671: April 13, 2022

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Today, Dan and Jordan reunite to check in on some recent Alex news. In this installment, Alex covers the NY subway shooting, gives snake venom Covid theories a thumbs-down, and chats with champion-level weirdo Ali Alexander.

Detailed Show Notes

Topics covered:

• The NY subway shooter, Frank James, was definitely racist toward white people, but also toward pretty much everyone
• The Sutherland Springs shooter was not stopped by an armed church-goer, and the armed man who took over a pulpit in Nashville was stopped by an unarmed pastor
• Alex misrepresents a witness statement about the subway shooting
• Alex misrepresents the details of the Charleston shooting from 2015
• Alex's talking points about black-on-white crime are identical to the ideas specified as a motivation in Dylann Roof's manifesto
• Alex fudges some details on the Whitmer kidnapping case
• Alex poorly covers an article about a study about Covid done by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity
• Alex doesn't understand the issue with the security cameras in the MTA
• High 4:8 ratios do not necessarily mean lymphoma, which also isn't a side-effect of Covid vaccines
• Alex isn't even buying the "snake venom" conspiracy, and the expert in the documentary has come out against the film
• Ali Alexander's lawyer got disbarred