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🗓️ 28 May 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Molly Jongfast and welcome to the Daily Beast, the new abnormal. |
0:05.8 | I'm a left-wing pundit and an editor at large at the Daily Beast. |
0:09.7 | We're here to have fun, sharp conversations with some of the smartest people in media, |
0:14.7 | politics, and science that help make what's happening in the country and the world clearer. |
0:20.3 | Our world has been turned up to a down. |
0:22.5 | On the new abnormal, we'll talk about the people who got us into this mess and figure out |
0:27.0 | how to get ourselves out of it. |
0:29.2 | And I'm producer Jesse Kennan. |
0:30.6 | I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off the rails. |
0:33.8 | What is show we have today? |
0:35.3 | Jessica Hussman, a vote beat, is going to tell us all about what's going on with voting |
0:39.0 | rights in America. |
0:40.2 | Then Tom Nichols, professor and author of our own worst enemy, is going to talk to us |
0:44.4 | about the horrible state of our democracy. |
0:46.8 | But first, we're going to talk to Cheddar's JD Durkin, who is the cable news show, none |
0:51.6 | of the above, with JD Durkin. |
0:53.4 | Welcome to the new abnormal JD Durkin. |
0:56.8 | Wonderful to be here. |
0:59.0 | Thank you for having me. |
1:00.0 | I love the word abnormal because it reminds me of my favorite joke from Young Frankenstein. |
1:04.6 | And now you have to tell it. |
1:06.1 | Well, it's this old Marty Feldman bit about he got the brain from the wrong dead body |
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