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Episode Date: January 15, 2020

CNN hammered Bernie Sanders last night for allegedly saying that a woman couldn’t win the 2020 race! Comedian Nick Di Paolo joins to find the humor in all the chaos. And 2020 candidate Tom Steyer might just be a bobble-headed white guy. Space Weather News founder Ben Davidson joins to shed light on where the worldwide chaotic weather is coming from. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, it's a great show. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program today. Really, really great show to talk to you a little bit about health care and why all the Republican, or the Democratic nonsense about health care. We shouldn't even be considering right now. The world's about to change and I'll tell you about that. Also, Joe Biden, he's on the, he's on the, well, how is I to say? He's on the charge of the caliphate, but that's not exactly how he pronounces it. The guy is clueless. Nick DiPaolo is with. We go over what's happening in Russia, some big news out of Russia today, the hacking in Russia. We give you a hint on what's coming up on our next special on Ukraine, and I think it's what the Russians were looking for in Ukraine, and we happen to have it. And we'll tell you a little bit about that. Also, last night's debate with a Democrat. Oh, it was delicious. We'll give you all the details. You're listening to.

The best of the blend. Just a quick update. Thank you for all of your prayers. Mary got out of surgery. She's my eldest daughter. She has cerebral palsy and has really had her whole life turned upside down from epileptic seizures. The people at UT Medical Center are amazing. This is probably the family and I talked about it.

I think actually this may be the reason we moved to Dallas. You know, we've kind of wondered and we've put a whole bunch of different things into that. And I think this may be it. This is the leading area for epilepsy, perhaps in the world. And one of the best doctors happens to be her doctor and her surgeon. It was amazing. And I want to tell you about the miracles that we saw. It's truly remarkable.

but I want to tie it in to news of the day because some of the stuff that we're talking about is nonsense because of the miracles of technology that are coming our way quickly. So if you read CNN or anybody else, they will downplay the Bernie Sanders and the Elizabeth Warren fight

because they're now sending signals, can we stop this, stop this fight because they don't want to eat their own. But this is what happens at this point. You've got to eat your own. Warren wouldn't shake Bernie Sanders' hand, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I don't really care about really any of that. I don't think the American people care about that.

If he said, you know, a woman can't win, he's just wrong. He's just wrong. It has to be the right person. But he didn't say that. Warren is totally just wrong. trying to take shots at him. I mean, you know, he, what he probably said is what I think he explained last night, which was, you know, that Donald Trump is going to take cheap shots at women and it's going to make

it difficult. Like, that's a very standard line of thought on the Democratic side. He may have thought a woman can't win because he's going to swing hard and they won't be able to swing hard back or whatever his theory is if he even said that. But that's the same as Buttigieg. judge can't win. Buttigieg won't be able to win because he is perceived as anti-Christian in some groups. He's also homosexual, which is not cool with the African-American group.

He's too young. He's too an experience, whatever. So, I mean, it's a political calculation. It's not an anti-woman thing. It's ridiculous that they're going. through this. But I did want to play only one part of this exchange, and that is the CNN. Insane. This is, I've never heard anything like it.

So she asks Bernie Sanders, did you say that? He says, absolutely not. I did not. And you can find all these clips of me saying things about women. And how would I possibly say that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote? So how could I possibly have said that? Then, listen to the follow-up. After he says that, she follows up with Elizabeth Warren. Listen to this. Senator Sanders, I do want to be clear here. You're saying that you never told Senator Warren that a woman could not win the election. That is correct. Senator Warren, what did you think

when Senator Sanders told you a woman could not win the election? I disagree. This is what usually happens to a conservative. This is something. This is a conservative. This is the way they treat conservatives. No matter what we say, it is their way. Well, then you'll never be able to prove it otherwise. Whatever your intent was, whatever you really meant, whatever, it doesn't matter to them. I've not seen them do it to a Democratic socialist. But that's one of the most remarkable moments from a reporter that tells you everything

you need to know about the press today. Yeah, because you can ask that question. in a difficult way to both of them and it's fair. And that's the way it should be. Right. You could say to Bernie like, hey, why'd you say this? And then you could say to her, he says he didn't even say that. Why are you saying he did?

Exactly. And that's totally fair way of asking those. That is what a journalist is supposed to do. Yeah. They decided that she was telling the truth. This individual decided that she was telling the truth instead of putting them both under the heat lamp and making them sweat and let the American people decide which one's telling the truth. Now, part of this is the initial story that Bernie said this is a CNN report.

Now, the Washington Post has witnesses and sources that say Bernie didn't say it. So I don't know if they're just trying to give their own report credibility or what, but that was an embarrassing moment. I mean, you cannot ask that question. It was completely unfair. the audience laughed at it. Yeah. Laft at it.

And it's partially, it could be that they believe Bernie Sanders can't beat Donald Trump and Elizabeth Warren can. I don't see how you believe that in watching her performances. I am not impressed at all. I think she's custom built to be defeated by Donald Trump. Look, here's what we are, here's what we're fighting. And I know this firsthand, and I'll tell you a story later. But what we're fighting is people that are burning. Turned out of the news. And I hear this from everybody. My friends, me, me. I don't, I can't consume the news on,

and on cable television anymore, the way he's do. Can't. It's just too frustrating. It's, I know what everybody's going to say. It's, it's lies, manipulation and spin, and it's coming from everywhere. And I know enough of the facts to just go, oh my God, I can't, you, you have got to be every time I turn on the TV within 45 seconds I am saying you have got to be kidding me because I know the facts most Americans don't know the facts so they get their news from these places in sound bites and in headlines not even the stories just headlines they've made up their mind that Donald Trump is a monster so it doesn't matter who's running against you him. You've got a large number of people that without any basis other than Donald Trump not

being helpful in this department who just believe that he's out of control and unstable. And they want him out. And so it doesn't matter if it's Bernie Sanders or it's Pete Buttigieg. He'll get 48 percent, whoever it is, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, the Antichrist. will get about 40 to 48% guaranteed. Because there's just people are not going to change their minds. They're just not going to do it. And the same thing for Donald Trump, right? Correct.

If he's going to get 40 to 48%, whatever that is, and then they're going to be fighting about everybody else. So the game changers here are the ones that will be able to tell the truth about both sides. the only people that will have any credibility during this election to be able to sway people are the people who don't really like either of them for different reasons

that are not, that are saying, look, I like this person for this reason, I don't like this person for this reason. Because the only way to change people's minds is to meet them where they already are. And where most people are is, I don't like what the other side stands for. And what's crazy is there's enough room on that

in all of us to actually be united. I don't like what the other side stands for. And I don't like what our side stands for. I mean, the way this is being executed, it's one thing what they say, it's another thing what they do. And the craziest thing is, is the guy who looks like he's the most unstable is only being judged by the cover. And when I say the cover, what I mean is his speech is what he says, not what he does. judge a person by what they do, not what they say. And Donald Trump is being, and rightly so, because that's the way we've always had to judge people.

What is he saying? Well, he's saying crazy things. But what is he actually doing? And the doing part never gets down to the average American. They don't know any of the doing part. They can't give you any policies. In fact, can we just play this clip? We just saw it on the four-minute buzz.

It's from the college fix. And they went to college students, and they put all of the worst dictators on the planet and Donald Trump and ask these people in college, who's the worst? Who's the most dangerous? Listen to this. Of the following five world leaders, which do you think is the greatest danger to world peace? World peace. China's President Xi, Kim Jong-un in North Korea, Putin in Russia. for the supreme leader of Iran.

I would say Trump. I mean, I think it's kind of shown by the most recent actions that it is Trump. I think I would say Trump. I would say Trump too. I would also say Trump. Many of his leaders are worrying, but I worry most about Trump's erratic behavior, how unpredictable he is. I think having our president be Donald Trump,

it is severely dangerous to our country and the world peace. I'll have to say our president. Unfortunately, he uses a policy of act first, react later. I think it is Trump. Okay, so we're talking about the Ayatollah, Kim Jong-un, President Zee, President Putin, dictators. And what is it that they're focusing on? He's unstable.

Now, let me flip this for you. Is Donald Trump unstable? I don't think he's mentally unstable. unstable. That's just the way he is. That's the way he always has operated. He likes a world of chaos, his world of chaos. And he is, he likes press. And he's a firm believer. Any press is good press. So he, he likes the, the fight. He likes the chaos. He likes the grind of it all. He's a street brawler. However, let's forget about the packaging. Let's forget about the cover, the, the cover. Let's forget about what he says in tweets and everything else. And I know that's important,

but let's just forget about that for a second. They're pointing out that he is unstable in the world. How is he unstable? In facts, how is he unstable in the world? Here's how he's unstable. He's not playing the game. The State Department began to play in the 1930s and 40s. That they have a plan for the world and it's going to be this big united world and the united states is going to be running it all and we'll be the policemen and we'll go and fight these wars that will never really end this is not some crack pot theory read about it in uh what's the book what's the book 1960s we used to talk about it all the times do uh tragedy and hope tragedy and hope. Read about it.

It outlines it. It was about mutually assured destruction. It's about how we tied our monetary systems together, etc., etc. Well, you weren't part of that, or our grandparents weren't part of that discussion. It just happened because all of the elites thought that's the way the world should run. And it's been getting us involved in places we shouldn't be involved in. Now, Democrats, you should be in love with Donald Trump's policies on the world because he doesn't want to intervene. The claim has always been that the United States is just this bully. That's what the left has always said.

We're a bully. We flex our muscles all around the world and we tell people how, well, you've got conservatives agreeing with you. I agree. We shouldn't be all over the world. our muscles and trying to nation build. We shouldn't be trying to move democracy into every region of the world by force. We agree.

He's being labeled unstable because he's not playing the game that has always been played by every president since Truman. He doesn't buy into it. He doesn't like it. Good news, America. neither do you. The best of the Glenn Beck program.

Hey, it's Glenn, and you're listening to the Glenn Beck program. If you like what you're hearing on this show, make sure you check out Pat Gray Unleashed. It's available wherever you download your favorite podcasts. Nick DiPo from Nick Dip.com. You can follow him at Nick, D-I-P-A-O-L-O. For those of you who have never met an Italian, it's Nick DePollo. How you doing, Nick?

Yeah, just make it nickdip.com. Well, I got to tell you, I was up in New Haven. My father-in-law is up at Yale New Haven Hospital. He's been sick, and so I had to fly up this weekend and be with him. And New Haven, have you ever been in New Haven, Nick? Yes, I used to buy my drugs there. It is good. No, I'm kidding.

Just aspirin and Advil. Yeah. The pizza up in New Haven is completely different, and it is so good. somebody and they cook it I mean they almost burn it and uh they're pulling something out of the oven and somebody says

that's uh that it's ours is a little burnt I just went I'm sorry I didn't hear you this is a little burnt I'm sorry I didn't hear you oh okay never mind I mean they just do not fool around with their food

Italians don't fool around with it what kind of generalization is that. I fool around my food all the time. Yeah, well, I mean, that's a different story that we should probably not get into. Pepe's. Pepe's. It was voted the best pizza. It was voted the best pizza in America. Sally's. Salis. You went to Sally's?

I went to Sally's. I don't think a woman can cook a pizza better than a man. I never said a woman couldn't be president. I said a Native American woman. Boy, what did you think about? Did you hear the, did you hear the way the CNN reporter, just to dismissed everything he said. Glenn, this is why I should be as famous as you. I said, I was live tweeting last night, I said to my manager before the debate started, I said, what's the over under on a female anchor woman asking Bernie if he ever said that a woman couldn't become president?

My instincts are right on the money. Yeah, and she just, she just, of course, sided with Elizabeth. Can we play this? If you didn't hear this, this is one of the most amazing things I've ever heard in so-called. journalism. Listen to this. Senator Sanders, I do want to be clear here. You're saying that you never told Senator Warren that a woman

could not win the election. That is correct. Senator Warren, what did you think when Senator Sanders told you a woman could not win the election? Nick, I've never heard anything like that. You haven't? Have you been watching the media

for the last 40 years? I'm dead serious. Hollywood, it's been hijacked by the feminist movement. That's all there is to it. It's all encompassing. It's in commercials. Every commercial is a woman hitting a heavy bag like a boxer. There's a lot of female anger out there.

I call it penis envy on a group level. It's just organized penis envy. And I knew that was going to happen. But I also, I think Bernie said it. Do you really? I mean, as in a belittling women, or just because it was politically his calculation? Political calculation. Well, what's wrong with that?

What's wrong with that? Nothing. Right. I mean, that's your political opinion. That's your political opinion on the way the landscape is. I think it's wrong, but it's his way of saying that this country is still misogynist. And, you know, I mean, he was playing to his... I'm so sick of...

I'm so sick of that. I'm so, you know, what, these broads. These people have been lecturing us about how racist the Republicans are. Well, all your voters went out and narrowed the field to a bunch of white people that are all billionaires. I mean, what are you saying about the Democratic people that are voting now? That stage was white than Bernie's nose hairs last night. It was like watching the Ozmen snort and coke in a snowstorm. It was very...

I don't keep doing drug references. I don't do drugs. I don't know. But wasn't that just six white people on stage? Just show how hypocritical that party is. And you say, well, people are saying, well, black voters whittled it down to six. Again, how many black voters right now? You really believe that?

It's white libs. Do you really? I agree with that that the party. is the party is run by white intellectuals that just think they know better than everybody else. And those are the real actives right now. I think the rest of the people, I mean, Nick, here's, let me play a clip of something that came from the college fix. And I would like to know how you combat this.

Listen to this question from the college fix. Of the following five world leaders, which do you think is the greatest danger to world peace? America's President Trump, China's President Xi, Kim Jong-un in North Korea, Putin in Russia, or the Supreme Leader of Iran. I would say Trump. I mean, I think it's kind of shown by the North Coast and actions that it is Trump. I think I would say Trump. I would say Trump. I would also say Trump. Many of his leaders are worrying, but I worry most about Trump's erratic behavior and how unpredictable he is. I think having our President be Donald Trump, it is severely dangerous to our country.

and the world. I'll have to say our president. Unfortunately, he uses a policy of act first, react later. I think it is Trump. Interesting. Act first, react later. Shouldn't a leader be somebody who acts and is not reacting all the time? Maybe that's me.

So these people, I don't think, have any clue as to who Putin is, who Xi is, who the Ayatollah is. They don't have any clue. blue. And most of these voters, I think, and I could say this about the Republicans too, everybody's just unplugging for the news. So we're a bunch of experts that know exactly what we believe without having any real facts. And the people who are going to vote for Bernie Sanders or the Antichrist are going to be voting against Donald Trump because they think they know who he is. When you say the Antichrist, you mean Hillary's going to jump in? Yeah, well, I wouldn't put it past her. Yeah, but it's indoctrination. The only way you're going to change, look, the media, all of academia,

I mean, these kids, and then the Internet, they're just swimming in this garbage, and they don't know how to think of themselves. And I'm so sick of hearing that Donald Trump is so erratic. And Bernie last night, he's a danger to this car. What are you talking about? The economy has never been better. He crushed ISIS in five minutes, and he just scared the crap out of the mullahs in Iran. So what are they looking for in a president?

I don't get it. I don't know. You have to get rid of women's studies on college campuses. Everything will be fine. I will tell you, Nick, we have to find a way to approach people who just think they know when they don't have any idea. they're not paying attention. I mean, it is, you could say that Donald Trump is a wrecking ball and he is unstable. If you look at his tweets, it's like crazy town.

But that's not his actions. You just hit it. I was going to say, you just hit it on the head. Because the left believes words, you know, as dangerous as action. They're the same as action. Yes. And we have to get them out of the mentality. But that all comes from political correctness.

The definition is control of people's behavior. through the language. And they have mastered that. And I just don't understand this. I don't know what they're looking for in a president. And he's going to crush. Can I just say this? I hope it's Bernie.

And Bernie's my favorite lefty, not because of his politics, but he really believes the garbage. At least he's authentic and miserable. I really find him entertaining. It's like having Larry David there last night. And when there were a few minutes when he didn't talk, I like, something's missing in this debate. And then they get back to him.

He is, I mean, but wouldn't that be great? A billionaire capitalist just crushing this socialist and finally putting this to rest, or will it put it to rest, Glenn? No, I don't think it, I don't think it will. I just don't think it will. But it is interesting to me that we could have a candidate that is an avowed socialist that has, that held up the Soviet Union as a great example of what we could be. I mean, it's crazy.

And a white guy millionaire who is against white guy millionaires and a really old guy telling all of the young people exactly what to do because you can't trust the really old guy that's in the office now. I just, I've never seen anything like it. Did you say a white millionaire? Do you mean billionaire? You're talking about Steyer? No, no, Bernie is a white millionaire. Steyer is a billionaire.

But Steyer doesn't have a chance. Did you see his head when he was talking last night? Steyer? Did you notice that the... No, I didn't. Michael J., you know, Michael J. Fox was thrown his shoes at the TV saying, sit still, will you? It looked like a bobblehead in the back of a Chevy on the highway.

I'm a self-hating white guy and I'm very rich, and I should be ashamed of that. I don't even know how. Steyer made his money. I really, what is he? What did he do? He's a hedge fund guy. I mean, they kept hitting him on a lot of the money he made, at least early on, was in gas and oil and coal. He said, which is hilarious because he's Mr. Climate guy now. Yeah, but he said, I learned my lesson. You know, after I made my money, I learned my lesson. Yeah, they all evolve on the issues after they have six billion in the bank. Yeah. And I still say Bloomberg, I'm telling you, I said this, I interviewed Donald Trump Jr.

And this is a couple months ago. And I said, I'm telling you, this is before Bloomberg announced he was going to get in. And I said, I think he's going to be, he's going to show up in the end. He's going to be a factor somehow. Well, Steve Dase, who is part of the network, said he made 10 predictions. And they were pretty stunning. And they could happen. He said that Bernie Sanders, the first four states are going to go to four different candidates.

he said then Bernie Sanders will rock it, but not claim the nomination, and it'll be a brokered convention. They're going to try to get Michelle Obama to run, but she won't run. And he says in the end it's going to be Bernie Sanders. No, I disagree. You think it'll be Bloomberg? Bloomberg is somebody else that we don't know about yet. You know what?

I will go with you on somebody we don't know about. Alex Cora of the Red Sox is going to jump. You know they're Democrats. Why don't we just get somebody from the Astros? Oh, good sports joke. It would have been a good sports joke if Alex Cora wasn't on the Astros during the scandal. You were very close to this one. Oh, man, I missed it.

Yet another sports failure. Another, I thought I had a touchdown or a field or something on that. Yeah, dang it a trash can. Thanks so much, Nick. I appreciate it. Nick Dip.com, Nick Dipollow at Nick Dip.com. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Hey, it's Glenn, and if you like what you hear on the program,

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Thanks. I mean, I'm going to totally geek out here for a second. do you get your do you get your solar weather report every morning because you can Ben Davidson is the founder creator of space space weather news.com

for some reason we've come to believe that the sun has nothing to do with anything space has nothing to do with our weather or perhaps earthquakes or volcanoes or anything like that and we also have been taught that the North and South Pole are pretty stationary. And that is untrue as well.

There have been some cataclysmic events in the history of our planet. The last one happened about, what, 780,000 years ago when the polls actually flipped. And it's a kind of an earth-shattering thing. It usually happens about every 300,000 years. Like I said, we're almost up to 800,000 years now. and the polls are moving and they're moving faster and faster, or so it seems Ben Davidson is here to give us the accurate account of all of this. Hello, Ben. How are you?

I'm doing very well, sir. It is honored, a total honor to be back here. And I have to apologize at the start because I will have to correct a number that you just gave. That's fine. This is a 12,000-year magnetic excursion cycle. In addition to those long ones where the poles flip and then they stay there, there are also these much shorter ones, about every 12,000 or 13,000 years. We get a magnetic excursion, which is a rapid flip and flip back. Unfortunately for us, even though it is a rapid flip and flip back,

it does come with a considerable amount of time where the magnetic field, the shield that our planet has against solar flares and the supernova, solar wind goes down. Okay, so I didn't, I wasn't aware of the 12,000-year, flip and then flip back. And so just, you know, breaking it down for, you know, dummies like me, the, the north and South Pole, they drift. They don't necessarily lock together like one big magnet. But let's just say they go on this excursion and they start, you know, the North

Pole starts heading down, you know, into Siberia, which it is now, starts to head down. And it kind of, it locks into place, you know, it does a quick flip, does it go east and west, or it can it go all the way and reverse the polls on an excursion? You know, there's conflicting evidence everywhere you look all around the world. The only thing that we are certain of, and there's actually a fun story behind this that became relevant just this past fall, what we know for certain is that we have these magnetic events about every 12 to 13,000 years. There are extreme hardships, both climate-wise and, you know, extending to the more extreme extinction-level events. And at the same time, they're noticing that a lot of times the climate swings to cold during those events, at least at the start of them.

And so in terms of, you know, where are the polls going to end up, what is specifically going to happen at this location? No idea. We're not sure. Now, the interesting story about this is we've been sort of following the really nerdy peer-review literature and all of the top journals on this for quite some time. And then this year, a Harvard professor published an article in an astrophysical journal. And by the way, Astro, that's stuff in space. We should be having this an Earth-related journal, Geophysics. And he said that there was really no way that you could get an extinction-level event from these 12,000-year magnetic excursions.

because the amount of solar light that would come in wouldn't be enough to kill everything. Now, in addition to that not being true whatsoever, there's also more than just the solar light. So there's the UV we know about that makes us tan and gives us sun. But there's also the protons and the electrons, and these are the things that we're discovering do have a significant effect on the weather, on atmospheric chemistry. Nobody wants to be breathing acid rain. these things have an effect on earthquakes and on volcanoes and other things like that. And we sort of got in an academic tip, if you will, an academic fight with this.

And then a few weeks later, the number one Earth Physics Journal in the world called Reviews of Geophysics is out of this country here from the American Geophysical Union. They came down and definitively stamped these things as probably the most prolific, if I can put it, this terrible one. way killers of species on this planet once you're getting outside of things like oh a you know a huge meteor hit and it killed 90% of the you know those are like the super rare ones these are the things that happen these magnetic excursions these are the things that really challenge species that take species out that really really make life more difficult for life on this planet all right so so ben what i want to talk to you about is i want to if we can to have time cover the earthquakes like I mean you know I don't know if any of these are connected but we just

had a really powerful earthquake in uh um shoot in I can think all I can think of is San Juan in Puerto Rico yeah so and and quickly let me just cover this do you think this is related to what we're talking about uh in a way yes um earthquakes are going to happen Yeah, yeah. And an earthquake would have eventually hit Puerto Rico again no matter what. Right. But the sort of thing that we're noticing is the very first people who broke these studies and who really just had a hint of what they call a correlation, a connection between the power

of the sun and these earthquakes and the weather and the volcanoes. They had this hint, and it was enough to be what they call statistically significant, but it still was just a – it was like a slight nudge. Oh, yes, the sun does nudge these things. Yeah. But you're not saying that it's taking less and less for the sun to give that nudge, as Earth's shield against the sun is weakening. It's the only thing standing in between what we have now and what we've lived with our whole lives and the sun having complete control over the planet. If you if people think of the planet like, you know, the starship enterprise or, you know, some spaceship,

what we have the electromagnetic field is shields up and we put these shields up automatically nature does it through the electromagnetic field and that's stopping all of the junk or the bullets or the phaser fire from the sun it stops all of that but as our poles start to drift those shields go down and they cause all kinds of of problems, from earthquakes to severe weather. I'm really quite interested also in technology. We have now, we talked about, you know, oh, my gosh, the, the atmosphere and the, what do you call it, the big holes that were above the South Pole, I think.

Yeah, the ozone layer. Everybody freaked out about the ozone layer, having a hole in it. In the electromagnetic field, aren't we starting to see holes in the field? Yes, and we're starting to see some parts change more rapidly than others. So specifically, the scariest part of the magnetic field right now is sitting atop of Brazil and the South Atlantic. They call it the South Atlantic anomaly, and the explanation for why it's there really depends on who you ask. it does happen to be the exact point on earth where both poles are moving away. And so, interestingly enough, this isn't like a clock where if one pole is at 12 and ones at six,

they're both going clockwise or counterclockwise. They're actually going in the same direction. And so while the North Pole is about to cross onto the coastline of Siberia, the South Magnetic Pole much, much earlier, left the continent of Antarctica, and it is racing up into the Indian Ocean just south of. Australia. Now, if you can close your eyes and picture what the Earth looks like, Siberia and Australia and the Indian Ocean, they're on the same longitudes. These things are on a collision point. And if you take that collision point and you look at the other side of the planet,

that's where the fields are getting the weakness, the fastest, and that's where it's probably going to be the scariest first. It's almost like Brazil can be our canary in the coal mine. So how long before you think we actually start to recognize this and start to have real technological problems or health problems? Well, we are... Because this is happening rapidly, right? This is not like 12,000 years. It's slowly been happening.

This is now moving quickly, the polls. Oh, much, much, much more quickly. And just to give you an idea, you know, Earth lost about 10% of its strength in about 150 years from 1850 to 2000. We lost another 10% just in the last 20 years. And so that you could just do some extrapolation math there and see where things are headed and how fast, they're headed there. Now, we are at a point where we are very, very lucky to in this last round of solar activity, which happened in the earlier part of the last decade. It did give us a lot of what we normally see. There were solar flares. There were those ejections of those protons

and electron phaser bullets, as you put it. I really like that, by the way. And we were seeing that weaker and weaker space weather was able to give that nudge. Now, we mentioned that already in terms of the earthquakes and the weather, but that same thing goes for the technology as well. And so there was one solar storm we had in 2015. And, you know, you look back over the record of solar storms and you don't even pick this one out. It doesn't jump out at you at all.

It was an average one. But for some reason, it happened at a time when the Earth's magnetic field didn't handle it well. There were airline problems at the east coast of the United States in New Zealand. in Norway. There were major grid problems in numerous South American and Central American countries. Transformers were blowing in some parts of Africa and in India. It was really sort of the thing where I was wondering how close we came. And of course, the reason why not every little burp from

the sun does this, you know, we are on a steady decline here with the magnetic field situation. But if you were to zoom in on that steady decline, it looks like the stock market. It does go up and down, even though there was a longer trend downward. And so 2015 and actually 2014, we could notice that we were in a real down tip. 2016, 2017, we started to come back up and we peaked sometime around 2018 or early 2019. And we are getting ready for what they call our next geomagnetic jerk. It's a rapid jerk. They think it comes from the core and it plays a considerable role in how the magnetic field is doing.

It's expected to happen within the next 12 to 18 months. And my only hope, really, I can say for it, is that we don't get the same level of acceleration that we got last time. Because if we go from losing 5% a century to 5% a decade, and then we take that same jump and we lose 5% a year, we have 20 years to lose the whole thing and we're already down 20%, you know, 20%. But we don't lose all of it. It comes back, right?

Correct, correct. But it's that once, yeah. It's the sort of thing where everything is deteriorating rapidly. Some science says it could happen in a matter of a day. But if you stretch that out two weeks, that's more than enough time. And it looks like the field will stay in the situation for probably months to a couple of years. All right, Ben, it's always a delight talking to you. No way out.

No way out. Here's the good news. The good news is this is the magnetic excursion cycle. And since it happens every 12,000 years, how many times have humans survived it? Yeah, okay, it is one thing to look at the scariness of the situation. We had one happen 60,000 years ago, about 45 to 48,000 years ago, 36,000 years ago, 24,000 years ago. The one 12,000 years ago is called the Gothenburg Magnetic Excru. Here we are, 12,000 years, 13,000 years from the last one approximately, and Earth's magnetic field is changing like it hasn't changed in thousands of years.

That's pretty clear of a picture, and there's only so many coincidences one can ignore. But it would also be unwise to recognize that every person in the world is not the descendant of a survivor of the last one. And we have this in our DNA. We are all survivors. Ben, thank you so much. Really good to talk to you. You can follow him at the real S-Zeros, or is it S-O's? At zero. Yeah, easiest thing.

Yeah, easiest thing. Just look for space weather news or suspicious observers, and whatever internet search you're using, they're going to know what you're looking for. Okay, spaceweathernews.com is right. Thank you so much, Ben. I appreciate him. The Blaze Radio Network on demand. Thank you.