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Blunt truth and dark humor for a world in chaos. A Daily Beast podcast hosted by Danielle Moodie & Andy Levy. Tune in every Tuesday, Friday and Sunday.
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Trump's Hush-Money Judge Has Already Made Some Good Rulings
This week on The New Abnormal, co-hosts Andy Levy and Danielle Moodie take a deep dive into the first week of Trump’s historic trial in New York. Plus! Former White House Social Secretary Deesha Dyer is here to talk about her new book and reflect on her time in the West Wing. Then, Mother Jones’ national voting rights correspondent, Ari Berman, joins the show to discuss his new book—and how the 1787 Constitutional Convention still affects us today.
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Trump Isn’t a Style Icon. That Title Belongs to This Pair
The New Abnormal team give their picks for the most fashionable former president and first lady—and it is not Donald and Melania Trump. Plus! Mexican historian Ana Raquel Minian talks to Andy Levy about her new book In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States.
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NYC Judge Needs to Treat Trump Like the Mafia Boss He Is
The New Abnormal co-hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy have some advice for the judge handling former President Donald Trump’s New York City hush-money trial: Treat it exactly the same as a high-profile mob case. Then, a conversation with Medhi Hasan about his new media venture, Zeteo, which launched on Monday. Plus! Jonathan V. Last, an editor at The Bulwark, joins the program to talk about his recent presidential rankings.
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GOP Is Throwing Out ‘Catastrophic’ Candidates to Democracy
This week on The New Abnormal, co-hosts Danielle Moodie talks to Andrea Miller, the founding board member of the Center for Common Ground, about the importance of the black vote in the South for Democrats in this election. Plus! The Washington Post tech reporter Drew Harwell gives us the details on the people still investing in Trump Media & Technology Group despite its rapidly plummeting stock price.
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The Dirty Little Gun Secret Behind MAGA World’s Migrant Hysteria
For all of Donald Trump’s incessant fear-mongering about migrants fueling crime in the United States, he has yet to ask one very important question: What is driving the violence that is making so many on the other side of the border desperate to flee in the first place? That’s the question The New Abnormal team posed to Ieva Jusionyte, author of Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence across the Border, on this Sunday’s episode—and his answer might not sit well with team MAGA.
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The Wild Backstory Behind Trumpworld’s Newest Toadie
This week, The New Abnormal
introduces you to a relatively new face in the pantheon of Trumpworld toadies:
Steven Cheung, Trump’s principal spokesperson and de facto enforcer. Plus, a conversation with New Republic staff writer Melissa Gira Grant about a largely forgotten 1873 law, called the Comstock Act, that could be used to outlaw virtually all abortions across America.
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Customer Reviews
Election win
Nothing Trump says or does is going to change the election much. But what Biden does will be pivotal. If his actions in Gaza are not turned around, he wil not get the votes to win. Thirty Israeli kids were killed by Hamas. 15,000 Palestinian kids plus those buried under US rubble have been killed. Now Biden is going along with the impending starvation of one MILLION human beings in Gaza. No man doing this deserves to be elected president. And I don’t think Americans will give him the vote.
A few less F words please
I really enjoy this intelligent podcast except the F words overwhelm me. This may impress a few young people but it’s a turn off for those of us in the crowd who aren’t impressed with the over-indulgence in foul language. Be emphatic, I get it. But there’s no need to constantly “prove” you are one of the boys. That’s how it comes off. But Andy Levy uses far less foul language yet he still conveys intense concern. The yelling is also hard to listen to.
These are worrisome times, so I also look forward to the levity in the podcast and so far I keep coming back.
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