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.