Hi, welcome to Fever Dreams. My name's Will Summer. I'm a political reporter at The Daily Beast and the author of an upcoming book on QAnon for Harper Collins.

And I'm Aswin-Sub-Tang, but please call me Swin. I'm a senior political reporter at the Daily Beast and co-author of the book Sinking in the Swamp.

All right, here on Fevered Dreams, we're going to take you on plunges into the sometimes hilarious and sometimes scary world of the American right as they continue to influence our politics. Even in the aftermath of the Trump

administration, the energy of these conspiracy theorists, these grifters, and these influencers

is still pushing our mainstream political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point.

All right, this is a very special episode of fever Dreams because it's our final one for guest, or

excuse me, it's our final one for co-host, Swin.

Swin, your last episode.

I hope you really brought some heat today.

How are you feeling?

Well, I'm feeling a little bit less great than I was at the beginning of this

beforeing session since you referred to me as a guest host from my final episode.

But setting that aside for a moment, to be perfectly earnest with all of you and the listeners, I am getting a little bit misty-eyed here.

I've loved doing this with all of you for the past year plus, and I'm going to miss it like a lost limit.

But I'm going to do my very best not to disappoint everybody for my last Fever Dreams

recording session here as a co-host.

And also I'm going to do my very best to inaugurate my successor, Kelly Weil, into the fold.

Kelly, are you with us?

I am here.

You know, Swin, I've been on this podcast like every now and then.

We always joke that I'm overthrowing you in a coup, but I have to say that if this is a

successful coup, it is the biggest self-own because we're going to miss you like hell, buddy.

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