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Fever Dreams

The MAGA Coffee Wars, Feat. Andy Richter

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4767 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of FEVER DREAMS, hosts Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng discuss the ongoing war for consumers that’s raging between two MAGA-style coffee companies, with one of the companies landing in hot water with its fans for trashing the Proud Boys. “I love how Black Rifle Coffee is his perfect little metaphor for what has happened to the Republican Party over the past four years,” Suebsaeng said. Elsewhere on the episode, Suebsaeng and Sommer welcome actor, comedian, and Conan O’Brien sidekick Andy Richter, who dishes on his philosophy on late-night comedy and politics—and how eye-rollingly lame it was that one time Donald Trump actually dropped a condom right in front of him and Conan.

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0:00.0

Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination.

0:11.1

Not a care in the world as you simply lean back and before you know it, you're there.

0:16.7

London to Glasgow from just 46 pounds each way.

0:20.5

Avanti West Coast.

0:22.0

Feel good travel.

0:23.8

Exclusions and limitations apply.

0:25.6

Full terms and conditions can be found at avantiwestcoastcoast.com.

0:28.0

UK forward slash plan. 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. And I'm Aswin Tsubang, but please call me Swin. I'm a senior political reporter at The Daily Beast and co-author

0:54.5

of the book Sinking in the Swamp. All right, here on Fever Dreams, we're going to take you on

0:58.6

plunges into the sometimes hilarious and sometimes scary world of the American right as they

1:02.7

continue to influence our politics. Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration, the

1:06.8

energy of these conspiracy theorists, these grifters, and these influencers, is still pushing

1:11.8

our mainstream political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point.

1:15.8

Will, have you gotten your freedom phone yet?

1:18.7

No, I haven't.

1:19.6

For listeners, this is a phone that launched last week, promising to be sort of the official

1:25.4

phone of the MAGA movement.

1:27.0

It was going to have privacy and all this and come preloaded with things like Parlor

1:32.3

and the One American News and Newsmax app.

1:35.3

So it is a smartphone. It's not like a cricket knockoff.

1:37.3

Right. Well, so the way it works is, well, because I think crickets can be smartphones too,

1:42.3

but just like not very

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