Comedy Central
Over the previous a number of years,The Every day Present contributor Jordan Klepper has been pressured to hearken to Trump supporters spout the most absurd conspiracy theories possible within the parking a lot of MAGA rallies throughout the nation. Now, in a brand new podcast from Comedy Central and iHeartPodcasts referred to as Jordan Klepper Fingers the Conspiracy, the comic is lastly taking the time to elucidate why they’re so improper.
You'll be able to watch an unique video model of the primary episode, which premieres tomorrow throughout all podcast platforms, under.
“This podcast is a chance to take the nuggets of chaos I uncover on the street, put them underneath a microscope, and see the place they got here from, why they’re so compelling and if these conspiracy nugs may destroy our democracy,” Klepper advised The Every day Beast through electronic mail this week. “As stunning as a few of the concepts are that I come throughout within the discipline, it’s been eye opening to see the historic precedent for lots of this considering. The place else are you able to speak to a medieval tutorial concerning the legacy of the ‘Nancy Pelosi drinks child blood’ viewpoint?”
For anybody who has watched certainly one of his well-liked Every day Present segments and “mumbled to your self, ‘what the fuck?,’” he provides, “Effectively, right here we try to reply that in podcast kind.”
Among the many consultants Klepper enlists to reply that burning query is The Every day Beast’s resident right-wing disinformation knowledgeable Will Sommer, creator of the upcoming ebook Belief the Plan and host of the Fever Desires podcast, who seems as a visitor within the first episode to interrupt down the QAnon-fueled notion that JFK Jr. would be the political savior of the best.
Whereas he can’t reply to each certainly one of these conspiracies within the second throughout his Every day Present items as a result of they're making TV and “have to remain considerably centered,” Klepper jokes in his introduction that “it is a podcast, and we don’t have to remain centered in any respect.”
“So I’m lastly diving into a few of the most unimaginable conspiracy theories which were pitched to me at Trump rallies,” he says, “by America’s most… imaginative minds.”
For extra, hearken to The Every day Present’s Jordan Klepper on The Final Chuckle podcast.