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The Daily Beast Podcast
The Daily Beast Podcast is as wildly exciting, energizing, and entertaining as the topics it covers. Hosted by Joanna Coles, Chief Content Officer of the Daily Beast, each episode delivers the people and politics coverage you need—straight from the Daily Beast newsroom. Conversations have featured voices like John Oliver, Mary Trump, and Governor Gavin Newsom, alongside sharp, incisive takes each week from show regular David Rothkopf. It’s like the best dinner party you’ve ever been to, just…
Episodes
The Daily Beast PodcastIt’s Time to Look at Trump’s Jan. 6 Plans in a New Light
Did Trump and his team ever really believe the 2020 election was stolen? That’s the wrong question to ask, Talking Points Memo reporter Josh Kovensky says on…
The Daily Beast PodcastNikki Haley’s Jenga Tower of Anti-Trump Positions Is About to Crash Down
The Daily Beast political reporter Jake Lahut joins this week’s The New Abnormal podcast to discuss Nikki Haley’s dwindling shot at the 2024 Republican…
The Daily Beast PodcastGuardian Angels' Thug Tactics Get Exposed in Times Square
The Guardian Angels have been meting out vigilante justice on New York City streets since 1979. Last week the red-bereted crime fighters appeared on Fox News…
The Daily Beast PodcastSupreme Court Justices Are ‘in the Bag’ for Donald Trump
This week on The New Abnormal, co-hosts Andy Levy and Danielle Moodie discuss the horrifying Supreme Court hearing today that weighed whether Donald Trump will…
The Daily Beast PodcastRepublicans Should Love The Senate’s Latest Immigration Bill
This week on The New Abnormal, co-hosts Andy Levy and Danielle Moodie discuss the Senate’s proposed immigration border bill that has sparked widespread…
The Daily Beast PodcastWhy Donald Trump Won’t Let His Famous Dead Uncle John Rest in Peace
Donald Trump keeps using his relation to a famed MIT professor as proof of his intelligence. But as The New Abnormal team points out—smart people often have…
The Daily Beast PodcastAuthor of Shocking Post-Roe Rape Study Details ‘Truly Horrifying’ Numbers
This week on The New Abnormal, Samuel Dickman, the medical director at Planned Parenthood Montana, joins us to unpack a jarring new study showing the dramatic…
The Daily Beast PodcastThis Week Could Be Even Worse for Donald Trump Than Last Week
This week on The New Abnormal, hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy discuss the week of horror that could flip the game for Donald Trump. Then, Rolling…
The Daily Beast PodcastThis Bill Would Ban Single People From Sending Sexy Selfies
Reason Magazine’s senior editor, Elizabeth Nolan Brown, tells The New Abnormal why a bill by Oklahoma Senator Dusty Deevers that would make it illegal to sext…
The Daily Beast PodcastJoe Biden Can—and Should—Take Over the Texas National Guard
If Greg Abbott is going to use his National Guard troops to flout the U.S. Constitution, the president should do as Dwight D. Eisenhower once did and…
The Daily Beast PodcastNo One Can Be More Disappointed in Ron DeSantis Than His Wife Casey
This week on The New Abnormal, hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy discuss the end of Ron DeSantis’ 2024 dreams. Then, Protect Democracy Editor Amanda…
The Daily Beast PodcastWe Need an Interpreter to Work Out Trump’s ‘Debanking’ Rant
The former president’s latest rant about “debanking” and electric cars has left The New Abnormal team scratching their heads. Plus! Danielle Moodie talks to…
The Daily Beast PodcastListen Closely: Trump Wants to Be a ‘Messiah’ Figure for Evangelicals
The former president has been ramping up the “spiritual” language he uses on the campaign trail, according to author and this week’s guest on The New Abnormal…
The Daily Beast PodcastTrump’s New Slogan Sums Him Up Perfectly
On The New Abnormal, hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy discuss the problem with Trump’s newest slogan. Then, Frankie Miranda, the president and CEO of the…
The Daily Beast PodcastMy Time Inside MAGA World Showed Me All Its Secrets
Journalist Tina Nguyen tells The New Abnormal how her time inside America’s political right-wing showed her how it captures young hearts and minds. Hosted on…
The Daily Beast PodcastChristie Has One Move Left That May Save Us From Trump
The Bulwark editor Jonathan Last tells The New Abnormal that if Chris Christie really believes that Donald Trump must be stopped at all costs, then he has one…
The Daily Beast PodcastMedia Exhaustion May Be All Trump Needs to Squeak Out a Win in 2024
Daily Beast media reporter Justin Baragona joins The New Abnormal to discuss how the news media is dealing with the former president’s repeated threats to…
The Daily Beast PodcastA Supreme Court With Common Sense Would Disqualify Trump
Constitutional law professor Michael Gerhardt tells The New Abnormal that a plain reading of the 14th Amendment would deny Donald Trump’s bid to be president…
The Daily Beast PodcastWhy Biden Is Likely to Bridge Polling Gap Against Trump
The Daily Beast’s senior political reporter Roger Sollenberger tells The New Abnormal why Trump’s lead in the polls compared with Biden is set to narrow as the…
The Daily Beast PodcastThe Far Right Will Only Get Louder and More Powerful in 2024
The coming year is set to be a trying time for America, at least according to Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware, whose new book God, Guns and Sedition: Far-Right…
The Daily Beast PodcastStudent’s Epic Takedown of Bridget Ziegler Is Perfection
Zander Moricz confronted the Moms for Liberty co-founder at a Sarasota town meeting who he said had once retweeted a hate article about him when he was a high…
The Daily Beast PodcastThe Absolute Dumbest Conservative Controversies of 2023
Media Matters’ Rapid Response Director Andrew Lawrence joins The New Abnormal to rank the most brain-dead right-wing “controversies” of the year. Then…
The Daily Beast PodcastTrump’s ‘Aspirational Fascism’ Casts a Shadow Over 2024
In this week's episode host Danielle Moodie talks to Patrick Gaspard, the CEO of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, discusses the challenges and…
The Daily Beast PodcastNick Fuentes’ ‘Death Penalty’ Call Is Beyond Extreme
The New Abnormal team says comments by white supremacist Nick Fuentes that Jewish people need to be given the death penalty is another good reason to vote in…
The Daily Beast PodcastHow ‘The Daily Show’ Host Search Became Such a Disaster
In this week’s crossover episode between The New Abnormal and The Last Laugh, we break down how Hasan Minhaj’s “emotional truths” upended The Daily Show’s…
The Daily Beast PodcastMoms for Liberty Wants to Usher in an American Caste System
Moms for Liberty may have lost a few battles, but they’re still winning the culture war, Tamara Gilkes Borr, a U.S. policy correspondent at The Economist, says…
The Daily Beast PodcastTrump Is Hawking This Season’s Most Petty Gift for Christmas
The former president claims to be ridiculously wealthy but The New Abnormal team says his move to sell parts of the suit he wore in his Georgia mugshot wreaks…
The Daily Beast PodcastHas Social Media Brainwashed You to Think the Economy’s Bad?
John Burn-Murdoch, a columnist and the chief data reporter for the Financial Times, joins The New Abnormal this week to unpack why people feel so bad about…
The Daily Beast PodcastElon Musk Isn’t Coming Back From the Far-Right Fever Swamps
The hosts talk with Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) about his new bill, “End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act of 2023”—and why America needs a paradigm shift in…
The Daily Beast PodcastThe Thing That Will Be the Final ‘Death Knell’ for Musk’s X
Ed Zitron, CEO of media and public relations group EZPR, tells The New Abnormal’s Andy Levy that Elon Musk is driving the platform formally known as Twitter…
The Daily Beast PodcastNo One Is Shedding a Tear for Kevin McCarthy
This week on The New Abnormal, hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy reflect on the downward spiral of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House. Plus! The Nation’s…
The Daily Beast PodcastDeSantis’ Retreat Shows Moms for Liberty’s Influence Is Waning
Political strategist Michael Podhorzer stops by the podcast to “redirect some anxiety” about recent polls showing Donald Trump in a strong position for next…
The Daily Beast PodcastNewsom Demolished DeSantis Using the One Thing Republicans Hate
t was meant to be a debate showcasing the new faces of the major parties. But as The New Abnormal team points out, Gavin Newsom came armed with something Ron…
The Daily Beast PodcastThe Vast Majority of American Voters Should Never See a Poll
This week on The New Abnormal, MSNBC political analyst and pollster Cornell Belcher talks the science of polls before we all start pulling our hair out. Then…
The Daily Beast PodcastThe Media is Ignoring Trump’s Advanced Age at Our Peril
New York Times technology reporter Mike Isaac joins The New Abnormal to unpack the civil war currently roiling OpenAI. Plus! A conversation with Democratic…
The Daily Beast PodcastJan. 6 Officer Says U.S. Must Be Saved From Trump’s Return
Former Capitol Police Officer Sgt. Aquilino Gonell tells The New Abnormal that democracy is on the ballot in the next election and that America must be…
The Daily Beast PodcastWhy Eric Is Most Likely Trump’s Second Favorite Child
David Roth and Jeb Lund play the Thanksgiving edition of “America 20 Questions,” including answering how thankful they think Donald Trump is for each of his…
The Daily Beast PodcastElon Musk Has Become the Very Thing He Hates Most
Media Matters President Angelo Carusone joins The New Abnormal to talk through his organization’s recent sparring with Elon Musk and his social media platform…
The Daily Beast PodcastHow This Iconic Black Model Changed the Fashion Industry
Bethann Hardison broke barriers in the 1970s by appearing in the top fashion magazines. Her new documentary Invisible Beauty shows how she championed diversity…
The Daily Beast PodcastWhy GOP Won’t Stop Tuberville’s Military Nominees Tantrum
Veteran Jason Kander tells The New Abnormal there are two main reasons why Republicans are afraid to take on Senator Tommy Tuberville’s military blockade…
The Daily Beast PodcastTrump’s Recent Rhetoric Is Just as Scary as It Seems
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Spencer Ackerman stops by the program to talk about Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act—and why Congress…
The Daily Beast PodcastThe Rebels Who First Fought Big Tech Were on to Something
Tech columnist Brian Merchant tells The New Abnormal the Luddites got a bad rap following the Industrial Revolution but all they were trying to do was hold big…
The Daily Beast PodcastBiden’s Meeting With Xi Could Thaw ‘Deep Freeze’ With China
Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi tells The New Abnormal that Joe Biden’s sit down with the Chinese President next week will be the first in almost a year and…
The Daily Beast PodcastTeam Trump Isn’t Even Trying to Keep Its Wildest Plans Secret
Brian Kaylor, the president and editor-in-chief of Word&Way, joins The New Abnormal to discuss new House Speaker Mike Johnson—and why he thinks the longtime…
The Daily Beast PodcastWhy No One Cared About the War in Afghanistan Until We Lost
Marine combat photographer Miles Lagoze tells The New Abnormal why Americans were more concerned about the optics of exiting Afghanistan than the mission…
The Daily Beast PodcastWhy Libs of TikTok Is a Ticking Time Bomb
Michael Edison Hayden tells The New Abnormal why Chaya Raichik, the woman behind Libs of TikTok, is so dangerous and why the Anti-Defamation League needs to…
The Daily Beast PodcastWhat If We Tried Treating Donald Trump Like Everyone Else?
The U.S. justice system is handling former President Donald Trump with kid gloves, The New Abnormal host Danielle Moodie says. Plus! A discussion about the…
The Daily Beast PodcastWhy This Election Is the Most Crucial Since the Civil War
Matt Bennett, co-founder of national think-tank Third Way, tells The New Abnormal why a second Trump presidency would be a “catastrophe” and leave America…
The Daily Beast PodcastMAGA Mike Johnson Is Shameless in More Ways Than One
This week on The New Abnormal, Semafor’s Washington Bureau Chief Benjy Sarlin tells us the who, what, and why that is the Republican Speaker of the House, Rep…
The Daily Beast PodcastThe Case for Arnold Schwarzenegger Being Speaker of the House
This week on The New Abnormal, Democratic strategist Kurt Bardella makes sense of the clown show that has become the Republican Party—which he used to be a…
The Daily Beast PodcastHow the Pentagon Changed the Plot of ‘Top Gun’
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Walter Hickey explains how movies and TV affect everything from our biology to our beliefs and what happens when governments…
The Daily Beast PodcastThe Republican Party Is Self-Destructing Before Our Very Eyes
CNN commentator S.E. Cupp joins The New Abnormal to discuss her recent article about how the right is broken–and nothing is being done to fix it. Then…
The Daily Beast PodcastTrump’s Lawyers Aren’t Even Trying to Win His NY Fraud Case
Trump’s legal team seems more concerned with leaving landmines in the court record than winning his New York fraud trial, The Daily Beast’s Jose Pagliery says…
The Daily Beast PodcastTrump Is Going Even Further Down the QAnon Rabbit Hole
On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal co-hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy call out the former president for his latest rallying cry to white…
The Daily Beast PodcastGOP Hits the Bottom of the Barrel to Dredge Up New Speaker
On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, Republicans have been scrambling to figure out who they could dredge up as House Speaker. Plus! U.S. Rep. Yvette…
The Daily Beast PodcastViolence-Ready’ Militia Group Says Jan. 6’ers are Idiots
On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, extremism and violent terrorism researcher Alexander Ritzman describes the new, male only movement infiltrating…
The Daily Beast PodcastHow the God Complex of 4 Billionaires Could Destroy Society
Author Jonathan Taplin tells The New Abnormal how Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Marc Andreessen, are providing the tools to let fascism flourish…
The Daily Beast PodcastThe Theme of Trump’s Existence Summed Up in Three Words
On this week’s episode of The New Abnormal, professor and author Jennifer Taub gives us all the details on Trump's fraud case happening right now in New York…
The Daily Beast PodcastDon’t Feel Bad for Kevin McCarthy—He Dug His Own Grave
Don’t cry for Kevin—he knew what he was getting into when he took the job as House Speaker, The New Abnormal hosts argue. Then, an interview about dystopian…
The Daily Beast PodcastYoungkin’s White House Dream May Push Virginia Further Right
Aaron Kleinman, Director of Research for The States Project, tells The New Abnormal that if Republicans are able to win both houses in November’s state…