The People's Court, Feat. Murder Bryan

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Hosts Asawin Suebsaeng and Will Sommer have one thing on their minds: how they can score $2,500 to land spots on a bogus “grand jury” indicting Anthony Fauci. On this week’s episode, Swin and Will discuss the burgeoning trend of soaking your fans by selling them “super juror” spots on fake grand juries aimed at Fauci and Hunter Biden. Street Fight podcast host Murder Bryan joins to explore the world of right-wing shock jocks, with a focus on “Mancow” Muller. Bryan also weighs in on a QAnon referee scandal that has roiled pro wrestling. Elsewhere on the ep, Swin and Will talk about the right’s new crusade to prove that Disney is part of a groomer cabal, and Herschel Walker’s troubled Senate campaign.

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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. Okay, Will Sumner,
0:35.5	on this podcast, we spend a good amount of time covering
0:37.9	things like the Ohio Senate Republican race. It's truly one of the most, shall we say,
0:44.0	fascinating primaries in the country. I'm not sure we talk about the one that's happening in the Georgia
0:48.8	Senate race. Catch me up on that. Sure. So in Georgia, this is for the seat currently held by Democrat Raphael Warnock,
0:56.2	the Trump Act and Trump approved candidate in this primary is a guy named Herschel Walker,
1:01.4	a former football star who, let's just say, sort of continuously running into some trouble
1:06.1	and he had some big trouble this week.
1:07.7	Okay, so what's he up to?
1:09.0	Because if I recall correctly, he gets in
1:11.5	trouble at least every couple of weeks or so. Like he is one of those candidates where the quote
1:17.2	unquote Republican establishment has repeatedly said, obviously, frequently anonymously through the
1:22.9	press, that they wish Donald Trump didn't like this guy so much because he has way too many liabilities
1:29.0	in their eyes to be their candidate in this race and therefore could possibly hinder or blow
1:36.4	their chances at retaking the Senate next year. Sure. I mean, like, for example, just looking at
1:40.7	sort of negative Herschel Walker stories, here's a headline on one. Report. Herschel Walker threatened shootout with police.
1:46.7	So, I mean, this is not typically by the standards of the Senate.
1:50.2	I think it's been a while since anyone really got it in a standoff with cops.
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