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

The New Abnormal

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🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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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 him have a laptop. How easy it is to cook crack cocaine. How hard it is to live in fear of a relapse.

But Hunter Biden also gave some hard-to-swallow answers about the emails he traded with the bigwigs at energy companies in China and Ukraine—answers that could come back to haunt him. It’s all part of an absolutely gripping episode that you absolutely have to hear.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Molly Johnfast and welcome to the Daily Beast's Venue Abnormal. I'm
0:05.7	a left-wing pendant and an editor at large at the Daily Beast. We're here to
0:10.5	have fun, sharp conversations with some of the smartest people in media,
0:15.6	politics, and science that help make what's happening in the country and the
0:20.2	world clearer. Our world has been turned upside down. On the new abnormal we'll
0:26.0	talk about the people who got us into this mess and figure out how we get
0:30.4	ourselves out of it. And I'm producer Jesse Cannon and I'm here to make sure
0:34.1	everything doesn't go too far off the rails while we have fun discussions about
0:38.5	our world gone mad. And why take that duty seriously? Ourself's not so much.
0:43.9	Today, well let's just say this is a big one. We are joined today by Hunter
0:49.6	Biden, author of Beautiful Things, and son of President Joe Biden. And he'll
0:53.3	talk to us about addiction as well as answering some unanswered questions about
0:56.9	his time in the private sector. But first we have New York Times media
1:00.5	columnist and former Buzzfeed news editor Ben Smith. Hi Ben Smith, welcome to the
1:06.7	new abnormal. Thank you for having me on, Molly. I'm excited. You've like broke a
1:11.7	lot of scoops lately too. In fact that you wrote the substock piece which had like
1:17.3	a bunch of like little clandestine scoops in it. Clandestine scoops are the best
1:21.8	scoops. That's right. It's all about it. Can we talk for a minute about substock?
1:26.7	Do you think substock is creating a newspaper? No, I think the big thing that's
1:31.9	happening is that like across the kind of media industries and all sorts of
1:35.5	industries, like there are these platforms where individuals can make money
1:39.0	directly from their fans. Like, true musicians can do it and porn stars can do
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