Hi, welcome to Fever Dreams. My name's Will Summer. I'm a political reporter at The Daily Beast and the author of an upcoming book on QAnon for Harper Collins.

And I'm Aswin-Sub-Tang, but please call me Swin. I'm a senior political reporter at the Daily Beast and co-author of the book Sinking in the Swamp.

All right, here on Fevered Dreams, we're going to take you on plunges into the sometimes hilarious and sometimes scary world of the American right as they continue to influence our politics. Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration,

the energy of these conspiracy theorists, these grifters, and these influencers is still pushing

our mainstream political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point. So, Will, when we

addressed during a prior episode, Mark Meadows just continuously punching

himself in his own dick and just continuing to torpedo in all kinds of different ways,

his relationship with Donald Trump, I thought that that was going to be maybe a one episode

type deal.

He keeps doing it over and over again in just completely baffling ways, to the point

where it almost deserves like a deep dive podcast in its own right. We'll do a 10 episode run on Mark

Meadows is a buck up.com. I was just thinking over the weekend, there's kind of like talk

about like what Mark Meadows has this book out. Do people know that this book is called The Chiefs?

What an idiotic name for a book.

There's been a lot of like book, book, book.

And, of course, I mean, this book, I haven't seen the sales figures.

But, I mean, it is just like nowhere to be seen.

I think it was just written that Kaylee McEnany's book is crushing it like a tin can also came out recently. But anyways, so the hot new thing here is that unlike some perhaps

little savvier members of Trump's inner circle, you're Roger Stones, your Steve Bannons,

who sort of immediately said, well, we're going to plead the fifth or we're not going to

cooperate. And they didn't hand over their private communications and documents. That's very

important. If you want to say something is a witch hunt, you might not want to give them all your shit and, like, copy your cell phone

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