Fever Dreams
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Fever Dreams
Inside the right’s push to retake power, from the conspiracy-slingers to the MAGA acolytes to the straight-up grifters. Thought the Trump era was crazy? Wait ’til you hear what they have planned next. Hosted by Kelly Weill and Will Sommer. New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe on your favorite pod...
Recent Episodes
120 episodesMiles Klee on The New Abnormal
Rolling Stone's Mile Klee joins The New Abnormal to talk the myth of "go woke. go broke."
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Erin Reed On The New Abnormal
Erin Reed joins the New Abnormal to talk the lastest in laws targeting transgender rights.
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Cindy Cohn On The New Abnormal
The EFF's Cindy Cohn joins The New Abnormal to talk cyber security.
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Gary Marcus On The New Abnormal
Gary Marcus joins The New Abnormal to discuss the dangers of AI.
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Will Sommer On The New Abnormal
Will Sommer joins The Daily Beast's The New Abnormal to talk the America first movement.
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Kelly Weill On The New Abnormal
The Daily Beast's Kelly Weill joins The New Abnormal to talk the reputation laundering of the Allen, TX mall shooter.
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A Fever Dreams Farewell feat. Asawin Suebsaeng
It’s the final episode of Fever Dreams. After sharing some of their favorite moments from the podcast’s years-long run, the hosts tackle the right-win...
Steven Crowder Exposed feat. Jason Wilson
Fever Dreams examines the recent headline-grabbing actions of right-wing media darling Steven Crowder, who was outed this week for allegedly exposing...
Tuckered Out feat. Sam Adler Bell
On this week’s Fever Dreams, a look at the ecosystem of grifters and gadflies who made a living appearing on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show—and what c...
The Ali Allegations feat. Aaron Kleinman
Fever Dreams hosts Kelly Weill and Will Sommer examine a classic style of right-wing outrage—which never seems to back itself up with evidence. Plus!...
Trump-Loomer 2024 feat. Garret Graff
Laura Loomer has been spewing hate online for years—and now Trump apparently wants to hire her. Plus! A look at the way technology has aided the rise...
Am I Being Arraigned Feat. Dave Weigel
On this week’s episode of Fever Dreams, hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill discuss how Trump’s decision to fly to New York instead of hunkering down in...
Meme Court ft. Luke O’Brien?
Marjorie Taylor Greene is up to her old tricks—this time, protesting a routine ATF inspection of a Georgia gun store Monday under the guise that there...
Pudding Ron feat. Jake Lahut
While prosecutors appear to be closing in on Donald Trump and preparing to file formal charges, he’s been posting up an absolute storm on Truth Social...
Woke Bank Run fet. Kat Abughazaleh
If Tucker Carlson seems a little lost at the moment—that’s because he is. At least, that’s what Media Matters researcher Kat Abughazaleh says, and she...
Fake Andrew Tate feat. Isaac Arnsdorf
This year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), long a mainstay in Republican politics, wasn’t quite the A-list event of years past. Isa...
Dilbert Downfall feat Seth Harp
Hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill unpack the QAnon connections behind newly elected Michigan GOP leader Kristina Karamo, who declared Michigan as “gro...
Trust The Host ft. Will Sommer
On this week’s Fever Dreams, James O’Keefe gives his fans and foes a truly memorable send-off, while the Libertarian Party continues to its slide to t...
James O’Keefe Theater Camp w/ Kim Kelly
For it's 100th episode, Fever Dreams unpacks all the drama engulfing right-wing undercover video operation Project Veritas, including a number of clai...
The Eliza Bleu Saga feat. Trevor Aaronson
What if there was an atomic bomb about to detonate and kill millions of people—and the only way to defuse it was to have an Artificial Intelligence ch...
Big Kanye Payoffs feat Nicky Woolf
Journalist Nicky Woolf has spent months looking into the bona fide mystery of what exactly is happening with all of those U.S. diplomats and intellige...
Santosmania feat. Tina Nguyen
Puck reporter Tina Nguyen joins this week’s Fever Dreams to discuss Rep. George Santos and the civil war brewing between his staffers and the far-righ...
Stove Wars feat. Matthew Sheffield
The first thing Andrew Tate did after his arrest on Romanian human trafficking charges was to complain about “the Matrix”—a shadowy power structure he...
The End of Diamond & Silk feat Claire Goforth
Ineitha Lynette Hardaway—better known as “Diamond” from the pro-Trump broadcasting duo “Diamond and Silk”—passed away this week, leaving the future of...
Andrew Tate's Arrest Explained
It may be the start of a new year, but the Republican Party is back to its old antics again—throwing the House of Representatives into chaos as a rogu...
Revenge of the Qux
Kelly and Will dig through the mailbag to answer the burning questions on listeners’ minds. Whatever happened to the Qux Box, the right-wing tech devi...
We Have To Talk About Kevin w/ Corbin Bolies
This week, Fever Dreams hosts Will Sommer and Sam Brodey take you down the rabbit hole of Turning Point USA, a conservative youth organization which l...
MAGA Undercover w/ Michael Edison Hayden & Hannah Gais
On this week’s episode of the Fever Dreams podcast, Hannah Gais and Michael Edison Hayden from the Southern Poverty Law Center recalled a cast of char...
Kanye Cans Milo ft. Jim Small
Kanye West seems more unhinged than ever before—and that’s saying something. And with Milo Yiannopolos now booted from Kanye's orbit, the only person...
Kanye vs Tim Pool ft. Cerise Castle
Kanye’s West’s “traveling roadshow of right-wing internet fame balls” may be the topic of the week, but according to Fever Dreams host Will Sommer, fa...
Anti-Woke Bank Collapse w/ Heidi Beedle
Is Twitter really going to “go crazy” now that new owner Elon Musk has allowed previously banned users like former President Donald Trump back on the...
GOP Midterm Disaster
In this week’s episode of Fever Dreams, hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill discuss how just two weeks on from the Pelosi controversy, the Twitter CEO j...
Enter The Manclan feat QAnon Anonymous
Would you eat raw testicles to become an alpha male? This week, Julian Feeld and Annie Kelly of the QAnon Anonymous podcast join us to discuss their n...
The QAnon Coalition feat Alex Kaplan
There’s a very good chance that at least two secretary of state positions in the battleground states of Nevada and Arizona will be won by people who a...
Mule Majnia w/ Maurice Chammah
Things have gotten a lot crazier over the past few years for award-winning former CBS News war correspondent Lara Logan. Now reinvented as a far-right...
Oathkeepers In Love w/ Kyle Spencer
The rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, faces an uphill battle to revive the “ghost town” that is the conservative MAGA site Parler, say hosts Wi...
Anti-Woke Banking w/ Jared Holt
Kanye West has been inching towards reimagining himself as both a virulent antisemite and the public face of Fox News and over the past few weeks, he’...
Herschel Walker’s New Scandal feat Travis Waldron
Herschel Walker already faced an uphill battle to become a U.S. senator after The Daily Beast reported he paid for a girlfriend’s abortion. But now it...
GOPlenty of Fish w/ Michael Schaffer
“Corruption chic” is in. That’s according to The Conservateur, a new “D.C.-based fashion-and-lifestyle platform” from some of conservative fashion’s m...
Doing Hardee's Time w/ Matt Binder
What's the motivation and meaning behind the recent Trump rally in Ohio where supporters held up one finger in a “weird” salute. But what does it mean...