Episode #650: July 17, 2003

Topics covered:

• Alex incorrectly thinks that home-schooled children win all the spelling bees

• Alex interviews Daniel Lipsman, the father of a whiz kid who was not being awarded a college diploma because she wasn’t old enough to be given a high school equivalence degree

• Daniel Lipsman was trying to sue the New York School Board, which he had done in 1999 and in 1993, which is too many times for a person to sue a school board

• Daniel also may have written a book called The Jewish Connection, and he received two write-in votes for a House seat in the 2020 election

• Alex interview a guy named Dr. David Race Bannon, who claims to be a former assassin working for Interpol to kill human traffickers

• David Race Bannon entirely made up this story, and he was arrested for criminal impersonation a few years after this interview, and got five years probation

• Part of the unraveling of Bannon’s backstory was due to a martial arts message board being offended that he lied about his black belt in hapkido

• It does not appear that New Horizon is an imprint of Penguin Books