The Lab Leak [TEASER]

If Books Could Kill

Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri

Arts, Politics, Books, Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In December 2019, the coronavirus pandemic began in Wuhan, China. In May 2021, America experienced one of the most cursed weeks of punditry we've ever seen.

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0:00.0	Are we doing little little Peter Michael intros for the bonus episodes?
0:03.8	I think so.
0:04.8	Okay.
0:05.8	Quick question before I do mine.
0:08.6	How much of your discussion covers weird xenophobics sort of shit?
0:13.8	Not terribly much to be honest, but feel free to make a xenophobic singer.
0:16.8	Because you have an anti-Asian American joke ready?
0:20.0	Is this how you're telling me?
0:23.0	No, no.
0:25.0	Okay.
0:26.0	Peter.
0:27.0	Michael.
0:28.0	What do you know about the lab leak theory?
0:29.8	Not much, honestly, but I am very impressed with Americans because we were able to turn
0:37.1	a pandemic a little bit racist.
0:39.8	Okay.
0:46.8	So now that the zingers out of the way tell me what you actually know about the lab leak theory,
0:58.0	whatever member is that in 2020, some people pointed out that it was pretty weird that the
1:03.5	origin of COVID was in Wuhan, where there is an institute for studying such diseases,
1:13.8	right?
1:14.8	That's as far as I ever got into looking at this.
1:18.6	And I have shut my brain off to it every other time I heard anything about it because to
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