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American Fever Dream

#529 In The Same (House) Boat

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Alise, Bryan, and Amanda are back to break down Congress’s mad dash to finish its to-do list before senators simply must leave for vacation. They share easter eggs from the bipartisan infrastructure bill and what $550 billion actually gets done, and try to place blame in the eviction moratorium meltdown. Finally, they react to Senator Lindsey Graham getting COVID on Joe Manchin’s houseboat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Betcha's media presents Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President, you want to hang out with us and get your back seat?

0:07.6

And so I went to human resources. There are some things I just can't tell you on air.

0:11.7

The Betcha's sub podcast. A woman's problem if you will.

0:18.0

Hello, I'm Amanda Doberman. I'm Elise Morales. I'm Brainwrested Smith.

0:23.3

And this is the Betcha's sub podcast. Worsey Span meets the group chat to help you process and laugh

0:27.7

at the biggest topics in US news and politics. Moments before we started recording was a big Cuomo

0:34.5

press conference that I have not engaged in this huge news story yet. We will talk about it tomorrow,

0:39.4

but Brian, you caught a few minutes of it, right? Yeah, I watched it. It was, you know, the attorney general

0:45.2

basically finished their investigation into a sexual harassment allegations. There was 11 women,

0:51.2

11 complaints. There's all of this evidence of like, you know, like their testimonies obviously,

0:58.0

but also all of this unlawful retaliation on the behalf of Cuomo and his administration,

1:04.0

like trying to smear the victims. That's new. I feel like we knew he was claiming that they

1:11.6

were all lying and like professionally potentially having his staff undermine them, but that's brutal.

1:18.1

Even I was telling you, even my dad was like, do you think he'll resign?

1:22.0

I really, I have such a heart. And I and I have not watched the press conference,

1:26.8

so we'll have to see. I have such a hard time seeing Cuomo ever resign.

1:30.8

He's making like him and Chris Christie and all these like, these fucking guys, like they're not

1:36.4

going to step down. You're going to pull me out of the governor's mansion. We're going to pull him

1:41.6

out of the governor's mansion. I know. I guess I can see him hitting a point where it's like, well,

1:44.8

clearly it has become so distracting that I have no choice, but never actually taking responsibility.

1:50.3

I'm trying to like see what the people in the New York state legislature is looking to do,

1:55.2

because if they start to like, because you know, prominent Democrats have been coming out for

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