Andrew Tate's Arrest Explained

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

Government

4.4 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

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 Kevin McCarthy’s bid for the speaker’s gavel. Kelly Weill and Will Sommer, hosts of The Daily Beast’s Fever Dreams podcast, predict that 2023 will only bring more insane antics from the chamber’s more controversial corners—and Fever Dreams favorites like Reps. Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, and Marjorie Taylor Greene are already floating their best ideas for what to do with their newfound majority power. Plus, the pod explores the arrest of misogynist influencer Andrew Tate—and how the downfall of a MAGA-adjacent internet celebrity leaves the rest of that ecosystem in the lurch. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination.
0:11.1	Not a care in the world as you simply lean back, and before you know it, you're there.
0:16.7	London to Manchester from just 32 pounds each way.
0:20.5	Avanti West Coast.
0:22.2	Feel good travel.
0:23.8	Exclusions and limitations apply.
0:25.6	Full terms and conditions can be found at avantiwestcoast.coast.com.
0:28.6	U.K. forward slash plan.
0:32.5	Hi, I'm Will Summer, and welcome to The Daily Beast fever dreams.
0:35.9	I'm a politics reporter at The Daily Beast.
0:37.9	My book on Q&ONON, Trust the Plan, The Rise of Q&N, and the Conspiracy that Unhinged America
0:42.5	will be available in February and is available for a pre-order now. And I'm Kelly Weil. I am also a
0:47.9	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.
0:55.6	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.
1:03.6	Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration, the energy of these conspiracy theorists, grifters, and influencers, is still pushing our mainstream
1:11.5	political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point.
1:15.3	Welcome back to a new year of fever dreams. I'm Will Summer, joined as always by Kelly Wilde. Kelly,
1:22.6	you're back for vacation. How's it going? It's good. I went to the South Pole. I met Santa's Evil Twin. He takes away a
1:29.6	present from you if you were extra nice. So yeah, I'm in present at. Interesting way to slip in that
1:37.5	you were really nice this year, I guess. Well, very cool. All right. So first of all, a couple things
1:41.8	of knowledge. Last week, we had our mailbag app. So if you missed that in the holiday hustle and bustle, take a look. I think we answer some great questions from our listeners. And then the big news today is we record on Tuesday is the utter insanity of Kevin McCarthy's attempt to become speaker. By the time this episode will come out, maybe that'll be sorted. Maybe it won't. So we can't get into it too much today.
2:01.3	But I did just want to say this is shaking out. It seems like Kevin McCarthy does not have the votes
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