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

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. Over 50% ads? No thanks. Cranking up the volume on the ads is just extra-annoying and kind of insulting. Yelling that I should get Simplisafe will make me absolutely not get Simplisafe.

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 😕

Best episode. Made me laugh, like hard laugh. It’s not a big deal. It’s all transactional! No need for investigations when you’re a dictator. Egypt giving Trump 10 million in 2017. That’s a crime for a foreign government to give cash to a President. Trump tells lies and bigger lies because he believes he has power and he’s not afraid- poor, middle class, and minorities vote for these grifters. He will sell them out as soon as he has the opportunity. He has done nothing for the US- nothing. No ethics and everything is ok as long as it’s for the greater good -for Donald Trump crime family.

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.

They have been calling Trump hitler for years now and it’s the rights fault somehow that he gets shot. These two are blind.

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.

Make the would be orange god king the focus. Come on America WAKE UP - stop being rolled over by your ridiculous press corp. Rupert Murdoch has a lot to answer for! When the UK kicked him out in disgrace and he announced he intended to concentrate on his American business - my blood ran cold wondering how you would cope and now we see the result - NOT WELL. Remember America this man is from Australia and his son who now heads up FOX prefers to live and bring up his children in Australia- think about that. He makes money off a country he is slowly destroying while he lives somewhere else!! Not a good look.

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.

typifies an ignorant anarchist.

Quoting from the djt “shark” ramblings: “…He goes, it's the greatest existential threat to our country. Global warming. In the meantime, you get these maniacs with nuclear weapons that can do damage, which I won't even talk to you about. It's the greatest. There has never been anything like it. The power of weaponry today. It will be obliteration.” Will be?? WILL BE?? WILL. BE???? The sharks were a distraction to his very scary mind.

Main stream lobbyists who contributed to the problem now grandstand to the left of Biden while an authoritarian threatens our democracy.

It is boring listening to venting and complaining. I can do that over a beer with friends and there are many other podcast that already do that. Theses hosts are smart -please make interesting arguments and commentary. As it is now, it just sounds like the lefty version of the other-side with outrage and rants….I'm so tired of that.

Good show! I propose that justices should, in the style of NASCAR drivers, have their sponsor names patched about their robes.

And it never will. We have an injustice system not much better than Russia or China. We just put different groups of people behind bars. In fact I read that one third of all females prisoners in the world are right here in America, even though we are only 4.2% of the worlds population. That’s staggering!!! We obviously lost (or never had) a lot of rights long before Roe v. Wade was overturned.

This is one of my MUST LISTENS every week!!! Great pod

I’m not crazy. The antics of the republican party are crazy! It’s not me! This podcast reminds me of these truths each week. Love the content. Great commentary. Great guests. And, yes, I laugh through these troubling times with your help! And, I take action and vote, too!

Not to take anything away from Andy or Molly but Danielle is the most prepared and thoughtful interviewer of all podcasts I listen to.

What is business of advertising an AI app that tells human beings how to “manage” their finances? Do you know what code was written into this AI app? Does that code consider every diverse person & every diverse situation?

What an absolutely garbage biased based podcast solely dedicated to Trump derangement syndrome!

If Danielle Moodie exhibited a modicum of self control - 1) cursing for emphasis, not as a means to exhale, 2) toning down the shrillness so humans and not just dogs could hear clearly, 3) being slightly less melodramatic, and 4) being slightly less hyperbolic (the truth of our current abnormal is bad enough—it’s not necessary to exaggerate so much to the point of making statements that are factually incorrect)—she would come off as a serious person rather than a histrionic nitwit. And for the love of Pete, could some please explain to her the difference between the word “parse” and the idiom “part and parcel” — especially if she is going to use the latter (incorrectly) multiple times per episode.

I tried to come back to this show today. Had to stop after 8mins. The yelling and the swearing of Danielle is too much for me. Does not make the point stronger if you do the audio equivalent of ALL CAPS sorry! Won’t come back

I really enjoy this intelligent podcast except the F words overwhelm me. This may impress a few young people but it’s a turn off for those of us in the crowd who aren’t impressed with the over-indulgence in foul language. Be emphatic, I get it. But there’s no need to constantly “prove” you are one of the boys. That’s how it comes off. But Andy Levy uses far less foul language yet he still conveys intense concern. The yelling is also hard to listen to. These are worrisome times, so I also look forward to the levity in the podcast and so far I keep coming back.

Danielle is amazing ! She is articulate and real . Love this podcast !

One of the few I have to listen to when it comes out. Humorous intelligent insight into todays political landscape

When Molly Jong fast cohosted the show she created, it was a regular part of my podcast schedule. However, her replacement, a very, very angry, young woman, named Danielle, has substituted mollies, mostly stayed, thoughtful, opinions for loud, profane rants, and outright primal screaming sessions has made this completely unlistenable. I gave two stars, cause I still agree with the basic politics, but screaming obscenities is not I choose to engage in politics.

Once a fun & intelligent show, this has turned into an obscenity filled rant dominated by the relentlessly abrasive voice of Danielle, who never had an idea that didn’t start with an F-bomb. I feel sorry for the other people on the show.

Danielle is much too loud…..just had to turn the podcast off. Also,,,potty mouth is a bit much……byeeeeee

Rick Wilson’s acerbic wit and very appropriate excoriations of all things Trump World is a joy to behold and a lot of fun. Molly-Jong Fast asks the questions that you would ask if you were in the room with Rick, a sort of base for his acid. This concoction works so well at giving your rage a place to get drunk. Edit: Since my initial review, the hosts have changed and, while I still like the conversation, I’m having trouble with Danielle Moodie’s delivery. There’s nothing wrong with enthusiasm but I feel like she’s yelling at me. -1 star. Sorry Danielle! ❤️

Good show. Love the interview with Robert Reich.

A lot of the legal takes aren’t even debatable - they’re just wrong. No, Obama would not have “won” in the courts regarding the stolen SCOTUS seat; it was long known that recess appointments were effectively legally invalid at that point, and there’s no mechanism to have magically forced McConnell to consider any SCOTUS appointment, let alone to approve it. On top of that, a right-wing 8-justice court would never have voted itself out of power by supporting some sort of novel legal claim. Telling us these falsehoods only worsens voter apathy because it creates a false impression that we could be fully governing the country now if only Democratic leaders had chutzpah. We have laws and our situation only gets worse if we decide to ignore them as well. So, yeah. Please get a fact-checker. Minor errors are no big deal but fundamental mistakes like the above are both extraordinarily harmful and completely unnecessary. :(

Ok discussions that quickly become exhausting due to Danielle’s f-bomb addiction. I get it, it’s ‘edgy and cool’ but it undermines any bit of sophistication that may present itself at any random moment.

A great team! I listen to every episode over my early morning coffee. It kick-starts my day!

Denise Hamilton! What a fabulous interview and message!

Great interviews, and fun commentary.

I love your podcast. The clips are horrifyingly delicious and you have enlightening interviews. By the way, that "swelling" orchestral music during Trump's ramblings is real. He added it to create an "emotional" end to his rallies this year since he started them at Wacko Texas. And the contrast between the "moving" orchestral music and the ugly and insane ramblings of Trump is definitely a shock to the system.