Everything's Computer: Trump Bought A Tesla, Hallow App Celebrity Endorsements, Meta A.I. Slop + Carlos Eduardo Espina Speaks To Covering Immigration

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Today, V and Sami dive into the Hallow App and its god-fearing celebrity endorsements. Then, they cover Trump’s purchase of a Tesla and his parade of it on the White House lawn. And to top off our coverage of fascist men that failed upwards, Sami and V break down Sarah Wynn-Williams’s Facebook memoir Careless People. And finally, Carlos Eduardo Espina stops by to speak to his experience covering immigration and parsing through the deluge of misinformation from the Trump administration. 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.
0:08.2	We're so excited that we're going to be hosting a very special U-Up live event in New York City on April 30th at the Palladium Times Square.
0:17.8	Expect the games you love, spicy dating reveals, and even a live dating app
0:22.5	Maygover. But this time with you in the audience. Rally your friends, bring your craziest dating
0:28.6	stories, and join Jared and I live for a night of laughs that you won't want to miss.
0:33.8	Tickets are on sale now, so visit betches.co slash you up live to get yours before they're gone.
0:40.5	Rise and shine fever dreamers. Look alive, my friends. I'm V. Spear. And I'm Sammy Sage.
0:44.9	And this is American fever dream presented by Betches News, where we explore the absurdities and
0:50.7	oddities of our uniquely American experience.
0:55.1	Yes.
0:57.3	Fever dreamy it is, as ever.
1:00.1	It's a fever dreamy time of year, too.
1:04.0	We didn't celebrate it, but it was just Perum, which is my favorite Jewish holiday because it's like Jewish Halloween kind of.
1:06.1	It's super fun.
1:07.3	Basically.
1:07.5	I love it.
1:08.2	Yeah.
1:08.5	It's a good time.
1:10.0	It's mostly, you know, at this point celebrated by, you know, young children and the Orthodox. And also college boys. I saw a lot of. Yeah. It's it's honestly the most for sure by Miles the most fun Jewish holiday. So I, because I'm in my Catholic year right now,
1:28.7	maybe this is why I was getting so many ads for this particular app, but it turns out no,
1:33.3	all of you are getting ads for the hollow app with when Stefani. I saw an article about it or someone
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