#561 Chaos In Congress ft. Alyssa Mastromonaco

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Sami and Amanda are joined by dream guest Alyssa Mastromonaco, former deputy chief of staff for Barack Obama and host of the “Hysteria” podcast on Crooked Media. They discuss their journeys with special needs pets before returning to the moment Alyssa learned she’d have to give up weed to work in the White House. She describes watching a Democratic White House from the outside and offers an insider analysis of the administration’s moves. Finally, they try to parse out what to expect from the next wild few weeks in Congress and answer the eternal question: Why is Joe Manchin? 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?
0:06.6	Thanks, and so I went to human resources.
0:09.4	There are some things I just can't tell you on air.
0:12.0	The Betcha's sub podcast.
0:14.0	A woman's problem if you will.
0:18.0	Hello, I'm Amanda Doberman. I'm Sammy Sage.
0:22.0	And this is the Betcha's sub podcast.
0:24.0	Where C-SPAN needs the group chat, help you process and laugh at the biggest topics in US news and politics.
0:30.0	We are so excited to be here.
0:32.0	We did a lot of fan-girling before.
0:34.0	We clicked record, but we're here today with Alyssa Master Monaco, who I just had to scramble to write an intro for because I was like, everybody knows Alyssa Master Monaco.
0:42.0	You guys.
0:44.0	So my very short intro is that Alyssa Master Monaco is, of course, the former Deputy Chief of Staff for President Barack Obama.
0:50.0	She's a two-time author and she's the host of the hysteria podcast and part-time YouTuber on the Crooked Media Channel.
0:58.0	Was that going?
0:59.0	Hi, guys.
1:00.0	We're so thrilled. We're such huge fans of you and Crooked and all of your books everywhere you've ever written or said.
1:06.0	So no pressure.
1:07.0	Shut the fuck up. I love you guys. I love your Twitter. I love your Instagram. I love it all.
1:11.0	Okay. So we're just going to have a mutual admiration society going on today.
1:16.0	I also think we have like a little bit of like a kindred spirit habit.
1:19.0	Why is like, I'm a grateful dead fan.
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