Choice Words w. Franchesca Ramsey

**Erin Ryan** (0:00)
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Hello and welcome to Hysteria. I'm Erin Ryan.

**Alyssa Mastromonaco** (1:28)
And I'm Alyssa Mastromonaco.

**Erin Ryan** (1:30)
And today, we also have joining us the remarkable Franchesca Ramsey. Welcome, Franchesca.

**Franchesca Ramsey** (1:35)
Yay, happy to be back.

**Erin Ryan** (1:36)
I'm so glad you're here. I'm so glad you're here for a full episode. I think it's been a few years since you've been for a full episode. So I'm gonna spring a cold open question on the two of you. It was a big night for the DSA in New York. Big, big night.

**Alyssa Mastromonaco** (1:48)
Yeah.

**Erin Ryan** (1:49)
Zoran Mamdani went three for three with his endorsed candidates. What do we think Chuck Schumer's having for breakfast today?

**Alyssa Mastromonaco** (1:56)
Muesli.

**Franchesca Ramsey** (1:57)
I was gonna say Metamucil.
Oh my god, this is not sponsored. It should be.

**Erin Ryan** (2:03)
You know what? I would 100% accept free Metamucil. I would read Metamucil ads until the cows come home.

**Franchesca Ramsey** (2:09)
Oh my god. Thank you. I'm so glad to be with my elder millennial contemporaries.

**Alyssa Mastromonaco** (2:14)
Listen, GenX is happy to have you.

**Erin Ryan** (2:17)
Today we hear about Alyssa's experience at the Obama Center opening and reflect on the bygone era. Look back on the past four years since Dobbs was overturned. Oh my god. What is time? And we look into leaked information about the Peter Thiel founded Secret Dialogue Society. And of course, we wrap up with Sandy Petty.
Welcome back to Hysteria, the podcast that understands that the answer to why does JD. Vance have such a difficult time acting like a normal human man is because he's three Peter Thiels in a trench coat, right? Valid.

**Franchesca Ramsey** (2:51)
I feel like you're overestimating how many Peters is in there.

**Erin Ryan** (2:53)
You think there's only two Peters?

**Alyssa Mastromonaco** (2:54)
It's like 1.5.

**Franchesca Ramsey** (2:55)
Yeah, I was going to say, there's a Peter pun in there somewhere that I'm not going to make, but I'm going to say one and a half.

**Erin Ryan** (3:03)
So somewhere in the world, there is a half Peter Thiel walking around.

**Alyssa Mastromonaco** (3:08)
I hate that.

**Erin Ryan** (3:09)
I hate that. OK, the reason we're talking about JD. Vance, as much as I don't really like thinking about him, I want everybody to check out this footage of normal human man JD. Vance having a normal interaction with his human wife, Usha, on her weekly hostage video, I mean, storytelling podcast. Let's take a look. Thanks for joining us today, honey.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:29)
Of course. Good to see you.

**Franchesca Ramsey** (3:31)
So you're also a big reader.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:33)
These days, it's mostly kids' books, right? Right. That's right. Yeah.

**Erin Ryan** (3:36)
How many books a day do you think you read to our kids?

**SPEAKER_4** (3:39)
Well, it depends on whether our kids are in a reading mood or not, as you know. So right now, we have three kids. Obviously, we have a fourth on the way. Which we're very excited about. But our eight-year-old likes to read his own stories to himself. And I think our six-year-old sometimes wants me to read to him, but he's kind of at an age where he likes to read a lot to himself as well.