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Did you know that everyone\u2019s favorite Suez-Canal-blocking ship is now the subject of a QAnon conspiracy? The Daily Beast\u2019s Asawin Suebsaeng and Will Sommer lay out why the adrenochrome set is convinced that the stuck ship\u2019s cargo is full of trafficked children on the latest episode of our Fever Dreams podcast (Hint: it has to do with Hillary Clinton\u2019s secret service code name\u2014you guessed it, EVERGREEN.) 

Speaking of Hillary conspiracies, Suebsaeng and Sommer discuss why the right just can\u2019t seem to come up with a good Joe Biden conspiracy to smear the new president; Trump\u2019s base seems more interested in reverting to their old hatreds of Clinton and Barack Obama. (As Suebsaeng points out, Biden quite simply is not Black or a woman, and so doesn\u2019t inspire the same level of vitriol from the hardcore racist, misogynistic Trumpites.)

Meanwhile, there\u2019s a tug-of-war going on between those in the Trump administration who want the former president to receive \u201ccredit\u201d for the COVID vaccine drive and the rightwing anti-government, anti-vaxx diehards who refuse to believe that their Emperor God actually wants them to get the shot. The tussle is crystallized in Trump\u2019s former HHS staffer Michael Caputo, a \u201creally brash, incredibly Trumpy longtime Republican operative\u201d who has taken it upon himself to prosthelytize about the vaccine in biker bars among the \u201cMAGA Sons of Anarchy\u201d\u2014and who\u2019s running into a lot of resistance.

Keep an eye out for the interview with The Daily Beast\u2019s own Kelly Weill, who walks our hosts through the crazy cast of lawyers and faux-lawyers who have sprung up to defend the Capitol Rioters and anti-masker businesses\u2014one of them quotes from Lord of the Rings, another has never actually passed the bar because he thinks it\u2019s a British conspiracy. 

And most importantly, we learn about Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes\u2019 supervillain origin story, how Texas National Guard troops faced a hostage situation with Pizzagate overtones, and how Will Sommer is singlehandedly responsible for bringing the phrase \u201csoy boy\u201d out of the Internet swamp into the national spotlight.

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