Oathkeepers In Love w/ Kyle Spencer

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, faces an uphill battle to revive the “ghost town” that is the conservative MAGA site Parler, say hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill in this week’s episode of The Daily Beast’s Fever Dreams podcast. Ye is buying the social media platform after being kicked off Instagram and Twitter for an antisemitic post, Parler’s parent company announced Monday. Also on the podcast, Kyle Spencer, journalist and author of the new book Raising Them Right: The Untold Story of America’s Ultraconservative Youth Movement and Its Plot for Power, talks MAGA media personality and radio talk show host Charlie Kirk and how he got his start. Then, in this week’s “Fresh Hell” segment, Sommer reviews the Fox Nation special The Trial of Hunter Biden, which he describes as “honestly one of the strangest pieces of content” Fox has ever produced.

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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.
0:32.4	Hi, I'm Will Summer.
0:33.9	Welcome to The Daily Beast's fever dreams.
0:35.9	I'm a politics reporter at The Daily Beast,
0:37.5	and I'm currently working on a book about Q&ON called Trust the Plan for Harper Collins coming
0:41.2	out later this year. And I'm Kelly Weil. I am also a reporter at The Daily Beast, and I'm the author
0:46.2	of the book Off the Edge, Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything.
0:51.9	On this podcast, we're going to take you on plunges into the sometimes hilarious,
0:55.3	sometimes scary fanatics, infecting the way that millions of Americans view the world and how
0:59.5	they vote.
1:00.1	Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration, the energy of these conspiracy theorists,
1:05.0	grifters, and influencers is still pushing our mainstream political landscape closer and
1:09.7	closer to a breaking point.
1:11.6	All right, welcome back to fever dreams. Now, Kelly, I got a question for you. Did you see this
1:16.0	clip where talk radio host Dennis Prager appears to be making an argument in favor of incest?
1:21.4	Yeah, I saw that and I think I bleached my eyes and brain. So can you refresh for everyone
1:26.1	what happened there? So I'm bringing this up
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