Storms Upon Us (Premium E263)

Had a friend this very weekend suggest that they are forecasting rain because they don't want you to go camping. For what purpose? Unclear.

Just an FYI that NOAA is commonly pronounced “Noah,” so if you imagine MTG attacking Noah about flooding, it’s pretty funny 🫠

"if rap music has taught me one thing... I should be lying in wait for the ops with some kind of Draco"

Just watch Reed Timmer's streams on YT. Plenty of danger, and you just might learn something.

I 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

FEMA was at the Homewood Suites, not the Skyline Motel (hourly rates) on Rt 27!!1!

Just 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

I 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.

Milton made landfall within miles of my family home in Sarasota, but thankfully it's still destroyed from Hurricane Debbie back in August!

In 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!

I 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.

It 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

"Long scathing fart" made me choke on my food laughing lol

“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

Thank 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 ❤️

Hell, yes, let Jake do an entire episode in screenplay form! 👍

Top tier Iliad joke, Liv

I read that the mine in NC was ultra-pure quartz which is essential for tech production. Is there a lithium mine there as well?

"we're here arguing instead of putting our heads together like Elon Musk and Pete Buttigieg" Julian, smite this man

Like 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.

“Absolutely I can do that for you Mr. Rockatansky” 🤖

Lest we forget, the numerous contributions, of the esteemed gentleman, Dr. Gerard J. Geostorm.

That Jake could say the phrase “Get to the chopper” *without* an accompanying Arnold impression shows admirable restraint.

The 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.

*begins seriously considering antinatalism*

I 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.

I 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.

liv agar

Reading the HAARP facility Google reviews is a guilty pleasure of mine

God I didn't expect to come away from this one feeling overwhelming despair. Cheers y'all jfc

I want a podcast episode that is just Jake from QAA and Milo from Trashfuture talking as Trump

I actually would very much like future episodes to be entirely in screenplay form

Wouldnt 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.

Jake, you did not have to hand it elon musk at the end there, but I forgive you

Apparently 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.

I 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

I'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.

Liv better get an Emmy nomination for her performance as Marjorie Taylor Greene

I’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.

JAKE, STORKS ARE ALREADY DINOSAURS! ALL BIRDS ARE DINOSAURS! BAD EXAMPLE!!!!!

I 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.

It 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.

That episode of Curb where Larry figures out the local weatherman is lying about the rain so he would have the golf course to himself

I love the idea that the secret government hurricane device would be publicly patented because of a 1972 law

Thank you this episodes, I live in the Tampa Bay area and laughing helps.

“Maps” still slaps though.

Brilliant episode! Jake's take on Green is perfection

So 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.

Sequel to Nightcrawler but he’s on Kik

Oh, I wanted Jake to do the whole episode as a play

When 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.

Jake couldn't resist making a Turtles in Time reference.

Elon 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.

There'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

I’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!

What a world we've become. Even the line between Jake stories and reality is starting to blur.

RELEASE THE JAKE CUT

I'm on to you, Weatherman.

Surprised 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

Travis 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.

I 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!

Wow 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

Maybe something to cover pose election season? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jkY6QdCfAXHJk3kea/the-petertodd-phenomenon

Just 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.

I 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?

Whoa, was just checking to see if a new ep was up, and… poof