This 80s Song Helped Gabby Giffords Speak After Getting Shot

The New Abnormal

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🗓️ 17 July 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Filmmakers behind the new documentary “Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down,” Julie Cohen and Betsy West, tell New Abnormal co-host Molly Jong-Fast in this bonus episode about the former Congresswoman’s RBG socks, music she loves, and what she’s up to now—including some of the things Gabby has taken up recently, like playing the French horn, as well as the adorable scenes in the documentary that show Gabby support her husband, Mark Kelly, and how she has worked to overcome her aphasia to give nearly flawless speeches. Plus! Molly and Andy Levy listen to clips of more dumb Republicans like “walking Facebook post” Sarah Palin and John Bolton, who recently told on himself in a CNN clip.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Molly John Fass, no relationship to Kim Jong-un.
0:04.6	I'm a left-wing pundit and a writer at the Atlantic Envo.
0:08.0	And I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN HLN Guy and current cable news conscientious
0:13.7	objective.
0:14.7	And I've produced Suggesticated and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off
0:18.0	the rails.
0:19.0	We're here to have fun, smart conversations with the wisest and funniest people in science
0:23.5	and media and politics that help make what's happening today clearer.
0:28.0	Our world has been turned upside down and on the new abnormal we'll talk about the people
0:32.1	who got us into this mess and how we'll hopefully get ourselves out of it.
0:35.6	Hello and welcome to another Sunday bonus episode of the new abnormal and we thank you so
0:39.3	much for being here.
0:40.8	Say we have an extra special show.
0:42.3	We're going to talk to the Oscar nominated filmmakers Julie Cohen and Betsy West, who
0:47.3	of course in the past directed RGB, but have a new movie called Gabby Giffords won't
0:52.0	back down and we're going to talk to them all about it as it opens nationwide this week.
0:56.7	First, let's have some fun.
0:58.9	You guys ready to listen to some clips?
1:00.9	Sure.
1:01.9	I'm excited.
1:02.9	I'm excited.
1:03.9	I'm excited.
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