Merry Christmas, normies! We're not afraid to say it thanks to our big wet boy. Our gift to you this year is a rundown of some of the worst, I mean...most normal, political tweets from the 2010s.

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Ep. 58 - The Most Normal Tweets of the Decade

Zach's (still) sick, Grant's (still) busy, and our big wet boy has been impeached for being a sloppy criminal by the largest House margin in the history of this normal country of ours. We also despair over the UK election, Kumail Nanjiani deciding he has abs now, and Producer Prince's sudden departure from the Bloomberg 2020 campaign.

Ep. 57 - Impeachment Night in America

The boys hop on Joe Biden's No Malarkey bus tour and catch up on all the terrible things that happened in the world over the Thanksgiving holiday. MERCH: https://represent.com/store/normal-country

Ep. 56 - Fill My Pesci Hole

Grant's Mom is in town so we keep it brief and largely apolitical as we touch on the #LCJChallenge, the Tesla Cybertruck, and what it sounds like when a coffee cup moves across a table during a live taping of an MSNBC talk show. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://normalcountry.substack.com/ Buy merch: https://represent.com/store/normal-country

Ep. 55 - Hot Coffee

Zach's car broke down, Grant had to do home repairs, one of our producers has Feline AIDS, and both Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have conceded in their own ways that Medicare  for All isn't very likely. Bad week! Not good! No bueno. Also: there was definitely a coup in Bolivia, Deval Patrick needs to go away, Pete Buttigieg doesn't care about black people, and Baby Yoda could force choke me to death and I would thank them for the privilege.

Ep. 54 - Medicare for All Who Operate a Small Business in an Economically Disadvantaged Area for Three Years

On the one year anniversary of Normal Country, we talk about how billionaires are uhhhhhhhhhh very bad and maybe also not good? We also do a dramatic reading of the most scathing critique of Pete Buttigieg's campaign we've heard yet. Who is its author? The answer may surprise you.

Ep. 53 - Big Structural Boomer

Returning champion Brock Wilbur (@brockwilbur) hops on a call with Zach to break down Elizabeth Warren's Medicare for All proposal and Beto O'Rourke's 2020 Presidential campaign taught us that it was okay to be weird. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER OR I'M GOING TO HAVE TO STOP DOING THEM YOU CHUDS: https://normalcountry.substack.com/ P.S. Epstein didn't kill himself.

Ep. 52 - Hannibal Buress is a Landlord (with Brock Wilbur!)

The boys spend a bunch of time criticizing white feminism, because that's definitely a lane they should drift into (it's not and we shouldn't have). We also talk about our spoopy Halloween adventures and do a dramatic reading of Kellyanne Conway's on the record conversation with a Washington Examiner reporter. Cancel us! We dare you!

Ep. 51 - Delete Facebook, Lawyer Up, Hit the Gym

Grantpa is back, baby! The small bois are back together again to talk about AOC's Bernie endorsement, Mitt Romney's secret Twitter account, and how holding the G7 at Trump's Doral resort would be Fyre Fest for the world's most powerful people, which would actually be kind of awesome.

Ep. 50 - The Stent Has Made Him Too Powerful

We are both deathly ill but the show must go on! Zach just downed half a bottle of NyQuil and recorded an hourlong screed about Joker, the death of a key witness in the Botham Jean murder trial, and the careless foreign policy decision that may be the most egregious atrocity in a presidential administration that is only egregious atrocities. This episode is terrible and we will definitely be deleting it.

Ep. 49 - Zaching Off on Half a Bottle of NyQuil

Ian Carlos Crawford (@ianxcarlos), the host of the hit podcast Slayerfest 98, joins Zach to break down the explosive allegations that will derail the Elizabeth Warren campaign: she *checks notes* consensually rocked the world of some Chad with her husband's permission. This obviously didn't actually happen; it was the newest badly orchestrated grift from friend of the pod Jacob Wohl, but despite that, we still support Warren's candidacy even if she hasn't outf*cked a Marine. SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEW NORMAL COUNTRY NEWSLETTER: https://normalcountry.substack.com/ BUY MERCH: https://represent.com/store/normal-country SUBSCRIBE TO SLAYERFEST 98: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/slayerfest98/id1216035747

Ep. 48 - Elizabeth Cougar Mellencamp (with Ian Carlos Crawford!)

Yay! LA Magazine editor-in-chief Daniel Antonio Barron (@YayDanielBarron (https://twitter.com/YayDanielBarron) ) joins us to discuss the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, our big wet boy who got cocky and committed a whole bunch of crimes after we got away with committing a whole bunch of crimes. Go to http://www.yaylamag.com/ even if you don't live in Los Angeles because it's a pretty awesome source for all things arts and culture. We've been fans since before this podcast was a glimmer in our eyes.

Ep. 47 - Cousin Greg's Ukrainian Adventure (with Daniel Antonio Barron!)

While Grant is in hiding after being snitched on by Tekashi 6ix9ine, wife of the pod Ashlyn Anstee and returning champion J. Patrick Rigney step into the octagon to discuss: -Milo Yiannopoulos getting wrecked by the Furry community -The Washington Post's profile on the dogs rescued from Michael Vick's dogfighting ring -Many more cozy topics that have nothing to do with Donald Trump strongarming the President of Ukraine into launching a phony investigation into the failson of his most formidable political opponent How Michael Vick's dogfighting case changed animal welfare - https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/sports/michael-vick-dogfighting-dogs/ NORMPOD merch: https://represent.com/store/normal-country Rate the podcast 5 stars on Apple Podcasts so we can stop ranting to ourselves and the immediate family members we force to listen to this show.

Ep. 46 - Fursona Non Grata (with Ashlyn Anstee and J. Patrick Rigney!)

Comedian Erik Barnes (@ErikWBarnes) joins us to discuss the key takeaways of last week's third Democratic debate and the 18th birthday of 9/11. Cut from this episode is 20 minutes of discussion about The Joker and living in a society. Take this month's normpod straw poll: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/S9ZNYHD

Ep. 45 - Fleet of Nature Boys (with Erik Barnes!)

Zach joins Grant and Ashlyn in their very noisy backyard to have a very low stakes chat about Joe Biden's tendency to sound exactly like Donald Trump, the rise and fall of the Jeremy Renner app, and the key takeaways of this week's CNN climate town halls. Also, we trapped and released Lime, one of the strays getting up to some funny business on the Pardee property.

Ep. 44 - Got to Catch the Red Eye (with Ashlyn Anstee!)

Every week until the inevitable heat death of the planet from manmade climate change, comedians / cat dads Zach Heltzel and Grant Pardee give you a 30,000 foot view of a nation where nothing weird is going on right now.

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