Emo Beanie w/ Andy Kroll
Fever Dreams
The Daily Beast
4.4 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Daily Beast’s Fever Dreams podcast, host Will Sommer and guest host Andrew Kirell, senior editor at The Daily Beast, discuss the new song released by the pro-Trump YouTuber, who has used some of his wealth to fund a rock song, “Only Ever Wanted.” Also on the podcast, Andy Kroll, a reporter for ProPublica and the author of the upcoming book, A Death on W Street: The Murder of Seth Rich and the Age of Conspiracy, discusses how the story of Seth’s life and death took on this bizarre, conspiratorial afterlife online.
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| 0:00.0 | 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&ONN called Trust the Plan for Harper Collins coming out later this year. |
| 0:09.9 | 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 |
| 0:21.1 | plunges into the sometimes hilarious, sometimes scary fanatics, infecting the way that millions of |
| 0:25.6 | Americans view the world and how they vote. Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration, |
| 0:30.4 | the energy of these conspiracy theorists, grifters, and influencers is still pushing our mainstream |
| 0:35.5 | political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point. |
| 0:39.3 | Welcome back to Fever Dreams. We're joined once again by guest host Andrew Correll, holding it down for |
| 0:44.9 | his final episode. Andrew, I hope you brought some big surprises for us today. I sure hope so, too. |
| 0:51.3 | Great. All right. So first, a bit of housekeeping. Last week, I predicted Laura Lumer had a good chance of winning her race in Florida for a house seat. I thought she was going to do better than people expected. And you know what? I was right. Now, she didn't win the Republican primary. And ultimately she lost by almost seven points. And people might say, well, that's not that good. But I would argue that it is good. Well, it's not good for the country. Lord knows. But I think it's a surprisingly |
| 1:14.5 | strong showing for someone who is, I think, best known for locking herself up in front of a |
| 1:20.9 | Twitter headquarters with a Holocaust star on her arm and ranting and raving against a former |
| 1:26.9 | Speaker of the Florida House. |
| 1:28.2 | So while ultimately she almost lost by double digits, I think it was still a big surprise |
| 1:32.4 | that she came so close. |
| 1:33.7 | And I think it is ominous about where the GOP is headed, as well as where the future of our |
| 1:39.4 | senior citizens, and so much of this primary was premised on getting turnout from the |
| 1:43.4 | villages. |
| 1:44.0 | Andrew, what do you think? Yeah, I feel bad for the boomers that were so much of this primary was premised on getting turnout from the villages. Andrew, what do you think? |
| 1:44.9 | Yeah, I feel bad for the boomers that were so supportive of her. |
| 1:48.3 | And they spent their time making that video and everything. |
| 1:50.5 | Got these custom, the boomers for Lumer. |
| 1:52.6 | Yeah, boomers. |
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