Run, Ronny, Run!! Feat. Byron Tau

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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The first QAnon campaign finance filing is finally here, everybody! And it’s… hilarious how much cash this congressional campaign managed to raise. “His first campaign finance filing came in, and it seems to support the idea that not too many people want Mr. QAnon himself in Congress,” Fever Dreams co-host Kelly Weill reports. Elsewhere on this episode, hosts Asawin Suebsaeng and Weill interview Wall Street Journal reporter Byron Tau, who reveals how an ordinary citizen’s phone can suddenly turn its user into an unwitting spy for the U.S. military. Also, the Fever Dreams gang tries to answer one of contemporary popular culture’s most enduring, most annoying mysteries: “Why does Bill Maher laugh so much at his own jokes all the time?”

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0:00.0	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.
0:07.8	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.
0:15.2	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,
0:25.4	the energy of these conspiracy theorists, these grifters, and these influencers is still pushing
0:30.5	our mainstream political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point. Fever Dreams listeners,
0:35.3	in the background of this recording, at least for the start
0:37.8	of the episode, there's a good chance you hear my three-month-old son crying in the other room.
0:44.3	I deeply apologize for that, but I'm going to use that as a jumping off point to remind listeners
0:49.3	the up, there he is. Hi, hi kid. How's it going? Don't worry.
0:54.3	His mother is in the other room.
0:55.5	I'm not abandoning him just a podcast.
0:57.6	That would be insane.
0:58.6	I want to remind Fever Dreams listeners that both Kelly and I are relatively new parents, Kelly.
1:05.0	I have my math right on that, right?
1:07.0	Oh, yeah.
1:07.4	Well, I mean, he just turned two.
1:09.7	So, I mean, time is a complete myth in the pandemic universe. But yeah, I've had a pandemic baby for pretty much the duration of it.
1:18.8	Was he like right at the dawn of the pandemic or just shortly after the thing actually started in 2020?
1:24.9	Yeah. And let me tell you the first time I went down a COVID-19 rabbit hole was when I was in the
1:30.3	hospital, he was sleeping and I didn't have anything to do.
1:33.3	And I'm just sitting there in the hospital by being like, damn, that sucks for China.
1:37.3	And that's why you now guzzle Ivermectin.
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