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American Fever Dream

Books We Read to Cope Ft. Molly Jong-Fast and David Litt

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of American Fever Dream, V and Sami have their first book club of ‘AFD approved’ beach reads. They’re first joined by author Molly Jong-Fast of How To Lose Your Mother to chat about grief, sobriety, and how to get through the ‘worst year of your life.’ Then, switching gears, David Litt stops by to talk about his new book, It’s Only Drowning, a novel about how surfing with his MAGA-loving brother-in-law led to unexpected political insight and where we all go from here. Watch this and more today at youtube.com/@BetchesNews! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Rise and shine fever dreamers. Look alive, my friends. I'm Fee Speer.

0:08.8

And I'm Sammy Sage. And this is American Fever Dream presented by Betches News.

0:13.7

Your official Judeo-Catholic podcast.

0:17.5

We are living in unprecedented times and leaning on our collective religious trauma to get us

0:24.4

through it here we are truly truly i mean we had to brand it that way because that there was no other

0:30.3

way to do that this has become it is people are like are you catholic i'm like well i mean i was baptized

0:36.3

and uh i did all the i did my turn you And I did all the, I did my turn.

0:39.2

You know, I did all the sacraments and everything.

0:41.1

So yeah, I think I get to keep it.

0:42.6

Is it like, are you a ball player?

0:44.0

Like, you know, I would play, I pitched in softball.

0:46.3

Once a ball player, always a ball player.

0:47.6

I'm a baller. this up is because over the weekend, I was reading this book about, it's called Ask Not

0:55.0

about the Kennedy women that, you know, the way that they treated all the women in the family.

1:01.4

Yeah.

1:01.6

And it really was one of those like myth busting books about just how the family conducts itself.

1:08.6

And unfortunately, it's still relevant because the head of our

1:12.4

Department of Health and Human Services is a result of that family and all the impunity that they

1:18.0

have enjoyed. But the reason I wanted to bring it up is because the Catholicist, you know,

1:23.0

we all we all know that JFK was the first Catholic president, obviously relevant to this,

1:30.0

to this Judeo-Catholic podcast, and that that had been a goal of his father, Joe Kennedy's.

1:36.4

And something that I realized is that it's not just that they're like Catholic, oh, they happen

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