1:22:08

Yeah. Anyway, we have

1:22:10

a credenza that is half full of like

1:22:12

screeners and screenplays sent in like the little

1:22:15

FYI. Oh, God, I know. But

1:22:17

what if I want to read the pilot

1:22:20

for Band of Brothers? You can call your

1:22:22

agent. You can go send me the pilot

1:22:24

for the Band of Brothers. WGA library. Yeah,

1:22:27

I know. I know. But no,

1:22:29

I get it. I think that's a very specific

1:22:31

thing. And also, I think everybody here

1:22:33

probably has a pile of notebooks with

1:22:35

like eight pages written in

1:22:37

them. And they're like ideas. And like, maybe you were

1:22:39

working on an idea, and then you forgot that notebook

1:22:41

you were using. So you use a

1:22:43

different notebook. And then you went back to that other

1:22:45

note. Oh, my God, that's what we need is we

1:22:47

need to scan. We need like a scanner

1:22:50

for our stupid ideas, so

1:22:53

that they're all digital and on the cloud somewhere and

1:22:55

you can get rid of like an AI writers assistant,

1:22:57

but just for one person. Yeah.

1:23:00

Oh, Jesus. It's a brilliant idea. Now

1:23:02

my brain just broke. I'm sorry. On

1:23:05

that note, that is all the time we

1:23:07

have for this week's end of the year

1:23:10

final episode of 2023 of Hysteria. I'm

1:23:13

so glad you could join us. Grace, thank you

1:23:15

so much for joining me remotely

1:23:17

while pumping. Julissa, thank you for

1:23:19

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1:23:21

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1:23:24

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