Matt Gaetz Doesn’t Want You to Know He Wears Unisex Blazers

The New Abnormal

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🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Washington Post reporter Ben Terris, author of The Big Break The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind, joins this episode of The New Abnormal podcast to share some highlights from his book, which includes wacky, inside moments and scandals he witnessed in D.C. after Trump left office—like the fashion faux pas Matt Gaetz didn’t want people to know about and the sad story of Trump circle member and CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp’s right-hand man. Plus, Andy and Danielle take on the latest politics news and Stacey Stevenson, CEO of Family Equality, an LGBTQ organization directed at creating safe, happy, healthy, environments for LGBTQ people and their families, joins as guest to chat about how Florida’s anti-LGBT legislation is leading the community to “becoming refugees in their own country.”

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN HLN Guy and current cable news conscientious
0:05.4	objector.
0:06.4	I'm a former libertarian who now sits pretty comfortably on the left.
0:09.4	Hi, I'm Danielle Moody, former educator and recovering lobbyist, but today I'm an
0:14.4	unapologetic woke commentator on America's threats to democracy.
0:18.6	And I produce her Jesse Cannon and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off the
0:22.3	rails.
0:23.3	We're here to have fun, smart conversations with some of the most knowledgeable and entertaining
0:27.2	people in politics, media and beyond.
0:29.9	Our goal is to try and make sense of our current crazy world, our new abnormal, and hopefully
0:35.3	even make you laugh through the tears.
0:37.3	What an excellent show we have today.
0:38.9	The Washington Post-Bed and Terrorists will join us to talk his new book, The Big Break,
0:42.7	The Gamblers, Party Animals and True Believers trying to win in Washington while America loses
0:47.8	its mind.
0:48.8	Then we'll talk to Stacey Stevenson, CEO of Family Equality, who talks about the struggles
0:53.1	of being queer and raising a family while dealing with the culture wars in states like
0:57.0	Texas and Florida.
0:59.0	That first, let's have some fun.
1:01.4	Folks, I am delighted to be able to start off this full week of pride, the White Evangelical
1:09.1	Christian nightmare called Pride Month, with some actual good news, which is out of Tennessee.
1:16.4	Tennessee courts have decided that the drag ban, you know, the nonsensical drag ban that
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