The New Abnormal

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Blunt truth and dark humor for a world in chaos. A Daily Beast podcast hosted by Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast. Tune in every Tuesday and Friday.

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We Need a Pro-Abortion Cons...

07.30.2021

In this episode of The New Abnormal, Kathryn Kolbert and Julie F. Kay, authors of CONTROLLING WOMEN: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom, tell Molly-Jong-Fast not to trust John Roberts and why Roe isn’t enough to protect ...

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07.30.2021 We Need a Pro-Abortion Constitutional Amendment In this episode of The New Abnormal, Kathryn Kolbert and Julie F. Kay, authors of CONTROLLING WOMEN: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom, tell Molly-Jong-Fast not to trust John Roberts and why Roe isn’t enough to protect ...
07.27.2021 El Chapo’s Arrest Made the Drug War Worse w/ Noah Hurowiz In this episode of The New Abnormal, Noah Hurowitz, author of El Chapo: The Untold Story of the World's Most Infamous Drug Lord, tells Molly Jong-Fast how Chapo was found naked, the reason he and his wife had matching jackets ...
07.26.2021 Introducing Angry Planet: Can the US Win the Wars of the Future? It doesn’t take high technology to kill someone. Simple chemicals propel pieces of lead out of steel tubes. Other simple chemicals are placed in larger vessels and are triggered by the weight of a vehicle or even a human body. ...
07.23.2021 What if Tucker Carlson Told the World He’d Been Vaccinated? w/ Oliver Darcy Imagine if Fox News host Tucker Carlson went from “just asking questions” about the COVID-19 vaccine in primetime every night to showing a photo of himself taking the shot and telling his viewers to do the same. Would we be ...
07.20.2021 Trump Author: Even His Allies Thought He’d Lost It Did Donald Trump REALLY defend Hitler at a World War memorial? On the latest episode of The New Abnormal, a look at the latest post-presidency books. One of the most outrageous claims from the deluge of new Trump books hitting ...
07.19.2021 Bill O’Reilly Accuser Andrea Mackris: I Want People to ‘Understand the Terror’ of Forced NDAs On this special episode of The New Abnormal host Molly Jong-Fast and The Daily Beast's Diana Falzone talk to Bill O’Reilly accuser Andrea Mackris about the forces that protected the Fox News host from her sexual harassment accusations for 17 ...
07.16.2021 The Desperate Laundering of the Trump Reputations w/ Michael Wolff “There has been no detail that has come out that has been different than the four years we saw him do in office,” Slade Sohmer, editor in chief of The Recount, says on the latest episode of The New Abnormal. ...
07.13.2021 The Trump Org’s Implosion Starts with a Divorce Daily Beast political investigations reporter Jose Pagliery explains how the divorce of Jennifer Weisselberg and Barry Weisselberg was the match that lit the Trump Organization on fire and why Trump is in more trouble than we think. Plus! Bloomberg opinion ...
07.12.2021 UNLOCKED: Are We Just Going to Ignore That Exxon Video? A lobbyist for a giant oil company admitted in a video that the industry spreads disinfo to stop efforts to combat climate change and no one really talked about it. Molly Jong-Fast had Emily Atkin, climate reporter and author of ...
07.09.2021 Trump Is Liable for Ashli Babbit’s Death Substacker and The Nation columnist Jeet Heer explains with no hesitation why Capitol insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt’s death is on Trump, Rep. Cori Bush (MO-D) sends a clear message to Majorie Taylor Green and gets real about defunding the police and ...
07.06.2021 Ivanka Just Might Flip on Her Dad, Mary Trump Says The Trump Organization is now feeling the heat, with its CFO under indictment for grand larceny. Prosecutors are clearing to get that money man, Allen Weisselberg, to flip on his boss. But one interested observer says there may be another ...
07.02.2021 No Republicans Fears the Wrath of Kevin McCarthy w/ Andy Levy So House Majority Kevin McCarthy says he’ll strip committee assignments from any Republican who deigns to serve on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Jan. 6 select commission. The New Abnormal co-host Molly Jong-Fast wants to know: Can he actually do that? Not ...
06.29.2021 Jared Kushner Really Did Make the Pandemic Worse Washington Post reporters Yasmine Abutaleb and Damien Paletta join to discuss all the juicy and terrifying details from their book, Nightmare Scenario, which recounts how the Trump administration responded during COVID. Plus! Dr. Peter Hotez goes over the effectiveness of ...
06.25.2021 Mehdi Hasan Thinks Republicans Couldn’t Define Critical Race Theory ‘If Their Lives Depended on It’ Would you be willing to be arrested for something if you didn’t know what it was? Would you vote against it? Would you stake your party’s chances in the 2022 midterms on it? This week in Loudoun County, Virginia, a ...
06.22.2021 The Sneaky Way the Supreme Court Will End Abortion Rights w/ Elie Mystal Not if, but when. “By this time next year, we will be talking about which way the Supreme Court chose to functionally end abortion rights in which states. That's going to be the conversation a year from now,” Elie Mystal, ...
06.18.2021 The Man Who Was Trump Before Trump The president’s adviser is falling all over himself to kiss his boss’ ass. “Mr. President, we’re all so proud to work for you. You’re saving the world!” It sounds like something you could imagine Jared Kushner would say to Donald ...
06.15.2021 These Trump DOJ Subpoena Revelations Are Like Watergate on Crack Attorney General Merrick Garland has been busy lately. In this episode of The New Abnormal, Molly Jong-Fast chats with FBI agent Peter Strzok about “Watergate on crack” aka these Trump DOJ subpoenas. Plus! Journalist Francesca Fiorentini takes on America’s hypocrisy ...
06.11.2021 We’re All Just Living Under the Tyranny of Joe Manchin w/ Andy Slavitt, Rep. Ritchie Torres & Jason Kander “Everything’s a question mark, because we no longer live in a democracy. We live under the tyranny of Joe Manchin,” says Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) of the current state of Congress. The congressman, who represents “America’s most impoverished district,” New ...
06.08.2021 What if This Is Just the Tip of Trumpworld’s Iceberg of Crazy? It was unhinged, even by Trumpworld standards. In the dying days of the Donald’s administration, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows asked the Justice Department to investigate a bizarre conspiracy theory, that an Italian defense contractor somehow swung the ...
06.04.2021 What the F*ck Is Wrong With Joe Manchin? What does Joe Manchin want? That’s what Molly Jong-Fast, co-host of The New Abnormal, wants to know—along with “what the fuck is wrong” with him. Because of the West Virginia senator, Democrats can’t say they have the majority in the ...
06.01.2021 Does the MyPillow Guy Think He’s a Governor? Mike Lindell, the MyPillow CEO and Trumpist conspiracy-peddler, flew his private jet to the Republican Governors’ Association meeting the other day. The guvs promptly threw him out. But the incident got Molly Jong-Fast thinking: does the MyPillow CEO think he’s ...
05.31.2021 UNLOCKED: Will Biden Ever Get Off His Ass to Save Democracy? It’s “the most serious threat to the core underlying principles of American democracy since at least the Civil War.” And Joe Biden is barely doing a thing to stop it. “We are seeing a threat to the integrity of the ...
05.30.2021 Will Biden Ever Get Off His Ass to Save Democracy? It’s “the most serious threat to the core underlying principles of American democracy since at least the Civil War.” And Joe Biden is barely doing a thing to stop it. “We are seeing a threat to the integrity of the ...
05.28.2021 Trump Jr.-Bongino 2024?? In this episode of TNA, Molly Jong-Fast and JD Durkin discuss who would be sent to Gitmo in a Donald Trump Jr. White House, Jessica Huseman sends chills down voting spines when she reveals voting bills that are way, way ...
05.25.2021 Ex-GOP Rep: My Party Was ‘Beamed Up by Aliens’ Former Republican Congressman and NSA official Denver Riggleman has wrote a book about BigFoot and studied terrorist groups. But his party’s fascination with QAnon? That perplexes him the most. He tells Molly Jong-Fast all about it in this episode of ...
05.21.2021 Michael Cohen Went Down First—But This Trump Crony Should Be Next Tim O'Brien, a senior columnist at Bloomberg, tells TNA host Molly Jong-Fast that there is one person who could actually get Trump behind bars. Plus! The GOP has no idea how to talk about Jan. 6, the new Texas abortion ...
05.18.2021 Republicans Are Trying to Steal Your Vote, and Dems Are Snoozing Through It Republicans all over the country are pushing hard and pushing fast to make sure as few people vote as possible. In 11 states, they’ve already passed laws restricting voting rights, and more laws are coming. It’s not just a response ...
05.14.2021 Violent Insurrection: It’s the New Camping! Those Trump supporters inside the Capitol on Jan. 6? The guy who made off with the lectern, the woman who stole Nancy Pelosi’s laptop? They weren’t actually rioting. “Look, I am not here to tour shame,” humorist and former Fox ...
05.13.2021 FEVER DREAMS: How ‘Wannabe’ Instagram Models Kneecapped Matt Gaetz If the federal investigation into Matt Gaetz does indeed end up spelling the MAGA congressman’s downfall, it’ll be partly because of a group of wannabe Instagram influencers. On this week’s episode of The Daily Beast’s Fever Dreams podcast, hosts Will ...
05.11.2021 Josh Hawley Is Basically Making Meth For MAGA Nation In this episode of The New Abnormal, Bulwark Editor-In-Chief Charlie Sykes tells Molly Jong-Fast why Josh Hawley and his fellow GOPers have major Breaking Bad vibes when it comes to supplying the Trump base with BS and the two surmise ...
05.07.2021 Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Want to Fix Facebook We might not have learned much from the Facebook Oversight Board’s punt this week on former President Donald Trump, but we did learn something: How utterly disingenuous Facebook has been on enforcement of its rules on hate speech.The social media ...
05.04.2021 Rudy Giuliani Is in ‘Deep Shit’ Rudy Giuliani insists the FBI raid on his apartment was a total miscarriage of justice. His Trumpy allies swear the feds had no reason at all to execute a search warrant on his home.George Conway, a former top Republican lawyer, ...
04.30.2021 Donald Trump Jr.’s Inauguration ‘Fuckery’ There are dozens of legal cases against the Trumps, but perhaps the most fascinating is one in the District of Columbia that has attracted little public attention according to Mother Jones’ D.C. bureau chief, David Corn, who joins the latest ...
04.29.2021 TEASER: Will Rudy Giuliani Actually Be Held Accountable for His Alleged Criming? Feds raided Rudy Giuliani’s New York City apartment on Wednesday in regards to his dealings in Ukraine, but the question many folks have, including The New Abnormal listeners, is whether he will actually be held accountable for his alleged criminal ...
04.27.2021 Has Wall Street Completely Lost Its Mind? Fast-falling apps, valued at billions of dollars. Governments printing up untold trillions in debt, just so they can buy it up themselves. Bitcoin knock-offs, soaring. Literal shell companies, all the rage. Has Wall Street (and the whole damn financial sector) ...
04.23.2021 Howard Dean: The Republicans Are Now a Neo-Fascist Party The Republican Party has suffered a total moral collapse and is now held together by a bunch of “nutcases” happy to endorse autocracy and neo-fascism—or so says Howard Dean, former presidential candidate and ex-chairman of the Democratic National Committee. The ...
04.21.2021 UNLOCKED: The New Abnormal Has Turned One And Is Celebrating 20 Million Listens It’s been a weird year--some might even say an abnormal year--but we’ve had a consistent bright spot: the loyal listeners of The New Abnormal podcast. Thanks to you, we’re celebrating our one-year anniversary with a major milestone: twenty million listens. ...
04.20.2021 Andrew Yang Will Shit-Talk Florida to Get Rich New Yorkers Back Home Andrew Yang will do whatever it takes to get the New York City economy going again if he’s elected mayor. And by anything, we mean he will shit-talk Florida to get as many rich New Yorkers as he can to ...
04.19.2021 TEASER: Mika Brzezinski: I Was An ‘Idiot’ Signing My First Morning Joe Contract Mika Brzezinski’s firing from CBS in 2006 was a total surprise. In this bonus episode of The New Abnormal, she tells host Molly Jong-Fast about how it all went down, why there should be a '70 Over 70' list for ...
04.16.2021 Hunter Biden on Burisma, Don Jr., and Cooking Crack! On a special edition of our hit podcast The New Abnormal, the president’s son opens up to Molly Jong-Fast about … well, about a lot. Why the Trumps continue to go after him so hard. Why his wife won’t let ...
04.13.2021 What Mika Brzezinski Did When She Read Trump’s ‘Bleeding Facelift’ Tweet Trump’s tweet about Mika Brzezinski “bleeding badly from a face-lift” originated from a conversation between her and the former first couple in their bedroom. Really. In this episode of The New Abnormal, the Morning Joe co-host gives her hilarious retelling ...
04.12.2021 TEASER: Rep. Grace Meng: How I’m Able to Work with GOP Racists Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY)’s tearful rebuke against Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) during a House hearing on violence and discrimination against Asian Americans was semi-unplanned. She had a speech ready to go, but when Roy went on an anti-China and lynchings ...
04.09.2021 Why Matt Gaetz Was Left Twisting in the Wind Every day, sometimes multiple times a day, come eye-popping new details in the Matt Gaetz scandal. But perhaps the worst thing of all for the Florida Republican, who is accused of underage sex trafficking, may be that Donald Trump thinks ...
04.06.2021 Why Republicans Can’t Seem To Lay a Glove on Biden That new documentary on QAnon ended with something of a bang, with one likely suspect seeming to half-confess that he was ‘Q,’ the oracle of the violent conspiracy movement. But there may not be even a single ‘Q,’ explains Will ...
04.05.2021 UNLOCKED: DNC Chair Jamie Harrison: The Democratic Brand Is Broken Democrats are in control of the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives for the first time in a decade. But to the new chair of the Democratic National Committee, it’s clear that the party’s brand is broken ...
04.02.2021 Gaetz Keeps Digging Deeper Holes for Himself The New Abnormal’s least favorite Florida congressman, Matt Gaetz, is in hot water over mounting allegations that he’s been involved with underage women and taking them across state lines. To discuss the burgeoning scandal, co-hosts Molly Jong-Fast and Jesse Cannon ...
03.31.2021 FEVER DREAMS: Why QAnon Is So Bummed to See the Suez Ship Go Free Did you know that everyone’s favorite Suez-Canal-blocking ship is now the subject of a QAnon conspiracy? The Daily Beast’s Asawin Suebsaeng and Will Sommer lay out why the adrenochrome set is convinced that the stuck ship’s cargo is full of ...
03.30.2021 The Right Way to Fight Georgia’s Voter-Suppression Law Goldie Taylor has been working in and around Georgia politics for decades. So she knows first-hand the kind of stunt Republicans are trying to pull with this new voter-suppression law. “What [Gov.] Brian Kemp will tell you, what other state ...
03.29.2021 FEVER DREAMS: What It’s Like When MAGA Nation Wants to Kill You for Your Movie Take one self-proclaimed satanism expert. Add in a pinch of dumpster-diving. Throw in a chicken-coop fire, and (of course) pillow magnate and Donald Trump pal Mike Lindell. And you’ve got the recipe that Trump 2020 deadenders are currently leading in ...
03.28.2021 TEASER: How Ted Cruz and the GOP Are Using the Border as a Prop GOP Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn led a tour for themselves and others in their party at the border on Friday, but according to Congresswoman Veronica Escobar, who took over Beto O’Rourke’s former 16th district in Texas, it’s all ...

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The New Abnormal episodes:

We Need a Pro-Abortion Constitutional Amendment

El Chapo’s Arrest Made the Drug War Worse w/ Noah Hurowiz

Introducing Angry Planet: Can the US Win the Wars of the Future?

What if Tucker Carlson Told the World He’d Been Vaccinated? w/ Oliver Darcy

Trump Author: Even His Allies Thought He’d Lost It

Bill O’Reilly Accuser Andrea Mackris: I Want People to ‘Understand the Terror’ of Forced NDAs

The Desperate Laundering of the Trump Reputations w/ Michael Wolff

The Trump Org’s Implosion Starts with a Divorce

UNLOCKED: Are We Just Going to Ignore That Exxon Video?

Trump Is Liable for Ashli Babbit’s Death

Ivanka Just Might Flip on Her Dad, Mary Trump Says

No Republicans Fears the Wrath of Kevin McCarthy w/ Andy Levy

Jared Kushner Really Did Make the Pandemic Worse

Mehdi Hasan Thinks Republicans Couldn’t Define Critical Race Theory ‘If Their Lives Depended on It’

The Sneaky Way the Supreme Court Will End Abortion Rights w/ Elie Mystal

The Man Who Was Trump Before Trump

These Trump DOJ Subpoena Revelations Are Like Watergate on Crack

We’re All Just Living Under the Tyranny of Joe Manchin w/ Andy Slavitt, Rep. Ritchie Torres & Jason Kander

What if This Is Just the Tip of Trumpworld’s Iceberg of Crazy?

What the F*ck Is Wrong With Joe Manchin?

Does the MyPillow Guy Think He’s a Governor?

UNLOCKED: Will Biden Ever Get Off His Ass to Save Democracy?

Will Biden Ever Get Off His Ass to Save Democracy?

Trump Jr.-Bongino 2024??

Ex-GOP Rep: My Party Was ‘Beamed Up by Aliens’

Michael Cohen Went Down First—But This Trump Crony Should Be Next

Republicans Are Trying to Steal Your Vote, and Dems Are Snoozing Through It

Violent Insurrection: It’s the New Camping!

FEVER DREAMS: How ‘Wannabe’ Instagram Models Kneecapped Matt Gaetz

Josh Hawley Is Basically Making Meth For MAGA Nation

Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Want to Fix Facebook

Rudy Giuliani Is in ‘Deep Shit’

Donald Trump Jr.’s Inauguration ‘Fuckery’

TEASER: Will Rudy Giuliani Actually Be Held Accountable for His Alleged Criming?

Has Wall Street Completely Lost Its Mind?

Howard Dean: The Republicans Are Now a Neo-Fascist Party

UNLOCKED: The New Abnormal Has Turned One And Is Celebrating 20 Million Listens

Andrew Yang Will Shit-Talk Florida to Get Rich New Yorkers Back Home

TEASER: Mika Brzezinski: I Was An ‘Idiot’ Signing My First Morning Joe Contract

Hunter Biden on Burisma, Don Jr., and Cooking Crack!

What Mika Brzezinski Did When She Read Trump’s ‘Bleeding Facelift’ Tweet

TEASER: Rep. Grace Meng: How I’m Able to Work with GOP Racists

Why Matt Gaetz Was Left Twisting in the Wind

Why Republicans Can’t Seem To Lay a Glove on Biden

UNLOCKED: DNC Chair Jamie Harrison: The Democratic Brand Is Broken

Gaetz Keeps Digging Deeper Holes for Himself

FEVER DREAMS: Why QAnon Is So Bummed to See the Suez Ship Go Free

The Right Way to Fight Georgia’s Voter-Suppression Law

FEVER DREAMS: What It’s Like When MAGA Nation Wants to Kill You for Your Movie

TEASER: How Ted Cruz and the GOP Are Using the Border as a Prop

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