MAGA Undercover w/ Michael Edison Hayden & Hannah Gais

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of the Fever Dreams podcast, Hannah Gais and Michael Edison Hayden from the Southern Poverty Law Center recalled a cast of characters to host Will Sommer and guest co-host, The Daily Beast’s Sam Brodey. Then, in the podcast’s “Fresh Hell” segment, the hosts dip into American conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro's growing online movie streaming empire and his burgeoning efforts to create a right-wing Hollywood in Nashville by acquiring the exclusive film and television rights to the books Atlas Shrugged and Pendragon Cycle, along with a forthcoming children’s cartoon about a family of homeschooled chinchillas.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Will Summer and welcome to The Daily Beast, Fever Dreams.
0:03.5	I'm a politics reporter at The Daily Beast.
0:05.5	My book on Q&N, Trust the Plan, The Rise of Q&N, and the Conspiracy that Unhinged America will be available in February and is available for pre-order now.
0:13.5	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.
0:23.1	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.
0:31.4	Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration, the energy of these conspiracy theorists, grifters, and influencers is still pushing
0:38.5	our mainstream political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point.
0:42.9	Welcome back to Fever Dreams. I'm Will Summer. A couple announcements. Number one, we don't need
0:47.4	any more mailback questions. We've got a lot of great questions, and I think we'll have that episode
0:51.1	later this month. Secondly, Kelly Weil has been suspended for some remarks she made during the mailback segment.
0:56.4	I'm just kidding.
0:56.9	It's the holiday.
0:57.6	But we're joined instead by Daily Beast congressional reporter, our man on the hill, Sam Brody.
1:03.9	Sam, how you doing?
1:04.8	Good.
1:05.2	Great to be back, Will.
1:06.4	Yes, obviously you were holding it down earlier this year in some guest episodes,
1:10.2	frequently requested guest host.
1:11.8	Now you're back to walk us through the reign of Kevin McCarthy.
1:15.3	All right, first of all, this is going to be a small item, but it's something that kind of just
1:18.7	picking up my brain.
1:19.7	It's a marker I want to put down, which is the rights increasingly reckless obsession with
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