Welcome back to a very special episode of State-Sponsored Conspiracy Podcast, the only conspiracy podcast that's officially sponsored by the US government. It's our thousandth episode anniversary. Not only that, but this is going to be like when I say a very special episode, I mean that in the original sense, like how sitcoms would do very special episodes, you know, and it would be about AIDS or something.
Oh, not in like the clip show sense where it's actually not a special episode, it's just an episode where they were going through a writer's strike or something. No, I don't mean that at all. Now to explain, I'm going to take us back several weeks ago. Several weeks ago. Was that the time travel noise? That was me having something stuck in my throat. And it has been pointed out to me that with this microphone, it constantly sounds like I need to cough and I am going to fix that.
We are getting a new microphone from like the NSA. But several weeks ago, I was rewatching the boondocks as I do every now and then. And I hadn't seen it in a few years. First of all, I realized that Aaron McGruder is definitely a conspiracy man. And when I first watched it when I was like in high school, I didn't realize that the final episode of the show that he actually worked on is just a direct metaphor for 9-11 being an inside job. Have you seen that episode? Probably, yeah.
And I think it is like the only show that I'm aware of to directly say 9-11 was an inside job. Aaron McGruder, the creator, has also called Condoleezza Rice a war criminal in person, which you have to respect on some level. I mean, even who hasn't though? Well, no, I'm sure loads of people have gone on Twitter and called people war criminal girls, but this guy did it in person at like some White House event. I've broken to her house and did it.
I think even the most diehard neocon has to respect that sort of boldness, you know? But basically by watching the boondocks, I realized that there's a whole world of conspiracies that we haven't tapped into yet. And that is the world of black conspiracies. I feel like we did that last episode though. No, no, this is new. This is a whole, we're starting a whole new series. But what about Oprah and Tupac and the League of Extraordinary Black Gentlemen and all that? Okay, true.
We did touch on this before and we actually, we also talked about the CIA started AIDS thing, which is also sort of a black conspiracy, although it's really a Russian conspiracy, but we've been over this. My point is, we are starting a new series on black conspiracies. And so I thought it was time to reveal to our listeners that you all along have been half black. Unfortunately, yeah. I mean, not unfortunately, but like, unfortunately, we had to deceive you.
This whole time, you probably thought we were both white or at least Asian, which is a form of white. And this is not like, this is not a bit to be clear. I do technically have rights to salient word. I choose not to. Out of respect for Dr. King and Obama. And I know our audience is blown away by this right now. And to in order to get us and our audience through this experience, I'm going to be reading a famous poem from the acclaimed black poet, Wool Soyinka, titled telephone conversation.
Perhaps some of you have heard of it before. Pay attention. Don't laugh. This is serious. I want you all to really think about this poem. The price seemed reasonable. Location indifferent. The landlady swore she lived off premises. Everything remained but self-confession. Madam, I warned. I hate a wasted journey. I am African. Silence. Silence, transmission of pressurized good breeding. Voice when it came. Lipstick coated. Long, gold rolled cigarette holder piped. Cot I was, fouly. How dark.
I had not misheard. Are you light or very dark? One B button A, stench of rancid breath of public hide and speak. Red booth, red pillar box. Red doubled here to omnibus squelching tar. It was real, shamed by ill-manored silence, surrender pushed dumbfoundment to beg simplification. Consider it she was varying the emphasis. Are you dark or very light? Revelation came. You mean like plain or milk chocolate? Her accent was clinical crushing in its light in personality. Rapidly wave-flank adjusted.
I chose West African sepia. And as afterthought, down in my passport, silence for spectroscopic flight of fancy, till truthfulness changed her accent, hard on the mouthpiece. What's that? Conceiting don't know what that is, like brunette. That's dark, isn't it? Not altogether. Facially I am brunette, but madam, you should see the rest of me. Palm of my hand, souls of my feet, are a peroxide blonde. Friction caused foolishly, Madame, by sitting down, has turned my bottom brave and black.
One moment, Madame, sensing her receiver, rearing on the thunder clap about my ears. Madame, I pleaded, wouldn't you rather see for yourself? Now why am I reading this poem? I'm reading this poem because our listeners are that lame lady. They're hearing you and they're thinking, what does this guy look like? How black is this guy? And they're having to confront their own racial prejudices. I guess I would say I'm West African sepia. I want all of you listeners to think about this.
To think about the poem and to watch the boondocks and then come back and then maybe you'll be ready for this powerful series on black conspiracy. A poem, suck. How first of all, how dare you? Second of all, the first conspiracy we're going to talk about is the theory that Bush blew up the levies during Hurricane Katrina. Have you heard of this before? Kanye West told me it was true. And to start this off, I'm going to play an interview from Bill Marr, where Spike Lee brings up this conspiracy.
In this past Saturday, Louis Farrakhan did a kind of a reunion of the million man march. I know that we got a million people this time. But he was saying last Saturday in Washington that he thinks that the federal government there was a conspiracy to actually blow up those levies so that they would flood the poor black districts in New Orleans. I have to tell you, I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe it. But when you see some of the things that have gone on in this country.
Now first, I'm going to stop it right there because what's funny about this immediately is Bill Marr is now a conspiracy theorist. This interview was 17 years ago. Now Bill Marr is like a crazy person who doesn't want you to go see a doctor. I thought he was like a liberal guy. He is, but he's also like, he's become sort of a hippie as well. Who's like an anti-vax hippie? Not quite an anti-vax hippie, but an anti-doctor sort of hippie. It's like an anti-vax hippie.
I guess what's kind of like black people are? Is Bill Marr the blackest person in this interview? He did talk. Remember when he said the unordered? He just locked it like center. I did enjoy that. So now this is what Spike Lee is opening remarks. This is the important part. Exactly. It's not far-fetched. And also, I like to say, it's not necessarily blow it up. But the residents of that ward, they believe that they was a hurricane, Betsy in 65.
They felt the same thing happen where the choice had to be made. One neighborhood, we got to say one neighborhood and flood another hood. Another neighborhood, look, if we're in LA. That's been done before. We live in LA. And as an emergency situation, we call from Beverly Hills, we call from Compton. Which one the cops come into first? Right. But that's different than throw actively blowing up a levy. So Hurricane Betsy and previous hurricanes, I'm going to talk about that a little bit later.
But basically, he's drawing parallels to previous incidents to throw back at Bill Marr. But I'll continue. To flood one neighborhood. I'm not saying it's not possible. But that would require a conspiracy. I mean, look, we can all understand anybody with any knowledge of history can understand where a lot of people feel this way. That's a reasonable theory. But it would also require a conspiracy at three levels of government that would work the local, the state, and the federal.
It would require no white presence. Because presence has been assassinated. So why is that so far fetched? I'm going to pause this again. The woman who's talking right now, I don't know who she is. She's not Spike Lee or Bill Marr. I believe that is Wendy Williams. Incorrect. All right. It's just my best educated guest I had. Now this is now on this, I do actually agree with Spike Lee. Because she's saying, she's basically saying the government couldn't pull something like this off.
The government could not pull off putting some C4 on some levies. Which I don't buy that at all. Yeah. I mean, I think that would just involve just like the CIA. That involves like, that's like a 10-man team in the CIA. Yeah. We know people personally who could easily achieve this. You don't have to involve any other state levels. You don't have to involve the state or the city or even the federal. Just? Just a word from the big man to the CIA. It gets done. Exactly.
Biden picks up the phone and makes this happen. That's all you need. I tend not to like arguments where people say, oh, this would be too hard. Too many people would have to know. It would be too logistically difficult. I feel like this is never really the way to come at a conspiracy. Because I mean, the government has pulled off all sorts of shenanigans like provably. So it's not like they're incapable of doing something like this.
Where it breaks down is that if you are saying that there's a bunch of people involved in the conspiracy, then the level of trust is impossibly high. It's going to get out. That's why 9-11 conspiracies are ridiculous. Because it's like, okay, so you're implying that literally hundreds of people had knowledge that this is going to happen. It's like no. Yeah, there are some things where it starts to become implausible. Like how many people would have to know.
But I'll continue with this before we go off on to 9-11. Because it would require no white person in the government to have a moral compass. It would require no black person to have a spine. And I think that that's a very hard case to make. One of those questions. Do you think that election in 2000 was fair? Do you think that was right? Do they have a question of being fair? That's a question of being fair. That was right. Do they have to rig an election? They've been doing anything.
Now, here, I mean, does this sound familiar or what? Yeah, history repeats itself every four years. Yeah. But I mean, that election may actually have been somewhat rigged. Who was Bush against? Gore? The guy who went to the internet? Yeah. That's crazy. People, the internet wasn't as popular back then. So it was kind of like, eh. You know, people didn't care. What do you think our society would be like if we had Al Gore as our forever president, like JFK?
You know how they wanted to make JFK the president forever and then he got shot? What if we had Al Gore till today? I don't know. I mean, I think people like to say that we'd be living in a magical fantasy land right now. Like that documentary, I can't remember what it's called. But there's this documentary about the 2000 election. Oh, any given Sunday? At the end, they're like, and if Gore had won, all of our problems would have been solved. Probably.
I don't know about that, but probably would have been better. What do you think would be if Trump won last time? I think things would be somewhat worse. We'll find out. We will. Yeah, I guess it is sort of nice to know that you can have a ton of people saying the election is rigged and then people will eventually forget about it. That's kind of nice. You pretty much never hear about this anymore. Yeah, I only know about Al Gore as like a meme guy. He's a meme man, man. Global warming. It's true.
It's an internet man. Anyway. Maybe we're just, we're, maybe we're just two young. Maybe the older people listening to this are going to be fist. You only got us. No, people aren't going to email us and say, I still constantly talk about Al Gore. Gore has a chance in that coming election. Let's listen to what the rest of Spike Lee has to say. I was in New Orleans right after the hurricane in the ninth ward.
And while I didn't hear anybody say the levy was blown up by the federal government, I did interview a bunch of people who were stuck there who said they believe this was part of conspiracy to rid New Orleans of black people. They honestly believe that. I didn't argue with them. I just listened to what they said and I felt bad for them.
So as you, as you sit here, who was someone who was rich and has options and are watched by people who are poor and have no options, it seems to me it's your responsibility, your obligation to tell them the truth. And you know the truth, which is the federal government did not blow up those things. You don't feed the paranoia and the crazy. How is that feeding the paranoia? Is it entirely possible? You know, probably well, it's not entirely possible. How's that?
How's the voice in case any of you didn't recognize it? That is the voice of Tucker Carlson, who is urging people not to fan the flames of conspiracies in paranoia. What is going on? Yeah. So here, so Tucker Carlson and Bill Mar have both basically grown into full-fledged conspiracy theorists since this interview 17 years ago. Oh yeah, Tucker Carlson had that guy who said he had gay sex with Barack Obama in a limousine.
Yeah. I mean, Bill Mar and Tucker Carlson, I mean, not that they're exactly the same, the same level of crazy, but since this era have both gone completely off the rails. Everyone knows Obama has gay sex and helicopters and not limos. I would say of the people at this table, Spike Lee now seems like the sanest. By far. So Spike Lee is kind of the crazy one at this table in this interview, but I would say he is currently the sanest of the three. What about Wendy Williams? Wendy Williams is she.
I think she still has the daytime talk show, which I don't know. I guess I don't know what's going on on her show. She could be interviewing like, you know, Q and N on people for all I know. She's a weakly segment featuring Alex Jones. Bill, the all female studio audience just applause like, yay. Welcome back Alex. Tucker Carlson also in this interview is wearing a yellow bow tie, which is the universal sign that you're trying to be like some sort of intellectual libertarian dude.
No, he's he's back then he was known as Tucker X. He's the he's the white Malcolm X. Yeah, he was far to the most in brotherhood. I would like to see a Tucker Carlson who goes down that route. That would be more interesting than his current stick. Anyway, now this is the response. The federal government blew up the levies. A, there's no zero evidence. B, it's difficult to blow up a levy. See there, there were news cameras all around. Nobody saw it.
I mean, let's be real here because something nobody saw it because nobody saw it. I mean, it doesn't have to, can it happen? It's okay. I can tell you that's a question. Okay. With the history of this country, you ever heard of Tuskegee experiment? Well, I want to, I can sit here for your history lesson. I want to know what you, I want to know what you, of course I heard of the Tuskegee experiment. You should explain the, explain the, what the Tuskegee experiment was.
I'm not even going to get into the history lesson. This, I love how the audience like starts applauding when he says Tuskegee experiment. Like that has a very sort of like Eric Andreesque quality to me. Like, yeah. Tuskegee. Yeah. Tell him. Yes. I just, I just enjoy that. So I mean, Tucker Carlson, you know, all of his rebuttals there are not, you know, totally sensical. Like I'm sure there weren't cameras pointing at the levies.
But, you know, basically he's saying, you know, is there any sort of evidence for this? And that's a fair, that's a fair question. Is there, well, let's get into that now because Tucker Carlson has raised a fair point here. I don't think I've ever said that sentence before, but I'll say it now. The, the supposed evidence for this idea that the levies were bombed is there's a throw, there's like a throwaway line in the boondocks that sent me down this whole path about this.
It's the, it's the episode where all their relatives from New Orleans move into their house in case any of you are wondering, but there are supposed eyewitnesses. Well, not exactly eyewitnesses, more like ear witnesses. There are people who said that they heard explosions. I heard an explosion like as Katrina was happening. Those are probably just skyquakes. Those could, those could have been skyquakes.
So it's probably the most like notable person who said this, who wasn't just a random man on the street in front of a news camera was Diane French, who was known as Mama D. And she was like a community leader and she said on record in front of like a committee. She said, I was on my front porch. I have witnesses that they bombed the walls of the levy. Mr. I'll never forget it. So she emphatically said that there were explosions. And there are other people who said that they heard explosions.
And that's that's as far as like sort of physical at the time concrete evidence goes. But then most of the most of the argument is really what Spike Lee talked about in that interview where he says like based on previous events and just how black people have been treated, it seems reasonable to assume that they were blown up. As part of this plot to get black people out of New Orleans. So there was no there was no actual evidence that had happened. But Spike Lee proposes that it's just probable.
It's more it's more likely to have happened than not even if nobody witnessed it. Exactly. And I think this is another instance where really history has repeated itself because he brings up he brings up Tuskegee and during COVID and all the back stuff, you heard that same thing where you heard basically you heard a lot of sort of anti-vax white people saying, well, black people are justified in not getting the vaccine because of this syphilis experiments. So like black people are off the hook.
They don't have to get the facts because the government actually did experiment on them in the past. I'm sure you heard a lot of this and it was interesting to see basically that same that exact same argument come up again during this whole Katrina discussion. And so if the thing is if the plan was to get rid of black people, it just it doesn't really stand up to the actual events of what happened. So first of all, Katrina did not get rid of black people according to the 2010 census.
Before Katrina, New Orleans was 67 percent black. And now New Orleans is about 60 percent black. And it actually only went down because a lot of Latinos moved in, not because the honkies were taken over New Orleans. So it didn't actually like wash away any of the black people. And it's also worth noting that it wasn't just black areas that got flooded. So one of the worst flooded areas was Lakeview, which was a rich white area of New Orleans.
So it's not as though they somehow were able to bomb the levees so that only the hood was getting washed away. That just didn't really happen. You think those rich white people were acceptable casualties for the government? I don't think so. I don't think so. No. Surely the government would never deliberately bomb such a thing. So the sort of like broad argument of like, well, look at what happened. That doesn't really make sense. Now, Mar said this at the very beginning.
The person who basically started this was Farrakhan, who was, well, he was and is the head of the nation of Islam. And he seems to be like ground zero for this conspiracy theory. He pretty much immediately came out and said they blew up the levees. And then he said this when one questioned about this conspiracy.
He said it is the duty of government to either prove the rumor is false or prove that there are suspicions or true and that somebody is not guilty of the mass destruction of billions of dollars worth of property, but that somebody is guilty of mass murder. So he basically comes out right away. Like during people are infima camps, Farrakhan comes out immediately says like Bush blew up the levees. Prove me wrong. Exactly.
He's like prove that they didn't blow up the levees, which is an incredible like debate tactic. And I like that he did that. Like imagine if like the 9-11 truth or people were just like prove that it wasn't an inside job. And usually the response to that is we saw planes flying to the buildings. That would be persuasive. He also said I heard from a very reliable source who saw a 25 foot deep crater under the levee breach.
It may have been blown up to destroy the black part of town and keep the white part dry. What's the crater now? That's a good question. The I don't know who exactly this reliable source he's talking about here is, but he also separately said that the mayor of New Orleans told him that the levees were bombed.
And then the mayor of New Orleans had to go to Washington DC basically to go on record about many of the actual issues that followed Katrina and the actual racial problems that ensued that were real and not made up by Farrakhan. And he was asked under oath about supposedly telling Farrakhan that the levees were bombed. And he had to say on record I did not say that Farrakhan made that up. I have never said the levees were bombed. What a liar dude. Farrakhan would not lie to further his ideals.
What the hell? So it comes down to do you believe the mayor of New Orleans or Farrakhan? I feel like we should be asking ourselves that daily. Do you believe Farrakhan? The answer should probably always be no. Probably yeah. So that's basically the whole conspiracy. And what's left of the conspiracy is what the other things Spike Lee brought up, which was comparing it to past hurricanes. So Spike Lee is a little mixed up here. He says that the levees were bombed in Hurricane Betsy.
And what I assume he meant was 1927, the great Mississippi flood. We were all there. We all remember that terrible time. Yeah, only real like 19 teens kids will remember the great Mississippi flood of 1927. So this was a massive, massive flood. And it was basically, it was believed to be on track to send so much water to New Orleans that it was going to completely flood the city. And so basically this was the 1920s. So basically every major American city is like comically corrupt.
So basically the like bankers who ran New Orleans just got together with the city council. And they're like listen, we can't have New Orleans get flooded. This would be kind of bad for us financially if we were all literally underwater. So what they decided to do was to blow up a levee and basically flood this big area and basically let the pressure out before it could get to New Orleans. And this was not a secret. This was not a conspiracy. This is something they did totally above board.
And they basically just, they told the people who were living in the area that they were going to flood. They told them listen, we have to flood this area otherwise New Orleans will get flooded. And we'll help you guys move and we're going to like give you like a bunch of money after and it's going to be fine. And people were really pissed as they always are whenever any sort of, you know, eminent domain type things comes up.
But eventually, you know, these were all like really poor people and like a lot of them were black. So they're like, okay, fine, whatever you went. And so they all moved and then they blew up that levee and everything got flooded. Is this the same flood from O'Brother where art though? Is that the same thing? I don't remember that movie enough to say. Is that the end? He gets homeless. This whole house gets, you know, I didn't really like that movie. It kind of annoyed me. Shut up.
It was a good movie. It was like this doesn't, you can't, you can't, you can't like a Cohen Brothers movie. I'm cutting all this out because you're wrong. This is got you leave this in editor. This is going to sound like a ridiculous criticism for a movie. But the people who know what I'm talking about will understand. When I watched that movie, I felt annoyed that it wasn't based on a true story. What? Like I watched it and I was like, well, this wasn't even real. So what am I doing here?
It's a period piece. Some people will understand what I'm talking about. This is also how I felt about the movie seven. But anyway, what pissed people off even further was that blowing up this levy didn't end up being necessary because even higher up the Mississippi, some levy's broke just naturally. So the whole thing wasn't even necessary. It was a total disaster. Furthermore, the people ended up not getting pretty much any money. They never paid out. They basically scammed these people.
The like ye olden FEMA camps that were set up for them were like, they were bad for everyone. But there was definitely like a two tier system where there were like, you know, black farmers go into this place, white farmers go into this place. And so it kind of like Katrina, there was like some racial aftermath. But at the time, it was actually like the decision was not really based on racial grounds. Like the area that got flooded was pretty black. New Orleans was pretty black.
It was actually kind of a reasonable decision to flood the less populated area rather than flood New Orleans. Who was there Kanye West at the time to say the president doesn't care about black people? Some like jazz singer comes on the radio and says Calvin Coolidge doesn't care about black people. Now Calvin Coolidge doesn't care about black people. See that is the sort of voice that if you had done before people knew you were black, they might have thought that wasn't cool.
You know what I mean? Racers of voices are always funny. And well people did actually kind of say that about Calvin Coolidge. And this is seen as being something that did push some African Americans away from the Republican Party, which was, you know, party of Lincoln, party of freeing the slaves. And this was one of the things that made them think, you know, maybe these Republicans aren't so good after all. Was the Katrina prototype that caused the party flip?
I think by Katrina, black people were already not the biggest fans of the Republican Party. Maybe that's what happened to you though, were you or a Republican pre-Katrina and then you're like, I'm swapping. I don't vote. I was also a child that are in Katrina as were you. Little kid. It was like, this isn't right. You can't say anything. Oh, it little. You're right. I think that's the first time I've ever accidentally said your name. You have to add that up. What's our names for this episode?
Yeah, we didn't do code names. You be Kanye and I'll be Coolidge. Who was the guy standing next to Kanye in that video? Oh, it's weird. That's the perfect code name, but I can't remember that guy's name. It was Michael Myers. Michael Myers. Michael Myers. Okay, yeah, those are the code names. You're Kanye and I'm Michael Myers. I think Michael Myers is the horror movie. I think there's Michael Myers. Oh, Michael Myers. No, we'll keep it. You'll be Michael Myers from Halloween.
Anyway, Kanye, I was surprised to learn that despite the fact that you're really not going to hear too much about the great Mississippi flood of 1927, this really was. It was a huge, huge event. And for that, it was incredibly expensive, way more expensive comparatively than Katrina was, for the government to deal with. And it actually had a really lasting impact on a...
It had a really lasting impact on the demographics of the country because it was a big part of the great migration of African Americans from the South to the Midwest and moving to places like Detroit and Chicago. Because a lot of these people who got displaced were like, you know what, who knows when this place is not going to be flooded anymore? This place sucks anyway. We're going to move. Yeah, back then, they used to have fat Tuesdays and Thursdays after that, just Tuesdays.
And they were like, this is not enough. We've got to go. That's the great Mississippi flood. Spike Lee referenced Hurricane Betsy. And I looked, I really looked around for like Hurricane Betsy conspiracies and I really could not find almost anything. I think the idea that Hurricane Betsy was also an inside job is like such a deep black people conspiracy that there's simply not much to be found about it on the internet.
The other big pop culture, the other big pop culture reference of Hurricane Betsy is from a song called Georgia dot dot dot bush slash weezy's ambitions in which none other than Lil Wayne blames the honkeys for Hurricane Betsy. He has this line. Now get ready, are you ready for my Lil Wayne impression? It's going to be tasteful and it's going to be dead accurate. I'm not even kidding. I highly dead it. No, I do not have a Lil Wayne impression. But he's he he wrapped this amazing bar.
I know some folk that live by the levy that keep on telling me they heard explosions. Same shit happened back in Hurricane Betsy 1965. I ain't too young to know this. That was President Johnson, but now it's Bush. So he's not he's not too young to know about 1965. He was probably alive back then. Lil Wayne? Yeah. No. He's I'm going to go ahead and say no. So Lil Wayne is not 70 years old.
I found so little about this Hurricane Betsy conspiracy that I think it was really sort of like a pre internet conspiracy that floated around. And I think it was probably sort of inspired by the 1927 flood where they really did blow up the levy or the government that a really good job at covering it up. I think that is possible. But I think sort of 1927 was sort of the inspiration for both of these conspiracies for Betsy and then for Katrina.
I really think that was sort of the blueprint for this. What I think what I realized like reading about a lot of this Katrina stuff is that this is really pretty much a dead conspiracy. Like people pretty much never talk about this. I'm sure if you asked the average person about this, they would not even know that this was a conspiracy. Certainly the average white person would not have heard of this.
Obviously I've heard of it because I'm basically I'm like Paul Walker where you know he says Cuzz and he knows a lot about the streets. You've known me for a long time, Kanye. Would you agree with that? You're Paul Walker to ask. I mean, you're really into Japanese drifting. Was that Paul Walker? Was that the same character? Yes. Yes. He was the one in the Supra. Right. You own a Supra. So. Correct. I mean, you're not wrapped around a telephone pole, but you're like living Paul Walker.
I thank you for backing me up on that. I've never seen any of the Fast and Furious movies, but he is like Paul Walker. Thank you. The listeners have to believe me now. But basically what I was sort of thinking about in more general conspiracy terms is that if you don't like a conspiracy, probably the best thing to do is just wait like three months to a year and it will probably just sort of go away. Even even conspiracies that were really big at the time years later have just sort of died.
Like think about 9-11. Think about, think, well, no, people talk about 9-11 all the time. They do. They do? Yes. People are always talking about 9-11 was inside your arm. That's like the only conspiracy you will talk about. I think, like I think people know about 9-11 makes a conspiracy, but I don't think like especially not young people, young people, like people are age or younger. I do not think that they like actively care about or really know much about like 9-11 truthers.
It's not at like the forefront of the discussion at all. Maybe I'm just in a 9-11 bubble. It could be and I'd like to get in that bubble because that sounds interesting. I don't want to be in the bubble though. You want out of the 9-11. I don't want to hear what 9-11 all the time. You're ready to jump out of the building. Okay, you're too far. But my point is, I think conspiracies really have a tendency to die and not stick around.
I think only a handful of conspiracies have really managed to stay at the forefront for a long time. I think the internet is like a graveyard of conspiracies like this one. This is a totally dead thing. Although at the time it was clearly somewhat popular, especially in that area. That concludes the black part of this podcast. That's it? That's all we have? No, that's not all we have about Katrina. Because we're going to continue from here into like wacky honky territory.
So also during Katrina, a Idaho weatherman named Scott Stevens became convinced that Katrina was created by the Yakuza who were using a Russian-made electromagnetic generator to create the hurricane as revenge for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So the Yakuza, not just like the Japanese government or something. No, specifically the Yakuza. He became so obsessed with this idea that Katrina was a Yakuza revenge project that he ended up getting fired from his job as a weatherman.
And basically the news channel he worked for in Idaho, they started looking into his background a little bit too hard and they realized that he'd lied on his resume and he'd never actually graduated from college. And so he got fired and he started becoming a full-time conspiracy theorist. And he had his own website where he discussed weather control. And I was reading statements from him at the time. And he said there was a chess game going on in the sky. It affects each and every one of us.
It is the one common thread that binds us all together. Would you agree with that? There's a war being fought between different weather machines. Yes. I would not agree with that. OK, I just wanted to check because sometimes you do go native on me and you do end up believing the conspiracy. I believe in like cloud seeding and some maybe low level weather control, but not the Yakuza being in charge of a hurricane generator.
He also in support of his theory, he said the Soviets boasted of their geoengineering capabilities. These impressive accomplishments must be taken at face value simply because we are observing weather events that simply have never occurred before. Never. Never in a cloud before. He's never seen or heard of a hurricane before. What about global warming? Does that not affect weather? Well, he also said this.
The evidence of these weapons that work found within the clouds overhead is simply unmistakable. These patterns and odd geometric shapes seen in our skies each and every day are clear and present evidence that our weather has been stolen from us. Only to be used by those whose designs for humanity are rarely in alignment with that of the common man. How do you steal weather? That's a good corner to go. Now after he was fired for lying on his resume, but really fired because he'd become crazy.
He had this to say in his defense. Meteorologist is a very vague term. And then when you get into television on top of that, it adds another whole mix into it. Why does it sound like a FT or Batman villain? He's going to team up with calendar man or something. The weather man. Meteor, all the men. But I just, I love that he got fired and then he basically said, what is a weather man anyway? What even is the meteorologist folks? Which I mean, he's kind of right.
Like what qualifications do you really need to stand in front of a green screen and tell people what the weather is going to be? I mean, I think they do like a book of their work off camera doing like actual research and stuff. Do they really do it though? Or is there like some guy looking at radar? I mean, that's them. They're looking at the radar. That's their job. No, I'm sure they have some nerd somewhere or they just get it from like the government, you know?
I don't think that like, Al, who's the big weather man on NBC? Reverend L. Sharpton. L. Sharpton? I'm sure I don't think L. Sharpton is like pouring over radar data to try to figure out what the weather is going to be. I mean, come on. Al Roker. Al Roker. I don't think he's doing that. I don't think Scott Stevens was even doing that. Well, yeah, Scott Stevens wasn't because he didn't know how because he never went to school for it. I know. I know.
Another great line I saw in an interview with him is he said, you know, after quitting, he said, I wasn't thinking about looking for work to be honest with you. It's time to gather the thoughts and goals and mind and go on. Which I think that that should be sort of an inspirational quote that people hear when they quit their jobs or get fired. Yeah, I got fired. I'm not worried. I'm chilling. He's like, I don't even care what is a weatherman. I don't care.
I'm going to make my website and just talk about the Akusa and it's fine and Idaho sucks. I don't even care what the weather's going to be tomorrow. Like bring a jacket. I don't even care. It's not in my control. It's in the government's control. They're fighting a war up there. I just I like his attitude. He thought that the names Katrina and Ivan, which was the biggest hurricane before Katrina, he thought they sounded like Russian names.
And so they were probably created by a Soviet geoengineering device. Sure, sure. Because that's what we base the names off of. Okay. Yes. But also, I mean, he is kind of right. Like, Ivan and Katrina. We don't base the names of the hurricanes based on the or the country of origin. The weather device they were generated from. I bet if he had finished his degree, he would have learned that.
Like he never got to that part of the class where they explained like, I don't think you needed to do to know there isn't a secret Russian weather device that is being employed by the Akusa to kill black people in revenge for Hiroshima. That is true because I knew that and I have never been to weatherman school. I've never been in Batman. Well, that is the actual end of this episode. Wait, wait, wait. What about all our good emails? Let's look at those. Listen to emails. Bills, bills, bills.
Let's see. Spam, spam, spam, fishing email, NSA, CIA, ignored. Those guys are boring. We have a bunker. Actually, I don't think there's really anything that would really be good to read. I've never been here live on air. I never get to read them. You're hogging them all to yourself. All right. Next time, especially because we're kind of entering a black era of the podcast, you can read the listener emails next time. February has come early, folks. You know what? Don't email us if you're white.
Nigel, keep it to yourself until we're done with our black arc. Nigel, please respectfully pause your emails. The next episode is going to be deeper and blacker than this one. Longer and harder. I hope all our listeners are ready. I hope they're ready to deal with their own prejudices. I hope you're ready to sort of step up and leave the podcast again. Speaking of racist voices, I feel like Hitler probably had a killer like Jewish guy. Yeah. That he would do for like hilarious party jokes.
Yeah. It's probably unbeatable. I would like to see a reunion of Spike Lee, Tucker and Marr, where they apologize to Spike Lee and Wendy Williams. They should all go on the Wendy Williams show and apologize to Spike Lee. And apologize to George Bush. Until next episode. Love you.