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American Fever Dream

#811 Oh Good, A Potential Government Shutdown

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Hosts: Amanda, Alise, Milly Topics: Which politicians would we transfer our holiday party hangovers to? What to expect as Congress works on a spending bill to avoid a government shutdown What is Title 42 and why are states freaking out about it ending? A deep dive into Kyrsten Sinema’s Facebook Marketplace based on an investigation from Slate’s Christina Cauterucci Check out our latest promo codes here: https://betches.com/promos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Betges media presents I would like to speak to America's men for one minute. That's slacker barista. I start getting full of emotion. Now we're gonna build this new bridge here. Can I provide a definition? I can't.

0:12.0

Betges subpodcast. Like how are people surviving?

0:18.0

Hello, I'm Amanda Deberman.

0:21.0

I'm Elise Morales. I'm Millie Tumeris.

0:25.0

And this is the very hungover Betges subpodcast where C-SPAN meets the group chat and the Advil and the cold brew to help you process and laugh at the biggest topics in US news and politics.

0:38.0

Listen, we are professionals. We take our jobs very seriously, but we just can't front with you today. And I think that's allowed because it was a Betges holiday party last night.

0:48.0

I believe they force your resignation if you don't, if you don't get lit. No, they definitely don't.

0:56.0

We're inclusive here.

0:59.0

It is a very generous holiday party. And yeah, lots of fun. Lots of martinis for me.

1:05.0

We partook. There was dancing. There was the drinking of espresso martinis.

1:11.0

Oh, my God. I don't know how you guys. Elise, did you exclusively drink espresso martinis?

1:16.0

No, I had two of them. And then I said, if there's that old set, there's like a famous saying about martinis that my mom always says, which is like martinis are like boobs.

1:27.0

One is too few. Two is just perfect. Three is too many. And so I did.

1:32.0

I have three espresso martinis. And then I switched to vodka soda with a splash of cranberry juice.

1:38.0

Wow. Maybe where I went wrong is that I had multiple. I think I had three or four.

1:45.0

And then I switched to the quote unquote cucumber thing.

1:50.0

The cucumber thing was good. I had one of them was fire. And then I had beer, pilsners.

1:57.0

So honestly, the jumpsuit I wore snapped. So I needed to drink to get over my embarrassment that all of bitches can see.

2:08.0

It snapped before we got there. The office.

2:11.0

And it didn't snap. It was just a fucked up zipper, which I hope will be a wrong that ought to be righted.

2:17.0

Yes. And justice.

2:19.0

I was like at least take pick. I have like eight pictures of me.

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