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.

Welcome to Feber Dreams. I'm Will Summer and I'm joined today by none other than original Fever Dreams co-host,

Asowen, Sub-Seng, new father, new daddy, also father of the podcast, co-parenting with me.

Swin, welcome back.

I still have new daddy brain right now.

I just got off of my first leg of paternity leave. I'm going to sound

like this, probably during the whole recording of this episode. And I'm not going to remember

that any of this happened. So if I say anything particularly inflammatory, it can't be legally

held against me. A fugue state. That's good podcasting. As I think you've told our audience,

I've been gone for the past six weeks because little Dylan Sub-Sang was born recently. He is just a little over one month old. He is a bundle of joy. He is also a terrorist. And I'm sure all of the fathers and mothers who listen to our pod can empathize with what Liz, my wife and I are

currently slugging through at the moment. It's very joyful in a very sadomasochistic sort of way.

And please, all of our listeners, send me as many derisive tweets of both support and also

Schadenfreude as much as you'd want after you hear this. Thank you so much.

Okay, having said that, Will, what have I missed? Do we have a new president yet?

Well, I'll tell you what, one of the things that happened while you were gone was this group of

Q&N believers anticipating JFK Jr. coming back to life, essentially, alongside of John F. Kennedy, the father,

Dale Earnhardt, Robin Williams. There was a whole crew. They believed they were going to come back to

life. All the famous Trump supporters, by the way, yeah. Right. Right. Exactly. So right around

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