Introducing Rachel Maddow Presents: Déjà News with Isaac-Davy Aronson

Rachel Maddow Presents: Déjà News

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🗓️ 3 June 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Rachel Maddow, host of the #1 hits “Bag Man” and “Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra,” is back at the mic with a new original series, “Rachel Maddow Presents: Déjà News.” In each episode, Rachel and co-host Isaac-Davy Aronson seek a deeper understanding of a story in today's headlines by asking: Has anything like this ever happened before? Would knowing that help us grapple with what’s happening now… and what might happen next? Follow now and listen to the first episode on June 12.

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0:00.0	How often have you seen something on the news recently and found yourself thinking,
0:05.0	man, this is crazy. This is unprecedented. I don't think anything like this has ever happened before.
0:12.0	It can be overwhelming, right? Anything like this has ever happened before.
0:13.0	It can be overwhelming, right?
0:15.0	Feeling like we're grappling with some brand new thing.
0:18.0	But what if that's wrong?
0:19.0	What if, in fact, we have contended with something like this before.
0:23.8	Is that helpful to know?
0:25.8	Can it at least give us better ways to describe what we're facing
0:29.6	and maybe better understanding of what might happen next.
0:32.8	I'm Rachel Maddo.
0:33.8	I'm Isaac Davy Aronson.
0:35.2	Isaac you and I have known each other. How long now?
0:37.4	20 years.
0:38.8	Aye, a yye, yye.
0:40.4	We started off making radio together a million years ago. We've made lots of TV together and now
0:47.6	Our brand new podcast Rachel Maddo presents Deja News each week we'll dive into a story from history that has uncanny resonance
0:55.6	with something in the headlines today.
0:57.4	I watched the recount very closely and from what I saw I know that a court of law
1:03.4	would throw out hundreds and hundreds of ballots that were counted.
1:06.8	Similar fears that have gripped us in the past.
1:09.6	It seems to a lot of people, on both sides of the Atlantic at this moment that liberal democracy
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