CLASSIC: Slaves to the Sun: Solar Activity and Mass Excitability

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🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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We all know weather can affect a person's mood, but just how far does it go? Could the activity of the sun be driving widespread human conflicts throughout history? In tonight's Classic episode, Ben, Matt and Noel explore the bisarre theory Alexander Tchijevsky stumbled across when he found wars across the planet seem to coincide with solar cycles. This prompted him to ask: Is human civilization enslaved to the sun?

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0:00.0	Hey, you guys remember how the sun sucks?
0:05.2	Yeah, bea-and-but-head.
0:06.9	Do America.
0:07.9	You nailed it, then.
0:10.0	Well, yeah, but see, here's the thing.
0:12.0	It really does, especially right now in July in the Atlanta, greater metropolitan area.
0:18.7	It's a sudden very much, isn't it?
0:21.4	Yeah.
0:21.8	I'm not kidding.
0:23.0	My AC is out right now as we're reporting this.
0:26.4	But also,
0:27.4	but also,
0:28.5	the sun kind of does allow for all life on this planet.
0:32.5	Oh,
0:32.8	whatever.
0:33.6	It had it on time.
0:37.1	There's no wonder that cultures throughout history have worshipped it.
0:41.1	Sure, but it's quite a toxic relationship.
0:44.4	Is it not?
0:45.3	Oh, very much so.
0:47.0	Man, I'm so tired of the sun.
0:49.3	Personal opinions aside, back in 2020, we all got together and did our usual brain trust. And I think
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