Our show continues to attract a number of entertaining callers, and the most entertaining are the ones that are criticizing me based on some ridiculous conspiracy theory.
That happened again today on the show when a caller - David from Covington - called in to criticize me after I jokingly said the government has a big room in an undisclosed location in Washington, D.C. filled with equipment including a big joystick that is used to control hurricanes.
The caller referenced the ENMOD Treaty from the 1970s that was an international treaty designed to prevent nations from weaponizing the weather. David made the point of criticizing me for not being aware of this treaty and used it as proof the government can control the weather and is actually controlling the direction of hurricanes. David had no immediate answer to my idea that a treaty designed to prevent nations from using the weather as a weapons in no way proves that the United States currently has the ability to control the weather and silence fell on the phone when I asked him why doesn't the U.S. use this ability to control the direction of hurricanes to direct them away from the United States.
The caller did ramble on about how the U.S. is smart enough not to misdirect every hurricane as to maintain credibility for their secret ability to control weather. He said that the government has to let some storm hit the U.S. But when I asked which storms did the government direct away from the U.S. he criticized the question as unfair.
During one break, I did some quick research and immediately found that the caller - David from Covington - had apparently bit on the bait of a new social media conspiracy about the Biden Administration targeting Republican areas with hurricanes to force people to sell their property so the government can come in and buy all the property in a greedy and malicious attempt to mine and control the supply of lithium.
First of all, the logistics of directing a hurricane from the Gulf of Mexico through Florida and Georgia to impact the southwestern tip of North Carolina is nothing but fantasy. It would be better to direct a hurricane to hit North Carolina directly from the Atlantic - but let's not let common sense ruin a good conspiracy theory.
The idea that the government is directing hurricanes is just stupid. And how ironic that the caller - David - criticized me for not knowing about an obscure treaty about weaponizing from the 1970s when he was actually basing. his criticism on a new social media trend on X, Tik Tok, and Facebook!
Over time, there have been various attempts to control hurricanes and the term "geo-engineering" is being used. The big word tends to lend credibility that the government can control hurricanes, but from cloud seeding to cooling ocean water with icebergs, none have yielded effective ways to control the wrath of nature.
In this bizarre Election Year of 2024, some people are grasping at virtually anything to support the idea that their candidate is being undermined.
Please enjoy my conversation with David from Covington in the audio player above and by the way - notice that this caller, and many more like him, DO NOT allow me to make a comment, and their strategy is to over-talk me or bully the conversation with only their views getting through. When I am criticized for "interrupting" a caller - it's usually a case of the caller trying to prevent any comments that contradict their points from being presented.