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Joanna Coles
Hello, I'm Joanna Coles, the Chief Content Officer of the Daily Beast, and today marks the first day that we're bringing the Daily Beast Podcast to the New Abnormal Feed. Regular listeners will know that the New Abnormal was launched as a series to grapple with the crazy days of the early Covid era and quickly developed into sharp, lively commentary. Thanks most recently to the terrific Andy Levy and Danielle Moody, who are going on to create their own new podcast called as the World Churns. Going Forward, here's what you can expect from the Daily Beast podcast, which you'd be able to get right here in this feed. We've heard from so many of you listeners out there saying that you want more interviews, more stories, more life hacks, and frankly, despite the chaos out there, more fun. So that's just what we're going to do with this podcast. So far we've had brilliant conversations with guests like Amber Ruffin, John Oliver, oh, and the Johns, Lovett and Favreau, Mika Brzezinski, Don Lemon, Kara Swisher, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Isaac Mizrahi and more. So we'll be focused on all the stories that obsess us at the Daily Beast from people, power, politics, pop culture, crazy health trains, and of course, a myopic dive into my personal obsession, injectable weight loss drugs, aka GLP1s. Who's on them, who's taking too much and who's not taking enough and needs to start taking them right now. But before I go any further, you should know I come with a government health warning. According to Stephen Chun, the White House press spokesperson, I'm a blithering idiot suffering a severe case of Trump derangement syndrome, which has impacted my pea sized brain. So, fully armed, as they say, expect candid conversations and analysis from some of our top Beast contributors. And please God, some laughs as we navigate the complexities of our time. So whether it's the latest political upheaval or the newest cultural craze, we'll be here to break it down for you. So stay tuned. Feel free to leave us comments on our YouTube channel or you can email us at beastpod@thedailybeast.com because we're just getting started. We'll have new episodes every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday for the independent and unexpected content that you should expect from the Daily Beast. So now I'm joined by the Daily Beast's executive editor, Hugh Doherty. He's a favorite on the Daily Beast podcast because he knows exactly what's going on minute by minute, second by second. Hugh, what is going on in the world of politics? I feel since I saw you 10 minutes ago, the world has probably already changed.
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Hugh Doherty
Oh my God, Joanna, there's been so much, I can't even begin to pack it into three episodes, never mind one. But congratulations on the new show. It's going to be amazing. But let's dive into the world of Trump. We are not the only people with a new show going on. Donald Trump is as well as you know, he celebrated 100 days of his presidency last week and now it's day 106, if you're listening, on Tuesday. And it's a really interesting time because I think what Donald Trump is doing is he's trying to come up with a new format for his show, too.
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Joanna Coles
So it's season two. It's season two.
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Hugh Doherty
Season two of season two.
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Joanna Coles
And someone Waltz, has already been voted off the island.
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Hugh Doherty
We've had a firing or a voting off or whatever you want to call it. Although Mike Waltz, who was the national security advisor who exited accidentally, added a journalist to his secret Signal Chat has been nominated to be the ambassador to the United Nations. Some people in the Trump administration say officially that that is a promotion. Include among them JD Vance. But none of them will say that behind closed doors because, of course, it is not a promotion at all.
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Joanna Coles
And it's also Nelle Scovell pointed out in the Daily Beast, actually, in a very thoughtful piece, that actually eight out of the last 10ambassadors to the UN have been women, whereas actually, I think nine out of the 10 security advisers to the president have been men. So this is actually a girly job.
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Hugh Doherty
Far be it from me to offer gender. I can say that you have gender barriers to jobs. But yes, Nell's observation was absolutely right. And she rightly pointed out that it probably wasn't Joe Biden or Barack Obama or George W. Bush who were making it out to be a girl job, but it certainly was Donald J. Trump, and he had previously tried to give it to his own daughter, Ivanka. Now also is a reality show.
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Joanna Coles
Hold on, hold on. Can I just throw in one more thing? So I'm assuming that because it's a Senate confirmation job, the Senate will do the actual dirty work of questioning or interrogating Mike Waltz about actually what went on with the Signal chat in a way that Donald Trump hasn't had to.
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Hugh Doherty
Yes, this could be really embarrassing for Mike Waltz. All his signal secrets that he hasn't leaked himself are going to come out. We're going to see a lot of emojis, maybe some fire ones from the Democrats. And what we're also going to get is one of the most bizarre spectacles of Trump world, that what does Trump love more than anything else? He just loves the show. And inflicting that on Mike Waltz is going to be, for him, just part of the entertainment.
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Joanna Coles
So he may well be confirmed by the Senate, but he will have gone through humiliating questions from the Democratic senators, too, on the committee.
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Hugh Doherty
This is a chance for them to really get into. How on earth do you accidentally add a journalist to Signal Chat? And just for the record, please add me to your Signal chat. I'm easy to find. You can find my number on the Internet just like you can find Pete Hexith. And unlike Pete Hexith, I don't have any secrets to tell you. But please tell me your secrets.
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Joanna Coles
I don't believe you don't have any secrets. I'm sure you do.
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Hugh Doherty
Not official ones. Joanna, your business to tell people, though.
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Joanna Coles
That's true. And you do it very well. All right, what else is going on, I think that there's been another big shift in the world of finance. Correct.
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Hugh Doherty
Again, this is another episode of the reality, the reality here, and it's one that I don't think Donald Trump has liked or is going to admit to not liking. Warren Buffett, who is by any measure the man Americans would trust most with their money. And he's one who Donald Trump does trust with his own money. Donald Trump is a shareholder in Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett's legendary conglomerate investing company. Warren Buffett, as many people have noticed, on Saturday, he suddenly stepped down as CEO. Not unexpected. He's 94, but a very dramatic way to do it. He addressed his annual shareholders meeting and said that he was going to recommend that the board hand over his job to Greg Abel, who's been his designated successor. Now, what he also did before that was to take aim at Donald Trump very directly answering a question about tariffs. And as we can hear now, this language was very, very pointed.
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Trade can be an act of war. And I think it's led to bad things. Just the attitudes it's brought out.
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Hugh Doherty
And for Warren Buffett to say trade is not a weapon was really a weapon directed straight at Donald Trump. And if that isn't enough of a dagger to the heart in the front row, clapping as this was, you know, clapping as this was said, was Hillary Clinton of all.
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Joanna Coles
And the meeting that goes on, their annual general meeting, a lot of people attend, correct?
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Hugh Doherty
Yes, huge numbers of people attend. Tim Cook or Tim Apple as he's known to the president there, Bill Ackman, the outspoken hedge fund investor. Bobby Kotick, who's a tech investor, who in many ways is one of the voices of Silicon Valley, was there and.
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Joanna Coles
I noticed had lost a lot of weight. I saw Bobby about six weeks ago and he had lost an enormous amount of weight. So to my own personal obsessions about GLP1s, I think Bobby Kotick has probably got some familiarity with them.
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Hugh Doherty
He would certainly, as an investor know about their impact. I think we can safely say as.
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Joanna Coles
We'Re either that or he's been running a lot. He's been running 100 miles a day.
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Hugh Doherty
Joanna, I would never seek to diagnose you. I know Stephen Chung has you as having TDS in your pea sized brain. Course, that's a medical insight that you know is a matter of your privacy. But same thing for Bobby Kotick.
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Joanna Coles
Yes. Sorry, I'm calling you out, Bobby. The interesting thing about people who are on GLP1s is though it's very evident to everybody that they've had dramatic weight loss. So I don't think I'm pointing out anything that anybody else hasn't said, because if you've seen him, I saw him last year, sat next to him at a dinner last year, saw him six weeks ago. The change was dramatic. Anyway. Good for Bobby Kostik.
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Hugh Doherty
There's been change in the country. There's been change everywhere.
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Joanna Coles
There has. And then, of course, there was an interesting interview that Trump did at the weekend with Kristen Welker where he talked about not running for 2028, but now he seems to think that actually he might pass it on to someone else.
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Hugh Doherty
Yeah. And this was again, a fascinating bit of reality television because everybody'd been wondering, what's Trump doing about the third term? And he said people have just been keep asking him to run again. We don't really know if anybody has obviously grown men, tears in their eyes have come up to him saying, sir, sir, please run again. But it's no, you know, it's prohibited by the Constitution. It's really simple. You do. You cannot have a third term. He did, in fact, create a whole new conflict by saying that the most likely successors were J.D. vance. Not a big surprise, because he's vice president. And Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio already has Mike Waltz's job. He's also the official archivist. He's the Secretary of State and he's running usaid. So this would give him a fifth job of running for president. And of course, in Trump world, this is great because now there's two people who are going to be going head to head, not just in the next hundred days, but for almost three years. And what does Trump love? This show. And he's going to love watching.
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Joanna Coles
So it's the great American Political Bake Off.
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Hugh Doherty
It is the great, great Political Bake Off. I'm going to offer you. There's another British show that is offering itself as a comparison and that's Monty Python. And this is, it's quite a surprising intervention and it's one that I would just. Tuesday is the day that we publish our must read newsletter, the Swamp. I just urge everybody go to Daily Beast. Sign up to the Swamp. It comes out every Tuesday afternoon. So now is the time to get the most amazing gossip and insight in your direct your inbox. But what's going on in D.C. from our team there and our team around the world, everybody contributes because Trump touches everything. It's all the gossip, it's all the ooze. You can use all the oohs.
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Joanna Coles
You can use. That's fantastic. I hadn't actually heard that. That's very good.
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Hugh Doherty
In the swamp this week is an intervention from John Cleese, who of course was one of the co creators of Monty Python. And he has said that he's comparing the Trump administration not just to Monty Python, but he says it would have been too extreme for Monty Python. He says if Monty Python had written a farce about hopeless administration, we would not have had, as the first man filed for serious security lapse, the national security advisor. We'd have not. No, that's pushing it too far. Nobody would believe it. So as Trump enters his second hundred days, that's the kind of celebrity endorsement that you really want.
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Joanna Coles
And you certainly wouldn't have thought that the head of Homeland Security would have had her bag stolen from under her seat in the Capital Burger restaurant with a security guard on either side of her.
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Hugh Doherty
So you would have not. But we now know that there is, there is something that might happen to that. That perpetrator. Donald Trump has obviously been looking for TV formats and he's found a new one. Prison Break. He wants to bring back Alcatraz. El Salvador was not enough. Trump, as we all know, kind of peak boomer. His references do tend to go back to the 50s and 60s. Alcatraz closed in 1962. It's been a tourist destination that I think everybody has been to. Now he wants to bring it back and use it as a prison to bring to what he says to bring down crime. So if you are considering committing any federal felonies, be aware. You could be the next Birdman of Alcatraz. Or as Trump says that he can p. He's often talks about the late, great Alfonso Capone, who of course was without doubt the most famous inmate in Alcatraz.
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Joanna Coles
That's right. And of course, you're right about his references. Anyway, Hugh, you'll be back regularly with updates from the Madness. Subscribe to the Swamp for the latest ooze you can use. I love that expression. And Hugh, I'll see you back in the newsroom in, in a few minutes.
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Hugh Doherty
And I can guarantee you the world will have changed unrecognizably the next time I see you. Joanna.
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Joanna Coles
Hey, Daily Beast podcast fans, we're bringing you your favorite dinner party to a new home. Full episodes of the Daily Beast podcast have moved to a new channel. Go to dailybeast.com forward/podcast to find us on your favorite player or or search the Daily Beast podcast wherever you're listening. Now head over to finish this week's episode and subscribe to keep up with the new releases every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.
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