What Motivates a Presidential Assassin?

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Sami & V take a look at the history of assassination attempts on US presidents and how these attempts, successful or not, shaped American politics. They also talk about the shared motives that many of these men have, like their desire for attention and recognition. This episode also touches on the history of the electric chair...and how masturbation might have played a role in one of these attempts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Rise and shine fever dreamers look alive my friends I'm Vespierre
0:05.6	and I'm Sammy sage and this is American Fever Dream presented by Betches news
0:10.8	where we explore the absurdities and oddities
0:13.6	of our uniquely American experience.
0:16.6	We got a big day today, Sammy, we got a fun one.
0:19.7	So I was like, you know, there's a lot going on in the world and there's nothing that brings me
0:24.6	greater comfort than history.
0:29.3	We love facts.
0:30.6	Sammy has agreed to be with us here today to do a special that is like I don't know what we should even call this.
0:35.8	Should we call this a fever nap?
0:37.2	This is not our normal shell.
0:38.5	This is a different kind of show.
0:40.0	It's a REM cycle.
0:41.2	It's a REM cycle. It's a REM cycle. It's a reoccurring dream. Right. It's like a memory because it's history.
0:49.4	What you just said makes me really happy because as I've been on the book tour for democracy in
0:54.8	retrograde you should buy it people have asked us what gives you hope and I have
0:59.8	said at every stop please don't let this spoil it for you if you eventually do hear me say this in another
1:05.6	capacity, that reality and facts give me hope because I know for a fact that like the majority of Americans are not anti abortion and they're
1:16.5	not anti LGBTQ rights and they don't want to destroy the climate and so as much as it appears that, you know, everything's split so 50-50 and so even, that's just within the system, which is designed to be that way.
1:32.8	It's not reality amongst people.
1:35.5	And history, I think, functions similarly.
1:38.3	It's like, this is what has happened.
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