Playing In The Legal Sandbox

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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5:40 TEMP CHECK: V and Sami check the temperature on the Columbia University protest, clarifying the motivation behind the protests and discussing how they’ve expanded nationwide. 25:45 MAIN NEWS: Why does it seem like every headline is about a court case? They highlight the latest developments at SCOTUS, criminal cases, and more… while reflecting on America’s long standing reputation of being one of the most litigious countries in the world and how Americans use the legal system to solve (and cause!) all sorts of problems. 39:55 DOWN BALLOT VILLAIN: This week goes to Eric Hovde, who has released several ageist remarks on Fox Radio while running for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin against Tammy Baldwin. 45:30 AMER-I-CAN’T: Dollar Tree announced that it is closing 600 of its Family Dollar store locations in 2024. V reveals the top three reasons why a Dollar Store may be a detriment to your neighborhood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.8	Rise and shine Fever Dreamers.
0:30.6	Look alive, my friends.
0:31.6	I'm V Spear. I'm Sammy Sage and this is American
0:34.9	Fever Dream presented by Betches News where we explore the absurdities and
0:38.9	oddities of our uniquely American experience today we are bringing you a temp check on the campus protests,
0:44.6	a breakdown of the hellscape that is our court system right now,
0:48.1	and we american't with the death of the dollar store.
0:51.2	But first, we have to tell you about White House
0:53.5	Correspondence Weekend, which we got to go to this weekend. So fun, where do we even
0:57.7	start? So I think last week we told everybody White House Correspondence
1:00.9	Weekend is like this one week in a year where all the people who cover the White House, journalists, politicians, some even celebrities, get together in D.C. and go to a bunch of parties and a fancy dinner at the Washington Hilton.
1:11.0	We did not go to the dinner, but we did go to some of the parties, but for me the
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