If I kept walked away from this research not sure how or when or if the world's gonna end but if and when and how it does the dead aren't getting up.
Well I'm not worried because I have mastered Plants versus Zombies and I am very good at game so when the dead rise rest assured that whatever vegetables are there Yeah, I will be laying the groundwork for survival hand me the brussels sprouts This is going down
down the rabbit hole history
Hello, and welcome to HILF history I'd like to fuck with Dawn Brodey I'm Dawn Brodey. And I am feeling all cozy here in the den. That is the deluxe edition network. To hear other great podcasts in the den, follow the link in the show notes or go to deluxe edition network.com. As for today, we are going to history for theories on the future. Because there is an Assyrian clay tablet carved about 2500 BC. It is believed to be among the first examples of written human language and it says quote, the people are immoral. The earth is in a degenerate state. These surely are the end of times. The belief that the end of the world will happen during the current age is a belief of you guessed it every age. And it's tricky too. Because eventually someone's prediction is likely to be right. And if only by chance, it is a nearly unanimous belief that life on Earth is a finite thing. Astrophysicists Sunday school teachers tarot card readers insurance salesman, okay, all agreed, the end of the world will happen eventually. But how will it happen? Uh huh, when and why from God? And if so, which one? Will it come from outer space? Some asteroid with our name on it or the eventual blinking out of our Sun? Will we do it to ourselves with nuclear war or some other way of killing the planet? There seems to be no end to theories on the end. I've invited former Marine and current stand up comedian James P. Connolly to join me for this doomsday journey as we discuss some of the historical theories of how when and why the world will end for something that hasn't happened and has a hell of a history. Let's get started. Here's among the things that make you very special. Yes.
Oh for this participant noted, I did not submit this listed on
he did not submit this list. Not he didn't email it to me a week ago and he didn't demand that I say
this list. Okay, surprise to me.
For one, I have wanted you to be a guest forever. We have known each other for years, we are often passing by each other in a green room and a kitchen, a kitchen, often at flappers in Burbank, my favorite club on Earth. And when I see you, I always get like, oh, it's James, we usually find ourselves leaning against something. And listening kind of vaguely one ear is sort of keeping an ear out for our introduction, or our cue to be on stage. And then we are talking about life death, parenthood, the meaning of it all. The craziest thing we've ever heard in our lives and it's just always a joy. You're a deep well, James because
well, thank you. I'll take that one. No, I love I get I love when you come by. It's always a fascinating conversation. A lot of enthusiasm ends with some sad tale of parenting that we both just walk in and go Yeah, yeah, no.
Yeah. Because you're you're a father of a teenage boy. Talk about your day scenario.
Yeah, he's 12. So we're leaning into those years so it was dangling over teenage Yeah, it's, you know, there's there's a coolness that you leave in the childhood. I guess the term is dripping. He's very dripping. Oh, I don't know. You'll get dripping. It's probably won't be there by the time you're done against it. But Drip. Drip is it's the way you are. It's the you have a lot of bling. And the way you wear the clothes because you're dripping like gold. Thank you. And if he were here listening to me describe it. He'd go ah.
Alright, can you help me out? I drive a minivan. I have a Bob Yeah, I'm I'm falling apart. Like I used to be so cool. And I will rely on my daughter to make me cool again, or at least get a cool reference when it comes flying. Shark Yep, sure. She'll hook me up. And you as I said a comedian. Let me give I'm going to drop the credits. Drop some credit. All right. So Netflix, America's Got Talent. Sirius XM? Sure. You are as we record this, it's right around the corner. You've got another stint at in Vegas. MGM grand house
stents coming up? Yes,
that's done. You don't do any like Cirque du Soleil stuff. It's just
Yeah. It's a stunt listed.
You gotta drive our special out called acceptable loss. Yes, they can stream right now stream it. And as I mentioned again, you're you're a former Marine correct served in the first Gulf War. And I read that you wrote jokes for a colonel.
I did as a matter of fact that how you started that's how I started, I was pumped again the only comedian that was given a lawful command to make someone funny. So no, we had all these were overseas, and we had all these other units assigned to us. And so there's like this, you know, grouping of people that have ever been together before. So my colonel, I worked for one of the row have a dinner and roast everybody. And so he called me and asked me to do it. So I basically we didn't have what a colonel, it's not an act. Yeah.
Would you be so kind? Yeah.
If you're, yeah, so I did it. And I had like, 24 hours and I turned in the jokes, and I was skewering people that were outrank me. So I was able to say things to people that I would never be able to say. And then I got called into the office like an hour before and knock on my doors. The Colonel needs to see you. Oh my gosh, shit. Like I crossed the line. But I went in there, and they wanted me to give them tips. Like how did you see this joke being delivered? I'm like, oh, so he killed he killed so
everybody you helped a colonel get some kills
get some kill I used but everybody shouldn't be the stink guy. No one that I wrote that joke. And I'm like,
I didn't fertile Saturday. Yeah, exactly. Oh, man. So but he came to you for a reason. Like you were already
I was about as much of a smart acid you could be as being a Marine officer. You have to like there's a line. Well, it sounds
to me like you have one of the few pathways to stand up comedy where you were like a club full of drunks, please. Yeah. Laugh that's the worst thing that i Tears. They don't lie. I'm
definitely came to stay out of comedy feeling that? It's going to suck. But that's fine. That's fine. I'm good with something. Yeah. And Lord knows.
How long were you enlisted? I know, you served in the first Gulf War. And then when did you and I'm such a dummy with this stuff. No, it's not like how do you say thank you every time you enlist yourself? How do you leave the marine relinquish
my uniform? You do you back out. I curtsied then you withdrew. Break with Thee. How do you stop? You just see you. You have a contract for X number of years. Yeah. And then I as an officer, you the term is you resign your commission. So I basically said, I give it back to you. It's been a pleasure. And I stick it. It's all good to go.
It's yours. And then you went to Harvard?
Yeah. So the Marine Corps, I went to Harvard on a Marine Corps Scholarship. So they paid for Harvard because we didn't I didn't roll. You got in? Yeah. So I did that. And what did you study? I studied American government international relations. And as you can see, I put that theory to good use. Yes. Well, because we're on the club all the time. People ask me about what my opinions are on Mideast conflicts.
And not only can I give them my opinions, but they're certified opinion Exactly. stamped by Harvard University. Ivy League opinions. Well, it's a beautiful path.
Our comedians have paths we all have bad yeah,
well and this is the other reason that you are a special guest is because people who listened let know that I often say to my guests, you tell me what you want me to heal for you. So you bring me a history subject, I do the deep dive and then I give it to you. But in this instance, I invited you to come and hill with me a subject that I fucking love this doomsday stuff. And one of the reasons why is because it's kind of my history, like it was one of the first things that got me really intrigued and going down these deep dives, because 1997 was the Hale Bopp Heaven's Gate. Suicide mass suicide, you remember that? And I it was right, early days of the internet. Heaven's Gate. That's wrong. Yeah, I'm sorry. It was, you know, they all kind of run. And it was, his name was Marshall Applewhite and it was 1997 It was crazy. It was like if you remember that the black Nikes That's right. They were the lowest lounge where people and they were waiting. Their belief was that when this rare Comet Hale Bopp comet came by, it would be the beginning of the end of the world and they had to kill themselves at that exact moment so that their souls could catch that comment and deliver them I know and I was like, and I thought but that's crazy. And then hello Dawn, there's this thing called the internet that's going to tell you just how regular lay this has happened. So here's my plan. James P. Connolly for the hill thing of doomsday Don't
tell me that we're on this podcast with you we're both gonna see SON OF A BITCH is that why you wait a minute there are joke there are Adidas tracksuit sitting here we played and all kinds of stuff.
You'll be dripping girl. I got stuff for you to drip and that kool aid in the kitchen is really good. Yeah, so here's my plan is we're gonna go through my favorite doomsday scenarios and sort of the most popular the historical guide points and guidelines and like the historical references of the end of the world. And because there are So many we're gonna break it down into the religious predictions good, our faithful brothers and sisters and how they think the lights are gonna go out. Then we're gonna go into the Extra Terrestrial theories, intelligent and unintelligent via alien, the asteroid, all of the reasons that like we're fragile out there in the universe. And then I'm going to talk about some of the very specific predictions, like Hale Bopp where some one was like, I know exactly when, how and why this is going down, and we're gratefully proven incorrect. There, ascertainment. Oh, I know, right? Are you ready to fuck this? Dude,
I'm ready to do this. I just, I love the layout I love I love the irony of someone thinking that they're going to, to me, it's like, it's one thing to predict their role, but to be so arrogant as to predict timing. It really it's like, come on,
really. I know. But boy, howdy, you know, when you're really sure if something is a human being?
And the thing is, if they're wrong, there's no
backlash? Well, not if you won't kill yourself. I
know. But that's up. Sorry, I missed it. It's next Tuesday.
That's true. And really, to that point, James, I'm about to start with the religious faith based predictions for the end of the world. And I want to give a little disclaimer, because I've said before, on this podcast people, no, I do not count myself among the faithful, but I do count among my loved ones and friends, people of many faiths, and I own and have consumed many religious sources, religious texts, that I take as historical documents, but I understand that for many others, including many listeners, they are sacred texts. And so I just want to give a disclaimer, we will be speaking very like, quickly and somewhat generally through some of the main tenants of many religions. Okay? I mean, no disrespect,
God, and I will be the voice then I'll make the disrespectful comments. Great.
So in the course of human religious history, you know, we first have your pagans, and your plurality of Gods Greek gods Roman gods, they're borrowed, they're flexible,
huge fan, they're multi God format. Multicast format.
Zeus is like I fucked or sorry, hey, let's have
a party and let's have sex and bring the animals
can get out of hell. They can get there they can get cursed, accidentally, huge jealousy. It's wonderful. And those are we know around the world. You've got your Norse gods, you've got native gods, Greeks and Romans. Great, okay, monotheistic gods, the concept of a Almighty singular creator and destroyer, almost always, one Almighty God is doing both of those things, started with Judaism, which evolved, starting, give or take 600 BCE. And one of the things that made Judaism different than these other religions in addition to we believe in a one, solid right, Almighty God, He created the world, he will send a Messiah, a savior to mankind, and then he will destroy the world. There's lots more to it, but that's the major thrust of it. And when this almighty
God, that's a horrible way to start a relationship, I will love you. I will send someone to be with you, and I will destroy you. I was just I was just saying that's the most ominous thing anything has ever said.
Start with just one step at a time. In Judaism, the end of the world is there's a lot of things that come in no particular order but for the end of the world to happen certain things gotta take place. God is going to redeem Israel keep in mind that a lot of times these decks texts were written they were exiled so there this is their redeeming chosen they're gonna get redeemed the Messiah is gonna come the Savior will arrive the nations of the world will then all agree yep we got one Almighty God they'll get rid of all the false god came the dead will rise I'd like is depend on this one because I can't walk away from this research not sure how or when or if the world's going to end but if and when and how it does the dead get up? That's one of the things these all these have in common is the dead are getting up?
Well I'm not worried because I have mastered Plants versus Zombies. And I am very good at that game. So when the dead rise rest assured that whatever vegetables are there Yeah, I will be laying the groundwork for survival for future species. Yes.
former Marine has served me not at all in the apocalypse
hand me the brussel sprouts. This is going
down these these dead fuckers aren't
new video games would save me one honest
to God. 70 ad is when we get Christianity because of course prior we had Jesus was Jewish. He was persecuted as a Jew. And the whole idea is, as I said, God one Almighty God created the world sentence Messiah destroyed the world. Jesus is the Messiah. That's what separates Christianity from Judaism, of course. And it was around 70 ad that you get the split because people like yeah, we're all Jewish. We're waiting for the Messiah. Like no, I know. We're not waiting anymore. You were he's come he's already. Okay, so 70 idea that like, alright, we totally different things. And one of the things that the Christians did was really beef up the book, right? So the Torah is the first five books of the Old Testament, the Christian Bible is the torah plus, okay. And when you get to the end to Revelation, they really lay out the end of the world shit in Technicolor. And these folks are of course, writing their end of the world stuff also in a time and place that is very different from the 600 BCE, when they were kind of conceiving how they ended up, but it's based on it same, same world, same old, same God, right. Same creation, same relationship with humans. So the Christians were like, Okay. And the early Christians were like, it's a second coming, the Messiah Second Coming that we're waiting for, and it will absolutely happen in our lifetimes. This And absolutely, because who's being persecuted the worst us, right? Who needs the Messiah to come save them? Holla the early Christians, and they were absolutely correct, right. And for them, for the end of the world to come, you got to have a couple of things. But before I get to those, the Christian bible also has two very important phrases that you said right away when we sat down. Jesus himself says that the end of the bathroom. I've always loved to design this floor plan is
my favorite. No, technically, it's not what I said. When I got here. I was like, your house is gorgeous. Yeah. Okay, so you said that too.
We sat down and I washed your feet? Yes. Um, you said that you didn't believe in the way you thought the end of the world? Yeah, you know, might happen eventually. But nobody knows when it's gonna happen. One of the many things you have in common with Jesus Christ, because he said, it will come like a thief in the night. No one will know the time or the hour of the end of the world. That part, many people conveniently push aside and crunch revelation to find out the day and hour that the end will come despite the guy who's supposed to be coming back saying even says specifically, no angel, and not even the Son of God knows when the end will come. And they're like, I know. But what about a butcher in Ohio? Yeah, he might be
the one I still can't get past the fact that Jesus and I said the same thing. So you're talking, I know, when I'm thinking, Oh, my God, I'm, I am like, Okay, I just this is I'm really killing it. But see, that's fascinating to me, because it's clearly laid out in a book that is held to be the word. And yet we just Yeah, but But I saw a guy, like,
I had a dream, either Jesus knows, or he doesn't know, well, maybe he doesn't know. But I do. Seems to be okay. And you know, these clues can't help it. It's like true crime, you have to try to solve the crime, right? So one of the things that revelation and the and books other books of the Bible that are predicting the end of the world, say that people are parsing together, is there will be quote, unquote, great tribulation, okay. And this will involve nation, quote, Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, there will be great earthquakes, and in various places, famines, and pestilence, and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven. Which is all the time. Right, right now, especially now that we can see what's happening in the world. In our media, we know there's really not a couple of weeks pan, right? Where there's not two out of those three happening all the time. And some of the big times that even faithful and non faithful like looked around and we're like, seems, this kind of seems like the end of the world, right? The Crusades, right. It was the millennium the 1000 year turnover in the calendar that matters, the millennia matters. We've got Christians versus Muslims in the holy city, reclaiming is real what's cooking in Israel and who's in charge there is always big in terms of themes and the end of the world for these monotheistic religions. Then we have the black death in the Middle Ages. That's only a few 100 years later, it was like pestilence holla you know, like, I mean 10% of the population just drops dead This is obvious and we don't have Israel you know what I mean? Like we lost it because we keep losing all these crusades then in World War One people were like No for real here nation against nation is it this is it signs from heaven airplanes, right we had germ warfare and chemical warfare for the first time and Britain fucking invaded Israel. So they were like I mean if ever there were gonna be all of these that apparently wasn't then World War Two they were like okay for Oh, geez now Okay, so we've got nation against nation persecution of the Jews. Hello. Getting back into Israel. Yes. signs from the sky gods from the sky. It's called a nuclear bomb. Like who doesn't know that? This is obviously the end of the No, it's not happening now. Okay, and then look around right now, as you when I record we've got a huge earthquake, tragic earthquake in Turkey and Syria. We've got UFO flying things coming in from the sky. The bottom line is if you're just going to hang out with the great tribulation, and that's your bingo card, right? And then the Christian Bible is got this unique element to it, which causes a lot of debate which is involves the of the world, which is the rapture of the Christians. Do you know what that is? I've loosely familiar with the rapture. Yeah. How do you understand the rapture? It's a bad thing. Well, that depends on who you are. Well,
yeah, if you believe that you're going to certain places, perhaps it is your vindication. Yes. But if you end up there and go, Oh, it's a little warmer than anticipated. Yeah, exactly.
The rapture is for Christian, right? A great day, right? Because they disappear. They literally get taken off Earth, like picked up early from school and taken to Universal Studios, Hollywood, the entertainment capital of LA, God takes you off, and that when all shit breaks loose on earth, and it's this horrible event, but rapture is gonna be great because we all get pulled up to heaven. The trick with the rapture is because of some sort of written poetry and veg, right? People are divided between millennia lists, a millennia lists premillennialists, the question being, will you be raptured, before or after the Great Tribulation? And it of course matters. Because if you're saying that we're in the Great Tribulation right now, which many apocalyptic Christian mouthpieces are suggesting? Look around, we're in the middle of the Great Tribulation, then you depends. If I'm a faithful Christian, and you are a faithful Christian, which I presume you are, because you're being enlightened with all of these fantastic, then how are we still here? Right? Right. So that's what they say. And then they're like, oh, no, it's totally fine. Because we get raptured right after like, right when it gets bad,
it just seems like there's a sliding constant window of End Times that everyone can argue easily using the pieces that are in front of them. And I think that over the scope of human history, if you just keep seeing that, we can just keep saying what you just did. No, no, oh, no, this, this feels real. There's just but the consistency is that it's not
no, it's like the waistline of jeans. You get like, You got to have your jeans up high. That's a new, I want to see a WhaleTail down and you're like, in this way. I keep you buying jeans, whether you have outgrown them or not. Every 70 years, it's brilliant.
Imagine trying to get someone to believe something and not threatening them with the end of the world.
That Well, I have a child and
every day Oh, I'll tell you the Raptors come in young lady
and I get it I wouldn't. I get it. And I also get like, especially when you're you know, domestic with your partner and raising them together that you really quickly get like, I'd love to just let that other person take care of this be like You better wait till that person gets home. Right? Right. And if you don't want to do that to just be like, Okay, it's neither gonna wait till dad gets home. And I can see how that's a wonderful. Yeah, and I this
is a personal theory, the people predicting into the world, to me is a final step for humans to exert a sense of control over a world they have no control over. Because you take it to the predicted date, the time the clothes, were wearing the name of our group, you're just like the ultimate control. And if you kill yourself, you can't be wrong. No big certainly nobody can tell you exactly. So you've pretty it's a Yeah, it's a sad, sad way to win.
It is but sometimes the W is all you're actually
the next guy oh, well, we won there was
nice, where everybody are our third monotheistic religion is Islam. Of course, they come around about 700 ad. And the Quran includes Moses includes Jesus talks about all of these great prophets also the same one Almighty God as Jews and Christians worship, same one. The premise here is, of course, God, the One Almighty God created the world. Yes. Right. The sender, the Messiah, yes, that Messiah was Mohammed. Right, right. And then the split between Shia and Sunni is the sort of Descendants of Mohammed and who was actually in charge of sort of where that kind of like a Protestant, Catholic, everybody's kind of got a split there. But their idea of the end of the world includes, you guessed it, return of the Messiah, thinking of the Earth, dark skies Return of the Antichrist, they very specifically say the Antichrist is a one eyed man. I think is a nice, I like specifics. Okay. A great beast and the dead will mother.
I don't see the need.
And of course, everything with all three of the monotheistic religions are very focused on Israel, and what's going on in Israel and the quote unquote, vague global power which they interpret as Hitler or the UN or Coca Cola, or Elon Musk, or whoever you need this global power to be. But it's also why a lot of people who do not count themselves among the faithful do not attribute a lot of divinity to these books anyway. I'm very quick to point to them when they want to be anti semitic or say something about Israel, right, that they can just be like, Well, yeah, and you're like, I don't
I don't know if he gets to do that though. No, you can't. You can't cherry pick
it. Don't think so. And then we have I'm giving some honorable mentions for other religion. Oh,
did make the cut kind of religion. Here we go.
We have Norse mythology, Norse mythology. Yeah. Have you seen Ragnarok? I have seen the right are you the God of hummus, pagan Of course, dark skies, some disappears, the dead fuckin rise in the north mythology doomsday predictions, something about Chris Hemsworth. I admit I got a little.
She's trying to say she hopes that Chris Hemsworth will always rise from the dead. And that all doomsday scenarios involve Chris Hemsworth. Coming back to us,
I'd like to start with the rise. Even our Eastern religions, we've got an India Buddhism and Hindu they are among the oldest 1750 BCE 500 BCE is kind of the origin of some of these eastern religions, this idea of the end of the world, God will dissolve and then regenerate. So a new heaven and a new earth. That sounds familiar. But then there's also like a death and rebirth, sort of cyclical idea. But in Buddhism, and in Hindu, there's also like, some are bigger ends than others. And there is sort of a climactic, chaotic end. But it does generally always come back to rebirth. Taoism, which is from China, of course, about 400 BCE, they're one of the only religions on earth that's like, no end, dude. No End beginnings and ends, infinity, there is no big end, there was no climactic finish, this is a constantly dying and re burn Exactly.
And when you have that, the dead don't come back, because we're constantly recycling life and death together. But Chris Hemsworth, always, even in Buddhism,
or in a manner of speaking, the dead do rise as new babies. This is where interpretation is simply endless, especially when you're talking about interpretation. With no end of time and no end of language, oh, you've really got to swim through it. Now, that is our religious predictions. And one of the reasons why I wanted to start with our faith based theories and predictions on the end of the world, is because when we come back, we're gonna get into the scientific predictions for the end of the world. And in some ways, they're totally different
tomorrow. My phone is saying tomorrow.
That's, I mean, Google can't be wrong. In some ways, they are totally different. And in some ways, they sort of feed each other. And the faith based predictions will say that what science is doing is simply manifesting and saying the exact same things that they're predicting. For example, the first person to explain the Big Bang origin theory of the universe was a Catholic priest. So they hold hands, and of course, because there was nothing, God said, Let there be light. And there was something that sounds very much like a cosmic Big Bang. So perhaps for him, I don't think it was a question of faith to say, yeah, no, God created the world for sure. Now, I just know how are sort of some of the technical ways of how that happened. And people like that you get one or the other, either, you know, we can either know it or we can't. So we're gonna go from these religious beliefs into the scientific beliefs and then we're going to talk about some of my favorite predictions. Before we take a break. Do you have any questions
I know but I am marvel at the consistency of the pattern of the way in which humans over time and religion have laid out very similar cases but then said Yeah, but but we wear red hats. That's how we're different right? The multicolored format so huge fan, I know to everything it's like what do you eat too much? We gotta go out for that. We gotta gotta overeating
yeah oh, you can't remember anything you screw up. You know who you Who else screws up? Zeus Yeah, all the time Apollo, please. But she
that's what I love. The gods then reflected humanity and people and then on
their stories also explain nature. Like one of my favorites is like the story of like Persephone going down to Hades, and that explains our seasons, and it's also reflects ideas of jealousy and domestic discord that can teach another lesson.
headiness revenge. This is what I loved about the Greek gods. Amen.
Amen. So you take me to church, James Connolly. I love it. All right, let me get back I'm gonna take you to the lab.
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what if it's a question that's non answerable? Why is that?
And so your theory, James is that our, like, the reason why we keep preoccupying ourselves with theories and the end of the world is just control if you're able to illusions of
illusions of control, and knowing is a false sense of security, because that's what we do in our everyday lives. That's how people get through life. That's why I think the idea of you know, gods and explanation because, you know, obviously, top of the food chain, so obviously, anointed by someone picked us, right, it's bias, you create bias, and then you have no ability to actually see what's happening. Because you already come from a place of preset bias and told your filters, you're told what to see. And then you start piecing it together based on what someone told you. And you've completely lost the ability to see what is actually happening. Yeah, now I'm getting all fixed. Do you see why mindful on your baby?
It is by and you know, what's crazy, too, is that bias is always an element of perspective, because I've just talked about all these various religions that have agreed and disagreed to extraordinary lengths at various times in human history. But then when science legit, that's not magic that is sort of recognized by the rest of humanity as like this is, quote, unquote, obtain knowledge better than religion, because we can prove it, that in a way, many faithful communities sort of linked arms against science. And this really starts in earnest in the 1920s in the 20th century,
we banned alcohol then look what happened. Do you ban alcohol? This is where all these theories may sober, it makes sense.
This is a problem if everyone's sober, they start saying things like, looking good. Yeah, keep them drunk. That's best. Galileo looking through his primitive telescope was like, I think, I think that we are actually revolving around other planet and that was like, We your fucking dead brother for real because you threatened B, but that was still I mean, it was science. But science had a different relationship with how people were moving in maneuvering in 1929. Edwin Hubble and his telescope determines and all of the scientists who get this shit at the time agree the universe is expanding. Yep, it's getting bigger. This in two years prior to that is when our Catholic priest friends, George LaMotta, said that there was a spark a moment. He didn't call it the Big Bang. That phrase came a little bit later, but he was the one who was like, I think, and then Hubble was like, Yeah, girl, and it's continuing to expand. And there was some debate for about 20 years of people like not not expanding, they were the study. They were called, they study courses, and Einstein was among them. And in 1965, by finding some various kinds of radiation, they proved to definitively know the universe is for sure expanding and Einstein said, I fucked up. And it was like, I was wondering, the difference between the scientific community and the religious community is that scientists occasionally admit their rock. But he was like, Oh, I fucked up. That was the biggest blunder of my life. Absolutely. The universe is expanding. Right, let's do this. And it changed every thing because now you've got people without necessarily a religious bent to them contemplating these abstract cosmic wise house in ways that they may not have been enticed to think about before, right? Or at least not with really just by virtue. And the other interesting thing is these scientists when they're talking about the end of the world, they're not talking about the end of mankind necessarily any sort of rebirth, although occasionally they talk about sort of the end of humans versus the end of the planet, but they are occasionally like, No, we're talking, tattooing baby, like Earth is gone, the universe has changed, versus just how will we ever gonna rebuild this amazing and expanding universe in 1950, this guy named Enrico Fermi, fascinating. He's a physicist working on the Manhattan Project. He's with some of the most other brilliant minds, they're walking on campus. And there's this moment, and they all write about it and various sources. They're walking to lunch and just chatting. And they're talking about the incredible likelihood of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. They're like if the universe is expanding, and it's practically infinite, and there's plenty of stars like our sun and plenty of Ribet intelligent life, life at all should be really plentiful in the universe. We should have seen it by now. And they all agree. And Enrico Fermi asks, then where is everybody? Which everybody started laughing? But then they were like, fuck, though. Where is everybody? Yeah, if we've all agreed the smartest minds and the greatest feet, and no one's really disagreed that statistically, there should be tons of life that we have already seen. So where the fuck is it? Okay. Here's the theories. And where all of this intelligently time
you're saying this, I'm hearing you saying this is Captain Kirk, I'm hearing. To boldly go, I'm hearing this Oh, God, I love and you're like, yes. That's why we must go
explore exactly how are we going to make out
with these women? zactly green women are hot.
So one theory is, and this is called the Fermi Paradox. Everybody was like, yes, there should be intelligent, like, where is it? Theory? One, it never evolved. Because we are actually really rare. We're infinitely more rare than we think. And one of the reasons why is because there's what's called the great filter, which is we don't know exactly what that is. But it's this thing that Yes, life should come up like ours did. But there's all these reasons it doesn't come out fully in the way we are with abstract thought and vast diversity of life on Earth. And we just lucked out, we just have keep punching through those filters in this cosmically unlikely way of continuing to exist. Second theory is all those intelligent lives out there they came and went, just like we're gonna, because what's even more likely than them existing is them being annihilated by the meat grinder of the universe. And we have only really been Cognizant on this planet for a blink of a historical lie. So where are they didn't done, and we too, will be dead and gone any second second? Theory three is, all those intelligent aliens out there are on their way. We just haven't met them yet. Because the universe is enormous, of course, and they're coming. And there may 4 theory is they're here, and we just they're hiding. We, we have all sorts of intelligent life around us. We are too dumb idiots. We're actually not as evolved as we think we are. And what we're not realizing is that it's everywhere, and eventually will actually open our eyes in a very special way that will illuminate how much diversity that we just have to narrow a definition. One of my favorite theories was put forth by John Alan Ball from MIT in the 1970s, who said, the intelligent life is out there, has taken us and put us in a zoo. And we are currently under observation. And much like a fish in a fish tank. Can't see out just swims. I was like, this is an infinite ocean, because it can't see the walls. We think we're in this infinite universe, but we're just in this carefully orchestrated enclosed space. And we're being sort of preserved by a slightly more evolved version.
So we're like, or universes, Truman Show. Exactly.
But what I'm saying is, there's a reason why Twilight Zone and all this fucking awesome science fiction sprouted up around the 1930s 1950s. Because whether our collective subconscious or they're reading some of these scientific journals, it is science and fiction and the true scientific minds were saying, maybe we're in a zoo. Right. And Rod Sterling was like, right,
girl, I gotta check if you will. Land in a zoo.
So that's the idea of like, aliens, who knows and do they want to kill us? Do they want to keep us as pets? Are they out there at all? Like,
I love it. The focus was on motivation. Yeah, it's such as well, what do they want with us? Again, spotlight on spotlight on us spotlight.
If you want to really Oh, you would love this podcast. It's called the end of the world by Josh Clark. It's just 10 episodes, so
that it ends it That's huge. It's just like the
world, it's going to end and you know, when Okay, and they're like 3040 minute episodes, but this guy, he's so brilliant. He talks about in great detail, the great filters and the various theories about what the various filters have been in our human history that we have incredibly burst through and continue to survive. And, and it's fantastic. And he's also had kind of a sexual crush, I got one question.
Okay, so we talked about the aliens and how they could end it all. Now, what about the unintelligent? That's kind of the question here is like, are aliens gonna get us? Or is it just gonna happen? Is it just a meteorite dump truck with our name on it? I don't know. But what we do know is that Earth has had at least five mass extinction events over the course of the last 540 million years. Yes, so our fossil record knows some shit went down. We can't always determine what it was right? And a huge percentage of life on Earth was suddenly rapidly gone and never reappears again. And of those five mass extinction events, the first 180 5% of life on Earth gone. The second one 70% of life on Earth, gone. Third 190 to 96.
Okay, I thought we were trending down, trending back up, okay. Probably I was very bad day that alien knew what he was doing. That was
exactly that was 81% of marine life and 70% of land life. The next one, the fourth 170 to 75% of life, and that was the Triassic Jurassic, so yeah, yeah. Then the fifth 170 5% of life on Earth wiped out, that was the Cretaceous. Those are the five for sure. Whether or not there's more depends on what you move them. People are saying, James that we are in the sixth mass extinction event presently. Because of course, in the historical record, when they say quick, they can mean 500 years. And that humans are the reason and that it is 8 million species on Earth right now are currently in danger of being extinct. And any future alien that's looking at the fossil record is going to be like something fucking happened and a bunch of shit died. And that's because of what happened while there were a bunch of humans all of a sudden, and then everything else died. So they're gonna put two and two together. Be like I guess it was that? The one It wasn't humans the reasons before these previous five theories are asteroid. Right? Or the pole shift? Have you heard about this?
Yeah, the magnet shifting magnet magnet magnetic pole shifting and creating some thing. Currents changes currents and temperatures, temperatures
and just everything dies. So we think dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria. Yeah, exactly. So we're pretty sure asteroids, and natural disasters, were responsible for all of these leading up to it unless you watch a lot of the History Channel and then there were some ancient aliens that had to do with it. So those are all the ones that like explain previously how human beings can go extinct and how we are likely to be extinct again, but it's not the end of the earth. It's the end of humans, which is often what people mean. Yes, when they say the end of the world, they're just telling us these are the theories about how the whole beautiful marble goes tattooing style. Nighty night. Okay. Are you ready?
Here we go. Top 10 reasons why the earth will be a dust Dunbrody go Alright, number
five. It's a bigger asteroid. So the bigger theory, we already have a hunch. We know an asteroid has done some serious super big Astro this asteroid is gonna be even bigger and it's either gonna break the earth Okay, truly break it to throw us off our orbit. Yes, some internal explosion is stimulated from it and we Nighty night earth. Then buckle up. The Big Freeze The Big Rip the Big Crunch and the big bounce? These are all various theories from astrophysicist through history as to how the earth gets annihilated. Okay, Big Freeze. The universe is expanding of course. And over time everything gets just a little further away from each other therefore losing its friction and its sharing of atoms it gets colder and that cold eventually just destroys it's too cold for everything to even rotate and everything gets destroyed.
Depressing next one,
okay. Big Rip rip I like this one will really break their day The Big Rip is the universe is expanding and it's like a balloon that pops Yeah, okay, there's okay. The Big
Crunch big crunch sound the most delicious of all the options
has a new giddy center. The University baseball outside And then a hot lava check so the universe is expanding and once at some point it's going to get both all as big as it can get and it's going to condense back to Big Bang tiny crunchy everything is a singularity in one point so it's expanding and it will crunch Wow. And then the final one the big bounce Yep, expanding universe that is going to come back is going to crunch then it's going to expand again baby Tao ism meets astrophysics, we crunch we expand we crunch we expand but not just Earth. The entire universe is in this death and rebirth cycle that was a
big brain like that. That's a big brain. Just like I'm trying to decide if I had to pick which way to die. Freeze crunch bounce rip
pay just something kind of
how would you describe Saturday night freeze rip crunch bounce? Yeah,
I started as The Big Rip. And that was gonna be Big Rip kind of night then
the Big Freeze happened at the end. But But and then there was the big bounce so outside of the
bodyline, apocalyptic. So now what I want to do with you, James kind of go through the individuals in our human history and you might be shocked to know they are all men. That would not surprise me that most really dug I mean, girl these lists you can imagine a tangible he was a controlling guys control. But they're really or maybe we just have never respected women enough to believe their theory. Or
maybe they're saying I have a theory. Yeah. Quiet. My theory. Yeah. Nice. That's probably what happened. And explain to you what your theory really is
just pretending to write on scrawls and then rolls them up and was like fucking Brenda. Like, she knows the end of the world. Okay, so no, there is a little bit of a normal start the ones that we may recognize 1844 Okay, good year for apocalyptic theories. It was actually it was crazy. If you if you follow my podcast you you know about the Donner party. And I also talk about President Polk all of the stuff that was going on in the mid 1800s. Among the crazy shit that was going on in America was this trends and trends in dental like spiritualism and a real leaning into like, abstraction and spiritual prediction and the occult, because there was no limit on your religious religious freedom. Religion got real free in the 1850s. And it was wild Mormons, wild time for psychological, religious thought. So this guy Ben Miller writes, generally Christian generally bases their their theological, their ideals on the Christian Bible. And he says, I have crunched the numbers, friends, I've looked at Revelation a few times, I had some dreams, I did some measurements.
That's my favorite. I did some measurements, don't ask questions, measurements were taken trust the measurements. He also wrote the measurements down. That doesn't sound like a guy. I did some measurements. I got the tools that
it is. And let me tell you what it's happening. The end of the world happening this year, 1844 March. March comes and goes the way I like, why would you ever want to be disappointed that it's not the end of the world? Like that's what you're setting up when you do these predictions is that you wake up in the world isn't hasn't ended and you go
fuck you go, Wait, what did I say? Okay, but
he does he goes back. Okay, if my bad. I went back and I looked at those measurements again, October. Yeah, it's actually over 1844. And when that month came and went, and the world was still firmly in place, they called it the great disappointment. No jokes. They're the great disappointment, this Miller guy, and they break off and become the Seventh Day Adventists who are based on the millwrights. They went through these after the great disappointment, they regrouped. And were like, okay, for sure we are living in the end of the time, like, these are the end times and for sure, we're all going to witness the end of the world. But they wisely have not been sticking pins and date, right? Just for sure. It's happening. Don't worry, for sure. And it's happening like any fucking second, we're not going to say exactly when, because when we sold it twice, we really looked like a bunch of dummies. So that's
what art the Seventh Day Adventists the ones that have they live longer than other humans based on their diet. I think the irony is, they are one of the people that they have the seven the blue zones around the world and what are the group of people that live longer than anyone are the Seven Day Adventists So for people that are sure the world's going to end they sure want to stick around long enough
to catch it. Well, that's ironic.
I do look this up. I've made some measurements. I couldn't be wrong, but I believe I believe it's them with Google check. Fact check me later and if I'm wrong, it's October that I'm gonna be right that's just like Michael Miller
Well listen, you can go to the show notes, in show notes show notes in the description of this podcast, and I'll have linked so you can join the Seven Day Adventists before it's too fucking late you go right after our friends in the Heaven's Gate cult, who collectively committed suicide to join the comet to go, two years later, July 1999, many, many people around the world were like it's happening now. Because Nostradamus said so in 1555. Now, the trick with Nostradamus, as you probably know, how do you do the measurements? He in His quatrains? Yes, which are all coded language, it's very poetic, it leaves a lot of room for interpretation. He never said July 1999 Yep. But when you really read it and if you do enough acid, and if you have enough self confidence, what you know is that he meant July of 1999 and enough people believed that they you know, sold a lot of doomsday prepper kits. See in June of 99 ambiguity
of Nostradamus has done more damage to society because he's just like too poetic too open ended too much interpretation. He if you just laid it on the line, be specific. Take the measurements, call it like you see, this
is what we this is what we want. That's exactly right. We've got y2k y2k. Wherever you when y2k happened?
Not dead, not dead dead, not visited by any undead. No one came back.
Do you? Did you have any anxiety? Were you keyed into the y2k panic that was not
whatsoever, I thought it was just another reason for people to focus energies on something that wasn't going to happen or so level headed. I love that I just was like, I don't get it. I just, you know, clocks flipped my I mean, things that didn't know
what. And for those of you who aren't familiar, the theory, there were a few theories behind why y2k was going to be the definitive end of the world. One and why it roped in a lot of people who normally don't necessarily give too much thought to like the faith, the preachy Nostradamus stuff was because some scientists and otherwise sort of straight looking folks we're like, so we haven't had computers that long, you know, we really got these things in like the 1970s 1980s. And we hooked up everything from our infrastructure to our weapons. Nobody thought about a 19 blank blank, flipping to a 200. And when that happens, basically, it's all gonna shut the fuck down. We're gonna launch our nukes. And then they'll launch their nukes and nuke city. And then another group people was like, No, I believe it's actually I think, we should probably take into account a calendar flip. And there was like Allah, what I mean is, when we have that little flip from the 19 00 to the two, it's going to be just a second glitch bullet and that the window of time that our enemies need to get in and nuke city is still the scenario. And then there were just enough rumors of scientists very smart MIT NASA people that had like, bought property in somewhat remote places. And people were all over. I mean, it was, I mean, my husband was in high school at the time. And he said that his friend would they were sitting around New Year's Eve, you know, pre bar age party, they were gonna eat Doritos and play video games all night. And his friend was like, Hey, I get home before midnight. My mom thinks the world's gonna end so she wants to still be together for the end of the world.
And you know, and prince didn't do us any favors for that damn song. No, no telling us that we should party. Why? Because why
do you know Prince? We don't know. So yeah. And it was also the Millennium thing. And in the Bible, if you're really into Revelation every 1000 years, it was very, but then here we were on January 1, hungover grill broke because you probably spent all your money and you drank all your stuff.
And you spent the night hanging out with your family. You Rather be with your friends having a good time playing. Well, exactly what you woke up at home going. We're still here. That's great. I
mean, it's great. It's great. I love you. I look like a fucking idiot. The 2012 Mayan Oh, that's
right, the millions fear.
Yeah, do you remember that was about the Mayan calendar that we all paid so much attention to that we were all really clued in, that had clearly laid out the conquistadores. And all the other predictions that would have really helped the mind was however 100% accurate on the prediction of the end of the world, and it was several things there were so again, similar, there's usually like a whisper of truth, and then maybe some back screwed theoretical backup to this story, which was okay, so this Mayan Calendar is very entered. It ends the last date that they record is December 21 2021. And then they were like, oh my god, are you serious? Because like I'm a numerologist. And I read the revelation and 12 month, the 21st day of the 12th month of the old that makes sense. Yeah. For sure. That's the end. So there's two reasons right there. You got the Mayans being backed up by some numerologist or whatever. Then there was scientists were like, also, there was something astrophysical going At the time when Earth was getting kind of closer to black hole than we've ever been before, and then there was like Sagittarius A. Anyway, people were very worked up, right up until we got to 2013. But it was so rampant in that year 2012 They took a survey, a global survey asking people what they thought about the apocalypse. 25% of the people in Britain and America said, Yeah, we think the end of the world will happen before my natural life ends. That's
my theory is that the Mayans built the calendar and at some point someone got to the end of the workday just said, You know what, call it a day fail. I get laughed at that, but was there and they never got back to it. And then here we are. Yeah, getting all worked up that some Mayan called it show short workday? Yeah. didn't finish his calendar. Yeah, that's a prediction.
He's lazy assholes have been ruining things forever.
Oh, my mind was named Willie. My name. I'm sorry. I didn't have a look of mine name. I didn't want to use Aztec like Phil. Phil, the Mayan calendar maker
getting lazy. And you know, this is this is the thing too, like I have really great technology. And I put in there every Tuesday night. I'm usually emceeing the mainstage at flappers. And I just put that in my calendar and the calendar says How often would you like this to repeat? Right? And I always put an end date on yes, that doesn't mean I think flappers get burned down. No, now
if it does. Wow, then the film theory. Oh, because Phil's last words were
shut down. Okay, so when they ask these people, these 25% of people that were like, yeah, totally, I believe it's gonna and they asked how and they said Zombies was the first answer
which because all the undead stone that are getting up I
know that's the thing that's like, it's like the low key way to like, get your faith based ideas into like, be like, well, the debt will rise. Nuclear weapons, or asteroid. But I don't think zombies are why we die. Like I think that zombies are a sign building design. No, that's a if you want to be afraid, be afraid of the living. Yeah, no, I
think clearly the zombies are a second stage. It's what happens yeah, yeah.
Yeah. Things have gone something else is something's terribly wrong. What I want to tell you about now are what I call the great take backs so I told you what the great disappointment where he was like March nevermind, October. Yeah, nevermind. There are a lot more of those. There has to be digital here.
I think this whole podcast should be the great take back. Yeah,
that's a great day, but I just didn't know how many people venture to second guess. Like I have cracked an infinite code of the meaning of life and death for everything. Hang nevermind. Like,
what I think it has to be. Here's, we're all gonna die. Okay, I got it wrong. And then the third one has to be now we have to all kill ourselves. Because there's no way I can continue
to see why they start with let's kill ourselves on that date. Because no, yeah, exactly. would never be able to look any of you in the eye. 1524 A guy named Johannes Stahl Fleur, he sees a planetary alignment. There's something in Pisces, he says it's it. This is happening. 1524 That's the end. And it didn't happen. And then he said 1528 And it didn't happen. And then he bowed out.
So I'm not in the prediction business anymore. I'm a blacksmith. I'm a blacksmith.
A lot of these only do it twice. Somewhat. We have some overachievers who just keep
fighting favorite parts so far of this podcast is that the consistent pattern is I'm in for two predictions. And then I'm out. I'm no longer predicting doom. Clearly. I don't have the skill.
It's like I went to Fenway Park.
I am I'm out
more of the hockey hockey.
You get two shots, people then you're off the table.
And I mean do is a lot. A lot a lot when you're predicting 1648 was the date that the bot teaser Levy and ancient Jewish Mystic said that it would happen and it didn't show up. Spoiler alert. 22 years later, 1660 sit back in the saddle him and a bunch of people like actually yeah, because it's 666 Mark of the Beast sign of the end. 100,000 Londoners had died of the bubonic plague. There was the Great Fire of London we have great tribulation 666 Buckle up sell your shit. Son of a bitch 17 1670
I respect the distance between these two predictions coming back 20 years ago. All right. I got
I got here's one this guy three. This is impressive. Three and I want you to know because this might be a name you recognize if you listen to podcasts, you'll recognize this name from the Salem Witch Trial episode. Mather. Oh, that is
written and I believe at Harvard. There's math or house.
Oh, I'm sure there is yes, a man of letters. Well, he predicted the end of the world. See 1697 Okay, nevermind. Then he said What I meant was 1716. Okay. And then because he's an overachiever, because he really shows up in the last stuff, he came back 1736 Now right now, right now right now, right? I guess I'm out okay. A guy named Herbert W. Armstrong. He founded the Worldwide Church of God. He said it was happening 1936 1943 a great year to predict the end of the world or an excellent time. 1975 Then he stopped he was like, nevermind, I so that's
a career. That's a career at that stage. Your primary occupation is Doomsayer.
And like three months ahead, like a miller writes, that was too soon. You throw another 20 years you can be like, I forgot to carry the two. I'm sorry. That was what my bad that two years 20 years oh, here's this is one of my favorites. In 1988, a guy named Edgar see wisdom that wrote a book called 88 reasons why the rapture could be in 1988.
That sounds like an impulse buy at a Barnes and Noble book.
Well, you got two shots because when it didn't happen, he revised the book.
89 reasons. And the 89th is Diddy. Oh, I love this guy.
I was so proud of him. When I read about him. I was like good for you, Edgar. Here's another okay, this this guy has the record. Harold Camping. Okay. He is a radio evangelical. From the Family Radio. Very popular guy first he said September 6 1994. And to the world that name right. Then he went September 29 1994. October 2 1994. Okay, listen, I finally sat down. I cleared my head. March 31. of 1995. I was no okay. Then he blew by that one. Okay, so that was just in like six months. And then he comes back on March 21 2011. That's for real the day. So that's a quite quite like no, I really like I sold it. I stopped drinking. I stopped letting men blow me. Yeah. And I've realized that it's in the Family Radio really starts to promote this like Harold Camping. He was wrong for me now. And so they're really promoting this idea on their radio network and people were buying into it in large swaths. And when may 21 2011 passed and the earth was stubbornly still in existence? They labeled him a false prophet.
So as a poor Mark, you're a false prophet. Yeah, well, I
mean, five at least. Okay, so the
five okay, so it's one two, you're part of the field. Three for small group five clearly appears
promise and God can be vague. We know that but bag that bag. And he later was like, I shouldn't have been predicting the end of the world because Jesus said we couldn't do it. And they were like, Yeah, well, okay. Let's see next. Oh, in 2007. In Russia, 31 people, including four children went into a cave. Because this guy named Peter Cuckoo's Nest scoff told them the underworld was coming guys can survive. If you go in this cave. He doesn't go with them. But they don't and they believe the world has ended around them kind of a Cloverfield situation. He gets arrested, committed attempts, suicide and all of this, these people are still in the cave. Eventually, when they find them and are like the world's fine, we need you to come on out. Like two of the people had died and starved and they just lived in a cave. It was over in there.
I think clearly, when someone walks you into a cave because they know the world and doesn't go with you. I think that is probably and not that I have a lot of experience with being led to my doom. But um, I'm gonna go ahead and say that not going with you is a huge a big red flag. Big Red Flag. It's
gonna end out there. What are you gonna do? I'm gonna be right with you guys in the cave. Oh, I forgot my iPhone.
Yeah. Okay, no, that is my new favorite story. We all need live in the cave. Well, not me.
You need to live in a cave because you guys will not be able to survive out here. I have what it takes. And I have all your cars, which is gonna help me a lot. This one's fairly recent. And I didn't know about this guy before. 2011 A guy named Ronald Wineland. From the Church of God says, Guys, I've got a calculator, and some LSD. And I've been thinking a lot. It's happening this year. 2011 didn't happen. Of course. 2012 need to do 2013 He could have been wrong, but only by five years. It's happening in 2018. Now that was bad year. I think we can all agree that was a bad year. So that's why I probably accidentally thought it was 22 because I was such a bad year. What I meant was 2019. That's the ACT will end. And then after that he continues to make predictions less about the end of the world. My understanding is that this fine fellow is still on the radio, and still sharing his insight with people. Wow. He's part of the church. This isn't the name of the church Church of God preparing for the kingdom of God. They abbreviate it as cog, dash PKG
cog package, the cog back, okay.
I just made these because I thought they were of note, like interesting people that I didn't necessarily think predicted the end of the world, Martin Luther, the Protestant reformer, really, he said, the end of the world would happen Absolutely. Definitively no later than 1600. There was no chance the earth was still around after 1600 Christopher Columbus, very spiritual, he was writing all sorts of cosmic predictions. And he wrote a book called his prophecies. And he said that the world was absolutely going to end 50 to one like the cost 15 One 1502 it would happen after we had discovered the literal Garden of Eden, which he thought was in Venezuela. And once we stumbled upon the original Garden of Eden, then that would trigger a series of events that would lead to the end of the world. 1991 Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, said the Gulf War was the biblical war of Armageddon, and would trigger the end of the world. Now, if you want to keep looking forward, currently, there are two major predictions that the end of the world is going to happen in 2026, though, good, gotta cover, but very different reasons. One guy says it's going to happen. He actually wrote this in 1960, he wrote an article in science that said, the end of the world would happen in 2026. Because of overpopulation, that's when our numbers would just get so high that we tip over and couldn't come back. But the Messiah Foundation International says absolutely, it's 2026, but it's because of an asteroid. Okay. My favorite one is from a guy named Peter Tuttle, who says that the end of the world will happen in year 300,000. That's the number I can live with. Oh, yeah, I'm buying top 300,000 years from now. A triple star called the WR 104 is predicted to explode go supernova, when it does, the gamma rays will reach us and either destroy the planet or annihilate all life on Earth. Or if
you're a superhero fan, the gamma rays will turn all of us into raging home features, and we will destroy each other through anger and strength. You know,
you win some you lose. I was
gonna say, you know, if I'm gonna go out, but right before I die, I'm a whole creature that I'm with Tuttle.
Yeah. I've always been a big fan of broad shoulders, I was gonna say, you know,
I only have to wear pants, no clothing whatsoever.
And I think that the big question, of course, all of this is like, what's the point? Right? That's the point. And it's, but it's the question that you get when you finally realize whatever except you to whatever extent you accept it. The point when you realize that you and everyone you know, and everyone you have yet to meet will eventually die. That's a hard enough concept to get your arm around. I don't think any of us really. And when we sort of brush by those moments, your own mortality, you get you someone you love that you see that you those, those key glimpses into our own mortality. Then you go, but okay, so everyone's gonna take them why, why are we here? We're just here to make more of us. And that seems so nihilistic, and then it wants to it brings you into ideas of faith, which your reason maybe butts up against these ideas of faith, it all becomes very difficult. But here's what I think, what if they're right? And the end of the world? Is tomorrow, the end of the world? Or the end of you, your world? What if they're right? What are you going to do? The only thing you could do? The only thing that would make any sense is to live life fully, to be kind, and to find love and joy and bliss and whatever makes your heart flip around in your chest, right? What if they're wrong? What if what if we all just actually go on living and being reborn again, and then living and being reborn? Again, like the dalisay? thing? Yes, you should live life fully, and be kind, and find all those joy and love moments in your life. And and I think that once you can sort of find peace with something like that, then these questions of the end of the world can become a music and entertainment, they can stimulate a spark between another human being like you and I just shared, that might be the whole point. And then for this reason, I don't mind that people continue to think about it and predict it because it stimulates us to think about these big questions.
I agree. i That's why I'm a huge fan of mindfulness, because it's about being present and connecting. And that is about the simplest thing we can all do. And, and having said that, we will die tomorrow. So I believe that too. And you know, although I'm still holding out for the mass of gamma rays, I think that 300,000 years from now, Chris Hemsworth comes back and does Thor and Hulk. And I think we pretty much got Got this
brace so lucky.
We all come back as Chris Hemsworth. That's one
way to come and go at the same time. Am I right? Hey that my friend James B. Connolly is the history of the end of the world. How do you feel?
You know, I feel hopeful right that humanity will continue to get it wrong. And we will be here 1000s of years from now, future Dawn will suit the future may and we'll talk about all the people who are still alive go. No, it's not how it goes.
That's not how it goes. Well, here's to you and to the next end.
Thank you. We all end well.
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