Episode 180: Social media isn't making conspiracy theories worse, we were always this crazy
Politics Politics Politics
Justin Robert Young
4.6 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
A breakdown of the Virginia governors race which will be decided this fall. A former governor matches up against a Trump-endorsed outsider with history on his side despite a Republican not winning statewide in VA since 2009.
Update on infrastructure.
Conspiracy Theory expert Joe Uscinski joins the show to discuss our evolving understanding of the COVID lab leak theory and gets into how social media has and has not affected our beliefs.
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| 0:00.0 | The following is brought to you by Dustin Campbell, Daily Tech News Show, Andy Beach, Nick Wood, Will Harris, and Craig. Politics politics politics. politics! |
| 0:23.0 | politics! |
| 0:24.0 | Politics! |
| 0:25.0 | Politics! |
| 0:26.0 | Maybe |
| 0:28.0 | And yes |
| 0:30.0 | And it |
| 0:31.0 | And it |
| 0:32.0 | H Hello and welcome everybody to the politics politics program for May 28th |
| 0:46.1 | 2021 it's your old pal Justin Robert young Robert Young and we got a we got a humdinger of an episode here for you |
| 0:59.9 | we're gonna discuss something that I didn't realize I was fascinated by until I was badgered by a listener into looking into it. |
| 1:12.0 | I did it. I am fascinated by it and that's why we will spend a few |
| 1:19.3 | minutes talking about the Virginia Governor's Race. Ah the Virginia Governor's race. |
| 1:23.0 | Ah, the Virginia Governor's race. |
| 1:28.0 | It's actually a lot more interesting than you might think. |
| 1:30.0 | Again, I know I'm going to win you over. I'm going to have to win you over because I wasn't |
| 1:35.5 | one over. So we'll go, we'll go from there. Also, bit of an update on the infrastructure |
| 1:42.3 | deal, including why you shouldn't hold your breath for it to happen |
| 1:50.4 | any time through the summer and really into the fall. |
| 1:57.2 | And we've got an interview with one of our favorites, |
| 2:02.0 | Joseph Yizinski from the. One of our favorites, Joseph Jazinsky, |
| 2:04.6 | from the University of Miami, |
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