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The Daily Beast Podcast

Trump Has Us on the Brink of a Social Civil War

The Daily Beast Podcast

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4.6 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

There’s two things that Rick Wilson loves the most in this world and that’s food and politics. On this episode of The New Abnormal, Taste the Nation host Padma Lakshmi joins Rick and co-host Molly Jong-Fast to chat about her experiences foraging onions in the desert, hanging out with Thai women in Las Vegas and gaining 20 pounds, on purpose. Oh, and how immigrants and Native Americans have way more MAGA clout than Trump ever will. “It should be mandatory that [politicians] go and embed themselves for a week,” she says. Then, MSNBC’s Joy Reid joined to discuss her history-making career move, the impending “social civil war” and Trump’s ability to praise a drug that could kill people. (“It's like a cult leader in a way,” she says.) She and Rick also walk Molly through a typical day in Florida (most notably the bath salt, face-eating zombie incident—not to be confused with the also-mentioned “Zombie bin Laden.”) Plus! The duo opine about Trump’s failing ad strategy and the morons pushing our country into an economic crisis tailspin. Want more? Become a Beast Inside member to enjoy a limited-run series of bonus interviews from The New Abnormal. Guests include Cory Booker, Jim Acosta, and more. Head to newabnormal.thedailybeast.com to join now. 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

Hi folks, it's Rick Wilson and welcome to the Daily Beasts, the new abnormal.

0:04.6

Hi, I'm Molly Zhangfast, a left-wing pundit and editor at large at the Daily Beast.

0:09.7

I'm also an editor at the Daily Beast, a former Republican political strategist, best-selling

0:14.1

author and full-time troublemaker.

0:16.2

We're here to have fun, sharp conversations with some of the smartest people in media,

0:19.9

politics, business and science that help make what's happening in the country and the world

0:24.9

clear.

0:25.9

We try to keep Rick to the minimum number of F-bombs and try to keep our kids, pets and

0:31.8

other wildlife sounds from invading our respective bunkers.

0:35.2

So Molly, how was your weekend?

0:36.7

It was amazing.

0:37.7

How was your weekend, Rick Wilson?

0:39.2

I spent my weekend making and writing ads as you might imagine.

0:42.7

I'm curious to know about those ads, but we will.

0:47.0

You'll see them all soon enough.

0:48.9

Hey Molly, whenever Jason Miller goes and has his successful television outing, how would

0:53.4

you say it concludes?

0:54.6

I'm not touching that.

0:56.3

You're so mean.

0:57.3

You're so mean.

0:58.3

You're not touching that, really?

0:59.8

Oh, I'm trying to.

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