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 Asawin Suebsaeng and Will Sommer. New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app today. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Pennsylvania Putsch ft. Mic...

05.18.2022

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 ...

Fever Dreams episodes:

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 ...
02.09.2022 Their Satanic Travesties Request, Feat. Andy Levy t’s that time of year again for the Super Bowl halftime show and while the 2022 lineup of Dr. Dre, Snoop, Mary J. Blige and Eminem reads to most fans like a warm and fuzzy 90s nostalgia bath, “to hear ...
02.02.2022 Run, Ronny, Run!! Feat. Byron Tau The first QAnon campaign finance filing is finally here, everybody! And it’s… hilarious how much cash this congressional campaign managed to raise. “His first campaign finance filing came in, and it seems to support the idea that not too many ...
01.26.2022 Fire and Furries, Feat. Jane Coaston Is Joe Biden just as bad as Donald Trump for calling attention to voting rights? The nation’s whataboutist pundits say yes! This week, Fever Dreams dives into the beltway’s favorite new talking point. Elsewhere in D.C. this weekend, anti-vax celebrity ...
01.19.2022 Slagged Across Concrete, Feat. Jonathan Katz The latest conspiracy theory to convulse MAGA-land does not involve COVID-19 boosters or deep-state January 6 plots, but a bit of routine construction at dear old 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue—which has convinced some on the right that Biden is about to ...
01.12.2022 Vlog or Die, Feat. Abbie Richards One surefire way to garner some extreme MAGA-cred nowadays is to get COVID-19, lie about it and say you just have pneumonia, and remain unrepentant as an avowed anti-vaxxer. But there’s at least one MAGA diehard—an associate of Steve Bannon—who ...
01.05.2022 The MAGA Infiltrator, Feat. Amanda Moore When Amanda Moore lost her job, she decided to go undercover in MAGA land, attending QAnon events and CPAC, hanging with Neo-Nazis and “blood-and-soil fascists,” and palling around with Proud Boys at Harry's Bar in the lead-up to the January ...
12.29.2021 A Fever Dreams Carol The year 2021 brought some major grifts in MAGA-land, as Fever Dreams hosts Asawin Suebsaeng and Will Sommer noted in their final podcast of the year—think Melania Trump’s NFT’s and the ‘Freedom phone,’ which was basically a “rebrand of a ...
12.22.2021 Jimmy Pesto Goes To Washington, Feat. Dick Lehr Some internet mischief-makers created a fake DHS website purporting to show President Biden’s plan for COVID concentration camps—and rightwing Senate candidate JD Vance fell for it hook, line, and sinker. Elsewhere on the podcast, The Daily Beast discovers the answer ...
12.15.2021 Alex Jones and The Hypnotist, Feat. Knowledge Fight Her name is Trevian Kutti. Is that the name of the lamest Bond villains of the Pierce Brosnan era? Or is she a Kanye West publicist who fumbled her way into a Coen Brothers-style mission to shred the democratic order ...
12.08.2021 The New New NEW Right Feat. Sam Adler-Bell Trump fanatics Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn had a secret falling-out—and it’s just the latest revelation in the ongoing civil strife that’s been engulfing some of MAGAworld’s top election deniers. On this episode of FEVER DREAMS, hosts Will Sommer and ...
12.01.2021 The Qanon Riot-Squad, feat. Dan O'Keefe ‘Seinfeld’ writer Dan O’Keefe is the man who gave us the holiday of Festivus—and as he reveals for the first time on Fever Dreams, its origins are pretty dark. Elsewhere on the podcast, the big MAGA civil war between Trump-loving ...
11.24.2021 Drama at MAGA High, Feat. Abdur-Rahman Muhammad In the aftermath of the contested 2020 vote, Trump’s biggest election-fraud cheerleaders—Lin Wood, Sidney Powell, and Michael Flynn—were a tight crew. But the MAGA clique’s now in trouble as they turn on each other over wild accusations and petty infighting. ...
11.17.2021 Tim Pool, Ivermectin Posterboy w/Robert Silverman One-man YouTube brand and far-right darling Tim Pool came down with a nasty case of COVID-19—and with Joe Rogan’s help, became the latest posterboy for the dubious treatment of the virus with ivermectin. Meanwhile, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy is ...
11.10.2021 Paul Gosar, Meme Lord ft. Justin Baragona Congressional dentist Paul Gosar is tweeting anime beheading videos of his colleagues and the hosts of The Daily Beast’s Fever Dreams have some questions. Namely, “who on Gosar’s staff is the meme Lord?” As host Will Sommer notes, “Not a ...
11.03.2021 Return To The Grassy Knoll Feat. Tim Mak Will JFK Jr. rise from the dead and proclaim himself QAnon King in a Dallas press conference this week? Probably not. But that hasn’t stopped conspiracy theorists from gathering in Texas to meet the long-departed lawyer. This week on Fever ...
10.27.2021 Jesus Goes Full QAnon ft. E.J. Dickson Jesus—aka actor Jim Caviezel—has “emerged from his chrysalis as a QAnon butterfly” and is now spending his days making videos about adrenochrome and appearing at Q conferences to quote from Braveheart. Meanwhile, Sean Hannity and other right-wing types are in ...
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 ...

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Fever Dreams episodes:

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

Their Satanic Travesties Request, Feat. Andy Levy

Run, Ronny, Run!! Feat. Byron Tau

Fire and Furries, Feat. Jane Coaston

Slagged Across Concrete, Feat. Jonathan Katz

Vlog or Die, Feat. Abbie Richards

The MAGA Infiltrator, Feat. Amanda Moore

A Fever Dreams Carol

Jimmy Pesto Goes To Washington, Feat. Dick Lehr

Alex Jones and The Hypnotist, Feat. Knowledge Fight

The New New NEW Right Feat. Sam Adler-Bell

The Qanon Riot-Squad, feat. Dan O'Keefe

Drama at MAGA High, Feat. Abdur-Rahman Muhammad

Tim Pool, Ivermectin Posterboy w/Robert Silverman

Paul Gosar, Meme Lord ft. Justin Baragona

Return To The Grassy Knoll Feat. Tim Mak

Jesus Goes Full QAnon ft. E.J. Dickson

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