Hello, U-Up listeners.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

And this is American fever dream presented by Betches News, where we explore the absurdities and oddities of our uniquely American experience. We're changing that tagline. I've decided it's so beyond absurd and odd. Although the things we will discuss will be absurd and odd, we assure you. But it's so beyond that at this point. It's spooky out there, for sure.

I mean, even as we're trying to record this, just so you guys know, there's just so much going on that we just had to pick, like, two topics and stick to them.

This could be a 24-hour live stream of chaos.

First of all, these episodes are now on YouTube. facial expressions and all. And also we may have a little visual surprise at the end of this episode,

sort of like a consolation prize for everything that's going on. And if you'd like to see that,

please refer to our YouTube channel. And yeah, this could be an entire, entire crazy episode that

we can just be live streaming the craziness. Right now we're recording

it's Monday at noon and I was just tuning in to the Trump Buckele meeting in the Oval Office,

which is gilded, one might say. I'm very worried about what this week will bring because,

you know, we've sort of danced around, are we in a constitutional crisis or not?

We are. We have then. But certainly the direct defiance of the executive branch against the legislative branch or the judicial branch.

Trump defying the Supreme Court on bringing that Maryland father back from the El Salvador prison is like you can't get around that.

That is a constitutional crisis textbook just by the letter.

And it's really scary that he's now sitting in the Oval Office saying Buckele is going to build more of these prison centers to send our most horrible criminals who are here

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