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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 PodcastGetting ‘Canceled’ Is the Only Thing Conservatives Have Left
The theme this year, stupidly enough, is ‘America Uncanceled.’ But the only real way to get any kinda cred at the 2021 Conversative Political Action…
The Daily Beast PodcastMary Trump: Here’s How We Send Donald to Jail
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office finally got its hands on Donald Trump’s taxes and it’s only a matter of time before it becomes clear why he spent so…
The Daily Beast PodcastBlaire Erskine Exposes MAGA Insanity
Atlanta-based comedian Blaire Erskine has blown up on Twitter over the past year with videos that not only roast Trump-loving conservatives but have also…
The Daily Beast PodcastOrange Is the New Orange: Trump Just Might Go to Jail
For years, he’s gotten away with it. He lied. He cheated. He treated the government like a get-rich-quick-scheme and his most ardent followers like marks. But…
The Daily Beast PodcastTRAILER: Dem Impeachment Manager: Here’s Why We Didn’t Call Witnesses During Trump’s Trial
We know how the story went: Trump was impeached for a second time. There is a trial. He is found not guilty because there not enough votes needed to make it…
The Daily Beast PodcastDem Impeachment Manager: Here’s Why We Didn’t Call Witnesses During Trump’s Trial
We know how the story went: Trump was impeached for a second time. There is a trial. He is found not guilty because there not enough votes needed to make it…
The Daily Beast PodcastThe Vaccines Are More Effective Than You Think
Andy Slavitt was shocked when he joined the Biden administration. “I was under the impression coming in—as many, many Americans were—that there were big…
The Daily Beast PodcastMitch McConnell Proved He’s Even More Craven Than Ted Cruz
That impeachment vote in the Senate was tough to swallow, with 43 Republicans voting to acquit Trump for the insurrection done in his name, by people waving…
The Daily Beast PodcastTEASER: The Marine and The Doctor Taking On Marjorie Greene and Lauren Boebert
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert weren’t elected to their positions in the House of Representatives by accident. They ran campaigns like everyone…
The Daily Beast PodcastThe Marine and The Doctor Taking On Marjorie Greene and Lauren Boebert
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert weren’t elected to their positions in the House of Representatives by accident. They ran campaigns like everyone…
The Daily Beast PodcastThere Is a Way to Take Down Fox News (And It’s Not a Boycott)
Amidst hundreds of thousands of Americans dying from COVID-19, countless pleas from health officials and the CDC to wear maks and social distance, and a recent…
The Daily Beast PodcastThe Worst People on Facebook Now Want to Ruin Real Life
For years, Facebook has been a cesspool of conspiracy theorists, political ragemonsters, and quacks pushing cures for decaying Boomers. But as dangerous as…
The Daily Beast PodcastTEASER: Democrats Don’t Care About Debt. And That’s OK.
The pandemic shook things up, a lot. It exposed the country’s deepest inequalities, and arguably, made them worse. Now, all eyes are on President Biden to see…
The Daily Beast PodcastDemocrats Don’t Care About Debt. And That’s OK.
The pandemic shook things up, a lot. It exposed the country’s deepest inequalities, and arguably, made them worse. Now, all eyes are on President Biden to see…
The Daily Beast PodcastThe Hamster Wheel of Trumpism Will Turn Greene Into a Hero
So how are House Republicans dealing with the fallout from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s freshly resurfaced 9/11 trutherism, school shooting denialism, and…
The Daily Beast PodcastWill Biden’s Team Find All of the Vaxx—Before It’s Too Late?
In recent days, top members of the Biden administration have a startling admission: That millions of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were lost somewhere in the…
The Daily Beast PodcastTEASER: Republicans Aren’t All Dumb. They’re Just Part of Cult.
Lots of us have been asking ourselves (and Twitter) many questions over the last year. Questions like: How did about 74 million people vote for Trump, again?…
The Daily Beast PodcastRepublicans Aren’t All Dumb. They’re Just Part of Cult.
Lots of us have been asking ourselves (and Twitter) many questions over the last year. Questions like: How did about 74 million people vote for Trump, again?…
The Daily Beast PodcastTrump Sent a Mob to His Office. Now He’s Kissing Don’s Ass.
He’s supposed to be a leader—the leader, in fact, of the Republicans in the House of Representatives. But he ain’t doing much leading. As The Daily Beast…
The Daily Beast PodcastJosh Hawley, Could You Stop Your Whining for Five Seconds?
Authoritarians like Sen. Josh Hawley don’t have much to defend these days. Their little insurrection failed, their Dear Leader is gone, and his stewardship…
The Daily Beast PodcastDid Trump and Biden Swap Bodies???
If you don’t understand the title of this episode, which suggests some Freaky Friday voodoo between President Biden and ex-President Donald Trump…
The Daily Beast PodcastTEASER: Mitch McConnell Is Already Trying to Train Wreck the Biden Admin
It is said that before Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009, a group of Republicans got together and vowed to oppose everything that he would do, or rather, try…
The Daily Beast PodcastMitch McConnell Is Already Trying to Train Wreck the Biden Admin
It is said that before Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009, a group of Republicans got together and vowed to oppose everything that he would do, or rather, try…
The Daily Beast PodcastPreview: Sarah Cooper Calls Trump a ‘Petty Bitch’
In this preview of ‘The Last Laugh’ podcast’s new episode with Sarah Cooper, the comedian shares her parting message for the president she has spent the past…
The Daily Beast PodcastHow to Kill MAGA Nation’s Brain Worms
How will we bring the Trump supporters who live in an alternate reality back to the real world? A recent Pew poll asked who respondents thought was to blame…
The Daily Beast PodcastTEASER: Trump’s Legacy Is Going to Get Worse (Just Wait)
Donald Trump is not the only “bad” president this country has had in office, but from one historian's perspective, he’s certainly one of the worst. “This…
The Daily Beast PodcastMAGA Riot’s Chilling Reality: Regular Folks, Ready to Kill
One of the most frightening aspects of the assault on the U.S. Capitol was how, well, normal some of the participants seemed—and how openly they spoke of their…
The Daily Beast PodcastToo Many Dead Capitol Cops for Josh Hawley to Pretend He’s Innocent
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) just can’t understand why everyone wants him to resign. He put out a brave tweet calling for the “violence” to end after a mob he…
The Daily Beast PodcastMichael Cohen: I Am Certain That Donald Trump Is Psychotic Right Now
Donald Trump is in deep shit. So deep, that he finally admitted to leaving the White House at the end of the month. And his supporters? Well, some would say…
The Daily Beast PodcastTEASER: The Orange Lives Matter Coup Won’t End This Trumpist Chaos
After inciting a mob of his drooling followers to sack the Capitol, President Donald Trump proved he’s too dangerous to hold office, even if it’s just for…
The Daily Beast PodcastThe Orange Lives Matter Coup Won’t End This Trumpist Chaos
After inciting a mob of his drooling followers to sack the Capitol, President Donald Trump proved he’s too dangerous to hold office, even if it’s just for…
The Daily Beast PodcastTrump Just F*cked Himself and His Party in Georgia
Things were already sub-ideal for the president and his Republican party in the Peach State. The GOP’s incumbent senators, who in any normal year would be…
The Daily Beast PodcastNARAL President: We’re Prepping for End of Roe v. Wade
Trump did a lot to roll back women’s healthcare—from enacting a global gag rule, which prevents non-American health organizations from receiving monetary aid…
The Daily Beast PodcastThe Most Acid Trippy Episodes of The New Abnormal
Trump getting COVID. Antifa plotting to take down the White House. The truth about Russia disinfo. Bill Clinton impressions. The Lincoln Project scoops. The…
The Daily Beast PodcastTEASER: This 24-Year-Old Diabetic Is Saving Lives the Government Won’t
Twenty-four-year-old Madelyn Corwin’s social media feeds feature a few selfies, videos of her insulin pump, and almost always a link to a GoFundMe page. The…
The Daily Beast PodcastThis 24-Year-Old Diabetic Is Saving Lives the Government Won’t
Twenty-four-year-old Madelyn Corwin’s social media feeds feature a few selfies, videos of her insulin pump, and almost always a link to a GoFundMe page. The…
The Daily Beast PodcastHow These Comedians Turned MAGA Men Into Laughingstocks
Rudy Giuliani tried really hard this year soil himself: the hair-in-the-can, the Russian agent pal, the presser by the sex shop, the buckets of conspiracy…
The Daily Beast PodcastHow Melania Trump Destroys Her Friends
“I begged her to just come out and say that I was her friend, I was loyal. Nope, nothing,” says Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, author of Melania and Me. Stephanie…
The Daily Beast PodcastTEASER: Zerlina Maxwell: Republicans Know Dems Suck At Messaging to Black People
Political pundit and author Zerlina Maxwell was booed and hissed at during a Politicon a few years ago (which is “a Comic Con for political nerds”) because she…
The Daily Beast PodcastZerlina Maxwell: Republicans Know Dems Suck At Messaging to Black People
Political pundit and author Zerlina Maxwell was booed and hissed at during a Politicon a few years ago (which is “a Comic Con for political nerds”) because she…
The Daily Beast PodcastInside the Ivanka-Melania War
They’re the two most important women in Donald Trump’s life. And they absolutely loathe one another. Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, the former Melania Trump…
The Daily Beast PodcastCheat Sheet Podcast from The Daily Beast 12/16/20
The juiciest stories in politics, pop culture and more -- fast. Get Subscribed today on your favorite podcast app: https://pods.link/j6cshnbpj3mm9 Hosted on…
The Daily Beast PodcastWill Trump’s Fake White House Have a Churro Bar? An Omelette Station? Or Both?
It’s getting near closing time for the Trumps at the White House—Monday’s electoral college vote made that official. Which means folks like Ivanka Trump have…
The Daily Beast PodcastTEASER: COVID Whistleblower Rebekah Jones: I Knew DeSantis Would Go After Me
COVID whistleblower Rebekah Jones always thought that having a gun pointed in her face would be terrifying. That’s what the movies and TV shows have us all…
The Daily Beast PodcastCOVID Whistleblower Rebekah Jones: I Knew DeSantis Would Go After Me
COVID whistleblower Rebekah Jones always thought that having a gun pointed in her face would be terrifying. That’s what the movies and TV shows have us all…
The Daily Beast PodcastIs This When Ivanka Will Run Against Little Marco Rubio?
Ivanka and Jared have big plans...to move to Florida, and maybe start the tropical version of the Met Ball. “If you had $30 million to spend on 1.6 acres of…
The Daily Beast Podcast‘Look! Trump Didn’t Poop Himself! Yay! Good Job, Donald!’
You’d think they’d have learned by now, just a few weeks from the end of the Trump presidency. But people are still falling for the same head fakes and tricks…
The Daily Beast PodcastTEASER: Former Trump Org VP: He Didn’t Want Black People To Build His Skyscrapers
Donald Trump has a long list of titles he’s accused of being: a liar, scammer, and sore loser to name a few. But racist is a title he earned long before…
The Daily Beast PodcastFormer Trump Org VP: He Didn’t Want Black People To Build His Skyscrapers
Donald Trump has a long list of titles he’s accused of being: a liar, scammer, and sore loser to name a few. But racist is a title he earned long before…
The Daily Beast PodcastJulia-Louis Dreyfus: We’ve ‘Talked About’ Making More ‘Veep’
The gods of comedy have heard your prayers—and just might make them come true. “Veep,” the greatest political comedy of all time, could return, somehow, some…
The Daily Beast PodcastDoes Trump Really Want Republicans To Win in Georgia?
Trump is headed to Georgia this week, where there’s about to be a pair of special elections to decide the balance of the senate. But don’t expect the president…
The Daily Beast PodcastAlec Baldwin: Here’s Why I Won’t Run for Office (Yet)
Alec Baldwin has given serious thought about running for office. He already knows what it’s like for people to hate his guts (Like for things like playing the…
The Daily Beast PodcastTEASER: Who Will Trump Pardon Before He Leaves Office?
The end of the Trump administration is like the end of a season finale of the most batshit Netflix show. Everyone has questions of how it will finally end…
The Daily Beast PodcastWho Will Trump Pardon Before He Leaves Office?
The end of the Trump administration is like the end of a season finale of the most batshit Netflix show. Everyone has questions of how it will finally end…
The Daily Beast PodcastIvanka’s BFF: Trump Gave Kids’ Friends Supermodel Nicknames
If you thought Ivanka Trump’s childhood best friend, Lysandra Ohrstrom, had enough to say about the First Daughter in her scathing Vanity Fair article, you’d…
The Daily Beast PodcastTEASER: Biden Doesn’t Want to Prosecute Trumpland. But His AG Still Might.
Team Biden has made his incoming style of presidency very clear: Keep the peace. Or in his aides’ words, “move the country forward.” Unfortunately, moving…
The Daily Beast PodcastBiden Doesn’t Want to Prosecute Trumpland. But His AG Still Might.
Team Biden has made his incoming style of presidency very clear: Keep the peace. Or in his aides’ words, “move the country forward.” Unfortunately, moving…
The Daily Beast PodcastAmy Klobuchar: Forget Trump’s Election Rants. Biden Has This
“It's so funny,” Molly Jong-Fast tells Sen. Amy Klobuchar. “There's been so much sexist talk about women [in politics] being too emotional and being too…
The Daily Beast PodcastMy Twitter War With the Congresswoman from QAnon
Molly Jong-Fast explains to Rick Wilson why she got into a brouhaha with the Congresswoman from the First District of QAnon in the latest episode of The New…
The Daily Beast PodcastTEASER: Masha Gessen: The Problem Is Not Russian Interference. It’s That We Let It In.
President Donald Trump may be following Vladimir Putin’s Autocratic playbook closer than we all realize—and the Russian interference was just the tip of the…