688: May 25, 2022

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Today, Dan and Jordan continue to track Alex's response to the Uvalde shooting. In this installment, Alex treads water for a bit, and leans on his callers to bring some weirdness to the conversation.

Detailed Show Notes

Topics covered:

• Alex whiffs on the meanings of both "salvador" and "ramos"
• Alex correctly reports out many of the details of the Uvalde shooting, though the details that were available early on have been somewhat unreliable
• Alex speaks with a caller who alleges they are a special education teacher who worked with the shooter, though there is no concrete confirmation he was in special education classes
• Statistics on schools with armed security
• Study on the effects of having armed School Resource Officers at schools
• The Jeep in Aurora was speeding up with seeming disregard that people were in the way
• Article about the protester who shot at the Jeep
• Profile of Thomas Renz, who is not an experienced lawyer
• The Pfizer CEO clip that Renz is trying to pass off as a recent announcement is an out-of-context clip from 2018
• The current Monkeypox has been traced to the West African strain

Errata

At around 9:50 minutes in, Dan talks about the meaning of Ramos' name in Spanish and Portuguese. Dan says that in Spanish "ramos" means "branches", when in reality "ramos" means "bouquets". Two flower bouquets would be "dos ramos de flores". "Branches" would be "ramas" instead. Ancestry.com also seems to make this mistake.