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🗓️ 4 May 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Molly Jongfast and welcome to the Daily Beast, the new abnormal. |
0:05.8 | I'm a left-wing pundit and an editor at large at the Daily Beast. |
0:09.6 | We're here to have fun, sharp conversations with some of the smartest people in media, politics, and science |
0:16.4 | that help make what's happening in the country and the world clearer. |
0:20.2 | Our world has been turned up to a down. |
0:22.3 | On the new abnormal, we'll talk about the people who got us into this mess and figure out how to get ourselves out of it. |
0:29.0 | And I'm producer Jesse Cannon. |
0:30.6 | I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off the rails. |
0:33.6 | Today we have such a fun and informative episode. |
0:36.5 | Steven Johnson is going to join who you may know from his amazing books and series How We Got To Now |
0:41.6 | or his fantastic books on innovation. |
0:43.9 | And he's going to talk to us about his new PBS series and book Extra Life, a short history of living longer. |
0:49.7 | As well as lots of interesting points about the past and future of vaccines. |
0:54.0 | But first, we have a lawyer and Washington Post contributor and new abnormal returning guest, George Conway. |
1:00.3 | Welcome back to the new abnormal George Conway. |
1:05.4 | Thank you for having me back. It's a pleasure and an honor. |
1:08.8 | It's so rare that I have the opportunity to speak to you. |
1:12.2 | I know, almost never. |
1:14.2 | Right. It's like we hardly even know each other. |
1:17.0 | Yes. |
1:17.5 | So I don't know if you know about this, but there's been this thing called the big lie and it's not true. |
1:24.1 | Have you heard about this? |
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