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The Joy Reid Show

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4.8 • 719 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2026

⏱️ 123 minutes

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On tonight's episode of The Joy Reid Show, we are ringing in the new year right! Zohran Mamdani has officially been sworn in as mayor of NYC and we sit down with our guests Wajahat Ali and Tamika Mallory to discuss this historic event. After that we return the alleged daycare center scams being run in Minnesota. There is a lot of false reporting being done to paint the state's Somali-American community as all being scammers, but Joy cuts through the not so concealed racism to get to the truth. In the second hour we are joined by friend of the show Rick Wilson to discuss not only what's going on in Minnesota, but the public emergence of Jack Smith, as well as 47's destruction of both the Kennedy Center and the east wing of the White House. And finally we end the show on a surprise Moment of Joy. Follow our guests here: Wajahat Ali https://thelefthook.substack.com/ http://www.youtube.com/@YouTubeWajahatAli @wajahatali (Twitter) @instawajahat (Instagram) Tamika Mallory https://untilfreedom.com/ @tamikadmallory (Instagram) Rick Wilson @therickwilson (Threads/Bluesky/Twitter) https://www.againstallenemies.net/ And catch him on the Lincoln Project podcast as well as the Elephant in the Room podcast Thank you to our sponsors: Strawberry.me and ZBiotics. Strawberry.me: Go to Strawberry.me/joy and try your first coaching session for 50% off. ZBiotics: Head to ZBiotics.com/JOY and use the code "JOY" at checkout for 15% off. -- SUBSCRIBE to never miss a moment!: https://www.youtube.com/@TheJoyReidShow?sub_confirmation=1 #JoyReidShow #JoyAnnReid #TheJoyReidShow #JoyReid #JoyReidYouTube ABOUT JOY REID: Joy-Ann Lomena Reid (AKA Joy Reid) is a best-selling American author, political journalist and TV host. She was a national correspondent for MSNBC and is best known for hosting the Emmy-nominated, NAACP Award-winning political commentary and analysis show, The ReidOut, from 2020 to 2025. Her previous anchoring credits include The Reid Report (2014–2015) and AM Joy (2016–2020). STAY CONNECTED WITH THE SHOW: Website: https://www.joyannreid.com Substack: https://substack.com/@joyannreid Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Joy-Reid-Show/61576759980854/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joyreidshow/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thejoyreidshow Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/joyannreid.bsky.social FOLLOW JOY ON SOCIAL: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joyreidofficial/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joyannreid/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@joyreidofficial Want to hear more of our theme song? Check out the Foodchain page on BandCamp: https://thefoodchain.bandcamp.com/track/the-foodchain-basically-ft-jd-era ============================= Copyright Notice: This video and my YouTube channel contains content that is property of The Joy Reid Show, a production of Image Lab Media Group. You are authorized to share the video link and channel, and embed this video in your website or others as long as a link back to this YouTube Channel is provided. © 2025 The Joy Reid Show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Music, you know what time it is.
0:13.7	Hello, everybody.
0:15.0	Happy New Year and welcome to the Joy Read show, 2026 edition.
0:21.1	Jason, can I get a round of applause for 2026?
0:24.0	The 2025 wasn't shit.
0:27.7	By the way, if you have over to the substack, that is the title of the pinned substack post,
0:32.9	2025 wasn't shit, 2026, do better.
0:35.5	We demand that you do better.
0:37.4	Welcome to everybody. And thank you for watching the Joy Reid show. Welcome to 2026, do better. We demand that you do better. Welcome to everybody and thank you for
0:38.8	watching the Joy Reid show. Welcome to 2026. We hope that it will cast 2025 into the ether of memory.
0:46.1	And we will never have to think about 2025 again. But you can think about it one more time by just reading
0:50.2	that substack post. It's pinned on my substack. Joy Ann Reed.com. But we welcome everyone who is watching on YouTube. The chat is already spicy. Let me tell you how spicy the YouTube chatters are. They jump in like way before the show even starts and they're already going off. They're already going in. They've already got things to say. So welcome to everybody who's watching YouTube. Also our friends on substack. We love all our
1:11.1	substackers as well. You guys are always stalwart and we always want to big you guys up as well,
1:16.2	as well as everybody who's listening on wherever you get your podcast. Any way you get your
1:21.2	podcast, if you're just listening on audio, and you're just listening to that. Thank you very
1:26.9	much for listening there as well. We appreciate each and every one of you, especially our Team TjRS members. Thank you all for being on Team TJRS. If you have not done that yet, here's what you can do. You can subscribe. It's free. Go ahead and subscribe here on YouTube. Also on Substack. We're getting close to 200,000 subscribers on Substack. We have
1:46.2	passed 384,000 subscribers on the YouTube channel. We're also growing fast on Spotify and all the
1:53.8	places that the podcast exists. So we are growing. This new media thing is growing. And tonight
1:58.3	on the show, I want to focus a bit on new media, which is having a lot of real challenges as opposed to old media, old media, which is having a lot of challenges as opposed to new media, which is really growing.
2:12.7	Which is why we kind of call New Year's Day post-Dongle Day because didn't everybody like let us know in the chat
2:19.7	did y'all watch one of the mainstream channels on New Year's Eve special or did you just
2:24.6	like wig out with Don Lemon? I'm sure you guys were like with the Lemonheads on New Year's, right?
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