699: July 4-5, 2022
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Today, Dan and Jordan check in on Alex's response to the 4th of July shooting in Highland Park, IL. As it turns out, he doesn't talk about it much, and mostly just gets defensive about aliens and tries to whip up violence at the border.
Detailed Show Notes
Topics covered[1]:
- Alex barely covering the parade shooting in Highland Park
- Douglas MacKinnon has written some cool op-eds
- Alex attempts to minimize the parade shooting by pointing to the migrants who died in a truck in Texas recently
- Alex misreports a paper put out by a UN organization about how the US-Mexico border is the most dangerous crossing in the world
- CNET article Alex references about scientists creating "alien life," which was part of research that continued on, and Alex would be even madder if he knew that it progressed
- The new bacteria found on the ISS may not be that big of a deal
- The self-replicating robots, or Xenobots, are not quite what Alex makes them out to be
- Highland Park shooter dressed as a woman to escape the scene, but was not dressed as a woman when arrested
- John Hullihan's failed House run
Outro
Dan: "I'm Neo. I'm Leo. I'm Desaix Clark. I hope you all have a wonderful Dreamy Creamy Summer."
