Fever Dreams

By The Daily Beast

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What's Fever Dreams about?

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 Kelly Weill and Will Sommer. New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Santosmania feat. Tina Nguyen

01.25.2023

Puck reporter Tina Nguyen joins this week’s Fever Dreams to discuss Rep. George Santos and the civil war brewing between his staffers and the far-right figures he’s begun to consult. Weill and Sommer discuss the recently disclosed rulebook for Proud ...

Fever Dreams episodes:

01.25.2023 Santosmania feat. Tina Nguyen Puck reporter Tina Nguyen joins this week’s Fever Dreams to discuss Rep. George Santos and the civil war brewing between his staffers and the far-right figures he’s begun to consult. Weill and Sommer discuss the recently disclosed rulebook for Proud ...
01.18.2023 Stove Wars feat. Matthew Sheffield The first thing Andrew Tate did after his arrest on Romanian human trafficking charges was to complain about “the Matrix”—a shadowy power structure hell-bent on taking him down for, well, some unspoken reason. He is, of course, not the first ...
01.11.2023 The End of Diamond & Silk feat Claire Goforth Ineitha Lynette Hardaway—better known as “Diamond” from the pro-Trump broadcasting duo “Diamond and Silk”—passed away this week, leaving the future of the pair’s popular act in limbo. In this week’s episode of Fever Dreams, hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill ...
01.04.2023 Andrew Tate's Arrest Explained It may be the start of a new year, but the Republican Party is back to its old antics again—throwing the House of Representatives into chaos as a rogue group of far-right Congresspeople refuses to step into line and back ...
12.28.2022 Revenge of the Qux Kelly and Will dig through the mailbag to answer the burning questions on listeners’ minds. Whatever happened to the Qux Box, the right-wing tech device that was supposed to create a new internet? Are MAGA DJ’s “Milk n Cooks” still ...
12.21.2022 We Have To Talk About Kevin w/ Corbin Bolies This week, Fever Dreams hosts Will Sommer and Sam Brodey take you down the rabbit hole of Turning Point USA, a conservative youth organization which looks more and more like the future of the GOP. Also,: a year-end list of ...
12.14.2022 MAGA Undercover w/ Michael Edison Hayden & Hannah Gais On this week’s episode of the Fever Dreams podcast, Hannah Gais and Michael Edison Hayden from the Southern Poverty Law Center recalled a cast of characters to host Will Sommer and guest co-host, The Daily Beast’s Sam Brodey. Then, in ...
12.07.2022 Kanye Cans Milo ft. Jim Small Kanye West seems more unhinged than ever before—and that’s saying something. And with Milo Yiannopolos now booted from Kanye's orbit, the only person who’s really winning is white nationalist Nick Fuentes, says host Will Sommer on this week’s episode of ...
11.30.2022 Kanye vs Tim Pool ft. Cerise Castle Kanye’s West’s “traveling roadshow of right-wing internet fame balls” may be the topic of the week, but according to Fever Dreams host Will Sommer, fame, like money, does not equal happiness. In this week’s episode, Sommer and co-host Kelly Weill ...
11.23.2022 Anti-Woke Bank Collapse w/ Heidi Beedle Is Twitter really going to “go crazy” now that new owner Elon Musk has allowed previously banned users like former President Donald Trump back on the platform? Hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill discuss the prospects for the beleaguered social ...
11.16.2022 GOP Midterm Disaster In this week’s episode of Fever Dreams, hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill discuss how just two weeks on from the Pelosi controversy, the Twitter CEO jumped on board a vague and unverified theory that is being used to explain ...
11.09.2022 Enter The Manclan feat QAnon Anonymous Would you eat raw testicles to become an alpha male? This week, Julian Feeld and Annie Kelly of the QAnon Anonymous podcast join us to discuss their new series “Man Clan,” which delves into the dark, dietarily dubious world of ...
11.02.2022 The QAnon Coalition feat Alex Kaplan There’s a very good chance that at least two secretary of state positions in the battleground states of Nevada and Arizona will be won by people who are part of a coalition put together by a QAnon promoter who some ...
10.26.2022 Mule Majnia w/ Maurice Chammah Things have gotten a lot crazier over the past few years for award-winning former CBS News war correspondent Lara Logan. Now reinvented as a far-right commentator, she was most recently kicked off Newsmax after appearing on Eric Bolling’s primetime program ...
10.19.2022 Oathkeepers In Love w/ Kyle Spencer The rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, faces an uphill battle to revive the “ghost town” that is the conservative MAGA site Parler, say hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill in this week’s episode of The Daily Beast’s Fever ...
10.12.2022 Anti-Woke Banking w/ Jared Holt Kanye West has been inching towards reimagining himself as both a virulent antisemite and the public face of Fox News and over the past few weeks, he’s been off the handle. Also on the podcast, Jared Holt, a senior researcher ...
10.05.2022 Herschel Walker’s New Scandal feat Travis Waldron Herschel Walker already faced an uphill battle to become a U.S. senator after The Daily Beast reported he paid for a girlfriend’s abortion. But now it appears Walker is embroiled in another fight: one with his own son. Christian Walker, ...
09.28.2022 GOPlenty of Fish w/ Michael Schaffer “Corruption chic” is in. That’s according to The Conservateur, a new “D.C.-based fashion-and-lifestyle platform” from some of conservative fashion’s most elite, who, upset over Vogue snubbing Melania Trump, are now throwing in their political views with a cute new pair ...
09.21.2022 Doing Hardee's Time w/ Matt Binder What's the motivation and meaning behind the recent Trump rally in Ohio where supporters held up one finger in a “weird” salute. But what does it mean? Plus, Matt Binder, reporter for Mashable and host of the podcasts Doomed and ...
09.14.2022 MAGA Cinema Cringe feat. Ethan Chorin It’s on par with Don’t Worry Darling for being one of the most talked about cinematic events of the fall, but just how bad is Goonies star Robert Davi’s film My Son Hunter? On this week’s episode of The Daily ...
09.07.2022 Return To Beartaria w/ Philip Bump Just when you thought Dr. Mehmet Oz was losing the war against Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, this week, the reality TV star found a new arsenal at his disposal. On this week’s episode of The Daily Beast’s Fever Dreams ...
08.31.2022 Emo Beanie w/ Andy Kroll On this week’s episode of The Daily Beast’s Fever Dreams podcast, host Will Sommer and guest host Andrew Kirell, senior editor at The Daily Beast, discuss the new song released by the pro-Trump YouTuber, who has used some of his ...
08.24.2022 Andrew Tate Explained w/ Nikki McCann Ramirez Sometimes the biggest surprises come from the strangest of places. On this week’s episode of The Daily Beast’s Fever Dreams podcast, host Will Sommer and guest host Andrew Kirell, senior editor at The Daily Beast, return to the icy north ...
08.17.2022 Aura Shift w/ Nick Lutsko The fallout from the FBI’s raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort feels never-ending, and those still suffering the sting of the right-wing backlash are the ones who enforced the move, including the federal magistrate judge who signed off ...
08.10.2022 Conceptual Lames w/ Jessica Pishko The FBI raided Mar-a-Lago! This week on Fever Dreams, Will Sommer and guest host Anthony Fisher talk about the FBI search on Mar-a-Lago, whether the feds should have given Trump advanced notice, and whether Republicans will vaporize the Justice Department ...
08.03.2022 New Age Fever Dream w/ Matthew Remski On the latest episode of Fever Dreams, host Will Sommer and guest host Anthony Fisher discuss the motive behind Donald Trump’s endorsement for Eric…but which one? The team also discuss and review Alex Jones’ “documentary” as his Sandy Hook trial ...
07.27.2022 Intellectual Dork Web w/Eiynah On the latest episode of Fever Dreams, host Will Sommer and guest host Anthony Fisher discuss Alex Jones’ upcoming trial and John Rich’s No.1 hit, “Progress,” along with the problems surrounding the title. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more ...
07.20.2022 Alt Right Reservoir Dogs feat. Matt Ford On the latest episode of Fever Dreams, host Will Sommer and guest host Asawin Suebsaeng–returning to the podcast he helped launch– talk about the “little people just riding around the miasma of MAGA-ism”. One of those people is Ray Epps, ...
07.13.2022 The Floor Is LAVA Move over, MAGA — it’s LAVA time. With efforts to overturn the election stalling, a former inventor and treasure hunter proposes that Trump supporters embrace a new acronym: LAVA, or “Let America Vote Again.” Fever Dreams host Will Sommer buries ...
07.06.2022 Multiverse Vibe Shift w/ Baynard Woods Hope you didn’t get too rowdy on Independence Day — the Large Hadron Collider is about to zap us into another dimension, and July 4th partygoers will be left in the old universe. So goes the thinking in a new ...
06.29.2022 Q Lives Q of QAnon infamy has returned! Hosts Will Sommer and Sam Brodey talk about Q’s new posts after a nearly two year hiatus, and QAnon conspiracy theorists’ excitement about them. Sam gives an update on the pardon-crazed January 6th committee, ...
06.22.2022 Woke Alamo feat. Jessica Huseman Will Sommer and Sam Brodey chat with Jessica Huseman, editorial director for Votebeat, about how folks who actively tried to subvert the 2020 election are now vying to get on ballots for positions that could allow them to influence the ...
06.15.2022 Proud Boys 101 feat. Andy Campbell The Proud Boys are at the center of the January 6 committee hearings — but who are they? HuffPost editor Andy Campbell, the author of an upcoming book on the Proud Boys, joins Fever Dreams host Will Sommer and guest ...
06.08.2022 Milo Goes To Congress feat. Brian Knappenberger From the newest development in the Capitol riot investigations, with Proud Boys charged with seditious conspiracy indictments, to Kevin McCarthy’s war with MAGA hardcore believers, Will Sommer and guest host Zachary Petrizzo break down the state of the political right ...
06.01.2022 Pizzagate Is Back, Baby! Feat. Sarah Posner In another wild week for right-wing Fever Dreams, Ted Cruz is all about door control now, Dinesh D’Souza has new competition from the MyPillow guy in the fight for the craziest documentary about what Democrats supposedly did to steal the ...
05.25.2022 MAGA Rap feat Tess Owen Who’s the most goated pro-Trump rapper alive? Perhaps it’s Forgiato Blow, the trash-talking, Hooters-addicted “Mayor of Magaville.” Vice News reporter Tess Owen joins Will Sommer and guest host Zachary Petrizzo to talk about her recent profile of Blow. Plus: the ...
05.18.2022 Pennsylvania Putsch ft. Michael Hayden The Pennsylvania Senate primary results are in, and the hosts discuss how insurgent right-winger Kathy Barnette’s rise was an indication of how fringe figures are now outflanking even the former president and his favored candidates. Michael Hayden from the Southern ...
05.11.2022 Kicked Out of Incel Club feat. James Pogue A newly nominated Republican congressional candidate in Ohio claims he’s not a QAnon guy, despite appearing to own an extensive wardrobe of QAnon merchandise. This week on Fever Dreams, we revisit J.R. Majewski, the next likely candidate to join Congress’s ...
05.04.2022 Roe Leak Hunt feat. Jordan Green The right has achieved a decades-long goal by successfully overturning Roe v. Wade, but all they want to talk about is finding out who leaked the opinion breaking the news. Fever Dreams hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill talk about ...
04.27.2022 The Intellectual Dark Webbers Behind 'Groomer' Panic Feat. Anthony Fisher 'Groomer' panic is sweeping the nation as right-wing types turn against LGBTQ rights, and the talking points—as with the backlash against Critical Race Theory (CRT) in schools—can directly be traced back to a group of anti-wokeness activists on the "intellectual ...
04.20.2022 Brainpill Bankruptcy feat. Nikki McCann Ramirez Would you buddy up to a neo-Nazi for a cut of crowdfunded “patriot freedom” cash? That’s the question reportedly wracking a wing of a D.C. jail, where multiple alleged January 6 rioters are being detained. This week on Fever Dreams, ...
04.13.2022 Paging Seymour Butts Feat. Taylor Lorenz No, passenger “Let’s go Brandon” does not need to check-in at Gate 10. It’s just the latest right-wing trend that has conservatives paging fake passengers over airport intercoms. This week, Fever Dreams brings you the bleeding edge in COVID-19 conspiracy ...
04.06.2022 The People's Court, Feat. Murder Bryan Hosts Asawin Suebsaeng and Will Sommer have one thing on their minds: how they can score $2,500 to land spots on a bogus “grand jury” indicting Anthony Fauci. On this week’s episode, Swin and Will discuss the burgeoning trend of ...
03.30.2022 'Playboy' Poems of the Trump Attorney, Feat. Elizabeth Williamson Some of Donald Trump's lawyers have some cringe hobbies, like trying to do coup d'états. But did you know that one of them is an amateur poet, who has written verses about "THE TORONTO SUBWAY SYSTEM" and, "of life and ...
03.23.2022 Alex Pwned, Feat. Ryan Mac Fever Dreams host Will returns to the pod to talk with Swin about Alex Jones’s maybe-fake illness, which conveniently struck him down right before a Sandy Hook deposition. New York Times reporter Ryan Mac stops by to talk about Republican ...
03.16.2022 My Own Private (Nazi) Idaho, Feat. C.J. Ciaramella Is this the country’s most off-the-rails local Republican party? This week, Fever Dreams checks in on the Kootenai County, Idaho GOP, where local leaders are accused of trying to force a hostile takeover of the local Democratic party, and install ...
03.09.2022 Trump’s ICE Man Heads To Nazi-Palooza, Feat. Chris Mathias America First Political Action Conference, a white nationalist event, keeps its location secret, in part to keep the press away. This week’s guest, HuffPost Christopher Mathias, found the location anyway. He joins Fever Dreams to discuss his bizarre conversation with ...
03.02.2022 Dance Dance Revo-Putin, Feat. Adam Rawnsley Donald Trump is racking up massive Secret Service bills—and hassling those agents about their physical fitness and whether they voted for him. This week on Fever Dreams, we visit wannabe demagogues at home and abroad. In Florida, Rep. Marjorie Taylor ...
02.23.2022 Phat Earth, Feat. Dylan Gelula MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is back with a wacky new claim, this time about Fever Dreams host Asawin Suebsaeng. It’s not true—but it’s not even the weirdest conspiracy theory on this week’s podcast, where we preview co-host Kelly Weill’s new ...
02.16.2022 Canadian Bacón, Feat. David Roth & Mack Lamoureux Even though the Canadian trucker protesters have been cleared from Ottawa’s border bridge and commerce lanes with the U.S. reopened this past weekend, Canada is still struggling to contain the demonstrators—and as Fever Dreams guest and Vice writer Mack Lamoureux ...

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Fever Dreams episodes:

Santosmania feat. Tina Nguyen

Stove Wars feat. Matthew Sheffield

The End of Diamond & Silk feat Claire Goforth

Andrew Tate's Arrest Explained

Revenge of the Qux

We Have To Talk About Kevin w/ Corbin Bolies

MAGA Undercover w/ Michael Edison Hayden & Hannah Gais

Kanye Cans Milo ft. Jim Small

Kanye vs Tim Pool ft. Cerise Castle

Anti-Woke Bank Collapse w/ Heidi Beedle

GOP Midterm Disaster

Enter The Manclan feat QAnon Anonymous

The QAnon Coalition feat Alex Kaplan

Mule Majnia w/ Maurice Chammah

Oathkeepers In Love w/ Kyle Spencer

Anti-Woke Banking w/ Jared Holt

Herschel Walker’s New Scandal feat Travis Waldron

GOPlenty of Fish w/ Michael Schaffer

Doing Hardee's Time w/ Matt Binder

MAGA Cinema Cringe feat. Ethan Chorin

Return To Beartaria w/ Philip Bump

Emo Beanie w/ Andy Kroll

Andrew Tate Explained w/ Nikki McCann Ramirez

Aura Shift w/ Nick Lutsko

Conceptual Lames w/ Jessica Pishko

New Age Fever Dream w/ Matthew Remski

Intellectual Dork Web w/Eiynah

Alt Right Reservoir Dogs feat. Matt Ford

The Floor Is LAVA

Multiverse Vibe Shift w/ Baynard Woods

Q Lives

Woke Alamo feat. Jessica Huseman

Proud Boys 101 feat. Andy Campbell

Milo Goes To Congress feat. Brian Knappenberger

Pizzagate Is Back, Baby! Feat. Sarah Posner

MAGA Rap feat Tess Owen

Pennsylvania Putsch ft. Michael Hayden

Kicked Out of Incel Club feat. James Pogue

Roe Leak Hunt feat. Jordan Green

The Intellectual Dark Webbers Behind 'Groomer' Panic Feat. Anthony Fisher

Brainpill Bankruptcy feat. Nikki McCann Ramirez

Paging Seymour Butts Feat. Taylor Lorenz

The People's Court, Feat. Murder Bryan

'Playboy' Poems of the Trump Attorney, Feat. Elizabeth Williamson

Alex Pwned, Feat. Ryan Mac

My Own Private (Nazi) Idaho, Feat. C.J. Ciaramella

Trump’s ICE Man Heads To Nazi-Palooza, Feat. Chris Mathias

Dance Dance Revo-Putin, Feat. Adam Rawnsley

Phat Earth, Feat. Dylan Gelula

Canadian Bacón, Feat. David Roth & Mack Lamoureux