The New Abnormal

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Blunt truth and dark humor for a world in chaos. A Daily Beast podcast hosted by Andy Levy. Tune in every Tuesday, Friday and Sunday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Trump’s Arrest for Stormy C...

03.21.2023

MSNBC legal analyst Katie Phang joins the show and gives co-host Danielle Moodie insight into why Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s indictment against Trump for a Stormy Daniels case, and not Jan. 6, is the first one to catch up ...

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03.21.2023 Trump’s Arrest for Stormy Case Is ‘Beginning of the Fall’ MSNBC legal analyst Katie Phang joins the show and gives co-host Danielle Moodie insight into why Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s indictment against Trump for a Stormy Daniels case, and not Jan. 6, is the first one to catch up ...
03.19.2023 The Truth about Those ‘Classified’ Biden and Trump Docs The right and the left seemed to have gotten super worked up about the classified documents found in the private homes of both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, but NSA and surveillance writer Kerry Howley, also the ...
03.17.2023 What Conservative Author Bethany Mandel’s Viral Flub Taught Us About ‘Woke’ On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan talk to us about this week’s viral moment surrounding conservative “woke” critic, Bethany Mandel. Plus, New York Times bestselling author and policy advocate Heather McGee talks about the collapse ...
03.14.2023 How the Silicon Valley Bank Implosion Leads Back to Trump Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), a congressman representing New York’s 10th district and former lead counsel during Trump impeachment hearings, spells out the link between Trump and the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank—and what frustrates him the most when it comes ...
03.12.2023 Kimberly Guilfoyle Is Just Another ‘Grifting Ass Republican’ Just add Kimberly Guilfoyle to the long list of MAGA Republican grifters. Donald Trump Jr.’s fiance has a grift so bizarre that it’s funny, and hosts of The New Abnormal podcast, Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy, had the pleasure of ...
03.10.2023 Tucker Carlson Went Too Far and Even Republicans Know it On this episode of The New Abnormal, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, Matt Gertz talks about Tucker Carlson and the latest leaks in the Dominion versus Fox News lawsuit. Plus, columnist Kurt Bardella talks about Kevin McCarthy’s role ...
03.07.2023 Capitol Police Officers Could Be the Key to Nailing Trump It might take a little while longer (it’s already taking a while), but, according to Daily Beast investigations reporter Jose Pagliery on this episode of The New Abnormal podcast, we may be moving closer to former President Trump being held ...
03.05.2023 The Time Jimmy Carter Played White Supremacists for Fools Former President Jimmy Carter wasn’t the most bubbly member of the government, a bit “prickly,” says Jonathan Alter, author of His Very Best Jimmy Carter, a Life, on this bonus episode of The New Abnormal politics podcast. And while this ...
03.03.2023 The One Word Fox News Channel Needs to Drop On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik talks about Rupert Murdoch's recent deposition and the possible repercussions it could have for Fox News going forward. Plus, MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin talks about the recent happenings ...
02.28.2023 Tucker Carlson Thinks Ohio Train Tracks Are Anti-White Fox News’ Tucker Carlson hinted at a new conspiracy theory to explain the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, and Andy Levy and Danielle Moodie, co-hosts of The New Abnormal politics podcast, poke as many holes in it as they ...
02.26.2023 Hannity, ‘National Divorce’ Backer, Forgets He’s a New Yorker TNA hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy listen to a clip of Sean Hannity interviewing with Marjorie Taylor Greene on this Sunday’s episode of the show and have questions. And not just because Greene says that our American forefathers would ...
02.24.2023 Man Who Lost Narrow Race to Lauren Boebert Plots Redemption Run On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, Adam Frisch, who lost to Lauren Boebert in the 2022 midterms, explains how he will beat her next time. Plus, Balls and strikes editor Jay Willis talks about the Supreme Court's latest ...
02.21.2023 This ‘Terrifying’ Court Case Could Change Abortion Access - Again On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, Mini Timmaraju, who is the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America talks about a court case that has implications for the nation. Plus, The Lever’s Julia Rock gives us some less discussed details ...
02.19.2023 Inside QAnon’s Rise and How Trump Became It’s God Emperor The Daily Beast’s Will Sommer takes Andy Levy from The New Abnormal through how QAnon has managed to evolve from a fringe group to now being more popular than many major religions in the U.S. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy ...
02.17.2023 The DOJ Is Coming for Donald Trump Quicker Than Ever On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner talks about Trump's latest legal jeopardy. Plus, The Lever’s Julia Rock gives us some less discussed details of the Ohio train derailment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy ...
02.14.2023 ‘Anti-Woke’ Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy May Be The Next Big Right-Wing Star On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, Daniel Lippman, a reporter at Politico, tells us all about the ‘CEO of Anti Woke Inc.’, who has his eyes on the presidency. Plus, Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of the Texas Children's ...
02.12.2023 How Twitter Hearing Turned into a Dumpster Fire for GOP Republicans on Capitol Hill last week were keen to score points against Democrats by pushing the narrative that the federal government was working with Twitter to censor a New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop. Techdirt’s Mike Masnick tells ...
02.10.2023 America Has Never Seen a House Speaker With a Limper Gavel On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, CNN Analyst and New York Daily News columnist S. E. Cupp describes what she saw at the State of the Union. Plus! The Daily Beast Political Investigations reporter Jose Pagliery talks all ...
02.07.2023 The Greatest Threat the United States Faces Is Coming From Within On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, David Rothkopf, CEO of the Rothkopf Group and the host of the podcast Deep State Radio talks Trump and Putin. Then, a look at China’s spy balloon and the ensuing hysteria with ...
02.05.2023 The Mob Boss Tactic Trump Uses to Keep People From Flipping When former federal and state prosecutor Elie Honig says Donald Trump acts just like a mob boss, he’s not using hyperbole. Honig just released his new book Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away With It and came out the show ...
02.03.2023 The One Lie That Will Get George Santos in the End On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, The Daily Beast politics editor Matt Fuller talks to us about what could bring down George Santos, then Judd Legum, who writes the Popular Information Newsletter, tells us what’s going on with ...
01.31.2023 How Trump Fulfilled Barr’s Bloodthirsty Death Penalty Dreams Donald Trump and his former Attorney General Bill Barr were, and still are, out for blood, literally. In this episode of The New Abnormal podcast Rolling Stone reporter Asawin “Swin” Suebsaeng talks with co-host Andy Levy about what a bloodlusty ...
01.29.2023 Trump Should Not Trust a VP Marjorie Taylor Greene Can you imagine a Vice President Marjorie Taylor Greene? Hosts of The New Abnormal politics podcast Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy don’t want to, but they give it a shot on the latest episode of the show, addressing hearsay that ...
01.27.2023 Nothing Has Changed Since Sandy Hook and That’s a Damn Shame On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, Gloria Pan, the Senior Vice President at Mom's Rising, talks about the recent mass shootings and what comes next. Then Radley Balko, an expert on police militarization in America, talks about the ...
01.24.2023 The Real Reason McCarthy Put Santos on the Science Committee The New Abnormal co-host Danielle Moodie laughed and then cried when she heard about Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy putting Rep. George Santos on the Science Committee. But Andy has a theory for why that happened in the first ...
01.22.2023 There Is Nothing Independent About Kyrsten Sinema In this bonus episode of The New Abnormal, hosts Andy Levy and Danielle Moodie take jabs at Kyrsten Sinema and Ron DeSantis this week after listening to pretty infuriating clips of them talking. Plus! Daily Beast correspondent Anna Nemstova, who ...
01.20.2023 The 87-Page Document That Should Have Sunk George Santos On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, Robert Zimmerman, who lost in the general election to George Santos, describes exactly what happened. Then, Frederick Ingram, secretary-treasurer of the American Federation of Teachers, talks about why Rhon DeSantis is trying ...
01.17.2023 Buttigieg Could’ve Improved Airline Issues And Just…Didn’t Pretty much everyone begged Pete Buttigieg to alleviate airline issues and better regulate the airlines like Southwest. He didn’t. David Sirota, founder and editor-in-chief of The Lever news site, joins this episode of The New Abnormal to share his take ...
01.15.2023 Two Reasons Vince McMahon Would Sell WWE to the Saudis Abraham Riesman, author of Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America, finds it totally bonkers that reinstated WWE board member Vince McMahon is so well connected that his business was arguably a national security risk, yet here we are. ...
01.13.2023 Why Lachlan Murdoch Is Even Scarier Than His Father Rupert As 91-year-old Fox News mogul Rupert Murdoch carves his final deals before heading to the big newsroom in the sky, the world’s focus is beginning to turn to his son and heir apparent, Lachlan. And according to The Daily Beast’s ...
01.10.2023 One Theory for Why Bolsonaro Is In Florida Despite Jair Bolsonaro https://www.thedailybeast.com/jair-bolsonaro-flees-brazil-to-hide-out-in-home-of-mma-fighter-in-florida, the former Brazilian president is not there on vacation or to protest his election loss to the country’s new President Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva, says Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present. Ruth ...
01.08.2023 George Santos’ Sketchiness Isn’t Ending Any Time Soon The more Daily Beast politics reporter Roger Sollenberger uncovers about “liar” George Santos—the latest being that his employed sister Tiffany Santos is being evicted from her Queens apartment that Santos recently moved into—the more questions he has. Sollenberger joined The ...
01.06.2023 Kevin McCarthy Is Proof You Don’t Negotiate With Terrorists Kevin McCarthy is being held hostage. Sorta. Kurt Bardella, a Los Angeles Times columnist and former House Oversights Committee staffer on the Republican side, joins this episode of TNA to chat with Danielle Moodie all about the GOP Speaker of ...
01.03.2023 2023 Will Finally Be the Year of Accountability for Donald Trump This week, The New Abnormal is joined by Mary Trump, the author and podcast host who, yes, also happens to be a family member of the twice-impeached ex-commander-in-chief. She’s been sounding the alarm on the dangers of Donald Trump’s actions ...
01.01.2023 Proof that Republicans Know Exactly How Racist They Are There are so many examples of revisionist history happening these days, particularly among conservatives, that historian and University of Princeton professor Kevin M. Kruse joins this episode of The New Abnormal politics podcast to set the record straight. He tells ...
12.30.2022 Why It’s ‘Fine’ If Brett Kavanaugh and Matt Gaetz Hang Out Should Supreme Court justices hang out with extremely partisan figures? Such as a holiday party for instance? That’s what The New Abnormal political podcast host Andy Levy and Jay Willis, Editor-in-Chief of Balls & Strikes, explore after Andy heard “noise” ...
12.27.2022 The Most Absurd Republican Temper Tantrums This Year Conservatives get angry over the darnedest things. From Lizzo playing a Founding Father’s flute to a gay PDA in a Disney movie, 2022 was a year full of right-wing outrage that was so dumb, The New Abnormal politics podcast host ...
12.25.2022 Your Fav Comedians Want You to Shut Up About Cancel Culture If you’re an avid listener of The New Abnormal, you might have heard co-host Andy Levy ask his comedian guests a question: What do you think of when you hear the term “cancel culture?” Turns out, they all had a ...
12.23.2022 The Year Elon Musk and Dave Chappelle Almost Killed Comedy Welcome to a special year-end crossover episode between The Daily Beast’s The New Abnormal and The Last Laugh. On this show: Elon Musk is being greeted by crowds with a chorus of boos, and Dave Chappelle seems to have overstayed ...
12.20.2022 Watching the Last Jan. 6 Hearing Was Utterly ‘Heartbreaking’ There were two moments that stood out to The New Abnormal host Andy Levy the most while watching the last Jan. 6 committee hearing on December 19, which made four scathing criminal referrals against former President Donald Trump for his ...
12.18.2022 If a Recession Is Coming, We Have a Few Months Josh Bivens, director of research at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), joined as a guest on the latest episode of political podcast, The New Abnormal, to give us an answer to the question that is on a lot of people’s ...
12.16.2022 Mark Meadows' 2,300 Juicy Election Texts Revealed The investigative reporter sifting through the unbelievable treasure trove of texts that the January 6th committee obtained from former White House chief of staff Mark Meadow’s phone has detailed what he found inside the 2,319 messages. “There’s just a ton ...
12.13.2022 Kyrsten Sinema’s Ex-Friend Has Proof She’s ‘Calculated’ Kyrsten Sinema is no stranger to burning bridges. She’s in the process of doing just that with her former Democratic colleagues now that she officially switched her party to Independent, and according to David Shapira, a former Arizona politician and ...
12.11.2022 Laura Ingraham Is Mad at Everyone But Hershel Walker Laura Ingraham is mad. The Fox News host is mad about shadow banning and, in a recent news clip, she disclosed she’s mad about Herschel Walker’s loss and mad at everyone involved but Walker himself. In this bonus episode of ...
12.09.2022 This School Board Member Can’t Stomach Ron DeSantis’ ‘Insanity’ Ron DeSantis’ war on public education is going national. At least that’s the fear of Jennifer Jenkins, a member of the Brevard County School Board, one of several Florida school boards that have undergone a rightward shift. The county’s highly ...
12.06.2022 Kanye’s ‘Presidential Campaign’ Is A Complete Mess Kanye West’s 2024 presidential campaign is extremely unofficial (he hasn’t even filed to run, New Abnormal podcast co-host Danielle Moodie reminds listeners on this episode), but that hasn’t stopped right-wingers from clamoring to be part of his team, and it’s ...
12.04.2022 Pulse Shooting Survivor Tells How to Make Anti-LGBT Pols Pay Six years ago Brandon Wolf made a promise after his best friend was shot dead. He tells The New Abnormal’s Danielle Moodie how we can all make that promise a reality Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
12.02.2022 This Group Gets Unlimited Sick Leave While You Don’t A group of senators with unlimited sick leave voted down a measure on Thursday which would have given rail workers just seven paid days of sick leave—, a fair rise considering where they currently stand: at zero. It’s a “horrific” ...
11.29.2022 Steve Bannon Is Just Jealous He's Been Replaced by Trump Stave Bannon calling out Donald Trump for hosting white nationalist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago reads as jealousy, according to host Andy Levy on this week’s episode of The New Abnormal. Podcast co-host Danielle Moddy also can’t believe she’s agreeing with ...
11.27.2022 20 Questions With Danielle Moodie & Andy Levy In today's episode we get to know hosts Danielle Moodie & Andy Levy a bit better by hearing about some of their first political memories and some of their favorite things. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The New Abnormal episodes:

Trump’s Arrest for Stormy Case Is ‘Beginning of the Fall’

The Truth about Those ‘Classified’ Biden and Trump Docs

What Conservative Author Bethany Mandel’s Viral Flub Taught Us About ‘Woke’

How the Silicon Valley Bank Implosion Leads Back to Trump

Kimberly Guilfoyle Is Just Another ‘Grifting Ass Republican’

Tucker Carlson Went Too Far and Even Republicans Know it

Capitol Police Officers Could Be the Key to Nailing Trump

The Time Jimmy Carter Played White Supremacists for Fools

The One Word Fox News Channel Needs to Drop

Tucker Carlson Thinks Ohio Train Tracks Are Anti-White

Hannity, ‘National Divorce’ Backer, Forgets He’s a New Yorker

Man Who Lost Narrow Race to Lauren Boebert Plots Redemption Run

This ‘Terrifying’ Court Case Could Change Abortion Access - Again

Inside QAnon’s Rise and How Trump Became It’s God Emperor

The DOJ Is Coming for Donald Trump Quicker Than Ever

‘Anti-Woke’ Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy May Be The Next Big Right-Wing Star

How Twitter Hearing Turned into a Dumpster Fire for GOP

America Has Never Seen a House Speaker With a Limper Gavel

The Greatest Threat the United States Faces Is Coming From Within

The Mob Boss Tactic Trump Uses to Keep People From Flipping

The One Lie That Will Get George Santos in the End

How Trump Fulfilled Barr’s Bloodthirsty Death Penalty Dreams

Trump Should Not Trust a VP Marjorie Taylor Greene

Nothing Has Changed Since Sandy Hook and That’s a Damn Shame

The Real Reason McCarthy Put Santos on the Science Committee

There Is Nothing Independent About Kyrsten Sinema

The 87-Page Document That Should Have Sunk George Santos

Buttigieg Could’ve Improved Airline Issues And Just…Didn’t

Two Reasons Vince McMahon Would Sell WWE to the Saudis

Why Lachlan Murdoch Is Even Scarier Than His Father Rupert

One Theory for Why Bolsonaro Is In Florida

George Santos’ Sketchiness Isn’t Ending Any Time Soon

Kevin McCarthy Is Proof You Don’t Negotiate With Terrorists

2023 Will Finally Be the Year of Accountability for Donald Trump

Proof that Republicans Know Exactly How Racist They Are

Why It’s ‘Fine’ If Brett Kavanaugh and Matt Gaetz Hang Out

The Most Absurd Republican Temper Tantrums This Year

Your Fav Comedians Want You to Shut Up About Cancel Culture

The Year Elon Musk and Dave Chappelle Almost Killed Comedy

Watching the Last Jan. 6 Hearing Was Utterly ‘Heartbreaking’

If a Recession Is Coming, We Have a Few Months

Mark Meadows' 2,300 Juicy Election Texts Revealed

Kyrsten Sinema’s Ex-Friend Has Proof She’s ‘Calculated’

Laura Ingraham Is Mad at Everyone But Hershel Walker

This School Board Member Can’t Stomach Ron DeSantis’ ‘Insanity’

Kanye’s ‘Presidential Campaign’ Is A Complete Mess

Pulse Shooting Survivor Tells How to Make Anti-LGBT Pols Pay

This Group Gets Unlimited Sick Leave While You Don’t

Steve Bannon Is Just Jealous He's Been Replaced by Trump

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