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Thank you. 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 Tsubang, 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 Fever 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. Feverdreams, listeners,

I sincerely hope that none of you grew too attached to co-host, William Summer. And if you had,

I have some very bad news for you. The cover story is that Will is currently on leave for a while. He has more of his

upcoming book to finish, and fame has, quite frankly, gone to his head, and he's off developing

a new pilot for HBO Max, which will serve as a direct sequel to Tim Allen's Last Man Standing. And

later this month, Will is scheduled to take his long-awaited pilgrimage to Bear Tahrir.

However, the truth and the non-cover story version of it is that Feverdreams producer Jesse

Cannon and I have executed a coup d'etat against William Summer, as he has been deemed

by Feverdream's tribunal to be insufficiently woke. It was recently brought to our attention

that Will once tweeted that General

Sao's chicken was his favorite authentic Chinese dish, which we hear at Feverdream's view as

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