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Fever Dreams

The Cuck Box, Feat. Josh Ruben

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4767 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

A former InfoWars reporter is pushing a hot new gadget on the right-wing electronics market: the Qux… Yes, it’s pronounced “cucks.” No, no one knows what it does. But for $99, it promises to free Donald Trump’s supporters from the tyranny of Big Tech! Elsewhere on the pod, Fever Dreams hosts Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng welcome on filmmaker and horror-comedy auteur Josh Ruben, director of “Werewolves Within” and “Scare Me.” Ruben dishes on his as-of-yet unproduced horror-movie script—inspired by a true story of a woman enraptured by the cult of Trump.

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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 Tsub-Tang, 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.

0:54.4

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. So, Will, do you have anything fun planned for this Saturday?

1:08.7

Yeah, you know, I will be certainly keeping an eye on the

1:11.6

Save the January 6th Political Prisoners Rally being held outside of Congress. Things are a little,

1:17.2

I don't know, a little tense in D.C. or at least we're being told we should feel tense. I don't know.

1:21.6

I mean, this thing is outside of Congress, the fences are going back up. But I'm not feeling too rough about it. This might end up being, you know, kind of famous last words.

1:29.7

But I'm really not seeing the kind of energy that we saw on January 6th, like anything

1:34.0

approaching that.

1:34.7

Okay, so I'm in Ohio right now.

1:37.2

So I cannot physically be in Washington, D.C. or a nation's capital right now.

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