The Daily Beast Podcast - Podcast Rankings and reviews

No shade to the rest of the team, but Danielle Moodie is on fire. In the past few weeks she has been letting it fly. She is witty and gritty and searingly accurate. Her precision and creativity in her expression elevates the funny to new heights. I’m in awe and laughing through the tears.

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

Funny and informative, Danielle and Andy perfectly express my outrage over the current state of affairs in our country. I look forward to every episode.

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.

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.

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. :(