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That hit the reporter like a hurricane.
Updated : Sep 11, 2017, 07:18 PM IST
One of the more irksome and banal activities which has become part and parcel of journalism is the ‘pick a layman on the streets’ syndrome. It usually involves a reporter picking someone on the street and asking them their views about something - whether it's 9/11 or Obama's perceived nationality. Journalists take some gruesome pleasure from picking someone on the streets and asking them their views, mostly as a way to make people feel ignorant.
However, a Fox reporter met his match, when he picked a gentleman on the street and asked him if he was worried about Hurricane Irma.
The reporter asked a man walking on Miami Beach: “What do you think about the storm, the power, the ferocity and the risk to your own safety at this point?”
Unfortunately, he came across what would appear to be a hurricane genius who schooled him with facts and figures. He said: “Well at this point I am very relieved to discover that as we speak the eye of the storm is practically due south of us by 220 miles (354km) because it’s crossing the 80th meridian which is 80 degrees west longitude,” he said.
If that made no sense to you then don’t worry, you aren’t alone. Lucky for us he kindly summed it up his answer in a way that us regular folk could understand.
“So I am not so worried because it is so far away,” he added.
Watch the video below:
Fox may have just interviewed the smartest man alive. pic.twitter.com/HerM2F1M9m
— Barstool News (BNN) (@BarstoolNewsN) September 10, 2017
This is *amazing* https://t.co/RowxBqDmE3
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 10, 2017
If you missed this, IT IS SO BRILLIANT
— tom jamieson (@jamiesont) September 11, 2017
Please can this guy be on standby for every emergency everywhere for the foreseeable future. https://t.co/xzuipIprcA
When your boss tells you to get either panicked or stupid people on camera and you stumble upon a man with a black belt in weather. https://t.co/xJLvorkTqd
— Graham Smyth (@GrahamSmyth) September 11, 2017
So good. Gold. Facts are good. Too many natural disaster reports are barracking for, well, natural disaster... https://t.co/smuEcEjgUe
— Chris Kenny (@chriskkenny) September 11, 2017
Every seminary class had one of these guys. https://t.co/AIt9I4lz1d
— Daniel Darling (@dandarling) September 11, 2017
Also, the smartest man to ever appear on their network https://t.co/Prlvd0TJE8
— rabia chaudry (@rabiasquared) September 11, 2017