TEASER: Mika Brzezinski: I Was An ‘Idiot’ Signing My First Morning Joe Contract

The New Abnormal

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🗓️ 19 April 2021

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Mika Brzezinski’s firing from CBS in 2006 was a total surprise. In this bonus episode of The New Abnormal, she tells host Molly Jong-Fast about how it all went down, why there should be a '70 Over 70' list for women, and her biggest regret from her first “Morning Joe” contract with MSNBC—especially after finding out what Joe Scarborough did with his.

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0:00.0	What you're about to hear is a teaser for the bonus episodes we do for Beast Inside,
0:03.8	the Daily Beast Membership Program. For today's episode we have an extra special guest with
0:08.0	Mika Burzinski, who's the co-host to Morning Joe, as well as the author of the Know Your Value
0:12.8	series. To hear this along with all our past bonus episodes with guests like Cory Booker,
0:17.6	Billy Eichner, and Q&As, as well as gaining full access to the Daily Beast fearless journalism,
0:23.2	I did newabnormal.thedailibis.com. That's newabnormal.thedailibis.com.
0:29.0	Welcome to the new abnormal Mika Burzinski. Hi, thanks for having me.
0:33.8	Well, I'm very sighted and one of the many things and I may have a horse in this race,
0:38.8	but I love your 50 over 50. Oh, yeah. Who doesn't? I'm 42, but it's like it is just, you know,
0:50.4	I've aged out of all the lists. Let me tell you something. This list is actually for every young
0:56.5	woman out there because what we're discovering and what we're shining a light on is that there
1:02.2	are women 50, 51, 52. That's cute. That's cute. But they're women in their 60s. They're women in
1:09.2	their 70s. They're women in their 80s. Kicking ass, taking names, and not talking about it,
1:16.1	not making any apologies. And quite frankly, we haven't noticed them. They're all there,
1:20.8	and they're incredible. And they don't really care that much about, you know, getting a lot of
1:26.6	attention because they're busy running our fricking world. These women are amazing and there's so many
1:32.9	more of them than you would ever imagine in politics, in finance, in business, in money everywhere.
1:41.6	We have found that what this list is accomplishing besides shining an important light on these
1:48.4	incredible women who have paid it forward. But it's shining a light on this long runway that women
1:56.4	have now because of us and because of these women who are much older than me who are still there
2:03.0	and flourishing. So a woman now in her 20s, I don't know about you, Molly, but in my 20s, I didn't think
2:09.6	about my 50s as it pertained to my career. Did you? I always only thought about my career.
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