The Real Reason McCarthy Put Santos on the Science Committee

The New Abnormal

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🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The New Abnormal co-host Danielle Moodie laughed and then cried when she heard about Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy putting Rep. George Santos on the Science Committee. But Andy has a theory for why that happened in the first place. Somehow Mean Girls is mentioned. Also on this episode: Daily Beast politics reporter and Fever Dreams podcast host Will Sommer joins to talk about the latest weird yet highly entertaining infighting going on between conservatives and this time it involves right wing child actor Steven Crowder’s war on The Daily Wire—and the latest on what Silk is saying about Diamond’s cause of death. Plus! Entertainment Critic Nick Schager also joins the show to talk about the new documentary “Justice” which debuted last-minute at the Sundance Film Festival and is about the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. According to Schager, there is one big bombshell to come out of the film involving a witness to one of Kavanaugh’s alleged assaults on a female peer.

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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
0:22.0	the rails.
0:23.0	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.
0:39.4	Will Summer, a politics report for the Daily Beast and the co-host of the podcast Fever
0:42.9	Dreams comes by to tell us about Stephen Crowder's new war on the Daily Wire.
0:47.4	The Daily Beast Entertainment critic Nick Shagour joins us to talk about the new documentary,
0:51.8	Justice, a last minute addition to the Sundance Film Festival about the investigation into
0:55.9	the allegations against Justice Brett Kavanaugh, but first let's have some fun.
1:00.7	Hello Danielle and welcome to another big week on the new abnormal.
1:05.3	Hello Andy, we're in hell.
1:07.5	Good to be back.
1:08.6	We are, but we have to lead with some big news that hit shortly before we began recording.
1:15.0	I hope our listeners are sitting down because this is it's shocking, it's shocking news.
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