TikTok's Final Days and Rogan & Zuckerberg Awkwardly Bro Out

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

We're days away from the TikTok ban being decided and Trump's inauguration --- Sami & V share how they're trying to take care of themselves, even if it just means lots of sugar and caffeine. Mourning the final days, V talks about what the future of TikTok could look like if it continues to exist, but no matter what, it'll probably never be the same. Then, last week Mark Zuckerberg went on the Joe Rogan show, and it's giving Sandra Dee at the sleepover vibes. From replacing fact checking with "community notes," to saying he wants to bring masculinity back to Facebook, the exchange between the two just felt...awkward. How much longer will millionaires like Zuckerberg hang out with the MAGA group, when they don't have to pretend anymore? Read Emily Amick's Substack - Why are we all feeling broken? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.0	Rise and shine fever dreamers. Look alive, my friends. I'm V. Speer. And I'm Sammy Sage.
0:39.0	And this is American fever dream presented by Betches News, where we explore the absurdities and oddities of our uniquely American experience. And it only gets more absurd, odd American every week.
0:54.6	Sammy texted me this morning and was like, welcome to the odd American every week. It's...
0:55.0	Sammy texted me this morning and was like,
0:57.9	welcome to the last week of democracy.
0:59.8	And like, I didn't even flinch.
1:01.5	I was like, oh, yeah.
1:02.7	It's Monday.
1:03.8	It's the Monday before the Monday before the inauguration.
1:07.3	Right now we're recording Monday.
1:08.7	The audience is probably listening Tuesday or thereafter.
1:12.4	But for us right now, we are one week from the inauguration and I am just so disassociated.
1:18.7	I don't even know if you could get more than this.
1:22.7	Yeah, I'm at a loss for words.
1:24.3	So I keep trying to do things to like anchor myself to reality.
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