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The Most Acid-Trippy Episodes of The New Abnormal

THE NEW ABNORMAL

These are the most hilarious, wild, and insightful clips from our favorite New Abnormal episodes this year—from Trump getting COVID to an interview with Rev. Warnock.

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Trump getting COVID. Antifa plotting to take down the White House. The truth about Russia disinfo. Bill Clinton impressions. The Lincoln Project scoops. The very first year of The New Abnormal by The Daily Beast has been a wild, trippy ride, featuring scientists, politicians, whistleblowers and The Daily Beast’s best and brightest reporters.

In this special episode, we compiled the most fun, most hilarious, and most brutally honest clips from co-hosts Molly Jong-Fast and Rick Wilson’s best episodes.

We kick off with the duo talking about Trump getting COVID (and if Biden secretly planned it all), then go into a few clips from bonus episodes that only Beast Inside members have access to including what Rick and Molly got wrong about the election (and what Democrats should have done differently, like running celebrities, says Molly. Also, “are you out of your mind? Voter fucking registration,” said Rick).

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Next, there’s the episode where comedian Ike Barinholtz recounts the obviously real friendship he and Don Jr. shared while killing innocent animals and boating.

We even had Rev. Raphael Warnock on the show before the special election run-off officially kicked off in November (“Kelly Loeffler was appointed, appointed by Gov. Kemp to warm up the [Senate] seat before I get there,” he jokes of his incumbent opponent) and Veep showrunner Dave Mandel’s episode dives into why Mitch McConnell basically punched America in the penis. Masha Gessen drops a bomb on her episode, claiming that the country’s problem is not Russian interference, it’s the fact that we let it in.

And of course, the greatest moment of TNA’s history: when lightning literally struck Rick’s house during a “Fuck that Guy” segment.

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