Meme Court ft. Luke O’Brien?

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Marjorie Taylor Greene is up to her old tricks—this time, protesting a routine ATF inspection of a Georgia gun store Monday under the guise that there apparently were too many agents from “blue states” conducting the operation. Then, investigative reporter Luke O’Brien joins the podcast to talk about the ongoing trial of Douglass Mackey, a 33-year-old ‘alt-right’ figure dubbed the “Disinformation King” by the Southern Poverty Law Center.. Despite the fact that Mackey allegedly engaged in election interference, he’s become a cause célèbre in right-wing circles—even garnering a number of segments on Tucker Carlson’s primetime Fox News show. Plus! Benny Johnson, the former Buzzfeed writer who was fired for plagiarism before becoming a right-wing media star, ditches Newsmax in order to pursue an independent career.

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0:00.0	Picture this. Static cars, idling engines, angry horns.
0:08.6	Now, picture you, zooming past it all.
0:13.8	Light and breezy.
0:16.2	Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic.
0:20.8	Book your train journey via avantiwestcoastcoast.coast.com.
0:25.1	Avanti West Coast, feel good travel.
0:32.4	Hi, I'm Will Summer, and welcome to The Daily Beast's fever dreams.
0:35.9	I'm a politics reporter at The Daily Beast.
0:42.5	My book on Q&ONM, Trust the Plan, The Rise of Q&N and the Conspiracy that Unhinged America will be available in February and is available for a pre-order now. And I'm Kelly Weil. I am also a
0:47.9	reporter at The Daily Beast and I'm the author of the book Off the Edge, Flat Earthers,
0:52.5	conspiracy culture, and why People Will Believe Anything.
0:55.5	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.
1:03.8	Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration, the energy of these conspiracy theorists, grifters, and influencers, is still pushing our mainstream
1:11.5	political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point.
1:15.2	Welcome back to Fever Dreams. I'm Will Summer, joined as always by Kelly. Kelly, I have to say,
1:20.3	I cannot believe I missed last week's episode. It was an opportunity to discuss Ron DeSantis'
1:25.7	pudding game. Absolutely. It was so good to talk about putting fingers, Ron. I'm really sorry you had to miss it.
1:31.9	I think it's one of the most, like, talked about things. Everybody I strike up a conversation with wants to talk about putting fingers, Ron.
1:38.5	And it's just something that I get to keep from myself. Got the sticky hands. It's very tactile to think about it. It's almost like an
1:46.3	ASMR thing. Squish, squish, squish. It definitely is. It's like a slime video on TikTok. Just get the
1:52.1	fingers in the chocolate pudding and kind of squish it around. If it doesn't work out with the
1:56.7	governorship, he can always be one of those people who like, yeah, like reviews pudding or whatever,
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