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Yeah, let's listen to this excerpt from the Secretary of State's appearance before a congressional committee Wednesday to hear the title. Aast I have one last question for you mister Secretary, who won the twenty twenty presidential election? I'm not here to answer quest. We're talking about twenty. This is a foreign affairs Commission. Okay, G. You can't answer the question. even though we all know I don't because the seecretary of state I do not participate in domestic This is not about domestic political issues This is about our democracy. You're asking me to pine just like I don't do campaigns. seems like I don't because as a secretary of state, we're not supposed to That's been the long tradition of the department. And you should know that if you've been on this committee for any period of time mister Secretary, it seems like you have an issue admitting facts. You can't say that the president lost the twenty twenty election, just like you won't admit President Trump is losing this reckless war of choice. And just like you couldn't admit that the shoes the president bought you were too big. You clearly don't know what winning means. and not because the facts are unclear to you, it's because telling the truth would cost you your job And the American people are entitled to a secretary of state who tells them the truth even when the president doesn't want to hear it. And my constituents, our service members deserve better. Mr. Chairman, I yield back I don't know what shoe she's talking about. What what is she talking about Representative Berchet, you were recognized. Thank, mister. The Floorimes fit fine. Floorimes fit fine. You know, a good follow up to her would have been Well, wait, so you don't campaign How do you feel about Pete Hagseth going down to Tennessee Kentucky. justust saying. She had that she had that line in her pocket, but it was well delivered. It was it was. She was ready for it, but she made him big mad. Today we get into the results from the California primary, at least what we know so far. We round up Trump's latest slew of flops and discuss why we're tired of men with checkered pasts running for office like nobody's gonna find out. Whoh. Th then Alyssa sits down with actress Sapita Mawafi about her role in the pit, her childhood as an Iranian refugee, and her latest role in the play Newborn, then of course, Sanny Petty You're listening to hysteria, the podcast that is confused but not surprised about the news of Ivanka Trump's private Mediterranean island. I mean, what on earth? On a podcast appearance with one of those podcasts that I'm like, I think this is just for bots. Yeah, yeah, yeah,. She kind of sat in she looks. She's always shot like I thought she looked AI. Like well, she shot, you know, like those wedding photographers that just go way way too light with the contrast. Totally. whereere everything just looks washed out or like Lucile Bleuth when she had Joob make her a driver's license picture that made her look young Right. She's just totally like washed out and robotic and kind of sits there looking sad then she's talking about some private island where they're going to build a fabulous resort that they just found in the Mediterranean when they were b randomly just found. Yeah. I don't know if it's related to protests that are happening currently inrmenia because apparently Jared Kushner wants to develop some un Like undisturbed wetlands, like some of the last undisturbed wetlands in the Mediterranean into a luxury resort. Such a villain. He's such a villain. But you know what I live close to Glendale, California, which is It's like the U.S capital of Armenia. Like there's so many. I have so many like I live around so many Armenans and I'm like encountering Armenian culture, all the like there's districts where all the signs are in Armenian, you know,. And one thing I would not do off Armenia It's like one that's the number one rule. Aren't the Kardashians Am? They are, yes, ye, yes, yes. they are Armenian. They move to Calabasas, which is not. I mean, Glendale is like just full on Armenian. And yeah. Armenia. I would not And there's a real little Armenia in LA proper too. so it's But yeah, I would not make them. I would not do that Jared, that's a do not do Don't do it. Jared, you have your hands in so many other things. Just say no Yeah, I this is this is not going to go well for you. I just I'm just going to say that like'm I don't interrupt your enemy while they're making a mistake, but like, Come on guy. this is silly. Also, talk about making a mistake. It's like Este stuff quiets down for a minute in a bunk is like we're buying an island. We're going get island. Private island. No No. No bad connotations with. What a relatable story too. Like I was We werere just buying an island. We were on one of our friends yachts, you know like And we saw land and we were like must have. We swam to it and we're like, now let's make it into an island Wow, off all the people who have been tone deaf, she's been the most toned deafer of tier. I do think it's funny that she's still kind of caught in like girl boss Landia Like she, she didn't get the memo. She hit twenty fifteen and she's like, I'm just gonna stay here forever. It's twenty fifteen forever I'm like girl perfect. I can girl boss my way out of this and everyone's like, shut up anyway. Fun to witness. F to witness. All right, let's get to results. Yeah, very B big day in California. Very preliminary. G, Alyssa They make it super easy to vote in California, which is great. But it takes forever. I'm a California voter. and I do appreciate they just mail you your ballot. And then also like I get incessant texts. They're like, Hey, you haven't returned your ballot. Hey you haven't return your ballot. You haven't returned your ballot. And I always meant to go vote in person because I like to take my kids with me to vote and like make a big deal out of it. And also the poll workers are always super excited that they're so excited and I love the sticker Yeah, I love the sticker. and the kids love the stickers and it gives me an excuse to get them out of the house so my husband can get some work done. So I took them to vote yesterday and can I just say lovely Well, the voting experience was great, but there is a film shoot that has been ongoing in my neighborhood months and months and months. and my neighborhood is very pretty. And there is like, whatever, this area trilogy. what's taking so long It's one thing or another. Like there's a college campus that is in my neighborhood that has been used for so many films. It was like the exteriors in Cueless, the school exteriors in Cueless were shot there. There's like a ton of stuff that's filmed there because it's used as like a generic college in a lot of places Like On the walk to my polling place, I had to I had to go around this shoot. They were doing an active film shoot an election today. Really? Come on guys That's so dumb. It should not be okay. to have a permitted filmot. I mean, I know this is like a very hyper local like thing, but I was just like annoyed that I had to shut all the way around them with my double stroller. I was just like guys. But I did vote. Okay. I successfully turned in my husband's husband'sall ballot and then I did my own in person, And the results are coming in. They're going to be coming in over the next several days. But as of Wednesday morning, according to the New York Times, the open primary for California governor with about fifty eight percent of the votes counted has Republican Steve Hilton leading Javier Bisera by two points twenty eight to twenty five percent ish, three points. With Tom Steyer not far behind, there are like sixty candidates on the ball. Crazy. It's crazy. It was so low. I had to scroll down a lot. No. I had to keep clicking see all candidates. and you get the bottom ick to see more, and I'm like, Ohh my God, it's still going. Yeah, yeah, it was so many candidates. And yeah, suffice to say I didn't vote for Steve Hilton he's like this Republican that has sort of a villain accent. He used to be British. Yeah used to be on Fox News and a Republican is probably not going to win a statewide election in the state of California. But what's annoying is that the fact that there's probably going to be one on the ballot in November means that Republicans in places where Democrats were hoping to flip seats will now have more of a reason to go vote And so the race is going to be more expensive. It's going to be more it's going to be more annoying, I think. It's going to be more annoying for everybody. It's going to be riskier for Democrats. It's going to just require more money, more manpower, more effort. And it's just like, o God. U Eric Sawell still got Over eighteen thousand v Rse Yeah, fucking gross. I mean I didn't even know what to say when I saw that. It was like one thousand I would have been like someone sent their ballot in way way too early. Yeah, right. That's why this is something that people should know and that I've heard other people kind of breaking down the California results say, but Republicans tend to vote earlier in California. so Republican votes. It like has a red, it's a blue shift So they tend to get results from Republican cast ballots before the like stragglers come in, like Democrats. and this time, especially Democrats waited until the end because Democrats didn't really know who to vote for because the field was so crowded. Bisera kind of emerged the front runner at the very, very last minute, but there were still people holding out for Steyr because his policies are a little bit more progressive on their face So I mean, this is just all kind of in flux. In the LA Mayoral race with about sixty three percent of votes counted, Karen Bass is going to cruise through to the general U, Spencer Pratz in Second place Yes means he probably will I mean, we don't know, but it looks as though he'll come through We don't know. I think there were about two hundred thousand votes left to be counted. And they're separated by about forty thousand. So it's conceivable if the you know, the Democratic votes come in late that Nickia could surpass him, but yeah, you know, I don't know. I just he got a lot of votes I just remember being so annoyed with him when he was on the hills and when he was like in the tabis. I didn't even really watch the Hills that much. I was familiar with him. by osmosis because we were all forced to know who he was during the height of the Perez Hilton early Ots celebrity Palza. where there was sort of a backlash to Paparazzi actually following around the real stars And so instead, they started glomming ont to these fake stars who were willing to make themselves available to paparazzi. And so you know we had people like Spencer Pratt and Heidi his plusoney Montag Honey Montag, plus one, doing these really ridiculous stage paparazzi things. And I just remember even then being like, shut the Yeah like I hate you to. and I did feel sorry for them and find him charming in the aftermath of the fires that where he lost Yeah I remember was saying. I thought it was he seemed like he was making the best out of a bad situation and I appreciated that he was bringing attention to the fires But now that goodwill has evaporated because it's like, oh yeah, this guy's Awful awful. Like he's awful now in Los Angeles poor Angelinos are going to have to deal with another few months six months of his signs. like hanting our major thor videos. There's there's one that I pass every day on the way to work that is like, if dogs could vote, they'd vote for Spencer Pratt and it's like this very idealized AI forty year old version, you know, the like art on the poster of the forty year old version, like the the like idealized nineteen It's that, but Spencer Pratt surrounded by dogs and it's like, this doesn't even make sense. Why? Why would they vote for you I mean, why would they vote for him? But I do think, you know, in terms of like Karen Bass at least going into the general, there's some lessons to be learned, you know, I think telling people everything is fine and problems have been fixed is not necessarily how people are feeling. So like a little pivot to her message of being like Instead of being like, look what we did, being like, look what we did, but we have much more to do. You know what I mean? Yeah I would do. That's what I would do. Karen Bass is a friend of the show. We've interviewed. times. I I've also talked about how I think mayayor of Los Angeles is the worst job in America. It absolutely sucks. take all the blame for things that you can only sort of and that are only also sort of your responsibility because the countounty board suupervisors is so powerful. The city council is so powerful. And I think a lot of people who live here don't even really know how all of that So I don't envy Mir Bass and I I'm glad that she is going on to the general. I wish it was her and Nithia Raman because then I think we would have an actual interesting race instead of like an annoying one. where it's just like, o God, know what we got to do More Spencer Pratt produced AI. I know that he was having like I passed a bunch of signs on my way to work today that said vote for Nithia Raman, Keep LA shitty And there were like just posters all over. It was just like, that's so tacky. It was I mean, he's a tacky person. He is a tacky person, but do not underestimate the tacky contingent Clearly do not in Los Angeles Cy. And I'm an apologist for this wonderful city. It is a city combined of many, many different cities that are fighting each other. And I kind of love it. You know, don't underestimate the fact that there is a tacky contingent and there is a big contingent of dumb asses just as there are in New York City, which is why you guys kept electing dumb ass mres until this one I mean, look You learned your lesson All right. some news out of Iowa. This was fun. This is fun. A Trump endorsed Republican candidate lost in his bid to seek the nomination for GOP for governor. Yes. So that's exciting. I guess Iowans are pretty mad right now Myigh wins are mad. Life's not good. Yeah, life is not good. They voted for Trump overwhelmingly and his approval rating is still pretty high in the state. I mean, compared to how it is nationally, R for sure. But it's like it's like about fivety fifty. And that's not good for a state that you won. Well, the interesting thing, I mean, it just also goes to show what a fucking pussy Trump is because all of these endorsements he's made Hven't been because he believed in people or has loyalty. He didn't endorse Ken Paxton a couple of weeks ago because he is loyal to Ken Paxton. He endorsed him because it looked like he was gonna to win. And he thought that this representative, Randy Feinstra, Finestra, have you say his name, that he was gonna win. and then he didn't. So it's not like he even let's his endorsement If you really wanted someone to win and We're going to put some skin in the game. he would have done it weeks ago. That's really interesting because I've seen a lot of coverage say that oh, Trump has been batting almost a thousand this election cycle.uck that. But when you ring polymarket. R. Right, exactly. And in previous election cycles, he kind of didn't have that great of a record. In certain raises him throwing his weight behind candidates mattered others it didn't. and in some, it seemed like it actually had the opposite effect of what what the candidate would want, where it's like the candidate's like, oh my Godd, whyy are you getting end? don I'm tryingal to people that are like not not big Trump fans. So I think it would be interesting to take a look at all of his endorsements and the timing of them and what Polly Market was saying or Cul she was saying on the day that he issued his endorsement because does seem like a guy who is known to cheat at golf would also try to cheat and make himself seem like he was a B endorsements. Yeah, like a better like elections Fen Gali than he actually is good news out in New Mexico Yeah. Former Secretary of the Interior, Deb Holland won the Democratic primary for Governor Easley. Love it. Her very anti establishment campaign was run by the father of Chicago Cub's third basement, Alex Bregman. You're welcome for that fun fact. That is a great fun That is a fun fact. Isn't that fun? That is fun. Maybe she could throw out the first pitch for the Albuquerque Isotopes, which is auquer Isotopes, what a great name. Yes, it is a minor leeague team. Also finally, because she's won the primer and she's through the through to the general, that means that I can dust off my Deb Holland sweatshirt that just has a big her fate. Have you seen me wear it before? No. it's just I just know got it. It's Deb Holland's f. got I gave to a congressional campaign of hers and I ordered a sweatshirt because I was like, this is awesome. It's just Deb H It's like a big stylized portrait of Deb Holland. R I'll wear it. So now the primary' done, I can wear it without with Seeming like that's awesome. Yeah. No, it's exciting. We're big fans of Deb Holland, Depp Holland, come on hysteria. Come back. Was she ever on? No, she's never I notystia.. But I know that she and our friend Peggy Flanagan, Minnota Lieutenant Peggy Flanagan. I know that they're on a group chat with Representative David That's amazing. Yeah because they they're all like indigenous, they all indigenous roots. So anyway, this is a lot of that there's some, you know, mixed results in California TVD, I'm not worried about anything. I'm just a little bit annoyed Oh, you know what else I want to talk about? This is a little bit of inaudible, but we were talking about it before we got on the pod this morning U this this sixty minutes stuff What a wreck What a wreck. What a way to drive a bulldozer through one of the most prestigious, beloved properties on television. Yeah So in case you haven't been following, in which case I feel bad for you because this is one of the best it's a delicious news story because Scott Pelly is out there him. He's out there like Howard Bele in Network, except he's not insane. He's like the one that's like, I'mad as hell.'m not gonna I'm not take it anymore. Yes, Network, by the way, perfect film If you haven't seen it is perf. It's perfect film. Okay, so this all started when Barry Weiss took over CBS News, had no business doing so whatsoever. Is a tedious dork, as we've covered in our this fucking guy episode of her, which you can watch on YouTube and listen to on your RSS feed if you prefer the ears version So she took over CBS news and immediately started kind of Taking a taking a hacksaw to a, I don't know, to a wedding cake. You know, she just She didn't really doesn't know what she's doing. she acts like she knows what she's doing and it seems like Well if her intention is to destroy belved things, then she knows what she's doing. But I' I was about to say something really mean I think that if you want someone to destroy it, you could get someone that at least has a little bit more on screen is Yeah. like I mean, even Joe like hiring Joe Rogan as head of CBS News, he would have it would have accomplished the same thing. He would have he would have destroyed it. Right. But God, it would have been funny. It would have instead of being you know what, I agree with that. I agree with that. Like hiring Joe Rogan, hiring Candace Owens, hir Well, Candaceice Owens No David Elson would never have hired Candaceone.ot it's a ridich toofar y. No, that's a ridge toofar. I think she's in Russia right now. She's in Russia. She's been posting and posting and posting. Good for her. She cannot believe how clean it is Oh really? Candace. She can'tveving Russia. She can't believe that Moscow is beautiful. I sit next to at work, I sit next to a senior producer who was born in it was the USSR. She was born there. And she was like, So funny when far right people go over to Russia like when Tucker Carlson was there and it was like, My stars. It's like, yes, this country with a lot of history has beautiful Like, why are you surprised? Anyway, there's no garbage around the Kremlin, Eron. It's And the Kremlin is beautiful. It is It's beautiful. I hope to see it in person one day when I don't need to go in and like leave my electronics before I leave the country. You know what I mean? Like I would love to visit. But you know what's funny about Candace? H A a little sidebar I've been to Russia one or two times. The first time I remember, I was leaving the hotel with my friend, Reggie Lve, who is a very tall man of color. And the Secret Service agent pulls me aside and is like Where do you think you're going? And we're like, Oh, we're going to take a walk around Red Square. and they werere like, Noah, you don't And we're like, what do you mean? And they pulled me aside to be like, oh, no, no, no, no Like They don't like black people here. Reggie can't leave So Candace girl, I hope you're being careful in your new adopted home Land. Yeah. becausecause like last I recall Diversity of and acceptance is not top ten. I mean there. If she wore a shirt that says I hate black people too Maybe, maybe, maybe may be nicer to her, but I don't in cyrillic Russ. Okay, so there are more entertaining people to hire who could have taken a hacksaw to CBS News. But they hired Barry Weiss, and then Barry Weiss turned around and hired some guy who had delighted her wife at a dinner party one time, which is I think literally why Nick Bilton got hired. Nick Bilton is like a magazine writer who I've heard from people who have worked with him is a tedious cunt. The tedious Cunt with no TV experience was hired to be in to create no TV experience. No TV experience, hired to run sixty minutes. If you were like some veteran Fox newews producer, it would be like fine. The show will continue to be a functional program because this person knows how to do television, even though they do television in a way that I don't like, they still know what they're doing. Nick Bilton, no, none of the above. So he gets brought in in his first meeting, Scott Pelly Does his Howard Bele act where he's like just reads him the riot act. Like he he's, you know, he's Scott Polly. He's got a thunderous voice He's got he's he is he has been selected for his job for his gravitas. He is all gravitas. When I met Scott Pelly, I was in the green room at CBS this morning and I said, can you just talk to me? I was like, sure. And I was like, No, we can take a picture of but. canan you just talk to me? I mean, he's so great. That's so funny. I know I have a female friend who Scott Pelly is her Hear me O out Get it. Yeah. I don't even think that's that hard of a that's not that far of a stretch. That's not that much of a hear me out. But Scott Pelly know stands up in this meeting and demands to know the reasoning behind why some of his colleagues had been fired recently. What was wrong? All women. All women, yes, which is something that Barry has been doing at CBS. She's been firing a suspicious number of women because she's not like the otherirls. that's my impression of I think Barry Weiss is one of those people that's like, uh, girls there are so much drama, but it's like, lady, you're a girl. Anyway. So then he stands up. He demands to know why these people have been fired. One of Barry Weiss's goons, whose name escapes me at the moment, who isn't Nick Bilton, was like, you're being so rude and Pelly was like, no, you're being rude by firing these people Anyway And people applauded him. People applauded him. everyverybody clapped in a real way. The audio was leaked to Oliver Darcy who is a media reporter at status and then After that, Pelly was fired and Nick Bilton, did you see the email that he sent or the no letter he sent? It's so was it the one the letter was to the effect of you tried our best You ruined my meeting. You ruined my meeting and I tried to talk to you and you wouldn't talk to me and we're at an impse and you're fired. Yeah. And now there's only, I think three correspondents left or three threeree at sixty minutes. so I don't know Like who There's only three. I mean, it's really like at the end of America's next top model when one of the pictures like disappears it's like that. I don't I don't know how they're going to have a show. But anyway, sixty Minutes is now a skeleton And let's see if he can dance. I have my doubts. Yeah. What do you think Scott Pelly's gonna do next? Oh my God, I hope it's his own YouTube show. Like It's like when Anthony Mason left CBS and now he's got this like killer music show on YouTube. And it's like, yes, Nathy Mason, live your best life. So I mean, Scott Pelly, I also would be like If I'm NBC, I would snap Scott Pelly up in like two seconds Have him do the nightly news Or like MS now. They're doing some shuff. Yeah. Oh no, definitely, but I just feel like. I want to listen to Scott Pelly tellell me good things are happening, when bad things are happening, I want him to look sternly into the camera and tell me it's gonna be okay. Wait, he wasn't your hear me out, right? I'm not confusing you with somebody else. No, he wasn't my hear mee out, but I do fucking. like he is just someone who I think is like a real hardcore journalist. I think he really gets to the mute of the story. I think he's not like when people say, o, mainstream media, they're not talking about Scott Pelly. So I just think it would be a shame if we lost him ourur landscape. Yeah. And I would say that Don Lemmon is I enjoy Don Lemmon more now that he's been freed. I mean, I agree. I still like he did say problematic things. He did say some't see it anymore. But he's doing good stuff now. he's doing good work. Anyway, his man on the street is so good. Yes. his man on the street stuff good. I don't know if that's Scott Pelly's path forward, but I'm sure he'll figure something out and it'll be great and we'll be tuning in Because yes, we will. feel forever. Yes, absolutely. Okay, we're gonna to take a quick break when we come back. The America two fiftieth celebration is going great Hysteria is brought to you by Quince. Summer always makes me rethink what I'm reaching for every day lightighter fabrics, better materials, pieces that just feel good the moment you put them on and look effortless That's why I keep coming back to Qints. 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You're listening to Hysteria, the podcast for people who can't believe we're already this far into the podcast and haven't mentioned the new season of Love Island once. How did you know? How did you know I hadn't mentioned it Wow. It's I have to be honest, I'm not a loveve Island Oh, it' it is it's a vocation. It's not o. It's not like content because you're just you it's like homework. Every day, you're like, now I gott to go watch Love Island. otherwise Everyone' to know what happened. And like finding out after the fact is not nearly as fun as Do episodes drop like daily or all at once. Every day except Wednesday I think shit. Oh that is that every n of like it's like every day except one day a week and they're all like lot there theyre cant they're in the can and like pushed out the door. That's a real battle rhythm you have to keep up with. I mean, whoever edits that show has to be just a superhan. and they have to really love editing. because I just I would imagine that the team is just like twenty four hour schedule for six weeks of the year. and then I hope they go on vacation or go into some kind of like resting t. But I started watching it last night and then I was just like, this is too There's too many colors. And I'm trying to get ready for bed. Oh wow. You know I mean, like there's it's so bright. It's like it is like No I get that. It's like a pack of Skittles. Like there's just so many candy colors everywhere and And I just I' like I'm trying popping all over your screen. Yeah, I'm like, I'm trying to relax. So yeah, I just watched a little bit and I just I don't want any spoilers. I just know that there's a lot of slowo walking Okay cool in bikinis, everybody's hot, everybody's young, most people are kind of stupid Okay But yeah, it's addicting. It's a cultural event and now everybody's watching it. and'm I can't believe I did make it this far in without talking about it So I was also clinging to it as something to Like something that's completely Like a dissociative activity. Yeah, I get that. And there's so few things that I do that allow me to totally dissociate. becausecause even when I'm gardening, I'm like listening to podcasts, you know? It's well, I stopped doing that. I made a mix. I made a music, I made a playlist.. I made a mix. You made a learned a CD. I made a playlist, but my dissociating show now is the new Mindy Kaling N not suitable for work. Oh, okay, I'll just check something and out. It's not good ake Not good Kind of perfect, right. Like I just enjoyed it. It was on in the background. I did my dishes, it calmed me down, not too many bright colors, you know what I mean? I was just like. I was like, okay, that wound me down. Yeah, ye. It's not Widow's Bay is not a wind down show. Widows Bay is not a wind down show. Mindy's other show rununning Point. I really enjoy. And so I save that for when I'm like, ready to watch a show You know what I mean? But know this new one, I'm like, oh, we're gonna to put this on in the background. Interesting. Okay, well, let's talk about something that we're not gonna to be probably in the background Aaron, Trump has been misstepping left and right and tripping all over himself. and it's hard to keep it all straight. So here we are to round up his latest gaffs. Yeah, so starting with the slush fund, I don't know if we can call this a gaff as much as an attempted, just like naked robbery Crime America's coffers. It's just like Stealing It's just it's the point in a game of monopoly when you realize you've chosen the wrong banker because you're like, you're taking money from the bank. like We picked a dishonest banker. It's like there's actually a scene And like one of the last episodes of succession where they see Siv steal And Will is just like, Shiv I see you. And she's like, what? we're married. I can take his. And she's like, No, that's not how it works. But this is how I feel. We're just watching Trump. He's just like taking monopoly pieces and we're like, we see you. We see you. We see you doing that. Even Senate Republicans thought that That his slush fund, his anti weaponization, one point seven seven six billion dollars slush fund was a bridge too far. It was part of a deal part of a settlement that Trump made with himself He was suing the IRS for ten billion dollars. And instead of carrying that lawsuit forward, his Justice Department and the IRS agreed that Trump's family is immune from being prosecuted for tax crimes forever. Forever And also he gets like one point eight billion dollars to give to his friends at his own discretion. It looks like the slush fund is dead after Todd Blanche's testimony before the House Appropriations Committee earlier this week. However We don't know that. Todd Llnche, just because Toddlenche said something doesn't He won't put it in writing. Yeah. When asked, he would not he goes, what's the point of putting it in writing? I'm telling you. And they're like, right. So you're a lawyerd in writing. Todd, you're a lawyer. What Donald Trump's former personal lawyer. Yeah. Okay. what is the What is the point of putting it in wring? Do you ever get in an argument with someone and they say something, I mean, this is when they say something so dumb that you repeat it back to them you're like, oh, you didn't know how to blah like And they're like, Yeahah. Yeah, Right. It's like, oh, you're really Really I don't know the point. My brother things in writing Please, please be so fucking for real. The fun still exists, technically. U We don't know what the fund is its concepts of a fund, I guess. It outlines of a fund outlines of a fund. Blanche won't put it in writing. It seems like we don't know if it's going to happen or not, but the heat was too hot. Todd Blanche was like, we're not doing it anymore. Hopefully, people in the press because I said. Yeah. Oh yeah, that's sure. You also he also had some nice things to say about Gillen Maxwell. So I don't know how trustworthy his assessment is of things or if we should be. Well, and like let's be clear too The notion that the Trump family can never be investigated by the IRS still stands. Yeah. I feel like that is that may feel Like that was the intention all along Yes, that may feel like it was the intentional along, but We will see, but you know one of the reasons that this slush fund was such a contentious topic and Trump couldn't just skate through with it is that he just made enemies of two sitting members of Congress when he backed their opponents in primaries that they lost. What did he think was going happen I don't know that he thinks to hard fair I don't know that he thinks too hard. So John Corn and Bill Cassidy are now just, mean Hopefully they're, they've learned their lesson and they're like, there's no survival to be had by cozying up to him let their freak flag fly from now until November. I mean I just, I'm hoping I just hope they're petty I hope they're so petty. I want John and Bill's excellent adventure. I want them to have a podcast together every week about how they are feeling bad about how they've stood up for Trump and how they're trying to make amends for it now by making his life as difficult as possible. I hope Bill Cassidy tries to impeach RFK Junr. because technically he lied to him in his confirmation hearing If you cant start impeaching people for lying during confirmation hearings, then like half the Supreme Court is on the chopping block. I mean, they would be, but this like he did gut the CDC Yeah, that is true. That is true. And he promised he wouldn't. How Wait, Alyssa, do we have an update on America's two hundred fiftieth birthday celebration? How How are those plans going? More expensive by the day, Biggest disaster bigigger disaster by the minute. The F fourth of July, Earon, it's a month away. We're a month away from the fourth of July, the day this episode comes out,p celebrations will be leading all the way up to the day, including in two weeks, Aaron, he's got his UFC event Held on Flag Day, which is not America's birthday, but his birthday A couple things about the event a little something about how much it's going to cost. Okay. There are four thousand seats available. They have already started building the UFC cage match, which by the way, even Joe Rogan is repelled by He's like, you shouldn't fight outside. This is bad. Yeah, let's look at a picture. That shit so ugly. Look at that Oh my Godd. it looks like it looks like a roller coaster in a county fair. Okay, so people are comparing. There's drone footage over the entire Um campus of the White House and people keep saying it looks like a county fair with dueling live acts, one of which is like the banned warrant Yeah, but it's a cover band. It's a warrant cover. Right becausecause warrant wouldn't actually come like all the other bands. There are four thousand seats available. sponsorship packages, including ringside tickets are going for like a million bucks The Pentagon's trying to recruit troops to attend the fights, but they reportedly are being asked to buy their own tickets. They must meet current waist height ratio and current physical fitness standard. AKA Aaron No Fatdtyiess here. Hot guys only. This is the least gay thing that's ever happened. Hot guys only. No, honestly, this is the gayest thing that's ever happened at the White House, including President James Buchanan, writing love letters to his former male roommate. I cannot believe how corny this shit is. I cannot believe how that anybody thinks this shit's cool. It looks so bad. I'm not offended. I'm just kind of like, you people, how are you such dorks? It's so it's so c. I'm a little offended. Well, you're a little offended. you have a personal Like for me it's so silly. It looks like a Sou park episode It is a seouth park episode, a seouth park episode that's gonna to cost sixty million dollars, of which Earon, seven hundred thousand is to repair the White House lawn, who do you think? what money do you think is going to be used whereere do you think that seven hundred thousand dollars is coming from U U Taxpayers How does the Okay, I'm sorry, seven hundred thousand dollars. That's like how much costs Like to install an inground pool, like a regular size inground pool in a yard that isn't like st likeine like are' high? seven hundred thousand dollars for a pool? Isn't that how much cost I don't know. I've never installed. How much Oh my God. How much does a swimming pool cost to install? I mean, like I think if you got like depending on like, I think if it's just the pool and not the landscaping, I think a pool would be more like Really? Okay. So I don't know what I'm talking about. the reason I said seven hundred thousand dollars is because the city of Los Angeles is like refurbishing this swimming pool and it's going to cost like one point two five million dollars and people were like, that's too much money. And so it is too much money, but I bet that has a lot to do with like the landscaping, safety requirements, like all that kind of stuff. But Okay, so regardless, that is several pools, why is that how much that it costs to fix the lawn? And that seems like a grift to me Are they awarding the contract to Lake? like like Eric's landscaping company, does Baron have like a grass seed emporium? Like what's going on here? Look, and it's also, I don't think the first time they've ruined the lawn. I think they did it in the first term too. It is expensive to like, I think they have to reseed. My guess is that they will do likeike Sod and not just grassseed because if not, it'll just look ripped up and jankety for a very long time. But also there are like so many different Associations, there's like the Department of Interior, there's the District of Columbia, the Metropolitan, like all of these different groups, the National Park Service that all have sort of jurisdiction over the lawn. All that said It could have been done Someplace else He could have done it at the Verizon Center. didn't this was a choice, Aaron in the year of ourur Lord twenty twenty six, when I would just like to say, the galluop poll has Trump's approval rating at thirty seven percent. One in three Americans feels they're falling financially behind. And he's like the answer to my answer to that question I'm going to spend, I'm going to rip up the lawn for no good reason for seven hundred thousand dollars. Do you know that when America was suffering back in two thousand nine when Barack Obama became president? He didn't even redo George Bush's oval for two years because he's like, that's just not right. Americans are suffering. I don't need a new office Oh God. yeah, that it's just ruining the lawn is like the least bad thing he's he's done. But it's just an it's just he fucking hates people. He He's just he's trash. He's trashy. Um, and Anyway, like there also was supposed to be a great American State Fair concert scheduled for june twenty fifth. And when it was first rolled out, there were people on the list that I was like, o, what Morris Day and the time, Martina McBride. Like Martina McBride, I understand would have like she has a big fan base across the country. you know, Democrats and Republicans like country music, but I would say that they tend to beuban anyway. Regardless, all of this list came out and I guess all of the artists had felt misled They were by the nature of the event because there' two but they're two events. That's why Eron. So there was one, think that I think that's being convened by Congress, which was like a celebration of America. That is what they led them to believe. I think that they were performing us Oh, that's so shady. What it's not because at first I was like, oh, come on, they asked you, like you had to know where you were performing. Some people had no recollection of being talked to about any event, but some people thought they were performing at the nonpartisan event Okay. So then each of these these performers at the Great American State Fair started dropping like flies. Eventually, I think vanilla Ice They couldn't get press releases out fast enough. Yeah, eventually Millanill I almost call them Willie Vanilly. Millie Vanilly and Vanilla Ice were the only two left and I don't know Millie Vanilly was like Don't you know we don't sing? right, That's right. Well eventually, Vanilla Ice was the only one Yes And so I don't know if people really want to celebrate America with a vanilla ice concert, but it might be appropriate because vanilla ice famamously did a terrible job stealing a genre that was invented by black people. So stealing from black people and taking credit for it, pretty American P it is. and his song is on the repeat down at Mar a Lago. They love to sing Ice Iice Baby. You know, did you ever see that footage of him defending the sample used in Ice Iice Baby? Y saying it's not from under pressure because there's additional It's so ridiculous. He's like, so, no, no, no, under pressure goes, Dun dun dun d d, dun dun D, done, done, d, done done. And in ice ice baby, it's D done Dun, done, done, done done. Yeah, it's like One beat, bro. Yeah, no, that's not That's not whatever. Anyway. yeah. so that concert is not going to happen and Trump has now kind of flounced and said it's going to be a Magareally instead, which Why would you want to go to DC in the summer to watch a guy talk who talks on television literally every day? Never ever, never ever. But there is one last little cute kicker to this. Now there's another two hundred two hundred fiftieth celebration scheduled the power to the people. concert which is going be a month before the midterms at the Merryweather Post Pavilion in Maryland, featuring Bruce Springsteeen, Joan Baz, Food Fighters, public Enemy, Cyprress Hll, Drop Kick Murphies, Britneany Howard and many, many others. The drop kick Murphies I I love the drop kick Murphies when I went through my power punk phase, my punk phase in high school, Not that I was a punk, I just liked punk music. Yeah. I loveved the drop kick Murphies. I had like couple of their CD's And then kind of just like would only play them on Staint Patrick's Day until Scott Walker, the former governor of Wisconsin came out somehow publicly announcing that he was a big drop kick Murphy fan and from their official Twitter account, they were like, we literally hate you. And I was like amazing. Okay, well, now I'm gonna to play the drop Kick Murphies more because that's awesome. They're great. I can't believe they're still like rocking as hard as they are. Yeah. they're so good. Okay, alsoso, another thing that gives away my age. I thought Merryweather Post Pavilion was just a nonsense name that Animal Collective gave that one album I didn't know it was a real place. I was like, Yeah That's not just an animal collollective album. I've seen many a show at Mary Weather Post Pavilion. That's so funny. I heard Mary well, songs from Merary Weather Post Pavilion were played at animal collollective concert I attended where I accidentally took ecstasy and realized at the very beginning of their set that I had taken ecstasy and not at all U Oh my God. It was amazing. It was amazing. I was like, wow, I'm feeling really relaxed. Wow, these colors are crazy. Wow, this music's really making me really doing it for me. And I was like, oh I'm on like wrong thing. I'm on it like gonna ride the wave. Okay Here we are. Anyway, that's another story for another time. So this concert that's happening in October obviously was inspired by this This debacle of a concert. Yes and now is in favor of the other side It's just f of in favor of America. America, people Dmocrac. Anyone's invited etceter, etceter. Okay, we're going to take a quick break when we come back Assa's interview with one of her favorite stars from the pit Hysteria is brought to you by Nutrofold. 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And don't forget to fill out the quick survey when you order to support the show Enjoy responsibly and huge thanks to IntoCloud for helping everybody slow the noise down a little this summer. Welcome back to Hysteria, the podcast for people who know we will one day see Baby Jane Doe as the charged nurse in the pit On Hysteria Today, we have an opera singer, actress and our favorite new doctor on the pit who just cannot get AI to work. Welcome Sepita Mawafi. That's true for the actor and Oh my God, Speda, I cannot tell you how excited I am to have you on the show. I first of all, I love shows that are like just about excellence and there are so few and the pit really is. But like when they introduced your character I was like, oh no, is she going to upend it? Is she going to prove that everybody's not excellent? But then I'm like, no, she's just excellent too. It's true. It is, what do they call it competency porn? Yes, it's competency porn. Exactly. And she is, I mean, she's beyond excellent. She's such a perfectionist. She's a terrifyingly high achieving And yeah, I mean, she's meticulous, she is rigorous,. she is devoted.'s Compassionate, she's passassionate. she's all the things. I love. My favorite thing though, by the end of the season was were the memes on social media where it's like, look what happens at the end of the day shift. And you were just like broken after you've had your fight. I mean, it looks like you've survived some shit, you know what I mean? It strew, my hair's like all over the place and it really it was first It was as if they took extensions out. They're like, this is what happened. This is what happened. Lortally. I know. I forgot what I looked like in the first episode. I was like, wow. You've got circles. They have removed all makeup. You are just hanging on with The reason it is so funny is that if you did before and afters of all of us, the beginning of a long day in the White House and what we looked like at the end. L we used to joke that if we were still there by eight o'clock, all spanks came off. Like you just went to the bathroom and you took your spanks off and your socks off and you just had to like kind of freeall in your off. I mean, literally throughout the season, it went from al I mean from the beginning, it really didn't take long. Usually hair and makeup in any given show or film will take like an hour, an hour and a half, maybe even more. For this show, it would take twenty minutes. I'm sure the end it took like three minutes. It Liter' like, no, you're good. I'm like, great Do us a favor, wash your hair before bed and then don't do anything before you come. Don't wash your hair anymore, exactly. Just go to bed wethead and see how it turns out. Let's see what happens. It looks like chF head. So listen, so many of the listeners on the show and fans know you as Dr. Alashimi. But you've had an extremely interesting and rich life before ever becoming part of the Pit crew And I would really like to go back to sort of your origin story because I think it is so important. So Sapita, your family actually emigrated to the US in the early eighties, right? I think it's the early eighties from Iran It was actually they stayed on after the Iranian Revolution in nineteen seventy nine where the shach was overthrown, Homeni came into power as sort of a temporary democratic leader Obviously, that was a lie and it became brutal dictatorship. My parents stayed in Iran in the years following the Iranian Revolution, where the Islamic Republic had cemented itself at that point. and they were very politically active, All political activity was done underground And it got to the point where they were hiding and like many families have refugee families, they were forced to flee. So they first went to Turkey and were there for about six months and then to Germany. and that's where I was born. So it was by the mid eighties that I was born in ' eighty five When I was under a year old, we came to the United States. My mother's sisters were already in the US they came years before the Revolution So while we did have some family here, it was starting everything new. I mean, my parents didn't wr English, they didn't have work, they didn't have, you know They rebuilt their lives from the ground up Like many refugee families. Do you still have family in Iran Are they safe? Yes. There are some family members that we've been able to contact, but as I'm sure you know, it's been over three months of a whole internet blackout. Right. And so We haven't been in touch with some family members and friends and the friends and family that we have been able to contact Um, They' fortunately, they're safe. That's good. I'm glad. Yeah. What are your earliest memories of being in the US? Did you feel like you fit in No No Um which and there was such a contrast, a stark contrast between my life at home where I didn't sort of wake up to the trauma that my parents carried until much later in life. But at home it was all love. It was all everything we had. we were Working class, we were not well off by any means, but it never felt like we lacked anything. It was only when I went to school that it felt like I didn't have things, you know because friends were able to do extracurricular activities or were given lots of toys and it was always like, I wanted certain toys or books store u Yeah to take part in different activities like art and music and sports and we couldn't afford any of that. So that's when that's when the othering kind of started. And I was actually Yeah, bullied pretty, pretty incessantly and relentlessly throughout school And I later on realized that, you know there were a number of reasons it was because we were different, we looked different. I brought funny lunches to school right The talent show, I was doing Persian dance and I didn't know that everyverybody's like, what are you doing? But it was also because I didn't know at the time that I had ADHD And so I had problems with focus and already I didn't feel like I fit in at school so that only these issues kind of compounded, but it wasn't until I found music and art that things changed Well, and that music is interesting because you came, you were born in Germany. So your whole family must have spoken Farsi. Yeah. But did you speak Farsi or what was your first language? Was it English or Farsi? Yeah. Farsi was the first language I learned and I didn't learn English until going to school. So I was what like preschool was three or four years old or something At five, I still had a thick Persian accent when I was going to school. And then at some point, you know, it turns if your first language is your mother tongue. And then at some point that changes and you can't. And then I remember there being a period of feeling like even though I was studying and learning English, I felt like I had no tongue. you know, I felt at home in the language that I could fully express myself was Persian And then that started to slip away, even though I still do speak Farsi or Persian. but there's this weird limbo period where you're finding your new language and sort of hanging on to the to your um the mother tongue and so yeah, it was a strange and still to this day, I feel English is obviously my first language now. and yet when I hear Farsi or speak Farsi, there it touches on different emotional registers that I can't access in Engl. Did you so when you started singing Was that sort of like your safe space Totally, totally. Even though I did have a pretty abusive first teacher and mentor. Oh my go. him to the te. My first music teacher, I loved to sing Do you know what he said to me? What He told me it was perfectly fine and he would pass me if I would just lip sync I know We won't say his name, but he killed my joy Are you still singing? No, I'm tone deaf. It's fine. He was not wrong. He just killed my joy. You gota get that joy back. I have joy in my Subaru. You know what I mean? Just me. Your music me and the indigo girls,'re good. We're good. It's just it's a solo thing. Yeah, it's so sad to hear like that. It's just it's so unfortunate. but there is something about that you know, previous generations where They've been trained with the sort of like very tough cutting you know, survival of the fittest mentality. R. And that's certainly how my teacher was. and he'd make fun of my vibrato and call me out in front of the class. I had a solo and on the night of the solo, he gave it to my best friend. you know horrible. He humiliated me in front of that It's shark the point where like the harpist went to the principal of the school and was like This is abuse, and my parents came in and he charmed them and was like, you know, it's because she has it. She can do whatever she wants with her life, yada yada. His excuse was that he believed in me and it did it does create tough, you know, thick skin, but it wasn't until much later that I realized I don't need that kind of abuse or harsh criticism from the outside or inside in order to get better or in.ame. I'm tough enough on myself Totally, totally. And so it's learning how to just relax in every way that it's you don't have to be cruel towards yourself to improve. You don't need to be cruel to anyone in order to get them to improve. And it's definitely informed my teaching and mentorship styles. like everything that he did, I don't want to do, you know? Right No, that is I felt like much the same. Like there were my formative jobs out of college were not political. I couldn't get a job doing anything I wanted. And so I was a real estate paralegal for a while in the World Trade Center. and I will tell you That whipped me into shape. I never really needed to be whipped into shape, but it also told me that like just verbally abusing someone doesn't actually make them better at their job. It just makes them scared to admit if they've made a mistake. Like That's kind of where it comes down. And then so music, music music for you. Yeah. then you actually became a music teacher before you started acting Yeah, I was, you know, I've been working since I was like This is probably illegal, but I was babysitting when I was like nine or ten years old. They're all same. And then when I was thirteen, I started working in restaurants and I worked in restaurants from to twenty two. So during undergrad conservatory, I was working in restaurants on the weekends, which is crazy because that conservatory schedule is I mean, I could never do that now, but somehow when you're in your teens and twenties, you're just energy is not it's just right now. Unlimited reserves. Yeah. But after that, I was trying to find ways out of the restaurant life. I have respect for the hospitality industry. It was just really hard to maintain, obviously The voice lessons and the performance with that schedule. And so I was trying to find alternatives. and I ta I taught music. I taught voice lessons for a while. and I taught fitness for a while later on. That was when I went to grad school and I was like, I'm not going back to restaurants, you know, whatever happens. Wait What kind of fitness Do you know what Pure Bar is? Of course, I do. Yeah. so I Okay. See, I am just old enough. I I'm like ten years older than you. When you said that my immediate thing was like, did she teach steps Did she teeth step at Crunch in New York City? That was my immediate first step. I'm like around the world with Sped. No yes, no, I am a true millennial. I am obsessed with bar classes And And then I was like, okay, it doesn't pay that much, but at least it's not restaurants when I'm auditioning and sort of throwing myself into the New York industry or both industries, theater and film and TV, and it was just about getting a job and following the work. And so I taught fitness and even when I started supporting myself as an actor, I still love it. I loveved. Yeah. That's such a I mean, it's not just what it does in terms of like giving back to and Sharing what you have and what you know with other people, it's the best way to sort of teach yourself what you know or remind yourself of what you know. It is. you know, like working in a group setting, I had always worked in a group setting. And like when I left the White House, it was the first time I was alone. And I actually suffered real depression. you know, I really didn't understand how to do anything without feedback Yeah You know, And then the first thing I decided to do was write a book and it was the worst fucking decision in my life because it was just me alone with my thoughts. you know was like and thinking that I had like peaked way too soon. I was like, should I call this like the epilogue of Danny Bonny Ducci? L this is this what my story is? But like so for me, like all the gang on the podcast and everything, it's like Even though I'm alone in New York, it's still just like, I need feedback. You know that's I am better with feedback. I'm the same Okay, so now we've come to the part where you have to tell us how you came to be doctor Baran Al Hashimi.. Where do I start? Did I say Beron right? I never know if Noah Wiley said it right or if he was like us. Butchering the name. bless his heart. M mostost people butcher the name, but that's okay. I grew up having my name butchered. so it actually, it makes sense. People would say doctor Al on the show and that doesn't make any sense for you know, because doctor Al is basically like saying doctor Al Hashimi means of the Hashemites. Right, right. And so that's like saying Dr. the or Dr. of but it's such a real immigrant refugee, exactly. You know what I mean? Hving your name just sort of bent out of shape by everyone else. So no, it's boughton, but which means rain Boughton. Okay whichich means rain in Persian. How did this come to be? I have always had strong negative reactions to medical shows just because I don't want to live inside a hospital more than I've had to and have to. And while I appreciate the genre, it's just never been something that I've necessarily responded to or wanted to be involved with, When I saw the pit I was blown away. Yeah. and I was just so moved by the way that they're, you know, on the surface, it's a show about a hospital, but it's really about are health carere workers and every patient that walks through those hospital doors and these Societal issues, political issues. I mean, everything is sort of examined. and the hospital is the great equalizer, right? Doesn't matter you're you know a corporate executive or an unhoused patient you're confronted with these existential questions. So I thought that the subject and the way these subjects were explored were really beautifully, intelligently and artfully done. And I was moved. And then I was sent this character, this audition And I beening to the show in a day and a half. I had the flu so I couldn't speak, I couldn't move And I watched the show and then I was like, it was one of those situations where that project and the role was so good that even if I didn't get it I got so much from Yeah diving into the world and her mind and her heart that I was like, I could have been content just walking away because I also knew that because I was so passionate about it, I gave everything. I try to give everything everything I do even in auditions, but for this one, it really was one of those those roulles were just like it came into alignment and it really resonated. So I did a few or a couple of callbacks and finally I got the job and then had barely any time to prepare. but continontinued the preparation process through bootcamp, right through filming. Talk about bootcamp. U Bootcamp is surreal. I kind of ignorantly. Have you heard of the Hoffman Institute? Yeah Yeah. so I did Hoffman right before. I' done going to Hoffman before I found out that I got the pit. So I did Hoffman, went offline for eight days and then came back online and nearly had a panic attack from all the emails and everything that I were I dealt with and then I drove to LA the next day and then started bootcamp the following day. So I went into Hoffman in this like very open mushy, spiritually alive and you know, present and And I was like, you know, they hired me to be an actor playing a doctor, not to be a doctor. And that was my mantra to make feel better about knowing absolutely nothing about medicine. And we started the boot camp. I was like, this is great. And then like ten minutes in, I was like, holy shit, how How am I going to cramp? Becauseuse it's not like many of the actors who started last year and this year, they're residents or they're interns. Right, But starting at an attending level position. is like, you got to how am I going to pack in fifteen years of school and experience especially with her breadth of experience, her background, U But that's why we have our tech advisors, you know, they're on times and making sure we're doing okay. But boot camp is just about giving you the ten poles of knowledge that youll you'll sort of come back to throughout the season and making sure that you have awareness of some of the terminology and the procedures so that when it's woven back in throughout the season, it doesn't completely surprise you. But you still we still take we don't rehearse very much in general, but for the procedures, anytime we have a medical procedure, good amount of time to rehearse. Do you, here's my question. In a pinch. Yeah. do you think you could intubate somebody Are you kidding? No Really because half your audience does. We're all like, we got it. on a plane, someomeone needs us. We'll be like, listen, we watch the show. I would probably someomeone give me a pen could I would confidently I would feel confident about telling another medical professional what to do. But why would they need me to tell them what to do? I could could take them step by step on how to intubate. I would not that's crazy. No.'s And actually I just want to retract what I said. The pen would be for a tracheotomy But not for intating stuff on The drgg Oh my goh. See, I'm telling you I'm dangerous with the amount of information I think I have I mean, that procedure is crazy. That's crazy And bless Mel King bless the people who created MRAP, this online database emergency healthcare workers, that's basically you can find anything on there. You can find videos of procedures, you'll find medical journals, you'll find interviews. I found this like guided meditation on how to do this procedure and I listened to it three times a day for a couple weeks leading up to the day we shot that procedure. Right. So yeah, that we we are given so many invaluable resources throughout this process. So there is there's one scene sort of in the beginning of your time where you tell Dr. Rabbi you call you by your first name. Yes, right. But he continues to talk to call you Dr. Al Hashimi. Yeah. So up until you're revealing your epilepsy. Is it epilepsy diagnosis or is it a seizure disorder? It's well, both both of epilepsy. Yeah. Can you talk about that scene? Yeah Where do I start? What do you want to know? I mean, I am just, it is to me, your relationship with Dr. Abbi, like you come on the show, you're an audience member. You're like, is she here to blow up my boyfriend's piece? Like you know, you're like, what is she doing? And then like one episode in, you're like, oh my go, no. He doesn't know it, but he needs her. and we need her and she needs to be here. And so like you're kind of like as a super fan, you're like rooting for everybody to come together. And so when you when he does not use your first name after you have told me told him to. And then as you're talking to him and being vulnerable and telling him, he does use it, but not to the end that I think we think I feel like it's a misdirect. Like when he calls you by your first name, we think there is going to be some sort of like tender moment and it's quite the opposite. and it was like, mean And the reason I'm just curious how you prepared for it, how you felt during it because I mean, from that point on, it was floodgates, tears for me from then to the end. Yeah. You know, I think you might be the rare unicorn that joined Team Dr. Al Hashimi earlier on because I think most people, it took a while for them to warm up to her U I think people started started embracing the character around the procedure in episode ten the end, the prep for that. Okay, so in episode one, throughout the audition process, I knew that this was potentially going to happen that we were working with a doctor with an enormous amount of PTSD from her time, her humanitarian work and working in places like Libya and Iraq and R and Afghanistan. Yeah, and that for me was a prayer answered because I have so many friends who work in the field and they are such big fans of the pit. And I was just begging for that visibility, Eespecially in this time of you know, unprecedented humanitarian disasters And so there was that. And then on top of that, during the final phase of the audition process, the test, I found out when they added a scene about this condition. was It was a scene between her and Dr. Robbie, very casual just talking about it, her revealing her condition, but it wasn't dramatic at all. And so I had an idea that this is where her arc would go, but I wasn't sure. And so when I read the first episode of season two, it ended on the stair with the baby. reached out to them and I said, I just want to make sure I'm I'm interpreting this correctly. Is this because of her condition and they confirm But nobody else knew And no, I one hundred percent thought for the first six episodes that something catastrophic had happened in Afghanistan. That was what I assumed. Well, and that's what beautiful storytelling, right? R it very well could have been. And that has to do with it too, right? Right That that is triggering these symptoms I knew that at some point this would be revealed. and so I knew how to hold back or how much to restrain myself emotionally. and she was already a pretty zipped up character, but I in order to have a real payoff of revealing her that that moving the needle in any way with their dynamic I was trying to play against that as much as possible Yeah throughout the season. And then so at the end, it almost felt, I'm getting emotional thinking about it. it almost felt Like I was in her five year old skin. Yeah and it felt like that little girl who is ashamed and scared and exhausted and because on the surface, her exterior identity is brilliant, unflinching. right Precise. She has this like Innovation driven like a Promethean fire. and underneath that is the scared little girl in a hospital bed who is watching her mom sob uncontrollably. feeling cold hands of doctors, you, poking at her and experimenting with her and being a huge source of pain and shame for her family throughout her life. And so that that beinging able to reveal a little bit more of that was kind of almost cathartic in a way. I've been holding it in all season Um And this whole idea of like revealing part of yourself in order to get close to someone in order someone to because she's tried to reach him in so many ways as a fellow attending as a doctor, she's taken the professional angle. She's been, you know playful and flirty, right and warm and complimentary and nothing seems to penetrate. Or it will for a moment and then quickly it bounces right off. And so I think this is also a final attempt at some kind of intimacy and some kind of connection with him because she respects him U and for it to backfire in that way. It was devastating, but it was devastating. Like as an audience member, you were just like, you were justing you're like, Robbie, no, no. I know. What are you doing? Totally. And it' and it's his own trauma, right? Not Excuses for him. He's projecting his own shit onto her R? Because everything that he's telling her, he's also kind of telling himself. He needs to be reporting himself. He needs to great help. And so he's just directing it all at her. but You know, a lot of physicians live with chronic health conditions, including epilepsy, and they continue to practice safely and effectively. And it's the hospital's job per the ADA to create accommodations health care workers. That's why it is a system of interdependence. That's why it's not saavior. The story, you know, the pit is not about one savior hospital. It's about a team of healthcare workers and sort of reshapes are this need for us of like the Supermans and the Batmans and, you know, we don't we need each other. And so and so that that for her is incredibly disappointing because you live knowing that there's a stigma and that there is harsh judgment and discrimination, and she's just hoping that he will be on her team and say something like, I can't believe I can't believe you've been living with this. I can't believe you're so good at You're right. Like you're like you've done it, you know, He went the hardest possible left that any of us could have envisioned. Yeah. Do we know yet If you'll be back in January So the plan. Yeahah, that's the plan. it seems. I don't No I don't know what's happening though Okay, well, we will be staying tuned, but before we go, we have to talk about one more little thing because you've got some downtime. and with your downtime, you're like, you know what? I'm gonna do Broadway. Off Broadway. It's off Broadway. You can offaday which I have to tell you, I had tickets to see you at Maninetetta. But I had to get my appendix out Yeah, it was bad. It was it was a bad But anyway, tell listeners because I think you your tickets. It's playing till june eighth. It is So that's what I want to so people can find you still. You're there. Mentelan Theater till june eighth. It's called newewborn. It's been here're with Hugh Ackman Hugh Jackman, Mariana Galless, directed by the iconic Ian Rickson incredible playaywright Ella Hickson who is just she's a revelation. Yeah, she's an award winning British playwright. It's her New York debut, I guess. And you know, theater is my home. I started an opera and then when it's a theater and I come alive in a different way. Yeah. I was gonna to ask that. Yeah, it's immediate, it's vulnerable.' adrenaline. Yeah, there's nowhere to hide, especially with these pieces. three one people shows, one person shows. and the thing I love about this show is m under the direction, the guidance of Ian Rickson. there's this, you know, there's this time old idea of entering a labyrinth and emerging change. And I think each of these characters goes through a very full journey through the maze of their own psyche and they're exploring and going through this in real time with the audience. The audience is the other like is our scene partner. Right. And they come out altered on the other side of it. and what I've been hearing back, I mean, our hope was that the audience does feel changed in some way after the show and that's the feedback we've been getting across the board. The views have been incredible. The TikToks from people who have seen it, also incredible.. So Sapita, thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you so much. We love you. You're the best. Come back again. Thank you, I'd love to. 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That's all I want. The old school stuff, all this stuff is just too fancy It is being ruined, okay? A summer treat is being ruined by extreme poshness and we really don't need it Oh yeah Yeah. I just don't, it really, it bummed me out. I went. I got myself I was like, driving home, I got a facial on Sunday because the winter was rough on these cheeks. And I'm like, oh my God, the newice cream not the new, the old ice cream place is open My standby And I go and get my cone. I'm like, what in the hell is this gritty shit? This is not what I want Yeah. And so I can't wait. I'm going to the city tomorrow. and I'm going to find a mrter Softie and I'm going to get what I am sure is not real dairy. Don't to be perfect. Don't you have DQ up there? No, You don't have dairy queen There used to be so in my town there used to be a dairy queen and there used to be a Cvel and they've all been run out by the Pashra places. Oh. And I can't tell you, no one is more upset about it than my husband who for many years we have celebrated his birthday with his beloved favorite, Fuudgy the Whale. U But no, now I have to drive and I have. It like the whale, not a cookie pus. No cookie puss is different. cookie p. B both Carvevel. Okay Carveel. Right. No, no, no, I'm just saying no, I'm just saying like cookie puss is an option Oh yeitative to fudge wh. That's true, but either way you need a carvevel. And so a couple of years ago for his birthday, I drove an hour to the local the nearest Carvell to get a fudg you the whale, whichich honestly was fine. I cut it into six pieces. we ate it for a year, but I mean, a dairy quQeen ice cream cake, notothing compares. It. If I could get one of those, I would get one of those. but this is like it's just delicious. And this fancy posh stuff is It's a no. Yeah. It's no. regular stuff. And it also costs nine dollars. You're like, I want to pay two dollars for cone. It' so big that it starts melting before I can eat it. Yeah to like it's like a race against time for me to eat. Yes. And the cone, when you get to the bottom of your waffle cone No the dough with the cake cone, the cake that it's like soggy by the time you get to the bottom. and then that's its own delicious treat. Right. It has to be a little it it should be low quality. Like that's the That is the beauty of it. it should be low quality. When I was pregnant with my older daughter, all I wanted was a dairy quQeen, Mr. Misty. You know, Mr. Misty Float, which is like a slush pumped full of artificial colors and flavors, just completely nothing natural about it except for the actual ice. justust complete like a neon red. and then they put soft serve in it and you can like mix it up and every bite you can have like you can put a layer of the slush on the outside. And it looks it' so so good, but we don't have dairy queens where I live because we have Fosters's freeze instead. So I would have Fostererss freeze is good, and I really like it disparage it, but it's not what I was craving. And so when we went to the Midwest on a trip I got a Misty float like five times over the course of two days. I was like, I have to eat this here and now because otherwise I'm not N gonna be able. It's like when I also emailed the company topop the Tater or like the company that makes topop the Tater dip. I don't even know what that is. It is like a sour cream Chives mixed in Andlicious. It's chippedip, but people put it on potatoes, but I always put it on chips. But you cannot get it outside of the Midwest. And I literally emailed and I was so desperate for it. I was like, can you buy it and can you ship it to California? And they were like, no So when my parents came to visit me, they flew with some. how That's how serious it was I get it. Yeah. I get it. you have a craving for something if it's like so far off the mark All I'm saying is My friend Gina and I we were gonna to go to Hay Clown this weekend because I know happy Clown will have It's a little further away, buty clown. It's called Hay Clown Happy clown ice cream. Okay. And I get a little kitty cup with vanilla and chocolate twist. Oh. I love delicious. I love that for you. Okay I've got a sanity corner. Okay. And this is a very basic one. I'm the last train to arrive to the station here and I realize I'm just the most normi whoever normied, but I recently got a Costco membership. After like I had one for a while and then I just never had time to go to Costco and then I just didn't And the grocery store in my neighborhood that's closest that has the most stuff is gotten insanely like stupid expensive. L seven dollars for a box of crackers. It's like, o my God, so stupid. And I just was like, this cannot I cannot. I'm not doing it anymore. Got a Costco membership and I It is a wonderland in there. I just love it. I love just like looking around and being like, what do they have? What's here now? It's I have to say, we do not have a Costco membership because when we thought about getting one It's like, We can't store things in the city. Do You know what I mean? Like there's no room to go to Costco have if you live in New York City. And but I feel similarly about going to the big shopwright aisle to aisle. Yeah. It's like you just walk around and you're like, ooh, I didn't know this was What is this new flavor of Coke? This is fun. They're having, you know, you can buy a whole flat of these weird flavors of Laacroix, which I realized We have these friends who whenever we go over to their house, they have Lacroix, but it's always weird flavors and And we like whyy do they always have weird flavors? it's because they get theirro Laacroix at Costco Yeah I get that. I've seen some I've seen some weird flavors at the old shop, right? Yeah, rightight. Well, anyway, I I just enjoy I really enjoy Costco now and its it's nice to not have to go shopping for essentials that frequently. but when you have them, you're just like, okay, well, we've got o four jars peaches now what your favorite find that you have gotten at Costco that you were like, this fucking rocks. My favorite Costco find, I think that they're orange chicken They're like in the frozen section is really, really good And you can you can bake it. you don't have to fry it and it's still like it tastes really, it's good. It's like not It's meaty It's not like it's not all like Christasready stuff. Yeahes. yes, yes, yes. It's really good. I also like, let's see, what else do I really enjoy Other rotisserie chicken, you can just go get a rotisserie chicken. I've read all about the rotisserie chicken and the hack and how you can make the rotisserie chicken salad in the bag and the whole thing. It's so good. You just It's so cheap. You just grab one and you can honestly eat for like a few days off of it. It's great. Awesome. It's great. I've also get been into disaster prepping. That's part of the reason why got. I was like, what if we run out of food? And it's like, okay, now I have a bucket of rice that I got at Costco It's helping me calm down my anxiety and it's helping me explore my sense of wonder. So thank you, Kust. I will tell you when I lived in DC, so this is going back There was this big snowstorm coming that they're calling Snowmageddon. And my friend Anna Lamy and I went to Costco and we got a margarita bucket that we ate the whole weekend during Snowmageddon. A margarita bucket? Yeah, it was it was like frozen margaritas in a bucket And you just like scooped it dly Yeah I love that This is incredible. That's great. I think it's really important. L if we're going to have some kind of lockdown or shortage situation, you have to have something like that. I have to text her see if she remembers a Margarita bucket. Oh my God. I wish that they had Margarita bucket there. I haven't seen it, but I will report back and then you will have to renew that Costco membership. Yeah because let me know. There's always room for a Margarita bucket Well, yeah, now I got a bigger freezer. All right, that's all the time we have for this week's episode of Hysteria. Alysa, thank you for being my writer, Die, listeners, audience, we love you so much. I got so many tips from people about making jewelry for my dead cat's tooth I mean, did you settle on one? No, I'm still doing research because it's like a serious decision. but I'm still doing some research. I got so many great There's so many