Also, I should tell you that Nundere College Conspiracy didn't come out in 1974. Of course not. It was published in 1971. Why would I think? But Alex is trying to say that it came out the year he was born because I think that he believes that it's some kind of a sign of a cosmic plan. That was the year that these two really important pillars of the human resistance were both unleashed or some shit. That's kind of my sense of it. He's trying to overly dramatize this whole thing.

So also, people who have gone on hunger strikes have gone without food for much longer than 14 days. Alex is making that up because he's stupid and he wants to justify his fantasies about eating his enemies, which is an interesting new low for him.

Ian Fleming was never third in command at MI6. During World War II, he was the personal assistant to Rear Admiral John Godfrey, the director of naval intelligence, so he was in the mix of some intelligent stuff. But Alex is inflating that. Also, Moonraker came out in 1955, not in the 60s. Also, all the stuff Alex is talking about, none of that stuff is in Ian Fleming's book version of Moonraker. That's all just from the movie, which Ian Fleming did not write the screenplay for, and pretty much has nothing to do with other than the book has the same title. You see, what happened was that in the closing credits of The Spy Who Loved Me, it says Bond will be back in For Your Eyes Only, which was planned to be the next Bond movie produced. But then Star Wars came out, and it was a gigantic box office hit. The producers decided to shelve For Your Eyes Only and go with something that could involve space, and the title Moonraker is about as space-sounding as Fleming's titles got. The plot of the book is that there's a guy named Hugo Drax who's building a nuclear missile defense system for England called Moonraker. It turns out Drax is secretly a Nazi, and he's planned this whole thing in order to nuke London. Bond foils the plan, it saves the day, more or less your standard Bond storyline. No space, no false flags, no bioweapons, or hiding out in orbit or bunkers or whatever. The film version is a bit different. However, it wasn't written by Ian Fleming. It was written by a guy named Christopher Wood, who had previously written a series of sex rops under the pen name Timothy Lee. The entire plot was changed. Moonraker was no longer a defense system. It was a space shuttle. In the movie version, Drax plans to head to space and then release Nerve Gas onto the planet to kill people, eventually repopulating the planet with people he thinks are from good stock. There's plenty of discussion about this among Bond fans. So this is a completely different movie from the book that Fleming wrote. And it's super, super clear that the reason that they were doing that was trying to cash in on Star Wars.

First of all, Alex is completely lying about the CDC's numbers from 2018. Talking about the number of people who die in a given year, January through December, isn't really a useful way to frame things in this kind of conversation. Flu season begins in like October and starts to wrap up in February or March, so it overlaps years. If you're talking about just flu cases in 2018, you would end up talking about the cases at the end of one season and the cases at the beginning of another. It could be different strains. It's generally not how these statistics are discussed. And definitely not how they're usually presented on the CDC's website. I'm not sure which flu season he's trying to use, since this would be either the 2017-2018 flu season or the 2018-2019 flu season. Either way, he's lying when he says the 80,000 number.

The article he's referring to about Italy having its worst flu season in 14 years is from the local. And if you check the date on that article, he would see that it's from January 19th, 2018. Oh, no, you don't have to check the dates on it. That article describes a very high number of flu cases, approximately 3.8 million between September 2017 and January 14th, 2018. This is about where the country hit the peak of a particularly bad flu season, the worst of 14 years.