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American Fever Dream

The Crypto Grift That Could Break America ft. Charlotte Howard

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week, V and Sami unpack the ICE protests in LA and dig into the disinformation spreading through on-the-ground reporting and the media ecosystem at large. Then, they’re joined by Charlotte Howard, Executive Editor of The Economist and co-host of the Checks and Balance podcast, for a deeply worrying look at Trump’s economic chaos, crypto grifts, and how the U.S. economy went from best-in-class to dumpster fire. Spoiler: we also picked a new mascot for the Democrats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.2

Rise and shine fever dreamers. Look alive, my friends.

0:37.9

I'm V. Spear.

0:39.0

And I'm Sammy Sage.

0:39.8

And this is American Fever Dream, presented by Betches News.

0:43.4

The show that loves to watch when the girls are fighting on Twitter with popcorn in hand.

0:47.7

And then loves to watch the people fighting on fighting about the phrase, the girls are fighting and whether it's misogynistic.

0:54.0

It's like,

0:54.6

you are all so missing the point. Also, during Pride Month, we're not going to recognize

1:00.8

the girls are fighting is a non-gendered term, meaning, yeah, like drag queens are fighting.

1:06.7

Yeah. This is one of those things where it's just like, God damn.

1:16.9

It's like if you know where the, the phrase is from and if you know the tone with which the phrase is used, you know that it's not an insult to girls or women.

1:22.3

It is just a tongue-in-cheek phrase and we can have fun with phrases and we can say we can have fun actually

1:30.6

that's what I've learned from being on the internet all this time is that no matter what you say

1:35.4

there will be somebody who comes in and it's like actually that's not I'm disgusted with you

1:42.3

and I'm like okay look I don know. I guess I'm not well.

1:45.4

You know, that person's probably having a lot of fun. They must get something out of it.

1:49.4

I do wonder, like, what is it like in the day of a person who goes around just like looking for

1:54.3

problems with like basically like sort of like innocent people, right? Like so many times i'll see somebody get stitched

2:02.5

and it's just like some random person who's not even a creator and they just were got brave enough

2:07.1

to make a ticot one day and just say something maybe they said like some little thing not like a

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