The Prepper Broadcasting Network - The Fact Behind the Fiction: At the End of the Rope

Episode Date: December 8, 2024

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Welcome back to the Changing Earth Podcast with author Sarah F. Hathaway and co-host Chen Gibson. Blending survival fiction and fact to bring you entertaining education that will help you dream, survive, and thrive. And now, here's your host, Sarah F. Hathaway and Chen Gibson. Hello, and welcome back to the Changing Earth podcast. This is episode number 474, season 17, episode 2. So I just made it its own season.

Hey, Chen, what's up? Chen's up, y'all. Yeah, that's the nice thing about producing your own show. You don't have, like, any regulations. So I just started a new season because I figured that that's how it should be with these episodes. So how are you doing? I'm doing. Freaking got cold.

Right? Oh, folks. It's not usually this cold in texas till like january we're usually still playing croquet out in the yard you know and our yes yes and our tea tea time hey man nothing wrong with a little croquet a little bocce ball

you know get the outside having fun it's especially fun to play croquet on the mountains like you have because when you smack somebody else's ball thanks for a lot more exercise Having fun. It's especially fun to play croquet on the mountains like you have. Because when you smack somebody else's ball. Thanks for a lot more exercise. Yeah. We used to play at this one house.

It was like on the top of the mountainside. And he was ruthless and would just smash us. You'd be down by the river trying to find that ball. So, yeah, I'm a fan. I'm a fan. It gets you outside all right let's do a little changing earth uh clearing house the current events so episode 12 of the changing earth audio drama is live right now for you guys and if you are subscribing members, Special Treat, episode 13, is available for subscribing members only right now.

And if you are a subscribing member, a paid member, one who, you know, pays the monthly dues, you're going to want to go over there and listen to it. It is epic. Yeah, it's a good show. For everybody else, we're going gonna do a binge on the 22nd of december that's the sunday you're all wrapping your presents yes that's right a wrapping party that's right i mean nothing brings it like the changing earth yeah just positive feelings you know i i try to do that with the music uh keep you know it'd be

really dark if i didn't and then um um we're i think we're gonna do some giveaways i got some books to get rid of yeah so i might just bust out like the family feud cards and then have i'm gonna try and go live on twitter at sarah hathaway 19 i'm sorry on x i'm gonna try and go live on x that night um i think i gotta talk to intrepid commander and get dialed in but just so you guys know 22nd i'll have my element open as well and uh hopefully x as well and then probably just bust out the family feud cards and look for people to give the number one answer and we'll we'll do the giveaways cool i still have that um the giveaway from the prize from prepper camp because i didn't get a response to the winner

yeah so i still have that to give away. I could give away a couple book sets. Yeah. We'll make a party of it. I'm going to try and get Mr. Swenson to stop by and see who else wants to stop by. Everybody who's done audios invited, I'll send out emails and whatnot, and we'll see

who we can't get to swing in and have some Christmas fun. I think Intrepid Commander might turn it into the PBN Christmas fun, so that would be most excellent. What fun is that? Right. Somebody's going to spike the eggnog? That's right.

He's coming by to give us a little extra boops. It's the good water. It's the good water. Fire water. So that's the 22 water. Fire water. So that's the 22nd. So if you guys are hanging out, like you say, chin-wrapping gifts, come check it out. But as far as the live broadcast, stay tuned on that.

I will let you know details next week because I know things are changing here at PBN. Okay. Oh, Prepper camp tickets on sale you know before they go up this cheapest they're gonna be this it is the cheapest so guys check it out um get your tickets now it's well worth it and you know if something happens it's not hard to get rid of prepper camp tickets before the event so So everybody's always like, ah, who's got tickets last minute. So,

uh, better to buy them now. And, and I was helping people fight some tickets last year. Right? Yeah. That seems like right before the end, everything scrambles,

you know, last minute plans come up or whatever, or calendars free up. Now they're looking for tickets. So, all right. That's looking for tickets. So, all right. That's all I got. Talked about the 22nd Prepper Camp tickets and the show.

So, that puts us on to At the End of the Rope. That's what this episode's called. Episode, or Season 3, Episode 2. So, again, we're still in the wilderness survival segment of this book, which I loved. I was really into it then. I was quite ready to just take my family and go live in the woods if, you know, anything were to happen. I'm glad I came to my senses before that. But I loved learning the information because I love being in nature so much. So it was really cool learning experience and then being able to

translate all that knowledge into this book. So coastal threats. We're dealing with the coastline that got pretty much annihilated. And the threat is there from multiple aspects whether it's you know the classic uh the ocean levels are rising excuse or there's the polar shift with the slosh back uh theory oh yeah right and that could cause some major damage um really if you look back in history a wave thing yeah yeah there's some mega structure that they're like i don't know how these rocks got all scattered right machu picchu and um i think it's machu picchu that has the huge x stones that are h stones there that they're like how could these huge boulders just get like strewn about when they were so well crafted? And water would do that.

So occasionally. Water ain't no joke. Right? It moves some stuff. Like instantly. Yeah, we know. So Maryland, it was ironic because I saw this article just today about these islands off the coast of Maryland, the coastal islands that are the, what do they call them, the barrier islands? Yeah.

That are just starting to really lose ground there. Mega erosion happening. And so we see that it's happening, you know, and we've got a lot of really important stuff built on the coast line that has a lot of really nasty chemicals so that's that's my biggest concern there yeah because everything flows out to the ocean right i mean all all rivers all streams all everything flows out to the coast right and then most of the important things need water. Like the factories need water or whatnot. So they're built by waterways. Yep. So that's a, it's a big concern.

You might have tons of water that we can't drink because it's just completely gratified. That's the technical term, by the way. You can look that up. That's why I hang out with you because I sound so well informed when I use the word terminology you teach us. I just have a huge plethora to choose from of words. I don't know the plethora of words I was going to use there. Earthquakes.

So we know it's coming. We know it's going to hit the coastline eventually. earthquakes so we know it's coming we know it's going to hit the coastline eventually um they just had a 7.1 in northern california this this week um yeah and i'm telling you with the uh the pbn family on that one yes i was that was a little alarming just because of the buoys going into motion, the tsunami buoys. So when there was no spread, okay, cool. And Ben from Suspicious Observers, he's like, oh, unless it's an eight point, you know, there's not enough lift to really cause a tsunami. So, I mean, I guess that's the truth because there wasn't enough. And so the other buoys didn't start moving fast enough.

But if that happens, I mean, you only have seconds to figure that out. And one of our buddies was in Seattle. And I got friends right there on the California coastline. So, yeah, I was definitely alert on that one. But we know it's coming to that coastline so that's you know i guess we're just people in automobile traffic just move so readily around around the coast so it's no big deal to evacuate right easy peasy i mean you could get like 300,000 people moving just like super fast yeah so no it's definitely something you got to be on top of

and our network lit up with that news before you know before it was known anywhere well my friend was right in it so i was like all right anybody on the coastline and then i started checking buoys and it went in a motion i'm like okay so um yeah be ready the other thing is i guess we should be in changing earth news but looking at the volcanoes i mean the whole pacific ring of fire is erupting actively like erupting and even alaska is in um warning stages but nothing on the west Coast of North America. It's just like this blank spot. It just doesn't make sense to me why it wouldn't be doing the same thing

that all the other volcanoes are. So I don't know. I don't know. I don't have an explanation. Maybe they don't put them on there or something. Maybe I should go look at cameras of the actual volcanoes themselves and see what they're doing because it just doesn't make sense it kind of seems the bottleneck

actually in middle america like central america um that they just stop and there's a lot of them erupting there though so i don't know anyway if anybody's a scientist and they want to fill me in on why that's happening, that'd be great. The other thing is one of the historical items that I studied when I wrote this part of the book was about these petrified redwood trees that they found that used to be inland. And then a quake happened a long time ago, like before history they have the evidence of the tsunami in japan but it was only like you know natives and whatnot living here in the united states at that time but these trees were inland and then they ended up on the coast while being that in that environmental change so rapidly just killed them and so they found these petrified trees and then they could tell that the evidence of that earthquake from way back then because of these

trees which was extremely exciting to an earth freak like myself so right so that made it into the book as well because that's um well i get tired of scientists saying like oh it takes long it's a long time long change long long long process you know i just don't think it always is all right so then families going up the coastline they build a dakota fire yep those are cool super cool you guys gotta learn about these if you don't know about them you gotta learn about it so easy two holes it's like a rocket stove like a built-in rocket stove exactly yeah yeah two holes you put a tunnel connecting them it's not rocket science to make this stove in the ground um air comes in one side and then your fire is just so much more

um hidden you can literally put your poncho right over the top of it and yeah you're gonna stink like a bonfire but uh you'll be so much warmer um if you're sharing good luck you're gonna have to like argue back and forth or something but um but yeah they're they're the ultimate for especially um here in texas it's so windy right and if you build a fire out in those plains with that wind ripping you're gonna burn the whole place down so dakota fires are gonna keep the fire hidden from the wind you You'll have to worry a lot less about embers because it's not very big. It's just a small six-inch diameter hole. So, yeah, it's literally like an in-the-ground camp stove.

But a great thing to have if you don't want your fire to be seen, if, like I say, your wind concerns, that kind of thing so look it up very easy the codifier and then chemical contaminations again to the water this is inland water you know we've kind of already went over that one but uh huge that's the only thing i've found in researching water purity methods methods that you can't take care of on your own right so that's that's the struggle with me is like you gotta know distilling just help take it rid of it nope not all of it there's some chemical contaminants that um bond on a molecular level. So even distillation is not going to take the chemical contamination out.

That's literally like looking upstream and Brian, right? So I don't have an answer for it. Post-apocalyptic medical issues so here's Teresa and Teresa comes down with MS and which is hard enough to diagnose on its own with everything that we have in modern science right now so that's where having good material the best research I know on MS and healing through healthy eating is Nicole Apellian. Right. Yeah, because she worked through that. Yeah. Yeah.

It's not something that goes away. She's a cool. Yeah. Yeah. So I highly recommend her site, Nicole Apellian. And she has a book as well. She's been on the show, so you can go back into the podcast guests and check out Nicole. And then if you guys didn't know, on these shows, I'm putting this whole list that I make with Chin of the topics.

I'm putting those out on a blog with references to all of the old shows where we showcased a lot of that information so if you're interested in just oh i really want to learn about this topic or another it's a really easy resource to have yeah and i'm going to uh connect it to the actual page for audio drama season three so it'll all be easy to find as well it It's just not there yet. You've got too much time on your hands. Oh, that's funny. Too many good ideas, not enough time. I know. I need like two or three of me, but Brock says like, whoa.

Once in a while. He's like, no, no. As a husband, I feel the pain. Right? So I have this new idea. Yeah. God love them. Yeah.

That's funny. All righty. Boat survival. So they decide to opt for the boat, which Erica must be on the crazy sauce. So boat survival. We did some crazy sauce So boat survival We did some great episodes On boat survival with Ellen Kerr Yep

In the Midwest A great way of thinking about Bugging out So I do recommend it Depending on where you are And depending on what that water quality is Yep Well it might be a required way to

to get bugged out right i mean when the roads are stacked up it's about people up here in the mountains that could only get out by people came to rescue them in a boat or a helicopter right they were trapped so there's there's that reason for our blow-up raft in the attic again. A hatchet? An axe? Yep, and the hatchet. It's a thing. It is. Except I'm really sold, when I win the lotto,

I'm really sold on the tsunami survival bounce house thing. That looks really good. Yeah. That was really good. That was really good. I mean, if a whole wave slosh is going to come from the ocean, I think your chances is going to be best in one of those. You just be on a really wild ride. It would be really fun, but not at the same time. Okay. So they decided to dine on a dinner of bats

yum yum yum yum yum not so much no so this is a thing people really do eat animals like that uh we had the whole virus ploy of that's where it came from because people actually do um just not such a big thing here in the states uh when it comes to eating things like bats and rodents you really need to make sure that the outside is burnt before anything else because they carry some nasty nasty stuff stuff so not what i would recommend as a food source obviously but um you know necessity dictates what you have to do so yeah that's one we're not gonna do for the show though don't be a bag of freeze-dried bats. Yeah. Or rodents. Yeah.

So then, Virgis is eating in the restaurant. They've got tons of food there. And it's all produced from goats as opposed to cows. Especially the milk part of it. Because they're so hearty jane and i have done great shows on goats she's like the goat queen so because rick's all about his goats um so great shows on that all the info's there jane's got doesn't jane even have like a cooking

book and all that stuff as well i believe she does does she i thought she did no that everybody's been harassing her about oh okay so she does she did i mean she makes like goat cheesecake goat Goat ice cream. Yeah, donuts, smoothies. Cheese, cheese, cheese and everything. Yeah. So I'm thinking, you know, collapse scenario. Like if you, I watched a lot of the show Life After People. That's where I did a lot of research for what it looked like when things got a lot less people occupying the planet and the dairy cows like can't even have babies without being assisted if they don't like if they're too stressed and they're giving out the wrong stuff they've just been bred to be like

the bulldogs of the cow world, you know? They said like longhorn steers would still do, or longhorns would still do good because they can defend themselves. They're still used to like being a little bit more wild, but as far as a dairy cow goes, like forget it. So I don't know if that's an aspect. I mean, people used to keep like one cow and just milk it.

So, right. Yeah. that's an aspect. I mean, people used to keep like one cow and just milk it. Right, yeah. But I think the goats would be the way to go. And then Bennett's coming in. He wants to know about illegal refugee trafficking.

Boy, there's a hot topic. Yeah. There is a reason why I put these in my stories yeah um so i started researching tim ballard in uh right before i wrote dark days in denver and i knew that's the direction I had to take with it because I wanted to bring the light to human trafficking through my podcast since I have an audience and I have people that are willing to listen understand and share the message that was kind of where God pointed me to go with this information and then then, you know, I'm teaching my classes as well. But the thing that really bothers me is the exponential growth that has happened since 2020

and how easily refugees are targeted. I know that Trump took care of a lot of kids that were housed and, you know, that were being held as slaves, basically. And so it was like they almost had to refill the coffers when Trump was out of office, which is really disheartening. But last I heard, it was like five, over 500,000 missing children now at the border. Pretty much blown away because that's like larger than the population of the United States. What do we have? Like 300?

No, we have 330 million. So, okay. Million, yeah. Yeah, so it's a one percent still though i was like wow how do you just lose 500 000 children fuck that it's crazy so obviously still a very big problem very important that we talk about it they weren't lost yeah they're moved they were given away yeah and then you know at the end of this life of slavery most of them end up in the uh forced organ donation which i've seen finally a lot of people starting to talk about um there was a guy that i was listening to the other day and he is one of like the first that escaped from

china's forced organ donation program which is just insanity um so we need the Lord. We need the Lord very much to guide us because I can't believe we'd still be treating people that way and using each other like that. It really sickens me. So that's why, you know, when all the way to the top, the problem as far as the illegal trafficking goes, it always does go all the way to the top. So all we can hope is that we can rip the bandaid off of what's been going on in our society and really shine the light on it. And that way we can do something about it. The longer people don't talk about it and just let it go on in the background, that's when it festers and is just allowed to exist. So good job. I hope that Trump does all the good things he's talking about because we need somebody fighting for the right, the values that made this country wonderful.

Feels like he's having more meetings and stuff stuff then who's running our government right now yeah yeah it's like holy smokes i know no i totally agree and then it's just been really embarrassing actually as far as like kamala's messages and stuff like that it's just it's very disgraceful but that's why we need the lord to come come back right fill our hearts that's our decision okay protecting one another no solo missions so you've now entered a time when you're not even going to the bathroom by yourself you know like you need to have somebody having your back all the time and um there's stories of that in our world right now today um we were talking about fernando last week in venezuela yeah you know and just having people to have your back.

So that's why it's, that's why I don't, when I teased about not being, not wanting to go to the woods and survive, it's because then you don't have anybody to watch your back. It's just your family. And four people ain't going to cut it. Yeah. Well,

you could, but like, I understand there's Navy SE navy seals and stuff out there that are like oh well i could well that's great but um yeah it'd be very hard i think to keep four people alive and having to like watch each other's backs and get everything done that you need to get done to take care of each other i would rather have it's not always an active threat that could get you it's not i mean it could be a landslide it could be a rattlesnake it could be yeah i mean there's rip and fell at the river and hit my head yeah done right yeah just done right and if you have just a bigger community then you have people that can help you

get that person back to safety doctor to help you know treat that wound that kind of thing do all the other things that have to you know how do you feed yourself and everything else right right like reading in the bible you always read about the wilderness and they were out in the wilderness and out in the wilderness and you're thinking well i love nature and i love being out in the wilderness right there's a whole tribe of people different yeah because back then if you were out in the wilderness you were just lost to the wild where you wanted to be with your community because that's where people took care of you right so we kind of lost that kind of view okay Okay, then they're rummaging the boat. This is where Vince goes onto the boat,

and the gentleman's head just rolls off his shoulders, and Daniel thought it was hilarious. And then she finds these cans of food in there. Oh, no, that's later on. This is the first boat they come to where they find the cans. So the cans aren't bloated. They're not leaking. These are all good signs.

If you ever see any bulging or leaking in a can, throw it out. I don't care how hungry you are. It ain't going to be good good so that's really the key to cans i've eaten some old stuff um that was just fine but i've had new stuff even and if it's leaking or bulging nope it's out of here when in doubt throw it out no matter how hungry you are because if you're hungry and you don't have any food in your stomach the last thing you need is diarrhea that's just everything that's all your good flora everything gone

you're in a big world of heap heap of trouble then um i come into the the starvation and dehydration topic, but we can just talk about that one now. Dr. Bones came on, did a great show on the effects of your body with starvation and dehydration. And so you kind of just add insult to misery if you're going to eat something that's going to give you diarrhea. You're going to speed up that death process, basically. So don't do it i also have a good blog that i'll link to that i had some jars in the pantry that had gone i think it was potatoes potatoes are weird to can they are yeah i like when they're very small, and you can can them with their skins on, honestly. Because they're just weird. You need something to, like, hold them down in there in the jar.

Maybe if anybody's got any good potato canning tips, please let us know. All right. Infrastructure collapse. How fast it could change everything. The one that I always preach, you guys are listening to me for as long, you know, the Fort Peck Dam up there. In Montana, that one could be a big problem so um and it would just

annihilate the mississippi valley all that farmland so that's the one i really have my eyes on um it's not built for earthquakes but there's a lot of things that we have infrastructure wise that if it went down we're in big trouble how many bridges go across the mississippi uh river i think it's like three so how does that how does that make transportation across the country? Right? Yeah. So infrastructure collapse can be a big problem.

I think hopefully, again, I'm putting a lot of faith in our new administration, but if we quit, you know, loaning out so much of our money to other countries, we could get some of that addressed. Gasoline. Well, I guess I should touch back on the starvation and dehydration because my pointer was what wouldn't you do for your family?

You know, what wouldn't you do if you're watching your loved ones starve so there was already like some looting and stuff in north carolina just because people were hungry it happens pretty quick so um that's one that definitely you know and then you have to make the ethical decision at that time. Do you help people and then put yourself at risk or not and hoard your stuff?

You know. That's your decision. I buy spam. Because you like it so much? Nope. I buy it just so that if I need to give other people something, I can give them spam. Or it'd be like, you know, you always got to have that item that's like, this is the last item I would ever eat. Because I really don't want to eat it.

So if I'm that hungry, it's time to eat the spam. Okay, gasoline. It will not be viable as long as they've been out there. What's it been? Nine years since the quake? Get it better. Yeah. Won't be viable.

It's amazing how fast it goes by, especially if it's not treated. Right, with the stabilizer. Yeah. So that's not a long-term storage product. And now all of our gasoline has ethanol and all the other crap in it. Yeah, screwing up the two-cycle engine is like crazy. Yeah. Just wrecking it. They're like, oh, you won two-cycle engines like crazy. Yeah, yeah. Just wrecking it.

They're like, oh, you won't buy electric tools? Okay. We'll screw your gasoline supply up. You won't be able to use them anymore. Yeah, my husband goes round and round with all his machines now because of that. So. The other thing is gunpowder used to last like 20 years but i believe they've shortened the lifespan of that as well

so it depends on what when your gunpowder was made on how well it's gonna age basically but i would have to research it more but i believe that's the case but I would have to research it more but I believe that's the case all right so Margaret uh is at the party she's telling her story about her childhood and again I brought some of us in because um I want you to think and we're having so much child pornography, child exploitation. Goodness gracious, you know, I'd hate to see you when you're going to meet your maker if you're doing something like that, because there's not much worse you can do in the Lord's eyes.

So, again, it's a situation where if we don't talk about it, nothing's going to get done about it. And a lot of the child exploitation seems to be within families, actually. So that's distressing. And there's a lot of guilt and a lot of embarrassment over situations like that, that I've seen personally, like when I'm teaching my class and whatnot. And so people need to know that like, it's okay to talk about it. It's not okay for that person to do that

and make you feel that way, even if they are a family member. So it's amazing how many people I know that were molested, that it came from family members. Yeah. It's rather distressing. So it's okay.

And it's not okay to do, but it's okay to talk about. It's okay to get help with. And people need to know it's okay to defend yourself from that person. So that's why, again, I know it's not an easy topic and it's hard to talk about, but it's something we need to talk about because it's not okay.

And if we don't talk about it, then it's like being the, you know, you might as well be doing it yourself if you're not willing to do something about it. Shine the light on it, right? That's right. Yep, shine the light on it and the darkness has to leave so yeah that was another rather distressing one and that's one of the situations that makes that class very challenging to teach all the time okay then virgis goes out to the homesteads and these people all decided that they were going to be self-reliant. They were pre-planning for a disaster. So I'm not saying their community didn't take it hard. We know from the past Changing Earth episodes,

they also got hit with the sick. They had their own devastations at their community. But they were able to sustain through it. And it's more like an Amish community, right? I mean, they're living every day, living the life. So self-reliance gives you that ability to rebound faster and help your community. And I saw it in action during Helene. People that were ready, people that were more prepared versus those that weren't. So it's not being like going crazy or anything.

It's just having that certain level of self-reliance rather than outside reliance. Stuff and skills, right? It's not just stuff, though. It's skills, yep i would say it's more so skills than anything i mean if all you know how to do is use a computer and then you can't use your computer well that doesn't do you much good right i mean that's what it's coming down to a lot of times these days you know i'm surprised uh by so many people don't even know how to cook. So there's some basic skills that are lacking.

And I think what you say is absolutely true. Tools. Or not tools. Skills. Yeah. You need to have some tools, the proper sort of tools, and you need to have skills tools the proper sort of tools and you need to have skills above and beyond that right it's like in martial arts there's like a few basic hand techniques that all

get used um just in different ways on different areas of the body so as long as you know those that basic set you can really build off from there and it's the same way with the preparedness information once you know like your base set of skills you can build off of there and the tools just make that easier to do so if you don't know how to use them then forget about it you know might as well not buy stuff i mean yeah it is um i was gonna talk to you uh have you ever heard of essentials the food freeze-dried food yeah they're doing like a whole fruit section now too and it's all um it's made i mean i don't it's probably not grown in america but it's all packaged and everything in the in america so i was thinking about checking out their products

to see what like their sodium content is and stuff like that it looked really good i was watching uh a program on them the other day so i'm gonna check that out because uh i always would speak to um what's the other one that looks really good uh farms um begins with an a augustin augustin augustin farm yeah it's something like that it's something like that because they do like single products they were really quality product um so if you want just like powdered butter or powdered peanut butter that kind of thing but this like wasn't powdered at all it was like chips like the the yummy fruit that Ryan had brought to Prepper Camp that one year.

It's all like that. So now I'm curious about what the price is and stuff like that. So go research it, everyone. Essentials, I believe it's called. Check them out. Look at the sodium content though specifically all right so that was episode three two we're right august and farm august and farm yeah a u g a s o yeah they have good product but it's expensive so i was wondering how the essentials kind of stacked up to it.

Yeah, 3-2, that is that story. Like I say, I love the beginning of this book because it's just so wilderness survival rich, great stuff. It is important that you learn how to survive that way. I used to talk to a lot of homeless people in California because I wanted to know. I mean, it's just something I've never done. I've been blessed enough to have, you know, always warmth and security. So I didn't need to think about those kind of things. But tips that they have about like reading the hobo signs of hey this water is

not good to drink this water is where you can find food where you can find water that kind of thing is very interesting there's hobo signs like everywhere if you just start looking and then also you know how to dress as far as like insulating yourself and um just a lot of a lot of stuff that they're dealing with every day that i'm not so i brought a lot of that information as well hanging with the hobos my mom was always like don't go down there talking i'm like why not they're people too i know how to defend myself pretty darn good. All right, let's go ahead and jump into Changing Earth News.

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So we had an X-Class flare today. It's the first time we've had one in a while. It's been pretty darn quiet as far as it goes. So that's a good thing. We did have the X-Class today. It was not earth-facing. It was facing, it was on the departing limb. So it causes some energy to fly at us uh so we dealt with that a little bit but

as far as it goes it's been really really quiet this week so what was i expecting to see i was expecting to see lower earthquake numbers although we did have corona hole a pretty big one lining up with us so that does help earthquakes. But I was expecting to see lower earthquake numbers. And I was expecting those volcano numbers to go down, right? Because eventually they have to go down. They can't be staying up here forever. It used to be weird, like I say, to see them in the high 20s. And we've been in the high 30s for a long time. So you'd have to assume that eventually those are going to back down. So that's kind of what I was looking for. It was a surprisingly quiet and not quiet

week at the same time. So stuff happened with big stuff, but not like on a daily tick. So let's get into it. Last Sunday, they hadn't posted up the december information for the earthquake so i went all the way back to last sunday today that was december 1st and there was 342 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger the biggest of which was a 5.0 in the mid-atlantic ridge southeastern queensland got impacted by dangerous flash flooding so i just talked to ellen the other day and she was like yeah we've just been getting hammered but it's hot there uh finally really hot and now they have these just massive storms that's upticking their humidity and stuff like that as well so So sounds like a good time.

In Thailand and Malaysia, they had flooding again impacting more than 13,000 people and it unfortunately claimed the life of nine people. So they have just not been able to catch a break this year. They've had a lot of cyclones come through. The Greek island of Rhodes was also flooded by a storm. They dealt with some major flooding property damage due to that storm. And then in Ontario, they got just smacked by that snowstorm. It shut down Highway 11.

On Monday, December 2nd, there was 395. That's a pretty high number. Above 400 is like, wow, that's a lot. So we're getting up there. 395 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, biggest of which was a 5.0 in the Southeast Indian Ridge. Tamil Nadu in India was hit by Cyclone Fungal. It causes massive flooding over their property damage

um a big hit for them so prayers to everybody over there dealing with that storm and then we had the historic lake effect storm here in the united states and dropped like four foot of snow on copenhagen new york so that was a pretty big event for them i talked to some of my friends uh in michigan and they were like oh it wasn't really that bad so uh i think it was just like a really big hit and miss situation like where they got hammered they got hammered and then where they didn't they didn't so yeah i know it didn't stretch bad down into illinois so um but the areas that did get it got a big dumping and they're not used to like that type of snow they get like a drier snow this was like the heavy like mountain snow like you get up in tahoe where it just piles up. On Tuesday, December 3rd, there was 416 earthquakes that were

2.0 or bigger. 416, that is putting the number up there. 5.7 earthquake in the Philippines was the largest and the Midwest was digging out from that massive snowstorm. Wednesday, December 4th, out from that massive snowstorm. Wednesday, December 4th, 397 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, biggest of which was a 5.3 in the South Pacific Ocean near Chile. 5.3 hit Talanga, India. 3.5 in the Kowari Channel. It was fell all the way to Big Island by Hawaii. the Quari channel it was fell all the way to Big Island by Hawaii or Hawaii another winter storm hit the mid-atlantic that day so the storms were just lined up to just blast them Thursday December 5th of 2024 there's 495 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger so big earthquake day and that is the day that the 7.1 hit northern california it hit the cascadia subduction zone it's the biggest earthquake since 2019 and like i said there was that initial tsunami warning that went up but it was quickly

taken down friday uh december 6th there was 371 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, biggest of which was a 6.0 in the Celebes Sea near Indonesia. On Saturday, December 12th, there was 416 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, biggest of which was a 5.8 in the South Atlantic Ocean. point over bigger biggest of which was a 5.8 in the south atlantic ocean storm dura hit the uk killed two people hundreds of thousands of people were left without power they had 93 mile an hour winds ripping through there it was a big storm and they've been just getting slammed by this as well. I know that storm went on to also hit, um, um, oh darn it, it begins with an N. Um, the countries that are right after it, Netherlands, hit the Netherlands right after that big damage. So, um, prayers for everybody up there that was involved in that storm.

today december 8th 2024 there has been 353 earthquakes as of about two o'clock central standard time that were 2.0 or bigger biggest of which was a 6.3 on the north pacific ocean by alaska so remember what i was saying about the ring of fire um has been quiet now we got a big earthquake right over by Alaska as well as far as volcanoes erupting we have 37 volcanoes erupting that is still up there um I think we've been up to 38 but um that's still way up there, guys. This is just insanity to see this and to see it stick around so long. We have 33 volcanoes showing minor activity. That's up one from last week. And we have 26 showing unrest. So we've actually added one more back to the game board. We're back up at 96.

Last week, we took one off was it wasn't in action anymore but this week we just put it right back on so um crazy stuff happening with the magma on the planet i should look at the spin numbers the rate of how we're spinning affects what our magma is doing so i should look at that and see if we're still speeding up. Remember, I used to tease about how even the world was spinning faster because it wanted Biden out of office. Yeah. Yeah. So now it just needs to slow down a little bit.

Well, not yet. As of January 6th, it can just slow down a little bit. We're good. As far as wildfire in the United States, we're at a preparedness level of one we have no wildfires being reported from anywhere i've never i don't think i've ever seen that on the wildfire numbers it's always at like a thousand or something so way to go united states we got hit by a ton of rain and a ton of snow so everything is out as far as while that fire activity goes.

And that's all I got. Like I say, it was a slow week, but some big stuff came through. It seems like there's no just, well, maybe it's not being reported on the big channels and whatnot. Because California really took over the earthquake news a lot um the storm in the uk took over a lot of that news um we had the biggest blizzards in the united states going on i should have looked at turkey as well because i know i think mid-december they're supposed to just get slammed there's this polar section that's coming down gonna drop all the way below spain and

into turkey which is just crazy because it doesn't usually drop down that far yeah i know earth geek it's crazy though to see what the jets are doing right now like the jet streams are just like all over the place just like in massive zigzags just going crazy cold air all the way down to texas just nuts so blue aurora We actually saw Blue Aurora, which is also extremely rare. Is that a live band? It should be.

It sounds like a good band name, right? It does. Man, we're going to go see Blue Aurora. We finally got tickets for them. The best. They're always shining on me. Right on, guys. guys well that was episode three two changing earth news um we're screaming right into christmas um i can probably still get you book series uh before christmas if you want to take advantage of that deal um over at my website changenoursseries.com i still have a few of them left um and we'll get rid of that and then i'll be rolling into the new year new blessings

and just praying for good things to happen like our hurricane not hitting prepper camp this year and we get to like actually visit with each other and stuff like that instead of uh be in disaster management mode yeah that would be nice so i think my insurance company would lynch me if i took my trailer into a hurricane zone again so we just got her back she's looking beautiful beautiful. She's rebuilt. Nice. Yeah. Yeah, because the roof got hammered. I didn't realize how bad the roof damage was. Explains why, you know.

Well, I can say I wrote out a cat four inside of a trailer, and so can you. It's crazy. Crazy. Yeah. But. Alrighty, guys. it's crazy crazy yeah but all righty guys well that's all i got for you tonight do you have any questions concerns you want to give any feedback head on over to my website changing earth series.com i love hearing the feedback um keep it coming it sounds great um i love to know both about the show here if if you have any topics, or what's your thoughts on the audio drama and all that.

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