308 episodes
Hysteria Crooked Media
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- Society & Culture
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4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
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Political commentator and comedy writer Erin Ryan and former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Alyssa Mastromonaco are joined by a bicoastal squad of funny, opinionated women to talk through everything from reproductive rights to romcoms. They break down the political news of the week, plus the topics, trends, and cultural stories that affect women’s lives.
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S.E. Cupp on the RNC, Conservatives and Hilaria Baldwin
S. E. Cupp (CNN contributor, Jeopardy winner) joins Alyssa Mastromonaco to discuss MAGA world’s latest: the mess of the Republican National Convention, Trump picking JD Vance as his VP, and the Pennsylvania assassination attempt. Then, they cool off with Sani-Petty. Finally, Alyssa interviews four fantastic state-level candidates — Mai Xiong of Michigan, Anna Payne of Pennsylvania, Sue Altman of New Jersey, and Averie Bishop of Texas — who offer us a glimmer of hope, talking about their campaigns. If they’re on your ballots, listen up!!
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Respect VP Kamala Harris w. Errin Haines & Dr. Karen Tang
Errin Haines of The 19th is back, co-hosting with Alyssa and diving into the recent media coverage of Vice President Kamala Harris and Trump trying to walk back his support of Project 2025 in news. Then, Dr. Karen Tang joins to discuss her book It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (but Were Never Told) — which we OBVIOUSLY had to cover on the pod. Finally, Sani-Petty (Essence Fest and the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders are everything).
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Turning Debate Anxiety Into Action w. Tre’vell Anderson
Tre’vell Anderson of Crooked’s What A Day podcast co-hosts with Alyssa Mastromonaco this week! They dive into the 2nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade being overturned, the first Trump v. Biden presidential debate, and the status of the Supreme Court’s rulings in news. Then, Hysteria producer Fiona Pestana joins to discuss the current state of anti-trans legislation — and what we can do about it. Finally, we’re feeling very sane in Sani-Petty.
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Our Dystopian Project 2025 Future w. Errin Haines & Deesha Dyer
Errin Haines, editor-at-large for The 19th, joins Alyssa to talk the latest abortion news, the horrors of a possible second Trump presidency, some hope for those with medical debt, and more. Then, Deesha Dyer talks about her new book Undiplomatic: How My Attitude Created the Best Kind of Trouble. To close, Errin and Alyssa get Petty.
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Trump’s Vice Presidential Roulette w. Samantha Bee
Samantha Bee joins Alyssa Mastromonaco to break down Trump’s Vice Presidential candidates, the latest in abortion news, the Supreme Court financial disclosures and Alex Jones liquidating his assets from Infowars. Plus Alyssa and Sam answer listener questions!
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Feckless Republican Behavior w. Samantha Bee
Samantha Bee joins Alyssa to guest host while Erin is out on maternity leave! They dish about Trump’s guilty verdict, Republican buffoonery, and the latest abortion news ahead of the 2-year anniversary of Roe being overturned. Then, Rep. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan discusses working for the CIA, Congresspeople who aren’t “in it for the right reasons,” and her 2024 Senate race. Finally, Sani-Petty (what is Pride Month without Dolly Parton?).
Customer Reviews
"Saltier than Mr. Peanut's jock strap"*
Happy 300 episodes!! I am a Day 1 and this podcast has been with me through 10 moves, 2 job changes, and several road trips over the last 6 years. Today Michaela shouted out Erin's nicknames for terrible people, which are great, but so are her allusions, similes, and metaphors. The whole crew is awesome and I thank them for supplying most of my news😜
* if I am remembering correctly, this is from summer of 2020. I heard it when I was pulling in to my garage parking space. Laughed out loud
A better recommendation:
Save yourself some time (and brain cells) and listen to The Fifth Column instead. Hysteria is flat-out not good. I have listened for years and it just continues to decline in quality.
Hateful and embarrassing
This is a long one, because I have listened for two years and I think it’s important to hold people accountable. I’ve had some concerns for a while now that Hysteria was just the liberal version of the hateful conservative shows that I think are unhealthy to listen to. My final straw happened to be the May 23rd ep. Erin confidently claims that the Bible supports blaming women, which is just academically incorrect. (just because a person in a story is punished does not mean the narrative is supporting that result; sometimes stories are showing injustice.) There is an entire academic field of study on this topic, if you really cared what any of those stories meant when they were written, or if you really wanted to know what actual Christians think of those stories. Beyond this fundamental lack of knowledge, the show makes disgusting generalizations about Christians, by assuming that the extremists are the norm or majority. Also, all the examples of scripture given are the ones shared with J*****m, so all the trash talk would also apply to them, whether you meant it or not. And if your response to that is, “No, they interpret it differently”, that is exactly my point. It can be, and is, interpreted and used differently by different groups. Acting like the right wing evangelicals are the baseline of the religion is factually incorrect and prejudiced. Having a podcast with such a large audience means you have a responsibility to, at the bare minimum, not be an a-hole because that inspires others to be same way. (Censored J because my original review was never posted. I think apple is indiscriminately filtering that and related words.)