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The Daily Beast Podcast

Truckers Resurrect Bananas Theory About Trudeau’s Real Dad

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4.68.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Truckers part of the so-called “Freedom Convoy” have co-opted a conspiracy theory about Justin Trudeau’s biological father, which Canadian author and frequent New Abnormal guest Jeet Heer tells co-host Molly Jong-Fast all about on Tuesday’s episode. Plus, Molly and co-host Andy Levy run down the “terrifying” political candidates who billionaire Peter Thiel is backing and Imani Perry, author of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, makes the case that the South should be a source of inspiration. If you haven't heard, every single week The New Abnormal does a special bonus episode for Beast Inside, the Daily Beast’s membership program. where Sometimes we interview Senators like Cory Booker or the folks who explain our world in media like Jim Acosta or Soledad O’Brien. Sometimes we just have fun and talk to our favorite comedians and actors like Busy Phillips or Billy Eichner and sometimes it's just discussing the fuckery. You can get all of our episodes in your favorite podcast app of choice by becoming a Beast Inside member where you’ll support The Beast’s fearless journalism. Plus! You’ll also get full access to podcasts and articles. To become a member head to newabnormal.thedailybeast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Molly John Fass, no relationship to Kim Jong-un.

0:04.6

I'm a left-wing pundit and a writer at the Atlantic Envo.

0:08.0

And I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN HLN Guy and current cable news conscientious

0:13.7

objective.

0:14.7

And I've produced Suggesticated and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off

0:18.0

the rails.

0:19.0

We're here to have fun, smart conversations with the wisest and funniest people in science

0:23.5

and media and politics that help make what's happening today clearer.

0:28.0

Our world has been turned upside down and on the new app normal we'll talk about the

0:31.8

people who got us into this mess and how we'll hopefully get ourselves out of it.

0:36.0

What a great show we have today.

0:37.3

Jeet here who's a calmest at the nation and author of the newsletter at the time of

0:40.7

monsters will come talk to us about how his home of Canada is going just as crazy as

0:44.9

America.

0:45.9

Then we'll talk to Amani Perry, who's a professor at Princeton University as well as the author

0:50.0

of South to America and she'll talk to us about her new book.

0:54.0

But first, let's have some fun.

0:56.9

Monday, leaving.

0:57.9

Molly John, fast.

1:00.0

I don't know if you know this, but there was a sporting event this weekend.

1:03.3

I do know this.

1:04.3

I may be the only one on this podcast that knows it, but I do know it.

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