GOPlenty of Fish w/ Michael Schaffer

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

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🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

“Corruption chic” is in. That’s according to The Conservateur, a new “D.C.-based fashion-and-lifestyle platform” from some of conservative fashion’s most elite, who, upset over Vogue snubbing Melania Trump, are now throwing in their political views with a cute new pair of shoes–or ankle monitors–in their own attempt at creating content. Michael Schaffer, a senior editor at Politico whose Capital City column runs weekly in Politico Magazine, tells hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill in this episode of The Daily Beast’s Fever Dreams podcast that while he doesn’t think Anna Wintour is losing a lot of sleep, the “MAGA answer to Vogue” has landed, and it’s already making headlines. In this week’s “Fresh Hell” segment, the hosts discuss the right’s reaction and misreporting to the emerging trend of colorful fentanyl pills dubbed rainbow fentanyl.

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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
0:21.0	on plunges into the sometimes hilarious, sometimes scary fanatics, infecting the way that millions
0:25.4	of 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
0:35.1	mainstream political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point.
0:39.7	Welcome to Fever Dreams. I'm Will Summer, and I'm joined this week by my co-host, Kelly Weil.
0:45.6	Kelly, how are you doing? All right. I'm hanging in. All right. It's been a busy start to the fall.
0:50.7	So, first of all, before we get into swing of things, I just want to give a little shout out to some
0:54.0	fever dreams listeners I met earlier this month at Andy Kroll's book reading in D.C.
0:58.8	about the Seth Rich conspiracy theory. Some folks came up after the event and said they enjoy the
1:03.8	podcast. And the one guy I think said is one of his favorite parts of the week. So me too. So always nice to meet some folks out in the while. Moving on. Okay, Kelly,
1:12.2	you've been following a story about a conservative dating app that's having a little trouble taking
1:16.7	off. What's going on? So, well, yeah, it's coughing season, right? You want that. That's a great point.
1:21.7	New beau to go out and pick apples, what have you. Well, esteemed colleague, Zach Petrizo, has a story from the dating app,
1:28.6	The Right Stuff. And if you can recall, this is an app that's been promoted by Kaylee McAnananetney's
1:33.9	sister. It's also running into some legal trouble because it turns out there's already
1:38.2	an existing right stuff dating app. It's also the name of a neo-Nazi podcasting network,
1:43.3	which you never really love that situation when you're looking for the one.
1:47.9	But what I love from this new Zach Petriza reporting shows exactly the tiny, tiny dating pool that right stuff users are operating in.
1:58.2	Apparently, it's rolled out in D.C. and the only people using it are D.C.
2:02.6	staffers on the Hill who already know and despise each other, frankly. Here's a great quote.
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