…should be the title of this show now. Used to be a subscriber and regular listener of The New Abnormal before Danielle Moodie joined the show, but she has absolutely ruined the show with her inability to express herself without yelling and being completely unnecessarily profane. This is a shame too, because I 100% agree with the substance TNA team throws out there, but Danielle Moodie’s inability to express a cogent thought without dropping F bombs and other profanity has taken this show off my “Follow” list. I only ever check back to see if there’s a show where she is on break or not leading a segment (or to see if she’s finally been dumped from the show—UPDATE; is Danielle Moodie still a host? Yes, she is, so still not subscribing or listening…)

So happy I found this podcast. The hosts are authentic & hilarious and their interviews are always informative.

I am glad that Sen Schumer did not shut down the government. Trump and musk want a government shut down. Once it is down, they will furlough all the workers, shut down courts, and decimate the government. Billionaires do not need a federal government. They would destroy it while it is down. The Democrats had to decide between two terrible choices. The choice to shut the government down had such horrific consequences that it could not be risked. We have had shut downs in the past, but not while Trump and musk were in control. That is the problem. Trump and musk want the federal courts to be down. They want to lay off all the federal workers. They have no motivation to ever bring the government back up. We Need the courts open every day to fight back on Trump and musk.

“Some democracy advocates worry that too many of our civic institutions are softening their postures toward Trump to avoid getting on his bad side, pointing to what the historian Timothy Snyder calls "anticipatory obedience:" "Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.” -Timothy Snyder, Anticipatory Obedience

A podcast for and by delusional betas. Mental illness is real.

All “Do something” crying, while not noting the people that are working to save this country.

This in an interesting, informative podcast. They channel manager and frustration with this American hellscape.

Please drop Shopify as a sponsor. They are right-wing and hold totally antithetical views to the hosts and listeners of this podcast.

This podcast feature the best of the best of the opposition to the facsist movement sweeping our country.

…is THE whole entire vibe. Andy and Jesse are great, but Danielle beautifully articulates everything I feel. Thank you, Danielle.

You guys have turned whiny. Not entertaining

Glad to find a podcast that is real and wants to step up and put the gloves on to fight for our country and democracy. Glad I found it.

SUPER - Libs can’t Zoom a statement on Carter’s passing? More noise grift with no good outcome Great structure, content and guests are typically interesting. I don’t miss interrupting Rick. I am as insulted as many of my friends that there’s a subscription option for such a poorly sound produced product. That I don’t subscribe to Carville’s folksy, out-of-date ideas is secondary to expecting me to listen to him shout his opinions through waxed paper stretched across a tin can. The Jeet needs to slow down to speak. All fixable If your guests cannot provide semi-professional audio for their segment - why should I listen (or pay a premium to be disappointed sooner)? Andy needs to drop the “you know” from his lingo. If I know, no need to have you yammer it to me. Great content. Some conversations go too long but super disappointing that the audio is worse than what many public junior high schools post daily. We’re behind you Molly

Excellent podcast.

I listen to podcasts on the regular. I chose the episode because it aligns with my own viewpoint. I turned it off after the first “sponser commercials.” No one- and I do mean no one - should be forced to sit through commercials that are longer than the commentary on the podcast itself. This format wastes people’s time. Do you not value me as a listener enough to break up your “commercials”, which are grating and last forever? Is corporate sponsorship more important than the people who spend time and energy taking in your words? Sounds familiar. Sounds a lot like the government you spend the 5 minutes between commercials hammering into oblivion, and this is coming from a staunch never-MAGA. Y’all need to look at yourselves and the value you place on your own listeners. I hope all of those “witty” 🙄 sponsor ads are worth the loss of listeners who don’t have the time, energy, or patience to spend an hour with a glorified sales pitch and hypocritical hosts.

Great crew, great topics, great content. However, the episode I’m trying out is 35 minutes long. It started with 3 minutes of commercials with the volume jacked up quite a bit. Then I listened to 8 or so minutes of content. Then came another 6 solid minutes of commercials with the volume jacked up. I know it was 6 minutes because I had to hit the forward button 12 times to get back to the content. Wash, rinse, repeat. Over 50% ads? No thanks. Cranking up the volume on the ads is just extra-annoying and kind of insulting.

Very racist podcast. Ignorant and racist. This pod will be cancelled by the next election. Going the way of msnbc

Wow thanks

Interesting perspectives and stories/interviews I don’t get anywhere else. Enough humor to keep it entertaining and enough anger at the hypocrisy, that I can tell myself the rage does not make me abnormal

After reflecting more on the tragedy that has happened, and listening to many opinions, it seems to me that simple kitchen table economics turned the tide in this mostly red, working class neighborhood where whites, Blacks, Asians and Latinos live together. There are 2 magas for sure who are pretty hateful folks and I have no idea of their motivation. But for the others, food and living expenses were the top of the list and the illegal immigrants coming over the border was second. Harris/Walz ran a pretty incredible campaign overall with the exception of not letting Muslims have a voice about the Middle East and US/Jewish crimes against humanity. Elizabeth from NC

But the ads. I know they are necessary and I can subscribe to something to avoid them (hence no impact on my rating) but they are such looong ad breaks. I just skipped forward 7.5 minutes to get to the interview. That seems a little excessive for one ad break, no? Maybe it was a mistake but it feels like they get longer and longer. Maybe break them up a little more? Love the show! Thank you.

One victim whining about the world about and her sycophant cohost apologists always trying to show he is down with the culture with weak rap references.

Entitled smug a**hole

Thanks for the bonus show! Tucker Carlson just made my skin crawl. Someone should check on his children, for real. That was so gross. /It was good to hear on today’s show what needs to be said; ‘there is not going to be an easier time than now’ to tamp down this wave of cheating and authoritarianism. Every day I’ve been waiting for a sign that the democrats and sane republicans still in power realize this is not going to just go away or get easier. You don’t politely ask an authoritarian to stop stepping on your shoe. Unless you eventually want to go to war with them to get your foot back, don’t let them step on your shoe.

This is one of the most informative and engaging podcasts I have listened to.

This used to be a great podcast. It is now a cesspool of garbage, like the site that produces it. It makes me wish I were deaf.

Edit: New permanent co-host Danielle Moody is AWEFUL! The show is just her screaming nonstop. The Podcast is officially garbage now. Not the best of what’s available. Interviews like the one with Michael Cohen, are nothing but softball questions. They let them drive the narrative without ever asking the serious questions, we all want answers to. Also the loss of Molly Jong-Fast has definitely made the pod more monotone/less engaging. Not top of my list for pods. Need a new entertaining co-host(guest co-hosts haven’t been great)

“We aren’t the 4th Reich”…we are the 2nd😂

I’m in love with Andy Levy‘s voice. And he’s just so likable.

Conversations are interesting, but you have to get through a dozen ads first.

Good god, two women with somewhat irritating voices talking about how amazing it is to talk to each other. Actually painful to have in my ears. Horrible.

You both are a great combination of sharing news stories with sharp wit, humor and poignancy :)

Please, don’t pretend to discuss kayfabe and the UFC playbook, and mispronounce something as basic as « Marquess of Queensbury rules » as « Marquise. » Embarrassing AND bush league.

Perfect listen for this election cycle.

Media literacy and respect for their audience has gone out the window. Lost me 8/12/24 with the “Josh” interview. The intro was straight up a recap of Last Word w/ Lawrence O’Donnell and then the interview with “Josh”, no last name, was ableist and offensive. “Biden literally can’t articulate…” with zero push back from Andy. “Josh” with no last name is not a “publisher of a newsletter”, that’s white washing and spit shinning a Twitter person; he’s just an internet troll with a website aka blog who blends up Politico articles and sprinkles terminally online black pilled hate on top. Calling his speculation a “prediction”, or saying he “correctly predicted” something many people had also assumed/ speculated about is obtuse and lazy. Plain and simple, lazy. And placing him in front of Shannon Watts, Moms Demand Action activist, author, and person with a last name? Boy, bye. If you want to regurgitate other media outlets, cite them. And make sure they are reputable because they’re being amplified. Make it a recap of last night’s televised news, sure, just say so. Find and identify information, acknowledge the sources, and boom you’ve got 3 of 5 pillars of media/information literacy. If it’s a person concealing their identity with a blog, call it a blog; call it “opinion” because that’s what it is and that’s what journalists would call it. And maybe inquire as to why they are concealing their identity, ask where they are getting their information to form these “predictions”. Do a journalism and turn the rock over. That’s pillars 4 and 5, evaluate and apply. The audio quality is inconsistent and often unprofessional. It should have gotten better by now. Andy does not “sit comfortably on the left”, he’s just like Tim Miller who couldn’t cut it in conservative media so now holds space LARPing as a moderate and hindering actual progressive discourse. And now he’s the voice advertising menopause hormone therapy? All of that is a failure on the part of production. Boy, bye. I miss the information and media literacy, and respect for the listening audience, of Kelly Weill and Will Sommer. They told us to listen to this, but Daily Beast has lost me and clearly lost a bit of themselves with this podcast.

Too much gratuitous profanity. Otherwise, good show! Update 8-13-24 somebody finally got to Moody-Mills about her constant use of profanity! It’s a MUCH better show! THANK GOD!!!!!

It as simple as the right is not religious they spew hate and evil farthest from Jesus you can get 😕

If I want his opinion I’ll listen to his podcast or watch deadline White House. NO Tim Miller.

This is always a great pod with great interviews. Except today: I’m tired of listening to Republicans like Tim Miller being interviewed about what Democrats should do. Democrats unified behind Kamala Harris and that has really energized our movement. So Miller needs to shut up his whining that he didn’t get the bloodlust he wanted to see among Democrats. “The Prosecutor vs the Felon!”

I anxiously await every new episode… until you ask Tim Miller to be a guest. He might call himself an ally but Miller and his cohorts are no allies of democrats. They are opportunists who only seek to get attention both positive and negative. They have no place in their own party so they retooled themselves as pundits for centrist democrats but their actions are a detriment to our cause on the left.

I used to be a devoted listener.

I can’t bate this pod anymore. Danielle is such a no nothing. She just screams n curses her dumb opinions. I can’t handle her.

The one star is for Jared Huffman. You’re better than giving him a voice. The rest of the episode gets 5 stars.

I thought maybe there was something wrong with me, or I'm alone in thinking "Do I want to be yelled at, and cursed at, about the things that I already know are bad? About the things that already give me anxiety?" And coming here to see the other reviews was validating. I think Danielle can make good points and have interesting commentary, but she too often goes into a dark, angry, profanity filled place. And it just gets exhausting. Please, I'm hoping my review and others help her lighten up? I don't know. But done listening for now.

Was five stars, but the argument to gaslight and stay with Biden has lost me. Goodbye.

After he falls on his face in the second debate, Biden will drop out for sure.

I admit I listen to too many political podcasts that are left leaning but only this one makes me laugh at least once during the show. Some of the topics and stories I’ve heard before but I always tune in for that guaranteed laugh. Didn’t listen when Rick Wilson was co-host and wish I had. He is hands down my favorite pundit. No reflection on Andy Levy though. He is insightful and very funny too. Love the show and its slanted humor. ADDENDUM: the above was written when Molly was hosting with Andy. My rating has been reduced by half since Danielle joined the show. I know I’m not the only one that wishes she would not scream while talking, say “like” in almost every sentence and use the F word constantly. I have started fast forwarding through her interview segments. And I am considering only listening to the bonus episodes because she seems to keep a cooler head on those. For what it’s worth, find a better co-host for Andy, to whom I love listening.

Danielle Moodie is the worst! I cannot believe she was an educator. Every episode she screeches the same rehearsed lines. I have to skip her interviews because she is so bad. The shame is that some of the guests are really interesting and provide great information.

Can’t take Danielle Moody’s rantings anymore.

I agree with just about everything in the content of this show but just can’t listen to the humorless and profane ranting from Danielle Moodie anymore. I often feel angry too but I am looking for something in a show besides that alone, analysis, something I don’t know, even satire. I have listened to The New Abnormal for years but think I’ll skip it at least for a while and check later to see if anything has changed. I hope it does as she gets more experience doing this.