Fever Dreams

By The Daily Beast

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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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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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 ...

Fever Dreams episodes:

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:

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

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