Aisha I'm Aisha Rascoe,
and this is the Sunday Story where we go beyond the news to bring you one big story.
Since the COVID pandemic, lots of conspiracy theories have been floating around the Internet.
For some,
these ideas and the conspiracy thinking that fuels them may not have had much of an impact.
But for others, they can feel urgent and personal.
This is the case for journalist Zach Mak.
Mack's father holds a number of conspiratorial views.
He believes, among other things,
that a shadowy cabal secretly runs the world, a group he calls the Globalists.
Last year, as Zach tried to make sense of his dad's beliefs,
he began recording their conversations, with his dad's permission, of course.
Here's a moment from one conversation
in which Zach's dad urges Zach to start stockpiling emergency supplies.
So you really want to store up two months worth of food and water
because they probably won't be able to pump water throughout the city
because that's all controlled by computers and electronics.
And the EMP is going to shut down everything electronic.
I know, I know it sounds like conspiracy theory, but they're going to do this.
This is what they're planning.