Rise and I'm Sami Sage 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.

Today we are bringing you a new take on temp check, get excited,

followed by an even more intensive deep dive into Project 2025 with a focus on policies that are

affecting veterans we are going to continue talking about Project 2025 a lot and

then we have a vets-themed down ballot era and an Americanat about voice notes are you doing them wrong are

we doing them wrong we report you decide.

Happy Tuesday Sammy and welcome to our veteran-centric episode of American Fever Dream.

It's been on my mind, you know, Memorial Day.

It's a time, it's a, you know, the start of summer, but it does have a little bit of a bittersweet

vibe I'm feeling high today because I just bought you know those little free

libraries are you familiar with this yes yes yes okay I just bought one I don't know why I didn't do this sooner, but I just bought one. I'm gonna set it up in front of my house and I'm I have so many books, so I am gonna stock that little free library up. That's very cute. You're going to have to put a

little sign on it that says like books for adults because a lot of the little

libraries are like for kids at least in my neighborhood. I'm going to put a mix of

children's books,

adult books, no real children's book because I just like don't have any but other

people can because that's the beauty of it. Give a book, take a book, really

excited about it. Well speaking of putting stuff outside of someone's house

Robert DeNiro is out front of Trump's courthouse where he's been spending an

awful lot of time this morning.

At time of recording today on Tuesday, we haven't heard all of the closing arguments, but

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