The Barefoot Contessa herself, Ina Garten, joins Hysteria to give some holiday and hosting advice, including potluck wisdom, host gift etiquette, and the best topics for dinner party discussion. Erin and Alyssa also get into some petty news stories, including Trump’s mystery MRI, Karoline Leavitt’s nasty Thanksgiving feast, and the University of Oklahoma student who flunked a paper after including questionable bible citations. They finished up with a discussion of Wicked: For Good, blind items, and Mormon Wife Whitney Leavitt’s upcoming Broadway debut. 

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Trump says he’ll release MRI results but doesn’t know what part of his body was scanned (AP News 12/1)

OU student claims bad grade is an attack on her faith (Salon 11/30)

Melania Trump Announces Muse Films Production Company (The Hollywood Reporter 11/28)