Randall Carlson

interruption of the supply chains during COVID kind of was a signal, look, here's what can happen.

You have another major solar outburst like the Carrington event, or we know now that there are events that are

10 times more extreme than the Carrington event.

We've seen at least two of those happen in the last 2,000 years.

Well, what happens if something like that happens again?

Well, all the computer systems go down for months.

That's what would happen.

Then what?

Chaos would ensue.

Because now everything's dependent upon computers.

You know, when I was a kid, there were no computers.

Everything was cash.

You know, where I grew up in Minnesota, most of the food we ate came from within two miles of our house.

So there was the supply chains weren't so critical to the functioning of society like they are now.

And it's great as long as things stay, remain stable.

Yeah, it's great.

Right.

I mean, I can go into the grocery store now or into the restaurants and Hey, I can have Thai food or whatever I want.

Right.

Or I can have a hundred different kinds of yogurt.