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Hi, I'm Will Summer.

Welcome to The Daily Beast's fever dreams.

I'm a politics reporter at The Daily Beast,

and I'm currently working on a book about Q&ON called Trust the Plan for Harper Collins coming

out later this year. 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.

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.

Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration, the energy of these conspiracy theorists,

grifters, and influencers is still pushing our mainstream political landscape closer and closer

to a breaking point.

Welcome back to fever dreams. It's me, Kelly. Will is out this week. He's going undercover as a

my pillow seamstress, but I'm joined by returning champ and guest host Sam Brody. Sam is a congressional

reporter at The Daily Beast. Sam, how's it going? Good to be here. This ruined my plans this week to go undercover as a Hardee's drive-through cashier. I'm glad I could win for real. Yeah, I mean, listen, there are increasingly Mike Lindell related tie-ins to the show. So you can really diversify your career portfolio here. This is sort of the season

of Sam. We're done with the primaries. We're moving into the generals and we've kind of sewn up

the cast of interesting characters who are going to be running. And what's especially interesting

...