Uncertainty Looms as Trump’s Inauguration Day Approaches

The New Abnormal

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🗓️ 29 December 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Stanford professor Jamil Zaki, author of Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness, joins The New Abnormal podcast to discuss hope and the weaponization of hopelessness as President-elect Donald Trump again ascends to the highest office in the land. He explained, “People who lose their sense of value, who lose that compass for what they want as a society, are easier to control.”

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0:00.0	Julie could part exchange her car.
0:03.0	Or check out we buy any car.
0:07.0	She could be unsure if she got a good deal part exchanging.
0:12.0	Or have cash in the bank with more bargaining power to get a bigger car for her five-aside team.
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0:24.8	edge number now at weebanycar.com. It starts in November. Christmas catch up. Let's do
0:33.5	diaries. Oh, that clashes with my work do. That's the day of the nativity. We're booked to see Santa. We're out picking a tree. There's in-laws to visit, pantomimes to see. I've got to write a thousand Christmas cards. Until somehow, we're here. Four friends having our Costa Christmas catch-up. We should do this more often.
0:54.1	Get together this Christmas around the festive nutcracker range at Costa.
0:59.1	Costa Coffee.
1:02.2	Hi, I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN HLN guy and current cable news conscientious objector.
1:08.6	I'm a former libertarian who now sits pretty comfortably on the left.
1:12.0	Hi, I'm Danielle Moody, former educator and recovering lobbyist. But today, I'm an unapologetic,
1:17.8	woke commentator on America's threats to democracy. And I'm producer Jesse Cannon, and I'm here to
1:22.8	make sure things don't go too far off the rails. We're here to have fun, smart conversations
1:27.4	with some of the most knowledgeable and entertaining
1:29.6	people in politics, media, and beyond.
1:32.0	Our goal is to try and make sense of our current crazy world, our new abnormal, and hopefully
1:37.6	even make you laugh through the tears.
1:39.8	Welcome back to another bonus episode of The New Abnormal, and we thank you so much for being
1:43.3	here.
1:43.7	Today we're joined by Dr. Jamil Zaki, Stanford professor and author of Hope for Cynics,
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