American Fever Dream

By Betches Media

From under the desk to in your ears, V. Spehar joins Betches Media in a new podcast dedicated to curing the collective malaise brought on by our chaotic political environment. Every week, Spehar and c... more

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American Fever Dream episodes:

January 26, 2023#827 Florida Or Fiction?
Hosts: Amanda, Milly, Alise
Topics:
Pope Francis is cool with celibate gays
Trump is invited back on Facebook
An Idaho Republican lawmaker apologizes for comparing women to cows (but there’s a plot twist)
Reacting to the highs and lows of this year’s Oscar nominations
The story of the woman who concealed her Asian descent and was nominated for an Oscar 87 years ago
What’s really in the AP African American studies class that Ron DeSantis banned from Florida?

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46min
January 25, 2023#826 The 2024 Senate Races Worth Getting To Know
Hosts: Amanda, Kaitlin
Topics:
What would we invite the FBI over to help us find?
Reacting to and contextualizing the classified documents found at Pence’s house.
Rep. Ruben Gallego announces a 2024 Senate run against Kyrsten Sinema in Arizona, setting up a potential three-way general election in a toss-up state. We unpack the messiness.
Looking closely at the bright light we’ve been avoiding (the 2024 Senate map)

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27min
January 24, 2023#825 Inside Social Media’s Favorite Senate Campaign
Hosts: Amanda, Milly, Annie Wu HenryTopics:
Amanda and Milly debrief on M&M’s announcement to abandon its politically polarizing spokescandies
Rating the sexiness of animated male corporate mascots
Annie Wu Henry, digital strategist and former social media producer for John Fetterman, joins to share her iconic year that began with quitting her job and ending with a victorious senatorial campaign.
How she used memes and humor to make distinctions between Dr. Oz and Dr. Fetterman
On overcoming imposter syndrome and what’s actually exciting about politics right now
Follow Annie at @annie_wu_22 on Instagram
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44min
January 23, 2023#824 A Surprise Brett Kavanaugh Documentary
Hosts: Amanda, Sami, Alise
Topics:
Joe Biden invites the FBI over for a 13-hour search of his Delaware home. Would we rather be the agents searching Mar-a-Lago, or Joe’s house?
Updates regarding the mass shooting that killed 10 in Monterey Park – the nation’s 33rd mass shooting in 22 days
Why all eyes are on Wisconsin as Roe reaches it’s 50th anniversary
A surprise new documentary about Brett Kavanaugh asks if the FBI did enough to investigate claims of sexual assault

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43min
January 19, 2023#823 Jacinda Ardern’s Radical Resignation
Hosts: Amanda, Milly, and Alise
Topics:
Alec Baldwin and crew members on “Rust” are charged with involuntary manslaughter. How might this change incentives for filmmakers who cut corners?
George Santos’ other life as a drag performer in Brazil. How far will his denials go?
Jacinda Ardern announces her resignation and we reflect on how she embodied a new kind of empowered feminism, and why more politicians should step down when they’re tired

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42min
January 18, 2023#822 The Blue State In Its Flop Era
Hosts: Amanda, Sami, Kaitlin
Topics:
A failed Republican candidate for state government orchestrated shootings at Democrats’ houses. No one died, but we explain the real tragedy.
Why people are mad about Governor Kathy Hochul’s controversial judge nomination in New York
Why is Eric Adams at the border wall?

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34min
January 17, 2023#821 The (Wrong) Way Of Water?
Hosts: Amanda, Milly
Topics:
Weekend catch-up and empty Republican statements on MLK Day
Reflecting on the depictions of colonization in “Avatar: The Way Of Water” as the film nears $2 billion in global earnings
Unpacking James Camerons’ 2009 comments that Native American tribes could have “fought harder” to resist
What to know about this week’s debt ceiling showdown and the unusual ways Biden can get around it
Can Janet Yellin mint a $2 trillion coin?

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40min
January 16, 2023#820 The Anti-Abortion-Extremist-To-Insurrectionist Pipeline
Hosts: Amanda, Lizz Winstead, co-creator of “The Daily Show,” Abortion Access Front, and Feminist Buzzkills Live! podcast
Topics:
Republicans are on a mission to rescue the nation’s most vulnerable kitchen appliance
Abortion Access Front’s revolutionary approach to expanding reproductive justice
How keeping track of abortion extremists led them to expose January 6 insurrectionists
The deep cruelty of the House GOP’s first anti-abortion rights legislation
Missouri spends its first day of government discussing… what?!
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37min
January 12, 2023#819 Appropriation Station
Hosts: Amanda, Milly, Alise
Topics:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s bizarre first order of business as Governor of Arkansas
How “Mike’s” are running Congress
Gwen Stefani gives a painful interview to Allure identifying as Japanese
The popularity of Black hair products among white women raises questions about appreciating a product vs. restricting access for those it was made for

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48min
January 11, 2023#818 Classified Documents Back In The Spotlight
Hosts: Amanda, Kaitlin, Sami
Topics:
Jim Jordan’s fulls his anti-FBI fantasy with an alarming new House subcommittee
Reacting to the timing of Rep. Katie Porter’s announcement for Senate
How to explain why Joe Biden’s classified document’s issue is not the same as Trump’s

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41min

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