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The Daily Beast Podcast

The Case for Arnold Schwarzenegger Being Speaker of the House

The Daily Beast Podcast

The Daily Beast

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4.6 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week on The New Abnormal, Democratic strategist Kurt Bardella makes sense of the clown show that has become the Republican Party—which he used to be a part of—and its attempt to find a new Speaker of the House. Then, The Intercept’s Natasha Lennard tells us about how Scholastic has caved to the far right and made it easier for schools to ban diverse books at their book fairs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you

0:08.3

slide by on track to your

0:15.0

there,

0:20.0

to care in the world as you simply lean back.

0:17.0

And before you know it, you're there.

0:20.0

This is how travels should feel,

0:22.0

and on our trains it does

0:25.2

Avanti West Coast feel good travel

0:31.9

Hi, I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN-H-LN guy and current cable news conscientious

0:37.4

objector. I'm a former Libertarian who now sits comfortably on the left.

0:41.2

Hi, I'm Danielle Moody, former educator and recovering lobbyist, but today I'm an

0:46.0

unapologetic woke commentator on America's threats to democracy.

0:50.3

And I'm producer Jesse Cannon, and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off the rails.

0:55.0

We're here to have fun, smart conversations with some of the most knowledgeable and

0:58.8

entertaining people in politics, media, and beyond.

1:01.8

Our goal is to try and make sense of our current crazy world,

1:06.0

our new abnormal, and hopefully even make you laugh through the tears.

1:10.4

What an excellent show we have today.

1:12.4

Democratic strategist in L.A. Times contributor, Kurt Bardellis,

1:15.0

sits down with us to try and make sense of the Clown Show that has become the Republican

1:19.7

Party, which he used to be a part of, and its attempt to find a new speaker of the house.

1:24.0

Then the intercepts Natasha Ledard is here to tell us all about how Scholastic has came to the far

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