Storms Upon Us (Premium E263)
Added 2024-10-15 05:27:49 +0000 UTCConspiracy theorists are finally admitting that human beings DO have an impact on climate change. But it’s not our ever-increasing carbon footprint, no, it’s actually just a very specific group of people who have unlocked the technology to CONTROL the weather – and direct it at their political enemies. In this episode we break down the multitude of conspiracy theories surrounding recent hurricanes Helene and Milton, and Liv threatens to steal a hurricane patent from Bill Gates (we’re all rooting for her).
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Sources:
https://newrepublic.com/post/186521/trump-hurricane-helene-conspiracy-theory
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5984239A/en
Comments
Hi all. I have a friend with the following enquiry: "I'm after things that explain the psychology of why conspiracy theories are attractive, and how to use CBT or other techniques to check you're not getting drawn in." Has this ever been covered in an episode? Or does anyone have any leads? Thank you!
Heather Luna
2024-11-01 00:20:32 +0000 UTCAbsolutely. The idea of the patent is to cool off the hot surface water by swapping it with cold deep water. This ought to actually be an exothermic reaction or close to it, and it might even be practical! But to INTENSIFY the hurricane you would have to HEAT UP the hot surface water more than it is! Basically you'd need a giant heat pump, to make the surface water hotter and the deep water colder. But that would require a LOT of added energy to run pumps, compressors and what not. You're working against thermodynamics here. I doubt this is practical 😕
Ted Delphos
2024-10-28 21:10:04 +0000 UTCI wonder how many people pretended not to evacuate. Like sitting in a hotel room in front of a green screen
Jack Gude
2024-10-26 17:20:20 +0000 UTCI kept screaming “NOAH!!! NOAAHHHH” 😂
Lindsay R
2024-10-23 18:05:06 +0000 UTCThat’s disappointing to hear… I did a summer program at Ringling back in 2013, and I fell in love with Sarasota. It was genuinely the nicest town I’ve been to in Florida.
Sei B
2024-10-23 15:24:00 +0000 UTCI could’ve swindled some idiot on kick out of $30k by doing nothing in my house while waiting out Milton. But I did that shit for free. God, I’m a chump.
Sei B
2024-10-23 15:17:37 +0000 UTCthe wide knowledge base of this fandom has no equal and on behalf of my fellow genX oldsters, thank you for informing me
Carrie Bee
2024-10-21 23:38:30 +0000 UTCI’m in missafuckingsippi and I trust him/hate to see him down here
Carrie Bee
2024-10-21 23:35:41 +0000 UTCJust an FYI that NOAA is commonly pronounced “Noah,” so if you imagine MTG attacking Noah about flooding, it’s pretty funny 🫠
Natasha Ernst
2024-10-19 14:37:54 +0000 UTC"if rap music has taught me one thing... I should be lying in wait for the ops with some kind of Draco"
Drew
2024-10-19 02:21:18 +0000 UTCJust watch Reed Timmer's streams on YT. Plenty of danger, and you just might learn something.
Melissa Humbert
2024-10-18 19:09:26 +0000 UTCI had to look up Mike Smalls Jr because he sounds exactly like this guy in my neighborhood when he falls off his skateboard as he is blasting down the street pulled by his dogs. 😑 Men like this omg
KTF
2024-10-18 18:38:37 +0000 UTCFEMA was at the Homewood Suites, not the Skyline Motel (hourly rates) on Rt 27!!1!
Melissa Humbert
2024-10-18 17:11:37 +0000 UTCJust want to say there was a milkshake duck incident with lt. Dan where he dropped the n-word on stream shortly after receiving all the attention
William Allred
2024-10-18 02:20:31 +0000 UTCI just wanted to say that I also hate the fake-awkward, purposefully stiff style of dancing people have been doing on tiktok to Maps by Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The move with the arms slapping your sides is based on a dance move from New York I believe, and people have been doing it awkwardly like that since before it became a trend to do the dance to that song specifically. Some are referring to the dance as “greeping” now as Liv said because it’s a micro-trend to do the dance to a song off the album The New Sound, the solo debut by Geordie Greep of the British avante rock band Black Midi. I don’t know if the dance officially has a name but that’s why some people call it “greeping,” although I hope that name doesn’t stick as it would be wack for this goofy performative awkward dance to be associated with a pretty damn good debut effort from a unique artist.
Miguel
2024-10-17 18:19:18 +0000 UTCMilton made landfall within miles of my family home in Sarasota, but thankfully it's still destroyed from Hurricane Debbie back in August!
Mitch Patmagrian
2024-10-17 17:31:15 +0000 UTCThere is also a lithium mine, and it won't reopen until at least 2026 https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/03/albemarle-plans-to-reopen-kings-mountain-lithium-mine-will-take-years.html
ROU Sentient Lichen
2024-10-17 14:42:38 +0000 UTCI believe Jake said there was a lithium mine - it wasn't my assertion. But there is a pure quartz mine: "Spruce Pine, it turns out, is the source of the purest natural quartz—a species of pristine sand—ever found on Earth. This ultra‑elite deposit of silicon dioxide particles plays a key role in manufacturing the silicon used to make computer chips" https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-science-of-ultra-pure-silicon/
ROU Sentient Lichen
2024-10-17 14:41:17 +0000 UTCIn the aftermath of Milton I wanna (self-indulgently) suggest a whole episode on Sarasota, Florida. I lived here most of my life, and the transformation of a quaint little artsy college town into a gentrified haven for MAGA Republicans has been rapid and stark. Between Desantis's fascist hostile takeover of New College of Florida, being the home base for Michael Flynn and Truth Social, the latest incident of racist attacks that has people calling the place a sundown town, and being the kind of place where a business called Bitcoin Ben's Crypto Club™ Trump Emporium™ can apparently be successful and thriving... There is a lot to discuss IMO!
bunni
2024-10-17 14:22:52 +0000 UTCI have unfortunately listened to this podcast enough that I can tell precisely where Julien would interrupt to yell at Jake when he's not around. That Samsung aside, my god.
Interested Third Party
2024-10-17 11:17:37 +0000 UTCUmmmm ackshually storks are already dinosaurs
Rachel H
2024-10-17 07:48:05 +0000 UTCvalDAHsta Georgia
anni
2024-10-16 23:02:36 +0000 UTCIt is really funny for me to hear Kik mentioned. Last time I heard that was maybe ten years ago when all the people trying to groom me over Omegle chat would try to get me to add them on Kik. I didn’t even know they were a streaming service up to this point
Alex Anderson
2024-10-16 22:21:16 +0000 UTC"Long scathing fart" made me choke on my food laughing lol
Eric Rodriguez
2024-10-16 21:02:48 +0000 UTC“It’ll be bad but it’ll be fine as long as you can swim” yeah go ahead and just swim around in hurricane flood waters, let me know how that goes. Goddamn fucking morons jfc
Samantha Miller
2024-10-16 17:57:49 +0000 UTCThank you for covering this, I live in Asheville and was hearing some crazy bullshit from some people. I was hoping you guys would do an episode about this and you didn't disappoint ❤️
Ash
2024-10-16 17:37:56 +0000 UTCNo, there's a large deposit of white quartz under Asheville which lots of neo-spiritual people like because of the vibes or something. There's no lithium mines.
Ash
2024-10-16 17:36:57 +0000 UTCHell, yes, let Jake do an entire episode in screenplay form! 👍
Vanessa Lucio
2024-10-16 17:20:22 +0000 UTCTop tier Iliad joke, Liv
J
2024-10-16 17:06:12 +0000 UTCI read that the mine in NC was ultra-pure quartz which is essential for tech production. Is there a lithium mine there as well?
ROU Sentient Lichen
2024-10-16 14:13:07 +0000 UTC"we're here arguing instead of putting our heads together like Elon Musk and Pete Buttigieg" Julian, smite this man
psidew
2024-10-16 09:24:19 +0000 UTCLike most conspiracy theories, a powerful entity controlling the weather is a recycled one. I can’t be the only one who remembers right wing militia types claiming the UN and the “New World Order” were responsible for tornadoes in the Midwest in the nineties. Also, black unmarked helicopters.
Brian Sheppard
2024-10-16 04:07:12 +0000 UTC💯 I, myself, reflexively shouted it in my car while listening
Schwartz666
2024-10-16 01:54:47 +0000 UTC“Absolutely I can do that for you Mr. Rockatansky” 🤖
Shivvy
2024-10-16 01:20:28 +0000 UTCWhen Gods battle, the earth shall be torn asunder... Tangentially, just realized NudeAfrica.com is in my phone's list of learned words. 🤣
Schwartz666
2024-10-16 01:13:34 +0000 UTCLest we forget, the numerous contributions, of the esteemed gentleman, Dr. Gerard J. Geostorm.
Schwartz666
2024-10-16 01:09:31 +0000 UTCThat Jake could say the phrase “Get to the chopper” *without* an accompanying Arnold impression shows admirable restraint.
David D.
2024-10-16 00:41:33 +0000 UTCI love this podcast. Also, there's a very popular Qanon influencer in the White House Press Corp. He's part of Garret Zeigler's "Marco Polo" 501c3---which is being sued by Hunter Biden. Learn more at MarcusGoldfinch.com
INFINITE PLANE SOCIETY
2024-10-15 23:15:26 +0000 UTCThe description of Ross (maybe) giving Dimwit McGee 100k to probably die as “Watch what happens to this piece of shit” is a very Mega City One type of entertainment.
Matt
2024-10-15 22:42:17 +0000 UTC*begins seriously considering antinatalism*
ROU Sentient Lichen
2024-10-15 22:40:40 +0000 UTCI can't believe we have to argue with people about anyone being able to control the weather, but the fantasy appears more seductive than reality.
ROU Sentient Lichen
2024-10-15 22:39:58 +0000 UTC20-30 miles inland you're usually fine unless a tree directly falls on you. Storm surge and flooding are the big killers in hurricanes.
John Smith
2024-10-15 21:33:55 +0000 UTCI want to point out that the advice Lieutenant Dan gives us actually true *in most bad weather situations*. A boat that stays near the shore will be tossed against the rocks, it's much safer out at sea. Waves out at sea also don't generally break, they do just go up and down. However, in the case of a Cat 5 hurricane, get tf out. He's giving advice that might work in, like, a situation where an unexpected thunderstorm, andyou can't find safe harbor and have no other options. It is much safer to go out to sea and stay away from the shore. A cat 5 hurricane is a much more severe weather phenomenon, and it's not like alternatives aren't available.
John Smith
2024-10-15 21:32:29 +0000 UTCliv agar
ev
2024-10-15 21:18:17 +0000 UTCReading the HAARP facility Google reviews is a guilty pleasure of mine
chris lumsden
2024-10-15 21:02:43 +0000 UTCGod I didn't expect to come away from this one feeling overwhelming despair. Cheers y'all jfc
Sebastian Pickett
2024-10-15 20:59:38 +0000 UTCI want a podcast episode that is just Jake from QAA and Milo from Trashfuture talking as Trump
Wallace E. Ponk
2024-10-15 20:54:08 +0000 UTCI actually would very much like future episodes to be entirely in screenplay form
Chris
2024-10-15 20:00:19 +0000 UTCCheckmate canadian deep state.
Xavier
2024-10-15 19:31:37 +0000 UTCWouldnt reversing the tubes in Bill Gates patent just do the exact same thing it already does, I mean one tube moves water down and the other moves it up.
Xavier
2024-10-15 19:31:00 +0000 UTCJake, you did not have to hand it elon musk at the end there, but I forgive you
Andrew
2024-10-15 19:17:24 +0000 UTCsorry, something else to add: florida's evacuation protocol for milton wasn't as intense as everyone seems to think. if you don't live directly on the water or in a mobile home, you usually aren't asked to evacuate for hurricanes. yes even if you're in the direct path of the storm. yes even for how intense milton in particular was. plus, price gouging on gas and airline tickets made evacuating for people who weren't required to leave pretty much impossible anyway.
Scrimmified
2024-10-15 19:11:57 +0000 UTCApparently Barron Trump is a big fan of Adin Ross (for some reason, I find this incredibly depressing), and introduced Ross to his Dad. The car he gifted Donald was a Cyber Truck. God I hate that I know this shit.
monkey
2024-10-15 18:45:30 +0000 UTCI am the architect of the infrastructure underneath the largest part of FEMA's healthcare coordination. I gave it out to all states and presented it to FEMA after a horrific climate disaster years back. I'm an SME and can dispel some of the stupid shit these paranoid bitches say. I can provide reassurances to victims living in the real world suffering from this rhetoric Check your dms lol
Sparky
2024-10-15 18:17:18 +0000 UTCI live right on the coast of Pinellas where Milton hit, and I'll never forget sitting in the dark, scrolling through twitter looking for news on damage, and seeing almost exclusively either conspiracy theories or flat out misinfo on the storm. When it wasn't people saying it was targeted weather weapons, it was people posting fake photos and saying the storm was making landfall at a Cat 5. It's like we only exist to be a political talking point. That somehow our real suffering wasn't even bad enough.
Scrimmified
2024-10-15 18:14:40 +0000 UTCI'm not totally up to date on the tiktok dances, but I know of "greeping" which was kids jamming out to a black midi song (named for the band lead Geordie Greep). black midi is a prog? band so it's just like a really fast guitar and drums before suddenly stopping, which is where you hit the ✋️. the fact it's gone from being done on the prog snippet it was designed for to a completely different genre of song is interesting, if annoying to me personally.
OLO
2024-10-15 18:01:42 +0000 UTCLiv better get an Emmy nomination for her performance as Marjorie Taylor Greene
genrepunk
2024-10-15 17:12:53 +0000 UTCI’m not big into normal politics, so a lot of the Q stuff to me fascinates me from more of a psychological standpoint. As a weather nerd though, this new development of people believing this stuff has now infected one of my passions. I too am going to go scream into the void now. BRB.
Chris D
2024-10-15 16:47:26 +0000 UTCJAKE, STORKS ARE ALREADY DINOSAURS! ALL BIRDS ARE DINOSAURS! BAD EXAMPLE!!!!!
Jazz Gunter
2024-10-15 16:30:37 +0000 UTCI can't get over the fact that Jake said Jack Doherty looked like he would bully him in junior high, when Jake is like 20 years his senior and Doherty wouldn't have been born yet when Jake was in Junior High. It's very Ichi the Killer Coded.
Jason Zhang
2024-10-15 16:28:38 +0000 UTCIt IS all movies! If Walter Benjamin were here to see this media hellscape and how insanely susceptible people are he'd [REDACTED] himself all over again.
E Lyons
2024-10-15 16:07:28 +0000 UTCThat episode of Curb where Larry figures out the local weatherman is lying about the rain so he would have the golf course to himself
MifsudZ
2024-10-15 16:05:08 +0000 UTCI love the idea that the secret government hurricane device would be publicly patented because of a 1972 law
Michael Webster-Clark
2024-10-15 15:06:47 +0000 UTCThank you this episodes, I live in the Tampa Bay area and laughing helps.
Kt
2024-10-15 14:57:40 +0000 UTCTransformers: Dark of the Jewn
Tyler Dennis
2024-10-15 14:41:37 +0000 UTCSame!
Sarah Hissin
2024-10-15 14:34:30 +0000 UTC“Maps” still slaps though.
Kranium Kracka
2024-10-15 14:34:11 +0000 UTCBrilliant episode! Jake's take on Green is perfection
Mx_EddyNikko
2024-10-15 14:20:49 +0000 UTCSo Jake and Liv were talking about how long until these people deny or question the weather reports. Well hate to break it to you, they already do. If I text my pilled mother anything about the weather it's met with a "we'll see," response.
Xpensive Cardboard
2024-10-15 14:04:12 +0000 UTCSequel to Nightcrawler but he’s on Kik
Violet Lucca
2024-10-15 13:40:05 +0000 UTCOh, I wanted Jake to do the whole episode as a play
Serena the Secret Transgender Soldier
2024-10-15 13:32:46 +0000 UTCWhen a patent expires, the patent holder loses their exclusive right over the technology being patented; anyone can make those machines now (provided they aren't infringing anyone else's valid patents in doing so). So the idea that anyone has a monopoly over creating hurricanes because of expired patents is doubly hilarious. Also would love an entire episode delivered screenplay style.
Meena
2024-10-15 13:28:55 +0000 UTCStop giving Jake script ideas
Jonathan Susemihl
2024-10-15 12:26:04 +0000 UTCJake couldn't resist making a Turtles in Time reference.
Irvin
2024-10-15 11:28:59 +0000 UTCElon Musk is the sort of person who, if he doesn't understand something right away on his own, assumes it's either dumb, fake or a conspiracy. My brother does this too, it drives me fucking nuts.
Bryony Shipston
2024-10-15 11:05:17 +0000 UTCReality is doing ratchet effect on comedians
Noblesse Oblahaj
2024-10-15 10:59:31 +0000 UTCThere's going to be another cold weather event like Texas and they're going to accuse the Jews of using ice to attack the power grid, like Hasidic Mister Freeze is just out there blasting transformers
Noblesse Oblahaj
2024-10-15 10:57:37 +0000 UTCI’m from and still in Western North Carolina in some of the hardest hit areas. I watched them make this hurricane shortly before my whole town was destroyed. Sad!
Josh Grindstaff
2024-10-15 10:41:32 +0000 UTCWhat a world we've become. Even the line between Jake stories and reality is starting to blur.
Brad Plumb
2024-10-15 10:31:45 +0000 UTCRELEASE THE JAKE CUT
ALL GOOD ALL GOOD
2024-10-15 10:09:08 +0000 UTCI used to know someone on an online message board who never met a conspiracy theory he didn’t subscribe to. From 9/11 to COVID, he embraced any number of ridiculous ideas. And the weird thing was that he’s Jewish. When it was pointed out that conspiracy theories always regress to anti-Semitism, he just hand waved it away. The most pilled person I ever came across!
Andrew Billings
2024-10-15 09:09:55 +0000 UTCI'm on to you, Weatherman.
Brian Lancaster
2024-10-15 08:24:58 +0000 UTCSurprised it took Jake 30mn for a Geostorm reference also wouldn’t mind going full screenplay mode, feels like it turns everything into a Jake’s story with this tone
Thibault Proux
2024-10-15 06:37:08 +0000 UTCTravis and Julian are totally out of touch. We WANT stories featuring American Psycho style descriptions of consumer products and descriptions of Travis touching grass delivered in the narrator voice.
Subodh Kafle
2024-10-15 06:32:55 +0000 UTCI had to repeat whole sections of this episode because your giggles gave me giggles/laughing fits which drowned out the dialog. I haven't laughed that hard since the debut of the Cybertruck where the "unbreakable " window got broke. Love you guys!
bigphoton
2024-10-15 06:01:26 +0000 UTCWow Liv the Canadian unaware of ashevilles very nice hotels. I'm very offended you don't know that the most evil people on the planet take holidays there annually. It's the whole economy now
Taz
2024-10-15 05:43:20 +0000 UTCMaybe something to cover pose election season? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jkY6QdCfAXHJk3kea/the-petertodd-phenomenon
Tony Yayo
2024-10-15 05:35:11 +0000 UTCJust about to start listening to this. I have a sweepstake going on with myself as to how fast we descend into the anti-Semitic rabbit hole. I'm thinking within 15 mins.
Steve West
2024-10-15 05:34:49 +0000 UTCI was about to go sleep, I have work tomorrow. Why would you upload this at 1:30 am. Why are you making me do this?
Isaac Leavens
2024-10-15 05:31:39 +0000 UTCWhoa, was just checking to see if a new ep was up, and… poof
ColinWPG
2024-10-15 05:30:44 +0000 UTC
