Fever Dreams

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The Daily Beast’s top reporters take you inside the right’s push to retake power, from the conspiracy-slingers to the MAGA acolytes to the straight-up grifters. Thought the Trump era was crazy? Wait ’til you hear what they have planned next. Hosted by Asawin Suebsaeng and Will Sommer. New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app today.

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PragerU Covid Club feat Ama...

10.20.2021

Did Dennis Prager deliberately catch Covid-19, or is he just embarrassed now that he did? Will Sommer and guest host Kelly Weill discuss the talk radio host’s coronavirus hunt, plus Laura Loomer’s intense memoir about getting PTSD from a Twitter ...

Fever Dreams episodes:

10.20.2021 PragerU Covid Club feat Amanda Montell Did Dennis Prager deliberately catch Covid-19, or is he just embarrassed now that he did? Will Sommer and guest host Kelly Weill discuss the talk radio host’s coronavirus hunt, plus Laura Loomer’s intense memoir about getting PTSD from a Twitter ...
10.13.2021 All Aboard MAGA Airlines, feat. Jennings Brown As far-right efforts to “audit” the 2020 election fizzle, some of the movement’s biggest names have accused each other of being communists, FBI informants, and “homewreckers.” Meanwhile, other right-wing figures have more pressing concerns: namely, how to launch their own ...
10.06.2021 SQAnon Game, Feat QAnon Anonymous The hosts of QAnon Anonymous dropped by this week to talk about the latest Q conspiracies involving the Facebook outage and the annoying fact that Joe Biden remains in the White House. Plus: Trumpcoins are flooding Telgram via fake celebrity ...
09.29.2021 Razing Arizona feat. Jerod MacDonald-Evoy With the Arizona audit in chaos after confirming Biden won, the boys are joined by Arizona Mirror reporter Jerod MacDonald-Evoy to talk through the aftermath — and the audit-enthusiast civil war. Kelly Weill joins to talk about the new book ...
09.22.2021 NFT Hustle Tips feat. Joe Carnahan Ron Watkins, the alleged mastermind behind QAnon, is getting in on the NFT game by selling Trump retweets. And Tiffany Trump and the Krassenstein Brothers aren't far behind...Meanwhile, Eric Trump is headlining an anti-vaxxer conference that also features the Q. ...
09.15.2021 The Cuck Box, Feat. Josh Ruben A former InfoWars reporter is pushing a hot new gadget on the right-wing electronics market: the Qux… Yes, it’s pronounced “cucks.” No, no one knows what it does. But for $99, it promises to free Donald Trump’s supporters from the ...
09.08.2021 General (Air)Strike!, Feat. Spencer Ackerman Over $8 trillion spent, and almost a million dead bodies. The U.S.-led war on terror absolutely devastating over the last two decades. The wars also led to Donald Trump’s rise to power, irreparably degraded our culture, and made our far-right ...
09.01.2021 Radio, Radio, Feat. Matt Gertz Conservative talk radio hosts keep dying of COVID-19, after voicing skepticism about vaccines. Meanwhile, at the top of the conservative news food chain, Fox News hosts face backlash if they’re even perceived to promote vaccination. Matt Gertz, a senior fellow ...
08.25.2021 Rise of the Wario Cop, Feat. Ben Collins There is something wrong when your local police department warns you about marauding ‘Antifa buses’ coming to your town to hurt your grandmother. It’s even worse when the police dispatch a helicopter to hunt down the imaginary bus of Antifa ...
08.18.2021 Critical War Theory, Feat. Jared Holt & David Roth *** CONTENT WARNING - On this weeks episode after the ad break at 27 minutes we start an interview that has a graphic description of a child being murdered by a Q-Anon follower. If you wish to skip this content ...
08.11.2021 Beer for My Horse Paste, feat. Cam Joseph Remember when hydroxychloroquine was the "it girl of the conspiracy verse"—a supposed COVID miracle pill touted by Donald Trump and the Demon Sperm Doc? Those days are over and there's a new drug blowing up the unhinged corners of Facebook ...
08.04.2021 MyPillow Presents Woodstock ’21 w/Steven Monacelli As Trump tried to subvert American democracy, he told DOJ officials that they were not “following the internet the way I do.” He was referring in part to ultra-rightwing conspiracy site Gateway Pundit—run by the so-called “dumbest man on the ...
07.28.2021 ConservaKids, Feat. Alex Pareene If you’ve ever wished the kids’ books you read your small children included more references to the “cabal” at Jeffrey Epstein’s island, then we have some news for you! On this episode of FEVER DREAMS, hosts Will Sommer and Asawin ...
07.21.2021 The MAGA Coffee Wars, Feat. Andy Richter On this episode of FEVER DREAMS, hosts Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng discuss the ongoing war for consumers that’s raging between two MAGA-style coffee companies, with one of the companies landing in hot water with its fans for trashing the ...
07.14.2021 CPAC Showdown Feat. Zach Petrizzo Outlandish sunglasses company Pit Viper has a problem: white nationalists love them. This week, Fever Dreams hosts Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng talk about Pit Viper’s attempts to push back on their alt right fanbase, after the reflective shades popped ...
07.07.2021 The Fascist ‘Diaries’ feat. Kathleen Belew In 1978, an American neo-Nazi published The Turner Diaries, an infamous race-war novel that went on to inspire so many far-right and violent extremists in the subsequent decades. So it wasn’t a huge shock when anti-democratic rioters showed up at ...
06.30.2021 MAGA Cruelty is Still the Point w/ Adam Serwer This week’s episode of Fever Dreams features the brilliant Atlantic columnist Adam Serwer, whose new book—The Cruelty is the Point: the Past, Present and Future of Trump’s America—builds off a 2018 essay to examine how President Trump weaponized racism and ...
06.23.2021 The Critical Race Theory Freak Out feat Brandy Zadrozny Now that COVID is waning, Tucker Carlson and the rightwing hysteria machine have to find a new culture war. Heads up, Concerned Parents, there’s a new moral-panic bogeyman—fomented by the far right and Fox News—that’s coming for America’s children, and ...
06.16.2021 The James O’Keefe Musical feat. Ryan Cooper Far-right activist Ammon Bundy is running for governor of Idaho—despite being legally banned from the Idaho statehouse. “He’s prepping a run for Idaho governor, to the dismay of the Idaho Republican Party, which really does not want that affiliation,” said ...
06.09.2021 Talk Radio Crank Yankers Feat. Chris James On this episode of FEVER DREAMS, hosts Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng sit down with Canada-based comedian and “Not Even a Show” host Chris James, a man who spends his days figuring out ways to prank prominent conservatives and MAGA ...
06.02.2021 Banned from Q Con feat. Dave Weigel You thought Michael Flynn calling for a coup was the most exciting thing to happen at the QAnon conference in Dallas over Memorial Day weekend? Think again, Fever Dreams fans, for just before the wacko retired general longingly wished for ...
05.26.2021 Trumpy Anti-Trafficking Group Relies on Psychic for Tips FT/ Anna Merlan & Tim Marchman A tough-talking anti-human-trafficking organization with ties to Donald Trump relied on a tip from a psychic for at least one of its failed “raids” in Haiti, according to reporters who have tracked the group. “They have defended the use of ...
05.19.2021 Why Kramer Would Definitely Go QAnon, Feat. Larry Charles On this episode of FEVER DREAMS, hosts Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng welcome writer/director Larry Charles, a Sacha Baron Cohen collaborator who also wrote some of the darkest and most beloved episodes of Seinfeld. According to Charles, if Seinfeld were ...
05.12.2021 How ‘Wannabe’ Instagram Models Kneecapped Matt Gaetz If the federal investigation into Matt Gaetz does indeed end up spelling the MAGA congressman’s downfall, it’ll be partly because of a group of wannabe Instagram influencers. On this week’s episode of The Daily Beast’s Fever Dreams podcast, hosts Will ...
05.05.2021 Secret U.S. Intel Reports on Joe Exotic, Juggalos, and Violent Emojis Actually Exist In this episode of FEVER DREAMS, hosts Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng sit down with Intercept reporter Ken Klippenstein, to delve into how an incredible amount of taxpayer money goes into the U.S. government’s sprawling, frightening, and oftentimes downright bizarre ...
04.28.2021 Inside the Church of Bleach Drinkers So, remember when ex-President Donald J. Trump insanely told the United States that injecting yourself with bleach might be a cure for the coronavirus? It turns out that there’s a whole slew of wackos who have been promoting bleach drinking—disguised ...
04.21.2021 Pro-Trump Meet-Up Features Call to Kill Political Enemies In this episode of FEVER DREAMS, hosts Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng go deep on the far-right “Health and Freedom Conference” in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where thousands of attendees flocked to reaffirm their commitment to Donald Trump, the QAnon conspiracy, coronavirus ...
04.14.2021 When Your Girlfriend Dimes You Out as a Capitol Rioter In this episode of FEVER DREAMS, hosts Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng welcome HuffPost reporter Ryan J. Reilly, who dishes on some of the wildest, least expected, and flat-out dumbest ways alleged U.S. Capitol rioters have been handed over to ...
04.09.2021 He Was Partners With ‘QAnon.’ Now He Wants Them Arrested Note: If you're coming here from The New Abnormal the interview picks up after the commercial around 12:30 He founded the noxious online forum that gave QAnon life. And now, he thinks “Q” should be arrested and tried. In Q: ...
04.07.2021 How 'Q' Tried to Pin the Whole Thing on Steve Bannon By the end of the big new documentary series on QAnon, the filmmakers show off a pretty damn strong case that a shitposting systems administrator named Ron Watkins is the guy currently behind “Q.” But the docuseries doesn’t fully capture—at ...
03.31.2021 Why QAnon Is So Bummed to See the Suez Ship Go Free Did you know that everyone’s favorite Suez-Canal-blocking ship is now the subject of a QAnon conspiracy? The Daily Beast’s Asawin Suebsaeng and Will Sommer lay out why the adrenochrome set is convinced that the stuck ship’s cargo is full of ...
03.24.2021 What It’s Like When MAGA Nation Wants to Kill You for Your Movie Take one self-proclaimed satanism expert. Add in a pinch of dumpster-diving. Throw in a chicken-coop fire, and (of course) pillow magnate and Donald Trump pal Mike Lindell. And you’ve got the recipe that Trump 2020 deadenders are currently leading in ...
03.16.2021 Fever Dreams Trailer The Daily Beast’s top reporters take you inside the right’s push to retake power, from the conspiracy-slingers to the MAGA acolytes to the straight-up grifters. Thought the Trump era was crazy? Wait ’til you hear what they have planned next. ...

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Fever Dreams episodes:

PragerU Covid Club feat Amanda Montell

All Aboard MAGA Airlines, feat. Jennings Brown

SQAnon Game, Feat QAnon Anonymous

Razing Arizona feat. Jerod MacDonald-Evoy

NFT Hustle Tips feat. Joe Carnahan

The Cuck Box, Feat. Josh Ruben

General (Air)Strike!, Feat. Spencer Ackerman

Radio, Radio, Feat. Matt Gertz

Rise of the Wario Cop, Feat. Ben Collins

Critical War Theory, Feat. Jared Holt & David Roth

Beer for My Horse Paste, feat. Cam Joseph

MyPillow Presents Woodstock ’21 w/Steven Monacelli

ConservaKids, Feat. Alex Pareene

The MAGA Coffee Wars, Feat. Andy Richter

CPAC Showdown Feat. Zach Petrizzo

The Fascist ‘Diaries’ feat. Kathleen Belew

MAGA Cruelty is Still the Point w/ Adam Serwer

The Critical Race Theory Freak Out feat Brandy Zadrozny

The James O’Keefe Musical feat. Ryan Cooper

Talk Radio Crank Yankers Feat. Chris James

Banned from Q Con feat. Dave Weigel

Trumpy Anti-Trafficking Group Relies on Psychic for Tips FT/ Anna Merlan & Tim Marchman

Why Kramer Would Definitely Go QAnon, Feat. Larry Charles

How ‘Wannabe’ Instagram Models Kneecapped Matt Gaetz

Secret U.S. Intel Reports on Joe Exotic, Juggalos, and Violent Emojis Actually Exist

Inside the Church of Bleach Drinkers

Pro-Trump Meet-Up Features Call to Kill Political Enemies

When Your Girlfriend Dimes You Out as a Capitol Rioter

He Was Partners With ‘QAnon.’ Now He Wants Them Arrested

How 'Q' Tried to Pin the Whole Thing on Steve Bannon

Why QAnon Is So Bummed to See the Suez Ship Go Free

What It’s Like When MAGA Nation Wants to Kill You for Your Movie

Fever Dreams Trailer