Rise of the Wario Cop, Feat. Ben Collins

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

There is something wrong when your local police department warns you about marauding ‘Antifa buses’ coming to your town to hurt your grandmother. It’s even worse when the police dispatch a helicopter to hunt down the imaginary bus of Antifa soldiers. On this episode of FEVER DREAMS, hosts Asawin Suebsaeng and Kelly Weill welcome NBC News reporter (and Daily Beast alum) Ben Collins to explain what happens when police departments across the U.S. start “falling down these rabbit holes.” Elsewhere on this episode, Weill and Suebsaeng dive in on how the horse paste and “sheep drench” craze among anti-vaccine COVID truthers—and to a certain extent, on Fox News—is getting so out of hand… that the FDA had to spend part of its weekend telling people to knock it off.

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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 Aswan Tzu-Teng, but please call me Sw 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-Suiteng, but please call me Swin. I'm a senior
0:41.9	political reporter at the Daily Beast and co-author of the book Sinking in the Swamp.
0:46.4	All right, here on Fever Dreams, we're going to take you on plunges into the sometimes hilarious
0:50.3	and sometimes scary world of the American right as they continue to influence our politics.
0:54.2	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. Fever Dreams listeners, we welcome you to week three
1:09.1	of the post-will summer regime.
1:11.6	And the leader of that particular junta, Kelly Weil, are you on the line?
1:16.6	I am.
1:17.6	How does it feel to be into almost four weeks a month total of the post-will-summer regime,
1:23.6	of which you have been a truly bloodthirsty author.
1:29.2	No, it's great. It seems like my insurgency is holding. I am purging the summer loyalists,
1:37.2	and really just, yeah, I'm consolidating power. I'm getting paintings drawn up in my image and
1:42.8	placing them around the office that we don't have.
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