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Fever Dreams

Miles Klee on The New Abnormal

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4767 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Rolling Stone's Mile Klee joins The New Abnormal to talk the myth of "go woke. go broke."

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0:00.0

Last minute party, what will I bring them something unexpected?

0:06.2

Let's play scratch cards.

0:09.3

Trying to find something a bit different.

0:11.4

Why not add some play to Christmas with scratch cards from the National Lottery?

0:15.4

Pick them up in store now.

0:16.6

Please gift responsibly. Rules and procedures apply. Players and gifters must be 18 or over.

0:22.9

Hi, FeverDreams is no longer producing new episodes, so I wanted to share another political podcast from The Daily Beast.

0:29.3

It's called The New Abnormal. Enjoy this episode and subscribe at the dailybeast.com slash podcast or on your favorite major podcast player.

0:37.7

Go woke, go broke.

0:39.4

That's the expression used by large swaths of the right to describe what they think happens

0:43.5

to companies that, well, to companies that do whatever it is they're defining as woke that day.

0:48.3

But is this true or is it wishcasting?

0:50.5

Joining us now, someone who claims to have the answer to that question, Rolling Stone Culture

0:55.0

Writer Miles Klee. Miles, thanks for being here.

0:57.0

Hey, fellas, what's up?

0:58.0

So, as you allude to in your piece, right now the right, and by the right, I mean mostly

1:04.0

horrible white rappers, busted country singers and dudes wearing Oakley Blades.

1:09.0

But the right is mad at Anheiser Bush because of some little partnership it has with

1:13.2

trans TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney and with Jack Daniels because I guess they just discovered

1:18.4

some ads from 2021 featuring drag queens.

1:21.5

Obviously, it's too soon to know if this will negatively affect those companies' bottom

1:25.4

lines.

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