Democracy Dies At The White House Easter Egg Roll: Cyber Checks, Katie Phang On Paul Weiss, And DMs Leaking War Plans

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week, V and Sami unpack “cyber checks” while traveling and Sami describes her recent experience returning from Paris. Then, they do a deep dive into the Easter ‘Egg Roll’ on the White House lawn that is now brand sponsored like a NASCAR race, because we do, indeed, live in hell. Following that, Sami and V discuss Chuck Schumer’s Senate leadership capabilities and MSNBC host Katie Phang stops by to explain Trump’s overnight attack on law firms. Oh, and the editor of The Atlantic was accidentally invited to a Trump administration Signal group chat which leaked future war plans to the press. Super chill! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, U-Up listeners.
0:02.0	It's been a while since we've met in person, and we were thinking maybe it's time we set up another date.
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0:45.8	Rise and shine fever dreamers. Look alive, my friends. I'm V. Spear. And I'm Sammy Sage. And this is
0:51.4	American fever dream presented by Betches News, where we explore the absurdities and
0:55.7	oddities of our uniquely American experience. And I'm just back in America from Paris for the
1:02.3	weekend. Bonjour. I'm so glad that you were able to get to Paris for official baguette day,
1:07.4	which I believe was Friday. I didn't even realize that, but I was eating them on Friday.
1:11.9	It was a lovely time. I have some notes from across the Atlantic. I'm especially happy that I was
1:18.1	able to get back, you know, I was worried about you. I'm like, what would compel you to be like,
1:23.7	I'm going to take a little jaunt with all this crazy stuff that's going on. Like, were you scared about?
1:28.8	It was planned before that.
1:30.3	I did have a bit of anxiety, but at the same time, like, I haven't done anything wrong.
1:36.4	Like, I have never done anything wrong.
1:40.0	And I, it does seem that way.
1:43.3	But, you know, I'm an American citizen and I have never committed a crime.
1:49.6	And I have global entry.
1:52.6	So I mean, first of all, I will say, but I don't know if that necessarily would matter.
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