Rise and shine fever dreamers look alive my friends. I'm the Spear. Sammy's not with us today, but this is still American fever dream presented by Betches news where we explore the absurdities and oddities of our uniquely American experience. Today I have the pleasure of interviewing one of my favorites, Senator Tammy Baldwin.

Welcome to the show.

How are you?

I am well.

It's been a wonderful summer and now we're in the

the sprint both to keep the government running and towards November 5th so all on my mind right now.

We are recording this on debate night.

Now are you going to any watch parties?

Will you be staying up to the 9 o'clock hour to watch it all?

I will definitely be watching it.

I have not decided yet whether I'm going to join a few of my colleagues to watch it or whether I want to do it in isolation so that I can make any noise that I want when I'm cheering or booing or all that sort of thing. I feel that I thought I was going to be watching it like me and Sammy

We're going to be watching it from like a closed room and then do the recap and they were like no we really want you girls to like go down and help host the

Creator watch party in Phillies so now I'm gonna have to like hold my facial

expressions and I just don't know that I can the neutral right I know We're not neutral on this show. I'm decidedly super coconut-pilled.

So I wanted to invite you on, not just to talk about what's going on with Kamala, which is of course very interesting, but to talk specifically about

Wisconsin because a lot of folks don't have a really good understanding of Wisconsin, what makes it so great,

what life is like out there, but it has been a destination that as the cities and the coasts get more dense and a little harder to live in, a lot of folks are looking to Wisconsin is like, maybe that is for me.

Can you tell me what's so great about Wisconsin?

Oh my gosh, well, let's start with just how beautiful it is and how wonderful the people are.

Our state, you know, people think of it as flyover country, but we actually have our East Coast is Lake Michigan

our North Coast is Lake Superior our West Coast is the St Croix and then the mighty

Mississippi River and despite the fact that Minnesota

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