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Fever Dreams

Stove Wars feat. Matthew Sheffield

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4767 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The first thing Andrew Tate did after his arrest on Romanian human trafficking charges was to complain about “the Matrix”—a shadowy power structure hell-bent on taking him down for, well, some unspoken reason. He is, of course, not the first one to use this term—it’s an emerging meme in right-wing spaces online, says Fever Dreams host Will Sommer on this week’s episode. Even Logan Paul, the YouTube provocateur and wannabe boxing star, has thrown out the theory to push back on critics after a particularly bad week of PR which began with the discovery of an abandoned pig he apparently once owned. Also on the episode, Sommer and co-host Kelly Weill investigate the origins of a new front in the culture war: gas stoves.





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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Will Summer and welcome to The Daily Beast, Fever Dreams.

0:03.5

I'm a politics reporter at The Daily Beast.

0:05.5

My book on Q&N, Trust the Plan, The Rise of Q&N, and the Conspiracy that Unhinged America will be available in February and is available for a pre-order now.

0:13.5

And I'm Kelly Weil. I am also a 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.

0:23.1

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.

0:31.4

Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration, the energy of these conspiracy theorists, grifters, and influencers, is still pushing our

0:38.7

mainstream political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point.

0:42.8

Welcome back to Fever Dreams.

0:44.0

I'm Will Summer, joined as always by Kelly Weil.

0:47.0

Kelly, how's it going?

0:47.9

I am good.

0:48.5

And Will, correct me if I'm wrong, but you have a book coming out like really soon.

0:53.4

That's right.

0:54.0

That's been a very pressing

0:54.9

question on your mind. Yes. Yes, we are starting the countdowns. We are now, as of this podcast

1:00.4

coming out, we will be slightly less than five weeks away from the release of my book on Q&ON. It's called

1:06.4

Trust the Plan. And it's available for pre-order now, now, now, now.

1:11.0

So if you like the podcast, you like what I do on here or maybe like what Kelly does only.

1:16.0

And it's kind of like that.

1:17.1

So it's all about QAnon.

1:18.3

It's all about kind of our conspiracy theory, deranged future and where we're going as a country and a world.

1:23.5

But look, some of these books, they come out and they, about kind of the wacky right-wing internet,

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