Revenge of the Qux

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Kelly and Will dig through the mailbag to answer the burning questions on listeners’ minds. Whatever happened to the Qux Box, the right-wing tech device that was supposed to create a new internet? Are MAGA DJ’s “Milk n Cooks” still jamming out? And did Republicans lose the House because Rush Limbaugh died?

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0:00.0	Picture this. Static cars, idling engines, angry horns.
0:08.6	Now, picture you, zooming past it all.
0:13.8	Light and breezy.
0:16.2	Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic.
0:20.8	Book your train journey via avantiwestcoastcoast.coast.com.
0:25.1	Avanti West Coast, feel good travel.
0:32.4	Hi, I'm Will Summer, 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 a
0:47.9	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
1:11.5	political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point.
1:15.4	Ho! Ho! Ho! Christmas is over. And I think the jolly old elf himself, St. Nick, he left one
1:22.2	more gift under the tree. Why? It's a mailbag episode. Once again, I'm Will Summer, joined as always by Kelly Wilde,
1:30.7	the old egg knock fan herself. Kelly, how you doing? I'm good. It's the ninth night of Hanukka.
1:35.6	It's the mailbag episode. I'm really stoked to see what residual presence we've got to
1:41.0	unwrap here. I think the listeners sent in some great questions.
1:49.7	Honestly, I love hearing from folks who listen to The Fever Dreams because often there are things that I'm like, yeah, that's a good question.
1:50.8	What is going on with that?
1:51.9	So let's kick things off.
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