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Fever Dreams

Radio, Radio, Feat. Matt Gertz

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4767 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Conservative talk radio hosts keep dying of COVID-19, after voicing skepticism about vaccines. Meanwhile, at the top of the conservative news food chain, Fox News hosts face backlash if they’re even perceived to promote vaccination. Matt Gertz, a senior fellow at Media Matters joins Fever Dreams to discuss how right-wing media is falling prey to its own COVID talking points. Later, hosts Asawin Suebsaeng and Kelly Weill discuss the GOP’s new thirst for invading Afghanistan, the wannabe-Rambos invading school board meetings, and the disappearance of a lawyer tied to a number of conservative causes.

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Picture this. Static cars, idling engines, angry horns.

0:08.6

Now, picture you, zooming past it all.

0:13.8

Light and breezy.

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Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic.

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0:25.1

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0:27.1

Feel good travel.

0:54.5

Thank you. 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 Tsubang, 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 Fever Dreams, we're going to take you on

0:58.6

plunges into the sometimes hilarious and sometimes scary world of the American right as they

1:02.7

continue to influence our politics. Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration, the

1:06.8

energy of these conspiracy theorists, these grifters, and these influencers, is still pushing

1:11.7

our mainstream political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point. Feverdreams listeners,

1:16.8

we have some news to announce. In all of Will Summers' former reign as Cheapton of the

1:23.1

Fever Dreams universe and podcast network, he never once got any fan mail from Alan Cumming or Alan Cummings' teeth.

1:30.3

That era has come to a shattering, blistering conclusion with the advent of the Kelly

1:35.4

Weil era.

1:36.2

Kelly, can you tell us how things have changed under your regimen?

1:39.8

We were pleased to introduce our third co-host, esteemed actor Alan Cumming?

1:43.7

No.

1:43.9

But if folks remember last episode, we talked about illegal. We're pleased to introduce our third co-host, esteemed actor Alan Cumming. No.

1:44.6

But if folks remember last episode, we talked about a legal case that involved Alan

1:49.6

coming and a chimpanzee for whom he advocated.

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