Last minute party, what will I bring them something unexpected?

Let's play scratch cards.

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

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

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.

Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration, the energy of these conspiracy theorists,

grifters, and influencers is still pushing our mainstream political landscape closer and closer

to a breaking point.

Welcome back to Fever Dreams. I'm Will Summer, joined as always by Kelly Weil.

Kelly, there's one big news item we got to talk about.

Will, I'm in mourning. I frankly don't know what we're going to cover for the rest of the year.

The king, Tucker Carlson, he's lost his throne, thrown down the crown. He's out. He's gone.

Huge blow to the ball tanning community. Now, let's go through this beat by beat because there's a lot of, I feel that we still don't have really a truly satisfying explanation of what happened here.

I mean, do you agree with that?

Yeah, absolutely.

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