Mule Majnia w/ Maurice Chammah

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Things have gotten a lot crazier over the past few years for award-winning former CBS News war correspondent Lara Logan. Now reinvented as a far-right commentator, she was most recently kicked off Newsmax after appearing on Eric Bolling’s primetime program and launching into a QAnon-themed rant on air, claiming world leaders drank children’s blood and made people eat insects, among other notable wild conspiracies. Elsewhere in the episode, Maurice Chammah, a reporter at The Marshall Project and author of Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty, talks American sheriffs and their far-right tendencies. In the podcast’s “Fresh Hell” segment, the hosts discuss reports of intimidation at early ballot drop boxes, particularly in Arizona from those who are hyped up by Dinesh D’Souza’s debunked conspiracy film, 2000 Mules.

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0:00.0	Imagine you, you in a nice comfy seat, with your hands behind your head, taking in the views,
0:09.7	instead of taking on the road, maybe even taking a nap. That's the bliss of getting where you need to go
0:16.3	without worrying about driving. Book your train journey via avantiwestcoast.coast.com.
0:23.1	And we'll take you there.
0:24.6	Avanti West Coast.
0:26.5	Feel good travel.
0:32.5	Hi, I'm Will Summer.
0:33.9	And welcome to The Daily Beast fever dreams.
0:35.9	I'm a politics reporter at The Daily Beast.
0:37.9	My book on Q&ONON, Trust the Plan, The Rise of Q&N, and the Conspiracy that Unhinged America
0:42.5	will be available in February and is available for a pre-order now. And I'm Kelly Weil. I am also
0:47.7	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.
0:55.6	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.
1:03.6	Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration, the energy of these conspiracy theorists, grifters, and influencers, is still pushing our mainstream political
1:12.0	landscape closer and closer to a breaking point.
1:15.8	Welcome back to Fever Dreams. I'm Will Summer, and I'm joined, as always, by Kelly Weil.
1:20.2	Kelly, how you doing?
1:21.1	I'm good, and I'm frankly Will, very proud that our show has outlasted Laura Logan's run on
1:26.3	Newsmax.
1:27.9	We did it. We did it. Our main competitor. They said it wouldn't last. Two fighters enter,
1:34.3	one exits. Yep. There's only room here for one. Now, you're referring to a bit of a flap.
1:40.4	Laura Logan, who people may remember as being a star 60 Minutes correspondent and things
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