The New Abnormal

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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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09.26.2023

On this episode of The New Abnormal: Why Joe Biden is right to let Republicans shoot themselves in the foot during yet another idiotic shutdown fight. Plus! A look at Trump’s weekend of manic posting on Truth Social. Hosted on ...

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09.26.2023 Right-Wingers in Congress Won’t Win Their Wacky Shutdown Fight On this episode of The New Abnormal: Why Joe Biden is right to let Republicans shoot themselves in the foot during yet another idiotic shutdown fight. Plus! A look at Trump’s weekend of manic posting on Truth Social. Hosted on ...
09.24.2023 Not Crazy or a Nazi? Liberal Org Wants you for School Board Run For Something has just pumped $10 million into electing left-leaning school board members. Co-founder Amanda Litman tells The New Abnormal the basic credentials you need. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
09.22.2023 In Georgia, Donald Trump May Have Just Met His Match in Battle On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner talks about Donald Trump’s latest legal challenges. Then a talk with Freedom of the Press Foundation executive director Trevor Timm about how the U.S. trying Julian Assange ...
09.19.2023 Far-Right Anti-Science Conspiracies Are Literally Killing Us Dr. Peter Hotez joins The New Abnormal this week to discuss his new book, “The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science”—and why anti-vaccine conspiracies are so dangerous. Plus! An interview with labor reporter and author Kim Kelly about the United Auto Workers ...
09.17.2023 GOP Keeps Embarrassing Itself Trying to Justify Biden Inquiry This week’s episode of The New Abnormal highlights how Republicans are tying themselves up in knots while attempting to explain why we need an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
09.15.2023 Lauren Boebert Proves the One Thing She Needs is Class On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, hosts Andy Levy and Danielle Moodie delve deep into the lack of class shown by Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) this week. Then, author Mike Rothschild is here to tell us all about ...
09.12.2023 Middle America Gives Trump the Finger at Iowa Football Game On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, a reminder that the enemy of your enemy isn’t always your friend. Plus! A status check on the various groups protesting Atlanta’s “Cop City” project and a chat with Meagan Burrows of ...
09.10.2023 U.S. Leaders Ignored Warning Signs That Musk Would Help Putin The Daily Beast columnist David Rothkopf tells The New Abnormal’s Danielle Moodie that U.S. politicians should rethink their support of Elon Musk after his intervention to help Russia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
09.08.2023 How Elon Musk Can Change the World With One Flick of a Switch On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, hosts Andy Levy and Danielle Moodie are shocked by just how much control billionaire Elon Musk has over the world. Plus! Executive Director of reproductive justice group the Yellowhammer Fund, Jenice Fountain, ...
09.05.2023 Trump Contemplates Jailing Opponents Amid Legal Trouble On this episode of The New Abnormal, hosts Andy Levy and Danielle Moodie discuss how crazy it is that Donald Trump keeps talking about jailing his political opponents and everyone has just accepted it as normal. Dare we say, the ...
09.03.2023 Why Castrated Mad Hatter Murdered Lincoln’s Killer Comedian Jesse Joyce tells The New Abnormal how his fascination with “the guy who cut his own balls off with a pair of scissors and then killed John Wilkes Booth” forced him into writing his new book. Hosted on Acast. ...
09.01.2023 It’s Grotesque to Keep Putting Mitch McConnell Out There On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, hosts Andy and Levy and Danielle Moodie discuss the ramifications of Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s latest freeze. Plus! National opinion columnist for the “Philadelphia Enquirer,” Will Bunch, talks to us ...
08.29.2023 Comparing Trump to Tupac and MLK is Offensive and Wrong On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, why Trump’s mugshot does nothing to endear him to the Black community—despite the insistence of a number of Fox News hosts. Plus, Ari Cohn, the free speech counsel at TechFreedom, joins the ...
08.27.2023 Controversial Climate Solution May Cool Earth, but at What Cost? Professor Ted Parson tells The New Abnormal how we already have the technology to help cool the Earth by 1 degree within years and why lawmakers are fearful of embracing it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
08.25.2023 Vivek Ramaswamy Filled the Void Left by Trump at Republican Debate On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, hosts Andy and Levy and Danielle Moodie discuss the fallout from the first Republican primary debate of the 2024 election season. Plus! Author Dr. Steven Hassan stops by to talk to us ...
08.22.2023 This Constitutional Clause Could Ruin Trump’s 2024 Plans On this episode of The New Abnormal, Law Dork newsletter’s Chris Geidner tells co-host Andy Levy about a Constitutional amendment that could prevent Trump from running again, and what it would take for that clause to actually be enacted against ...
08.20.2023 Why the Tucker Carlson Biography Sales Are So Pathetic In this episode of The New Abnormal, Daily Beast editor Andrew Kirell gives an inside look at one of the right’s biggest grifts: inflating conservatives’ crappy book sales, specifically to get on the New York Times’ bestseller lists, and breaks ...
08.18.2023 Mary Trump’s Horror Prediction if a Republican Wins 2024 On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, Mary Trump joins us to talk all about her uncle’s latest legal woes and her future predictions for both the Republican and Democratic parties. Plus! CNN legal analyst Elie Honig walks us ...
08.15.2023 This Is the Only Thing That Will Shut Trump Up Slate senior editor Dahlia Lithwick is noticing a tone change when it comes to how people are reacting to Donald Trump’s indictments. She describes this change on this latest episode of The New Abnormal podcast along with a huge decision ...
08.13.2023 Should DeSantis Do Mushrooms to Become a Cooler Candidate? In this episode of The New Abnormal podcast, hosts Andy Levy and Danielle Moodie listen to some clips, which includes a right-winger who has a drug-related suggestion to make Ron DeSantis more human, Matt Gaetz speaking nonsense to get Trump ...
08.11.2023 Ohio Is a Sign That Republicans Should Be Worried On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, how the latest Ohio election should be a wake-up call to Republicans. David Pepper, the former chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, joins to discuss. Plus! Nick Suplina, senior Vice President of ...
08.08.2023 Trump Has No Reason to Believe He Will Face Consequences The New Abnormal is back from vacation! And what a week to recap. A certain orange person named Donald Trump has been charged for alleged criming again and hosts Andy Levy and Danielle Moodie unpack it all. They also discuss ...
08.07.2023 From Tools and Weapons: Connecting Africa’s Youth to the World This week, we're sharing an episode from our friends at the Tools and Weapons podcast, hosted by Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith. Tools and Weapons features conversations with leaders in government, business, and culture that explore the world’s ...
08.06.2023 YouTube’s Alt-Right Propaganda Is Gonna Get People ‘Killed’ Alex Winter has a warning about YouTube that he makes loud and clear in this episode of The New Abnormal politics podcast. He breaks down for Andy how easy it is for users to see right-wing propaganda on the site, ...
08.04.2023 This Will Be the Least Memorable Republican Debater for 2024 New Abnormal hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy do another round of Q&A; to kick off this episode, which includes who they think will be the biggest winners and losers of the 2024 Republican presidential debates. Then later in the ...
08.01.2023 Ayn Rand Would Have Loathed Elon Musk’s Support of Trump Would novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand have loathed Elon Musk? Philosopher and writer Wolfram Eilenberger, author of The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times, comes on The New Abnormal to answer that question ...
07.30.2023 The Country Music Establishment Doesn’t Care If It’s Racist Country singer Jason Aldean’s song and video “Try That in a Small Town” has created backlash, with critics claiming the song promotes violence and anti-Black rhetoric. Still, Aldean is just the tip of the racist iceberg for the country music ...
07.28.2023 That Mitch McConnell Video Is F*cking Scary and Terrifying On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, why Mitch McConnell’s concerning press conference this week should be a wake up call to both sides of the political spectrum. Plus! The Nation’s Elie Mystal joins us to talk about the ...
07.25.2023 This Is the Only Way Trump Will Lose His Base’s Support Ron DeSantis thought he could win over the MAGA base and secure the 2024 nomination by being the smart, indictment-free version of Donald Trump, but judging by his less than robust campaign performance, he thought wrong. Rolling Stone reporter, Adam ...
07.23.2023 Trump Unlocked a Whole New Level of Bullshitting in Iowa Bullshitting is an art, and according to hosts Andy Levy and Danielle Moodie, Donald Trump proved he’s mastered it after they listened to a clip of him totally spewing nonsense in response to an Iowa voter’s question at an event ...
07.21.2023 Trump, an ‘Authoritarian,’ Could Actually Win the Presidency Donald Trump recently posted a video to his Truth Social account that hosts of The New Abnormal politics podcast, Andy Levy and Danielle Moodie, say is a preview of what another MAGA presidency will look like. They discuss in this ...
07.18.2023 Mediocre White Men Love Trump. Nobody Likes DeSantis. Things aren’t going so well for Meatball Ron [DeSantis], says Andy Levy in this episode of The New Abnormal. He and co-host Danielle Moodie unpack the ways that DeSantis seems to be flubbing his presidential campaign with the Florida governor’s ...
07.16.2023 Nick Fuentes Admits His Dream Wife Is 16 Years Old Nick Fuentes knows the ideal age he’d like his future wife to be and, disgustingly, it’s sixteen. On this episode of The New Abnormal politics podcast, hosts Andy Levy and Danielle Moodie listen to clips of Republicans and right-wing figures ...
07.14.2023 Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Judge Aileen Cannon Faces Her Moment of Truth On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, former federal prosecutor and host of “Justice Matters” Glenn Kirschner talks about all the legal turmoil involving Donald Trump, Jack Smith, and Judge Aileen Cannon. Then, Washington Post national columnist Philip Bump ...
07.11.2023 How RFK Jr. Supporters Are Trying to Spin The Anti-Vax Thing Daily Beast politics reporter Ursula Perano shares more details about the anti-vax rhetoric she saw in RFK Jr.’s campaign-run Slack, including wild comparisons of vaccines to household cleaners from the 1900s. Plus, Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks what’s next for ...
07.09.2023 How Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Trying to Become Trump’s VP Daily Beast reporter Zach Petrizzo talks with co-host Andy Levy Marjorie Taylor Greene’s VP moves, her drama with fellow Rep. Lauren Boebert, and why Team Trump is anti-Kari Lake. Plus, Andy and co-host Danielle are forced to listen to clips ...
07.07.2023 Moms for Liberty Loves DeSantis—but They’ll Never Vote for Him On this week’s The New Abnormal, extremism expert Jared Holt recounts his trip to a Moms for Liberty conference—and why DeSantis just can’t get the MAGA faithful to defect. Plus! A talk with political researcher Anat Shenker-Osorio about Democrats’ messaging ...
07.04.2023 Ben Franklin Was Probably As Annoying As Jordan Peterson It’s Independence Day but hosts of The New Abnormal are not in a patriotic mood. Hosts Andy Levy and Danielle Moodie discuss last week’s “grifting ass” Supreme Court decisions, including the student debt, anti-LGBTQ same-sex website, and affirmative action rulings—and ...
07.02.2023 How Obama’s Presidency Kicked Off Today’s White Violence Wesley Lowery, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author of American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress, joins co-host Danielle Moodie in this bonus episode of The New Abnormal podcast to talk about the origins of this so-called ...
06.30.2023 We’ll Be Talking About Justice Jackson Dissents for Decades On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, hosts Andy Levy and Danielle Moodie react to the Supreme Court’s latest ruling on Affirmative Action. Joining the show to discuss is Jessica Levinson, a law professor at Loyola University. Plus! Delaware ...
06.27.2023 There’s a Reason We’re Seeing Videos of RFK Jr. Shirtless Andy Levy, co-host of TNA, suspects there’s more to the 2024 presidential hopeful’s workout vids than just stupidity. He discusses his theory with co-host Danielle Moodie, along with what he thinks is happening in Russia. Then, Kelly Weill, reporter at ...
06.25.2023 Michael Ian Black Has Never Heard Trump Be Funny Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
06.23.2023 First States to Enact Abortion Bans Have One Thing in Common On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, Mini Timmaraju, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, talks about where we stand one year after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Then, Vice’s Anna Merlan weighs in on RFK Jr. and all ...
06.20.2023 What to Expect Next After Texas AG Ken Paxton’s Impeachment On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, Texas Observer’s Special Investigative correspondent Steven Monacelli talks Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment problems. Then, climate tech investor Molly Wood joins the show to discuss the impact of the Canadian wildfires. ...
06.18.2023 Why SCOTUS’ Shock Voting Rights Call May Be Window Dressing Author David Daley tells The New Abnormal that while the Supreme Court’s Alabama decision is a win for democracy it may be a PR move by conservative justices. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
06.16.2023 What Happens to Docs Case if Donald Trump Wins 2024 U.S. Presidency? On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, CNN Legal Analyst Elie Hoig joins the show to talk about Donald Trump's recent legal jeopardy and just how much trouble he is in. Then, Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick discusses the legal maneuvers ...
06.13.2023 Trump Mar-A-Lago Judge Should Have Recused Herself Yesterday On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, MSNBC Legal Analyst Glenn Kirschner joins us to talk about what’s next in Trump’s bombshell indictment. Plus! Princeton University historian Kevin Kruse debunks the theories being spouted by the former president’s supporters. ...
06.11.2023 Governor Kristi Noem Is Sad She Can’t Shop at Target In this bonus episode of The New Abnormal, Mo Ryan, author of ‘Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood’, talks to co-host Andy Levy about ’Lost’s vindictive showrunners, and Hollywood’s horrific treatment of writers and ...
06.09.2023 Trump’s New Indictment Is Truly Making America Great Again The orange skies must have been a premonition for the news that former President Donald Trump has been indicted on federal charges. Hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy tackle this breaking news at the top of the episode, along with ...
06.06.2023 Matt Gaetz Doesn’t Want You to Know He Wears Unisex Blazers Washington Post reporter Ben Terris, author of The Big Break The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind, joins this episode of The New Abnormal podcast to share some highlights from ...

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Right-Wingers in Congress Won’t Win Their Wacky Shutdown Fight

Not Crazy or a Nazi? Liberal Org Wants you for School Board

In Georgia, Donald Trump May Have Just Met His Match in Battle

Far-Right Anti-Science Conspiracies Are Literally Killing Us

GOP Keeps Embarrassing Itself Trying to Justify Biden Inquiry

Lauren Boebert Proves the One Thing She Needs is Class

Middle America Gives Trump the Finger at Iowa Football Game

U.S. Leaders Ignored Warning Signs That Musk Would Help Putin

How Elon Musk Can Change the World With One Flick of a Switch

Trump Contemplates Jailing Opponents Amid Legal Trouble

Why Castrated Mad Hatter Murdered Lincoln’s Killer

It’s Grotesque to Keep Putting Mitch McConnell Out There

Comparing Trump to Tupac and MLK is Offensive and Wrong

Controversial Climate Solution May Cool Earth, but at What Cost?

Vivek Ramaswamy Filled the Void Left by Trump at Republican Debate

This Constitutional Clause Could Ruin Trump’s 2024 Plans

Why the Tucker Carlson Biography Sales Are So Pathetic

Mary Trump’s Horror Prediction if a Republican Wins 2024

This Is the Only Thing That Will Shut Trump Up

Should DeSantis Do Mushrooms to Become a Cooler Candidate?

Ohio Is a Sign That Republicans Should Be Worried

Trump Has No Reason to Believe He Will Face Consequences

From Tools and Weapons: Connecting Africa’s Youth to the World

YouTube’s Alt-Right Propaganda Is Gonna Get People ‘Killed’

This Will Be the Least Memorable Republican Debater for 2024

Ayn Rand Would Have Loathed Elon Musk’s Support of Trump

The Country Music Establishment Doesn’t Care If It’s Racist

That Mitch McConnell Video Is F*cking Scary and Terrifying

This Is the Only Way Trump Will Lose His Base’s Support

Trump Unlocked a Whole New Level of Bullshitting in Iowa

Trump, an ‘Authoritarian,’ Could Actually Win the Presidency

Mediocre White Men Love Trump. Nobody Likes DeSantis.

Nick Fuentes Admits His Dream Wife Is 16 Years Old

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Judge Aileen Cannon Faces Her Moment of Truth

How RFK Jr. Supporters Are Trying to Spin The Anti-Vax Thing

How Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Trying to Become Trump’s VP

Moms for Liberty Loves DeSantis—but They’ll Never Vote for Him

Ben Franklin Was Probably As Annoying As Jordan Peterson

How Obama’s Presidency Kicked Off Today’s White Violence

We’ll Be Talking About Justice Jackson Dissents for Decades

There’s a Reason We’re Seeing Videos of RFK Jr. Shirtless

Michael Ian Black Has Never Heard Trump Be Funny

First States to Enact Abortion Bans Have One Thing in Common

What to Expect Next After Texas AG Ken Paxton’s Impeachment

Why SCOTUS’ Shock Voting Rights Call May Be Window Dressing

What Happens to Docs Case if Donald Trump Wins 2024 U.S. Presidency?

Trump Mar-A-Lago Judge Should Have Recused Herself Yesterday

Governor Kristi Noem Is Sad She Can’t Shop at Target

Trump’s New Indictment Is Truly Making America Great Again

Matt Gaetz Doesn’t Want You to Know He Wears Unisex Blazers

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