A Fever Dreams Farewell feat. Asawin Suebsaeng

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

It’s the final episode of Fever Dreams. After sharing some of their favorite moments from the podcast’s years-long run, the hosts tackle the right-wing obfuscation of a mass shooter’s extremist history and a viral prank on the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Will Summer and welcome to The Daily Beast, Fever Dreams.
0:03.5	I'm a politics reporter at The Daily Beast.
0:05.5	My book on Q&N, Trust the Plan, The Rise of Q&N, and the Conspiracy that Unhinged America will be available in February and is available for a pre-order now.
0:13.5	And I'm Kelly Weil. I am also a reporter at The Daily Beast, and I'm the author of the book Off the Edge, Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything.
0:23.1	On this podcast, we're going to take you on plunges into the sometimes hilarious, sometimes scary fanatics, infecting the way that millions of Americans view the world and how they vote.
0:31.4	Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration, the energy of these conspiracy theorists, grifters, and influencers, is still pushing our
0:38.7	mainstream political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point.
0:43.8	Welcome back to fever dreams. I'm Will Summer, joined as always by Kelly Weil, joined for the
0:50.5	final time. Kelly, you have an announcement for us, or we have an announcement to make.
0:54.9	We have an announcement. Will, I am living, laughing, and loving. I am seething and coping.
1:00.9	This is the last episode of Fever Dreams. You, of course, have a big announcement. You're headed
1:06.6	somewhere. What's up? Yes, I am headed to the Washington Post where I'll be a media reporter
1:11.0	covering all the kinds of things I've covered at The Daily Beast and as well as on this podcast.
1:16.0	And plus a lot more things. I'm a big media maniac. And I don't know if that speaks well to my
1:21.6	credibility, but I am. I love consuming media of all kinds. And I will be reporting on it there
1:26.2	at the Washington Post. And so
1:28.4	relatedly, the Daily Beast is shutting down fever dreams. And so this is our goodbye episode.
1:34.4	It's been real. Well, just like honestly, well, first of all, I think you're officially off the
1:38.4	Daily Beast payroll. So I think you get like one or two free defamations in this episode.
1:43.5	If you want to maybe say something libelous
1:45.6	on our dime, now is your time. But in all seriousness, this pod was your and Swin's baby. And it's been
1:53.0	just really cool for me to be able to come on board and riff with you guys. And yeah, it's been a dream.
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