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Fever Dreams

NFT Hustle Tips feat. Joe Carnahan

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4767 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Ron Watkins, the alleged mastermind behind QAnon, is getting in on the NFT game by selling Trump retweets. And Tiffany Trump and the Krassenstein Brothers aren't far behind...Meanwhile, Eric Trump is headlining an anti-vaxxer conference that also features the Q. yoga crystals lady—so, sounds prestigious. And Fever Dreams hosts Asawin Suebsaeng and Will Sommer chat with director Joe Carnahan about his latest movie, Copshop—including the post-production drama that led Frank Grillo to slam the film's editors. 

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0:00.0

Imagine winning £15 million on Christmas Day.

0:05.5

The £15 million lotto jackpot must be won on Christmas Day.

0:10.7

There's still time to get in the draw.

0:13.1

Lotto, will you be the next millionaire?

0:16.1

The National Lottery, rules and procedures apply.

0:18.5

Players must be 18 or over.

0:31.4

Thank you. lottery, rules and procedures apply, players must be 18 or over. Hi, welcome to fever dreams. My name's Will Summer. I'm a political reporter at The Daily Beast

0:35.8

and the author of an upcoming book on Q&on for Harper Collins. And I'm Aswin-Sub-Tang, but please call me Swin. I'm a senior political

0:42.4

reporter at the Daily Beast and co-author of the book Sinking in the Swamp. All right, here on

0:47.0

Fever Dreams, we're going to take you on plunges into the sometimes hilarious and sometimes

0:50.8

scary world of the American right as they continue to influence our politics.

0:54.4

Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration, the energy of these conspiracy theorists,

0:58.6

these grifters, and these influencers is still pushing our mainstream political landscape

1:03.2

closer and closer to a breaking point.

1:05.4

Well, to kick things off, we obviously don't want to give this dud and joke of a quote-unquote rally any more attention than we need to.

1:15.2

But obviously this past weekend, the free the January 6th, quote-unquote political prisoners rally occurred in Washington, D.C., right near the U.S. Capitol.

1:25.3

Generously speaking, dozens of people showed up, as we predicted

1:28.1

that would be the ballpark estimate of turnout in attendance. You being someone who follows

1:33.8

these things intimately and keeps your ears very close to the ground on this. How did you end up

1:38.5

covering it this past weekend? Yeah, well, look, I went to another event that has about as much

1:43.4

bearing on the future of our

1:44.5

Republic. And I speak, of course, of the Mid-Atlantic Bassetown Convention out in Northern Virginia.

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