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American Fever Dream

A Sleepy White House Correspondents' Dinner, A 2024 Election Tell-All, And Democratic Hope With Amanda Litman

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week, V and Sami unpack why the "Democratic Party is a delusional circle jerk." Well, kinda! They cover the very quiet White House Correspondents' Dinner and deep dive into Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes's 2024 election cycle book, Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House. Then, Run For Something's Amanda Litman stops by to give us hope about future Democratic Party wins. Watch today on Youtube.com/@thebetchesnews! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, U-Up listeners.

0:02.0

It's been a while since we've met in person, and we were thinking maybe it's time we set up another date.

0:08.2

We're so excited that we're going to be hosting a very special U-Up live event in New York City on April 30th at the Palladium Times Square.

0:17.8

Expect the games you love, spicy dating reveals, and even a live dating app

0:22.5

Maygover. But this time with you in the audience. Rally your friends, bring your craziest dating

0:28.6

stories, and join Jared and I live for a night of laughs that you won't want to miss.

0:33.8

Tickets are on sale now, so visit betches.co slash you up live to get yours before they're gone.

0:45.8

Rise and shine fever dreamers. Look alive, my friends. I'm V. Spear. And I'm Sammy Sage.

0:50.8

And this is American fever dream presented by Betches News. The show we're the only

0:55.5

person getting out of Doge is Elon Musk. Ha ha ha ha. Thanks, Caroline. We love that one.

1:02.2

So today we are talking leadership. And later in this episode, we're going to be talking to Amanda

1:07.7

Lipman, author of the upcoming book, When We're in Charge.

1:11.4

Amanda found it co-founded run for something, and she's responsible for truly thousands of young

1:16.7

people running for office. You see David Hogg. That's how you do it.

1:20.5

We're going to get more millennials in there. When we talk about young people, I'm not talking

1:24.5

about like 22, 23-year-old Gen Z years. I'm talking about millennials. Okay.

1:28.2

So when we say when we have power, we mean we, uh, the forgotten generation of millennials.

1:35.3

Look, I like a developed prefrontal cortex. So depending where you fall in the younger generation,

1:41.7

also time marches forward. So because of that, you will continue getting older and hopefully more mature, I hope, again.

1:49.7

And, and, you know, we're going to talk about what makes a good leader.

1:54.4

And we're not going to talk about this only from the perspective of age, but from the perspective

1:59.6

of coalition building. And, you know, I don't have a good segue

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