Well, I have business in Milwaukee and so had the chance to have a nice visit with @Dan_Eastwood, including a session at the Lakefront Brewery where I made a name for myself by shouting the term “Bunghole!” So, pretty much a usual sort of day.
But this morning I was driving north of Milwaukee to visit a log cabin in which my grandmother was born and which turns out not to have rotted and fallen over like other homes of its age, but to have been preserved in a historical museum. And since the radio selections were country music, the Bee Gees, and creationist radio, I went with creationist radio.
I learned two things which, according to these YEC flood experts, evolutionary theory predicts:
(1) there should be only one language, composed mostly of grunting; and
(2) there must be “higher” and “lower” races of humans.
I don’t know. On the latter, I found that I did wonder whether the fellows on the radio were members of some relict population of halfwits. We have hobbits, right? Can we also have halfwits? And as to the former, all I could do in reaction was grunt.
More seriously, I do wonder whether there is any way to reach people who are in the target audience for that sort of thing. I suppose there probably isn’t.
You could buy advertising signage inside the bus which hauls people from the parking lot to the ark at Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter. (Yeah, come to think of it, Ham probably has rules against that sort of thing.)
Hm. I bet the ad space in a place like that is incredibly valuable. “Vendors – would you like access to an audience that’s profoundly vulnerable to swindles? We have the ad spot for you!”
I have this nightmare where Ham’s advertising department would respond to your inquiry with: “Thank you for thinking of us for your swindle-launching needs. Unfortunately, Marjorie Taylor Green has booked all bus signage from now through the entire post-election 2024 “Stop the Steal” campaign season.”
I would say a good alternative would be any daytime talk-radio advertising slot on American Family Radio.
Anyway, we had a great meetup! In addition to bungholes, there was also more discussion of hydrology than might be expected on your average Brewery tour.
