Hey, Daily Signal listeners, Doug Blair here.

Today, we're excited to share with you a bonus episode of the Daily Signal podcast.

We recently had the opportunity to talk with Nate Hachman.

Hachman is a reporter with the National Review, and he's actually on the ground right now

in Ottawa, Canada, covering the Freedom Convoy protest.

We have the opportunity to talk with Nate about all the stuff that's going on there to get

his bird's eye view of what's going on right now in Canada.

We hope you enjoy.

My guest today is Nate Hachman, an ISI fellow at National Review currently in Canada covering

the protests.

Nate, welcome to the show.

Thanks so much for having me.

It's good to be here.

I mean, this has been such a wild story, and I'm so curious because you're on the ground

right now with the truckers, and I want to know when did you arrive and what has surprised

you the most about what you've seen so far?

I got here late Sunday afternoon, kind of got into Ottawa and settled Sunday evening,

and I went out and just checked out the convoy that night, and it was, you know, things

are a lot more crowded on the weekends than they are during the week.

So I only caught the back end of the really crazy weekend, which is when you have thousands

and thousands of protesters streaming into the city.

But I've been there since then, and I've been talking to a lot of the folks on the ground,

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