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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 PodcastUNLOCKED: How WSJ Reporter Jeff Horwitz Got the Facebook Whistleblower to Talk
Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz, who published what’s now known as the Facebook Files, thanks to Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, tells Molly…
The Daily Beast PodcastHow WSJ Reporter Jeff Horwitz Got the Facebook Whistleblower to Talk
Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz, who published what’s now known as the Facebook Files, thanks to Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, tells Molly…
The Daily Beast PodcastTucker Carlson Is Doing It for the Fish Sticks w/ Adam Schiff
Adam Schiff talks with Molly Jong-Fast about the Big Lie and the cult of Trump, and Molly has some thoughts about Tucker Carlson’s new “Patriot Purge” special…
The Daily Beast PodcastThe 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…
The Daily Beast Podcast‘The Americans’ Creator: Being in the CIA Made Me Empathize with the KGB
In this bonus episode of The New Abnormal, Joseph Weisberg explains how his time in the CIA made him see the KGB and Russia in an entirely new light (“They…
The Daily Beast PodcastSecret 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastHow 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastInside 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastThis 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastCarville: 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.”…
The Daily Beast PodcastFiona Hill: Putin Used His KGB Training to Manipulate Trump
Fiona Hill, former U.S. national security council specializing in Russia and U.S. relations and author of There's Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in…
The Daily Beast PodcastHow 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastThe 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastWhy's Matt Gaetz and Co. Pushing ‘White Replacement Theory’ So Hard?
Keith Boykin, author of Race Against Time: The Politics of a Darkening America and one of the journalists thrown in jail by the NYPD during the 2020 George…
The Daily Beast PodcastNancy 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastHow 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastStop Being A White Savior and Join a School Board ft. Phoebe Robinson
Comedian, author, and “2 Dope Queens” actress Phoebe Robinson tells white people how they can step away from the “white savior” mentality (and the Instagram…
The Daily Beast PodcastThese 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastBreitbart 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastHow the Texas Abortion Ban Is an Attack on Men
Washington Post columnist Karen Atiah came on this bonus episode of The New Abnormal to fill Molly Jong-Fast in on what’s going on in her home state since the…
The Daily Beast PodcastCould 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastWill 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastYou Don’t Know Everything About Muhammad Ali Just Yet
In this bonus episode of The New Abnormal, documentarian Ken Burns talks about his new film on Muhammad Ali: how making it has taught him so much more about…
The Daily Beast PodcastHere’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…
The Daily Beast PodcastWhy 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastTom Nichols: Democracy is Dying Because Americans Are Narcissists
Tom Nichols, author of Our Own Worst Enemy, says Americans should stop blaming each other and making excuses for democracy crumbling when it’s their own damn…
The Daily Beast PodcastGeorge 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastThe 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastSoledad O’Brien on Fox News’ ‘Stupid Blonde’ Spouting Vax Nonsense
This week on a bonus episode of The New Abnormal, Soledad O’Brien joins Molly Jong-Fast to discuss trust in the media, Fox News, coronavirus vaccines, and…
The Daily Beast PodcastEveryone’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…
The Daily Beast PodcastJeet 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastAfghan Women Say The Taliban Are Shooting People in the Night and Filming It
Daily Beast reporter Diana Falzone reached out to a few different female reporters in Afghanistan to get their perspective on what is happening and what she…
The Daily Beast PodcastWhy 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastThe 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastUNLOCKED: 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastBiden’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…
The Daily Beast PodcastWhy 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastNJ 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastJared Kushner Is Likely Why Trump Made Governors’ Lives Hell During Early COVID
In this bonus episode of TNA, journalists Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker, authors of I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year, talk…
The Daily Beast PodcastThe 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastGOP’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…
The Daily Beast PodcastThe Worst Things Bill Barr Did as AG
In this bonus episode of The New Abnormal Elie Honig, CNN legal analyst and author of the new book about Bill Barr called Hatchet Man, talks about all the ways…
The Daily Beast PodcastWe 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastEl 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastJulie K. Brown Doesn’t Believe Jeffrey Epstein Killed Himself
In this bonus episode of The New Abnormal, Julie K. Brown, the reporter who pursued the Jeffrey Epstein story at the Miami Herald and author of Perversion of…
The Daily Beast PodcastWhat 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastTrump 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 Daily Beast PodcastBill 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastSusan Orlean on the Weird World of Show Dogs and New Jersey’s Tiger Queen
Did you know that there was a female version of the Tiger King in New Jersey? “Orchid Thief” author Susan Orlean did and wrote about it. She joins Molly…
The Daily Beast PodcastThe 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastThe 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastUNLOCKED: 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastAre 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastTrump 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)…
The Daily Beast PodcastIvanka 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastEric Adams Is The Kind of Democrat That Liberals Ignore w/ David Shorr
New York City mayoral candidate Eric Adams, Black anti-racist, pro-cop former cop, is a walking anomaly. “There's an entire group of voters who aren't being…
The Daily Beast PodcastNo 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastJared 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…
The Daily Beast PodcastFox News Has Critical Race Theory All Wrong w/ Kevin M. Kruse
In this bonus episode of The New Abnormal, historian Kevin Kruse makes the case that Republicans might actually agree with Critical Race Theory if they…
The Daily Beast PodcastMehdi 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…