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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10.26.2021

Paul Gosar has been basically caught red-handed when it comes to Jan. 6 meddling. So what’s next? Reporter Hunter Walker, who authored the bombshell report about Gosar promising rioters “pardons,” came on the podcast to talk about how he got ...

The New Abnormal episodes:

10.26.2021 The Harshest Punishment Paul Gosar Could Get for Jan. 6 w/ Hunter Walker Paul Gosar has been basically caught red-handed when it comes to Jan. 6 meddling. So what’s next? Reporter Hunter Walker, who authored the bombshell report about Gosar promising rioters “pardons,” came on the podcast to talk about how he got ...
10.22.2021 Secret Corruption ‘Waivers’ and Other Tales from Trump’s Former Ethics Director Walter Shaub, former director of the United States Office of Government Ethics under the Obama and Trump administration shares “the most horrifying ethical lapse” of the Trump admin that he witnessed—and why he’s annoyed at Biden. Plus, Esquire’s politics blog ...
10.19.2021 How Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘Basically Bought’ Her House Seat w/ Adam Serwer Army veteran Marcus Flowers is running against Marjorie Taylor Greene as a Democrat in Georgia’s 14th district and tells Molly Jong-Fast why he chose to run against the MAGA maniac and the reason death threats from QAnoners don’t scare him. ...
10.17.2021 Inside the Fight Against Trump’s ‘Music Man’ This week on The New Abnormal, our bonus episode takes you inside the fight against two men producer Jesse Cannon calls “the GOP’s worst congressmen.” Cannon and host Molly Jong-Fast interview Charles Graham, who is running as a Democratic challenger ...
10.15.2021 This Is Not Kyrsten Sinema Just Pissing Off the Left w/ Adam Jentelson On the latest episode of The New Abnormal, Molly sits down with Adam Jentleson to talk about the wayward Arizona senator. Jentleson, former deputy chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and author of Kill Switch: The Rise ...
10.12.2021 Carville: Either Dems Hold On or Kiss Democracy’s Ass Goodbye James Carville talks with Molly Jong-Fast about how to stop the GOP before they “come back in power in 2024 (and) you can kiss this democracy’s ass goodbye.” Plus Alec Ross talks about the Raging 2020s and Ryan Hampton rips ...
10.08.2021 How Fox News Made Every Moment of the Last 25 Years Worse Over at Fox News, they’re marking a very important milestone. “It’s a big day for them,” says Angelo Carusone, president and CEO of Media Matters for America. “They’re very very proud of themselves. They’re very excited.” Yes, it’s been 25 ...
10.05.2021 The Secret Meeting Between Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, the Trumps and Kushners Author Max Chavkin, whose latest book Contrarian is all about Peter Thiel, tells Molly Jong-Fast alleged details from the 2019 meeting that the billionaire had with Mark Zuckerberg, the Trumps and the Kushners that people don’t know. Plus, Congressman Mondaire ...
10.01.2021 Nancy Pelosi Brought a Teddy Bear to a Knife Fight w/ Dr. Peter Hotez J.D. Durkin tells talks to Molly Jong-Fast about how Democrats brought a stuffed animal to a knife fight, Dr. Peter Hotez joins to break down why MRNA vaccines won’t say save the world, and what might, and Leonid Volkov, chief ...
09.28.2021 How Long Until Ben Shapiro Becomes CEO of Facebook? w/ Kevin Roose New York Times tech columnist Kevin Roose explains why Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook just can’t seem to let its high-performing conservative talking heads go, NBC News Reporter John Allen breaks down President Biden’s infrastructure plan for normal people, and USC ...
09.24.2021 These Are Mary Trump’s Favorite Parts of Donald’s $100M Suit Mary Trump explains to Molly Jong-Fast why she just might send Donald flowers to thank him for suing her. Crooked Media’s Brian Beutler looks at what Dems can do to deal with the Trumpy Supreme Court. And linguist George Lakoff ...
09.21.2021 Breitbart Wants Its Followers to Get Vaxxed to Own the Libs w/Rep. Ro Khanna Jeet Heer tells Molly Jong-Fast about a candidate from the Canadian presidential race whose big issue was dairy control management. Will Sommer and Swin Suebsaeng, Daily Beast reporters and hosts of the Fever Dreams podcast, discuss the ways that outlets ...
09.17.2021 Could There Be a Non-Vaccine COVID Cure? Dr. Scott Gottlieb, author of ‘Uncontrolled Spread’ and a member of Pfizer’s Board of Directors, updates Molly Jong-Fast on the status of “COVID pills” and child-approved vaccinations in the works, Eric Boehlert, founder and editor of press run.media, calls out ...
09.14.2021 Will Kellyanne Conway Have a Come to Jesus Moment? Lee Papa, author of The Rude Pundit, discusses with Molly Jong-Fast the chances of Kellyanne Conway joining George W. Bush as a resistance hero, Washington Post’s national health reporter Dan Diamond sheds light on the big COVID booster debate happening ...
09.10.2021 Here’s Why Joe Manchin Is Always Dumping on Other Democrats What the hell is Joe Manchin doing?! Max Rose, who served in Afghanistan and won a term in Congress as a Democrat representing a red district in Staten Island and Brooklyn, explains where Manchin is coming from given that “there’s ...
09.07.2021 Why Biden Should Send ‘Abortion Trucks’ to Texas Elie Mystal, Editor-at-Large at The Nation, has a wild, but potentially effective idea to help women impacted by the new Texas abortion law—if President Biden can make it happen. And Congressman Ruben Gallego defends Biden’s decision to pull out of ...
09.03.2021 George Conway Feels Bad for What Happened to Monica Lewinsky But the lawyer doesn’t regret his role in the Clinton impeachment saga. Also on the latest New Abnormal, whether Texas spells the end of Roe, where Georgia is headed, and more. Later in the episode, Washington Post reporter Craig Whitlock, ...
08.31.2021 The Nonexistent Afghanistan Plan That Might’ve Saved Biden’s Ass w/ Tim Miller MSNBC political analyst Tim Miller joins Molly Jong-Fast on this episode of The New Abnormal to discuss Biden’s weird, new callousness with Afghanistan and Matt Gaetz’ troll-y brother-in-law. Plus, Dr. Howard Dean, former governor of Vermont and former head of ...
08.27.2021 Everyone’s Against Forever Wars Until They Actually End w/ Toure “What is your Afghanistan hot take? Go.”“My number one hot take is that I don’t like occupation. I don’t feel like we should be permanently defending ‘democracy’ in any given country. If they are not ready for democracy or to ...
08.24.2021 Jeet Heer: It Shouldn’t Shock You That Afghanistan Collapsed So Quickly “The fact that everything collapsed so quickly to me vindicates Biden’s decision,” Jeet Heer says on this week’s second episode of The New Abnormal. “If you read the Afghanistan Papers, none of what’s happening is shocking. One of the big ...
08.20.2021 Why Uncle Don Is ‘Incapable’ of Convincing the Unvaxxed w/ Mary Trump The coronavirus pandemic, a fraught election, an attempted insurrection, more of the coronavirus pandemic...the United States is suffering from the mental version of long COVID, says Mary Trump. The psychologist and niece of former president Donald Trump joins The New ...
08.17.2021 The U.S. Is Giving the Rest of the World Abandonment Issues In this episode of The New Abnormal, former war correspondent, staff writer at the New Yorker and CNN global affairs analyst Susan Glasser explains how the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan is everyone’s damn fault, even Biden’s. Plus, Texas Congresswoman Sylvia ...
08.16.2021 UNLOCKED: Biden’s Ex-COVID Czar: Ron DeSantis Wants You to Drown in COVID We’re enduring our current crush of COVID-19 cases in large part thanks to Republican governors like Texas’ Greg Abbott and Florida’s Ron DeSantis, who has instituted statewide bans on vaccine and mask mandates as the state’s healthcare system is being ...
08.13.2021 Why Vaccinated People Are Not Taking Delta Seriously Enough w/ Dr. Eric Topol The American public is being misled about the coronavirus vaccines, and it needs to stop now. That’s what Dr. Eric Topol, head of the Scripps Institute, tells co-host Molly Jong-Fast on the sobering latest episode of The New Abnormal. Fully ...
08.10.2021 NJ Gov. Phil Murphy Has Two Thoughts on Andrew Cuomo and That’s It New Jersey governor Phil Murphy shares his thoughts on the sexual harassment allegations and report against fellow Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) and whether he foresees another COVID lockdown. Plus, Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and author of the new expanded edition ...
08.06.2021 The Perfect Storm Battering Ron DeSantis in Florida w/ Nikki Fried & Ian Dunt “We are in a crisis and this governor is raising money off of anti-Fauci merch and going to other states to do fundraisers,” Florida Agricultural Commissioner Nikki Fried says of Ron DeSantis. Also in the episode, Ian Dunt—editor-at-large of Politics.co.uk, ...
08.03.2021 GOP’s Anti-Vaxx Disinfo ‘Is What Authoritarian Regimes Do’ w/ Dr Peter Hotez & James Carville Dr. Peter Hotez has been battling vaccine disinformation for years. But he was still shocked to see United States senators like Ron Johnson peddling anti-vaxxer agitprop. “Historically, this is what the authoritarian regimes do,” Hotez tells Molly Jong-Fast on the ...
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 ...
07.23.2021 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 ...

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The New Abnormal episodes:

The Harshest Punishment Paul Gosar Could Get for Jan. 6 w/ Hunter Walker

Secret Corruption ‘Waivers’ and Other Tales from Trump’s Former Ethics Director

How Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘Basically Bought’ Her House Seat w/ Adam Serwer

Inside the Fight Against Trump’s ‘Music Man’

This Is Not Kyrsten Sinema Just Pissing Off the Left w/ Adam Jentelson

Carville: Either Dems Hold On or Kiss Democracy’s Ass Goodbye

How Fox News Made Every Moment of the Last 25 Years Worse

The Secret Meeting Between Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, the Trumps and Kushners

Nancy Pelosi Brought a Teddy Bear to a Knife Fight w/ Dr. Peter Hotez

How Long Until Ben Shapiro Becomes CEO of Facebook? w/ Kevin Roose

These Are Mary Trump’s Favorite Parts of Donald’s $100M Suit

Breitbart Wants Its Followers to Get Vaxxed to Own the Libs w/Rep. Ro Khanna

Could There Be a Non-Vaccine COVID Cure?

Will Kellyanne Conway Have a Come to Jesus Moment?

Here’s Why Joe Manchin Is Always Dumping on Other Democrats

Why Biden Should Send ‘Abortion Trucks’ to Texas

George Conway Feels Bad for What Happened to Monica Lewinsky

The Nonexistent Afghanistan Plan That Might’ve Saved Biden’s Ass w/ Tim Miller

Everyone’s Against Forever Wars Until They Actually End w/ Toure

Jeet Heer: It Shouldn’t Shock You That Afghanistan Collapsed So Quickly

Why Uncle Don Is ‘Incapable’ of Convincing the Unvaxxed w/ Mary Trump

The U.S. Is Giving the Rest of the World Abandonment Issues

UNLOCKED: Biden’s Ex-COVID Czar: Ron DeSantis Wants You to Drown in COVID

Why Vaccinated People Are Not Taking Delta Seriously Enough w/ Dr. Eric Topol

NJ Gov. Phil Murphy Has Two Thoughts on Andrew Cuomo and That’s It

The Perfect Storm Battering Ron DeSantis in Florida w/ Nikki Fried & Ian Dunt

GOP’s Anti-Vaxx Disinfo ‘Is What Authoritarian Regimes Do’ w/ Dr Peter Hotez & James Carville

We Need a Pro-Abortion Constitutional Amendment

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

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??

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