Doomed to Fail - Ep 122 - Fire & Brimstone: Nostradamus

Episode Date: July 15, 2024

Let's talk about 16th-century 'prophet' Nostradamus! There's nothing spooky here unless you want there to be! If you DO, then heck, there's a lot to unpack! We'll talk about his 942 prophecies that foresaw everything from Napolean to Nagasaki. AND this one? What could it mean??Upon the airwaves, voices strong will sail,From depths of despair, tales of trials unveil,Listeners gathered from distant realms hail,"Doomed to Fail" shall in success prevail.Sources:Nostradamus: Predicting The Future | Full Documentary | Biography - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URQF9KkbU7sNostradamus Effect: The Third Antichrist (S1, E1) | Full Episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8epmFE25xY​​Nostradamus - The Prophet of Doom Documentary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsrc0NHE5Fohttps://www.crystalinks.com/quatrains.html Join our Founders Club on Patreon to get ad-free episodes for life! patreon.com/DoomedtoFailPodWe would love to hear from you! Please follow along! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doomedtofailpod/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/doomedtofailpod  Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/@doomedtofailpod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@doomed.to.fail.pod Email: [e-mail] 

It's a matter of the people of the state of California versus Hortonthal James Simpson, case number B.A.019. And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country. And we are live, Taylor, would you like to introduce us? I remember that we have to do introductions. Yeah. Are you impressed? I'm super impressed.

Thank you. Hello, friends and family. welcome to doomed to fail. We are the podcast that brings you history's most notorious disasters and epic failures twice a week. And I am Taylor joined by Fars. Fars, how are you? I'm good. Guys, we really want to get rich and famous. Please, please, please tell your friends. Please tell your friends. Tell your family. Hey, you know what? The holiday season is coming up in only six months. Just go ahead and order some Dune to Fail mugs. Perfect pitch. It's exactly the right time to bring that up. Great. I'm otherwise doing well, Taylor. It is a lovely day here in Austin,

and I noticed that you are wearing your lovely Team USA Olympic sweater hoodie and looking very patriotic. Thank you. Again, I don't want to be confused as someone who is endorsing what's going on in America right now, but I am endorsing our athletes personally. Yeah, I just want to make that clear. What is going on in America right now? Just like the giant jitter that we're living in right now.

Did you see the memes that came out after the debate where it was like, hey, dear world, please stop watching this debate. This is our issue. We don't want you to pay it. It was something really funny like that, but I don't remember exactly what the words were. Yeah. It's a, it's going to be an interesting couple of months. Oh, but I am actually, speaking of America. Did I tell you I'm going to the White House in a few weeks?

weeks just for like just for like the personal tour and like the civilian tour nothing special but like um i had to email my congressperson and then one of his interns had to like coordinate it with the white house but we're going in um in like two weeks no way so is this just like a family trip to dc yeah we're going to unapolis and um we're going to get like an Airbnb by like the water and we're going to do that and i'm going to see my brother and i'm going to see uh my husband's family and then i have to work. I have to be around for work, but I'm going to take one day off and we're going to go to D.C. Because I really want to take the kids to D.C. I want them to go to the museums and stuff. There's so much to do. It's going to be gross. I'm like very hot and humid. But then I was

like, why don't we go to the White House? I've never been. So I figured out how to get tickets and I got us ticket. So I'm super excited. You know, it's interesting because every time I go to D.C., I always think myself, why don't I actually act like a tourist and enjoy this? Yeah. It was literally the last time was the first time I ever did. It was just by some fluke that something, I was with and knew somebody in Mike Johnson's office and so they gave us like a tour of the speaker's office and I was like why this is so cool like why have I never done it's it's so the grandeur it's just really really impressive so that's cool yeah yeah I'm so I'm excited awesome very exciting um so you said that's two weeks from now right yeah cool one week you're in

Annapolis? Yep. Nice. Fun little trip. Cool. Well, we can go ahead and take things off. I think you go first today. I do.

I do. I do. And I am ready. I was typing up to the minute as I am want to do. So I am just coming off of doing all the Olympic stuff, which has been very stressful because it's just been terrible stories. And. I mean, some of it was. Good stories.

Yeah, but like a lot of it was rough, you know? Fair, fair. And so I wanted to do something kind of dumb. And so I'm going to talk about one of the most famous prophets of all time. Can you think of a famous prophet? Jesus, Buddha. I mean like someone who could see the future. Noserdamus.

Yes. Nice. And we talk about no strontas. Very exciting. Yeah. And it's fun. You have to believe a lot of stuff for these things to be true. You know, you have to like really like separate yourself from reality to say this is true.

There's the history channel is wild these days. So I was like watching this history. What happened to the history channel? Jesus. It's unbelievable. I'm like, like I'm watching these. these noso dramas documentaries on the history channel and I'm like what am I watching these people are insane like they're just like you know taking it and being like this is all true all these things

and they're like there's a lot of dudes with like huge beards who like obviously are trying to look like nosa dramas as well you know so dramatic it's so funny and then like and like the stuff that you the twisting you have to do in your mind to believe it is like some of them well first of all like they weren't written in English they were written in French a long time ago you know so it's like someone translated them and translated them and translated them. So you, and like, I guess that's kind of similar to the Bible. Like, you're reading like a 30 millionth translation. And, like, of course, that's not exactly as intended.

And they say things like, well, if you take this word in English, by the way, and take the first two letters, make them lowercase, flip them upside down, then George H. Bush is the Antichrist. Taylor, that is the exact episode I watched like decades ago. Because the second you said that History Channel, there was something about the Twin Towers. Yes. We'll talk about that. Okay. Yeah, yeah, we'll go into it. But you're right.

But my impression of all this is like, it's like, it's like horoscope stuff. Exactly. If you just extrapolate far enough out, anything is true. Exactly. And I said, I think I wrote that down. It's just like astrology. You can make it apply to anyone or anything. And you're looking backwards, not forwards in most cases.

I think the first time I really heard about Nostradamus was after September 11th. because there was that, like, fake one around where it was, like, two brothers will fall in the new city. Yes, yes. That wasn't real. That wasn't even, like, a real one. But, like, we'll talk about September 11th in a minute. So, and again, also, like, if you use, like, you have to, like, use math and be like, oh, but if the ends are 10 and the eyes are like seven, you know, like, all that kind of stuff. And I think the last podcast, they just interviewed someone who knew, who had spent a lot of time with BTK.

And I don't know if you listened to that. But one thing, like, he would write, like, things for, like, the police to, like, decipher and things like that. But, like, if you have enough letters and something, you can spell anything, you know? Right. Right. It's like if you, like, what is it? The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog that has every letter in it. Right. And so, like, if I wrote that down, I could predict literally anything because I have all the letters available to me.

Totally. So, so first let's talk about who Nostradamus was. And then we'll talk about some of his fun quattrions and things that we can talk about how he predicted things. What is a quatrain? I remember that, too. Yeah, I'll tell you in a little bit. Okay. Okay.

So Michelle de Nostradam was born in December 1503 in Provence, France. He was born into a Catholic family, but his family had just converted from Judaism. His dad's name was Croix, and he changed it to Pierre Nostradam. Nostradam means Our Lady. And that's exactly what I would change my name to if I wanted to be a fake French person. Yeah, no kidding. What a cool name. Oh, it's Pierre Notre Dame.

Give me some cigarettes. You know. Thank you. So he. everyone brings it up that, like, he, his family had converted from Judaism to Catholicism. And I think they do it to imply that they had like some Old Testament beliefs still, like when he was growing up, but maybe like a little bit more mystic than like the Catholics would have like been okay with. He was one of nine children, possibly more.

We don't know because people just like had babies and they died and all the things. But in a big family, when he was 14, he went to the University of Avignon. on and that's just like getting not like college it's just getting like actual schooling you know instead of being like taught at home like reading books in your house you're going to actual school um it was closed because of the plague so he he lives in like a rough time uh if i recall it's considered the worst time in history to be alive yeah so it sucks and he spent some time kind of wandering around france and he was actually kind of helpful against the plague.

So it's kind of like how Rasputin kind of backed into helping the kid because he was like, maybe the doctor should calm down with the bloodletting and then the kid would like feel better, you know?

I thought you were to go with how he was helpful to the royal family and I was like, I think we totally misinterpreted his impact. But yes, he was helpful to the kid by accident. Yeah, by accident.

You know, being like, well, tell the doctors to back off so they would stop giving him like aspirin and thinning his blood and he, like, would feel better, you know? Right, right. So, you're not asking, but you know what I mean.

So he would do things like, he saw sanitation as something that was maybe helpful. So I know that history is full of stories of people, like, laughing at people over washing their hands, you know? And there's always the guy who's like, maybe we should wash your hands before we're like wrists deep in this person's chest. Right. And, like, everybody's like, that's dumb.

I'm going to spit on my hands and do it. Or like, I think we even talk. at one point about how like women would die of infection because the hands the doctors were using to deliver their babies were gross. I know both of our faces right now. I don't get like how humans were so filthy. It seems pretty obvious to me that you don't want to be actively dirty. This sounds probably a perverted, but my head instantly goes to sex. I'm like, how did anybody have sex? How did anybody ever consider it? Did you just have a constant UTI plus? Every other syphilis and every other disease. Everyone's just like gross and like besides the dirt. I mean, but then again, then again, they also didn't have like indoor plumbing. So if you're smelling rivers of human shit down the street, then sure, your girlfriend smells fucking horrible or your boyfriend. But like it's probably better than what you're smelling outside.

I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, I mean, I feel like if we went there, we'd be like, oh, yeah, can't do this. they probably think we're freaks because we're not covered in like yeah yeah yeah exactly I feel like if we went there we'd be like I literally cannot breathe this is so disgusting but like they would be like this is normal

you know so he did things like why don't we use clean water or start drinking clean water guys and maybe we should move this pile of rotting dead bodies like burn him he's a witch exactly maybe having a pile of dead people who just died of the plague next to this plague hospital isn't like the number one idea we've ever had yeah you know um so he was doing stuff like that and so people were like okay he's actually

helping he also had a thing that he invented called rose pills which was like um a pill that you could take that had a lot of rose petals and some spices and sawdust for some reason but it had a lot a vitamin C and vitamin C fights infections. So that also like accidentally helped as well. Makes sense. It's like emergency. Like emergency isn't going to stop you from getting COVID, but it's not going to hurt you. You know, like... I don't think

emergency does anything for me. I don't think it's like... I think it's a placebo. I think so too. Okay. We're on the same way. Similarly. Yeah. You know what I mean. You all heard it here first people. I think you heard it a long time ago on the news, but we are reiterating it. Yes. You did catch that.

so he is traveling around and he gets a job as an apothecary which is like a cool word for pharmacist and he likes it and he decides that he wants to be a doctor so in 1529 he goes to the university of montpelier i said that and i was like why did i write it like that because i know i want to say montpellier i'm so sorry whatever you know what i mean um but because he had had a job as an apothecary he got picked out of the university because you weren't supposed to have had a job because the university was for people who had never had jobs. It was more like a genteel place. And then also just having a job during college is my villain origin story because

people were like said the bitchiest stuff to me about like having to have a job. What would like what did you do? Like I just always had to have a job because I didn't have any money. And my parents never were able to give me any money. And so I was had a job. And then like one of my bitch roommates, she was like, well, I take more classes than you and like blah, blah, blah, and all this stuff. And I was like, well, I have to have a job.

What was your job? I worked in an office. Like, it wasn't. And then at one point, I worked at a museum and at an office and I had this internship that I got all by myself that didn't pay. Like, I was just like, I worked all the time. And like, when I went to Italy, I'm going to keep talking about this. This is like, what I tell my therapist every time I get a new therapist. When I went to Italy, another one of my roommates was like, I was like, the first week I didn't have a job.

And I was like, this is so nice not to have a job. I was like, guys, this is great. and she was like yeah but you have to have a job I was like okay fuck you I know that I know your parents giving you money just to fucking count in Italy and I have to get a job but like thank you I was a bank teller I was a drive-through guy yeah I was a bank of America I was a little bank teller you'd come in and be like

I welcome to Bank of America how can I help you you see so much weird shit doing that be like people who are like scamming people people sending in there were so many times when like somebody was sending like an ID to like cash a check and I was like this is like an obviously fake ID we are we are taking possession of this and calling the police and people just like start it was really cool they have a good dead body in the in the seat being like he says it's fine

dude somebody like somebody actually did die in the lobby somebody there was this old guy who had a ton of money and he always would come in and get scammed by some people and one time he came to the lobby and he just sat there for like a while and then we noticed he wasn't moving and then he just smelled like urine oh no and we're like oh my god he just died and so they had to come remember with him. Wow. This has nothing to do with your Nostradama story, but I also had to work. I also had to work during college. And I think it gives you character. That's part of my point. Yeah. That's why we're so hardworking. Yeah. So anyway, he gets kicked out of the university, but he's fine. He's like doing other things. He goes back to being an apothecary. In 1531,

he gets married. His wife's name is possibly Henriette. It's lost to history. They have two children and they all die of the plague, which sucks. So his wife and his two kids die of the plague. He is imprisoned in 1538 during the Inquisition. So also the Inquisition is happening at this time. And for being a heretic, but they let him out. It was like something else going on that I can't exactly figure out what's going on. But anyway, in 1545, he marries a rich widow, which is The Dream. Amen. And they have six children. so he and those children are like generally fine so he doesn't like need a job but he has like hobbies and he starts to write and one of the things that he does is kind of get into the occult you know

you know so he starts to do these like predictions and like talk about what could happen and he writes a book called like an almanac which is like kind of like this is what's going to happen in the next year like every year he'll write an almanac um he wrote his first one in 1550 and again like they are what you want them to be you know like you can read any horoscope or anything and make it apply to what you're doing um i don't i don't agree with that because an almanac is supposed to be historical referential data for the future actually i i actually do use almanacs every now and then and he's not making like the farmer's almanac he's making like a prediction one yeah yeah yeah i don't think he's using science or like weather data got it okay you use you

use a farmer's almanac. So there's no other way to like estimate what, for example, well, the way I use it is there's no other way to estimate what the predictable weather might look like like a month in, like months in advance, right? So the weather channel isn't going to provide that information. And so you go to an almanac and say, hey, like if I wanted to go on a trip to Scotland in September, what is it historically like there? It's like the only way you know is through an almanac.

totally that's not what he was doing but that makes sense that you got it do I throw you off by saying I use an almond after you look very I was laughing I'm like do you use it for your crops like what do you but that totally makes sense there you go so he people loved this isn't in a vacuum he's not the only person who's doing it like he a little of it a little of it is like plagiarized you know but like or like translated from other languages

things like that but people loved it um again it's a very hard time to be alive like this seems like a nice break to like read this and try to think about it um someone said in one of those history channel ones i don't know if it's one you saw that he would see things by looking into a bowl of water like the oracle at delphi used to do i don't remember which is hilarious because that's what he did um he was also briefly imprisoned in 1561 because he didn't get a bishop's permission to publish his almanac but he got let out um he like wasn't like the inquisition kind of came after him but they were like he could write about it as long as he wasn't like practicing magic then he was okay so he like didn't get inquis inquisitions i wouldn't even i wouldn't even go near it like why even

dabble yeah why even be like close to an accusation accusation during the inquisition totally I think he's just trying to find something to do and, like, wants to be. Worse time to be alive. You know. So he died in 1566 of gout and other things. He had about, in today's money, about $300,000 in assets, and he was able to, like, give that to his children. It says that on his deathbed, his, like, secretary was, like, getting him ready for bed. And he left and he said, as a guy was leaving, he said, you will not see me alive at sunrise.

And then he was dead in the morning, which seems fair. I feel if you know you're going to die, you know, you're going to die. Yeah, I feel like I'm going to die a lot. Like, no, wait, sorry. I don't, I don't feel like I'm going to die. But like, I know when it's like, okay, bedtime is probably going to be in about two hours because I already feel that like my eyes are getting heavy. Yeah.

So that's his life. Let's talk about his works. His big work is the prophecies, which is a collection of 942 quattrains. So quatrains are four-lined, like, it's like not like a poem because it doesn't like, this is terrible. It doesn't like rhyme or anything, but it like, you know, it's like a four-line prediction. Each one is four lines. That's why it's a quatrain for. Got it.

Okay. There are 942 over 10 centuries. So a century is actually, it's just like a collection of a hundred of them. One collection is 42 instead of 100. I don't know why. But that's, that's why there's 900 to 42. he got here by like reading a lot he loved ancient history he loved like learning about ancient gods um there's other predictions from like saints and things that he like copied

he copied some from other languages so it's not all like brand new he didn't make it all up but he's kind of like amalgamating things it's making he makes it look like he made them all up basically um another thing that he talks a lot about he says things like Mars and Neptune and Jupiter and then like I'm a history channel they're like you're talking about colonizing Mars and I'm like I think he's talking about the ancient gods like I don't think he was talking about the planet but wait what was he saying he says like Mars a lot like Mars will rise but he's talking about like the gods not like also you already said it translated like through multiple different languages so who even know like do we even know that he actually

said that good great call who knows some of the things he said that are like a little creepy is like he does some of his fault trains have things like giant metal beasts and like giant metal beasts will come out of the sea and they're like well it's definitely a submarine or like definitely a car or some sort of machine that like he didn't have the vocabulary to describe because he had never seen one before but he was like if he saw it in his predictions like how would you describe a submarine if you've never seen one before you would call it a giant iron beast in the sea sure you know something like that.

But let's look at some of the specific ones that people have attributed to things that have actually happened. So during his lifetime, he was employed by Catherine de Medici, who was married to the king of France, Henry the second. And she, you know, kind of, you know, like a queen does, wanted to have someone to help, like, guide her and loved the magicness of it. So he, you know, worked for her for a while. But he had written, I'm going to start. reading these he had written the young lion will overcome the older one on the field of combat in a single battle he will pierce his eyes through a golden cage two wounds made one then he dies a cruel death so he had like written that prediction and that one did kind of come true so henry the second in 1559 after this was

written did get stabbed in the eye in a joust through his like golden cage which is his like mask and it got stabbed in the eye and in the throat so two wounds and it took 10 days for him to die which sounds fucking terrible so that's like it kind of happened okay but if you were actually able to predict things should fucking say it

no I know I mean that's the part of it where it goes back to the horoscope so it's like so why should you just say that he was wearing a gold that this guy's going to wear a golden helmet and get stabbed in the eye totally no totally and then like it says they say that she had tried to tell him not to do this jouse and then he did it anyway

that reminds me of like in like I know you haven't seen Bill and Ted but in like Bill and Ted and stuff where people go back in time and they like meet Abraham Lincoln I'm like you should tell him about the theater

you should tell him no you shouldn't you should never change history you should save Abraham Lincoln we don't know what happens if you change history like never change history I know you haven't read it

but Stephen King wrote 1122 63 which is about JFK assassination and going back in time and stopping it. And after he stops it, spoiler alert, like the United States gets like acquired by Canada. Everyone's the communists. Like all this stuff happens, you know, because. I like how you stopped even asking me about books to read or films to watch. You're just like, yeah, I just know you don't know this.

I know you don't know it. But some people out there might have read it and it's good. Anyway, so there's that one that was during his lifetime. A fun one. I'm going to see if you can guess what this one is about. It's something that we talked about in one of our episodes. Okay. Okay, let's try it.

The blood of the just will be demanded of London, burnt by fire in the year 66. The ancient lady will fall from her high place and many of the same sect will be killed. Come on, Taylor. Have some faith in me. That was pretty easy. Okay, yeah, exactly. The Great Fire of London, yes. Indeed.

Um, I mean, the ancient lady could be the city of London. People didn't die. Not a lot of people died, but like it happened in 1666. So, you know, there's sixes in there. They're the lady. Super specific. Yeah. Um, so I think that you also, this is probably in the history channel doc that you saw, but the parts about the Antichrist. And we've talked about the Antichrist before. And we have, um, because of Emperor Nero. So Emperor Nero is supposed to be what the Antichrist looks like. But I also obviously don't believe that that's true. And I follow this person on Instagram who has Dan McClellan, who has a podcast called Data Over Dogma, where he's like a scholarly, he's like a PhD in like the Bible. And he like talks about the translations and things like that.

And one thing that he says is like, there isn't really no Antichrist in the Bible. it refers to someone who like denies Christ which is like me like I'm antichrist if that's the if that's the way that is. You're already your first Taylor is the antichrist. Not the but it's like there isn't one it's not a thing but um

they say that Nostradamus predicted three antichrists. So the first two have already happened and the third one has yet to happen. Can you think of who might the first one be? Oh, I can read it. I can read you the thing about it if you if you don't know. I only know that they call it George's

be you Bush, the the guy who literally just like paints watercolors all day. If you take this word and you flip the first two letters, make them lowercase, flip them upside down and then squint. It kind of looks like George Bush. Our politics

is so insane. Like every everyone is the antichrist. They said that about Obama. They called Obama the Antichrist. I know. What do he do? What did he do? He wore a tan suit one day? Like. One time. Never forget. Okay, I'm going to read it to you

And you tell me who I think the first one was An emperor will be born near Italy Who will cost the empire very dearly They will say when they see his allies That he is less a prince than a butcher Yeah, that's Nero No, that's Napoleon Oh, well he said near Italy

Yeah, he was born in Corsica Oh shit, that's right, that's right Not in Italy but like the island next to Italy so you know he could be a butcher because a lot of people died totally fair um there's one about in the same time the french revolution so this is not the interchrist but just like keeping us in the right timeline for the french revolution there's from the enslaved populace songs chance and demands while princes and lords are held captive in prisons these will in the future by headless idiots be received as divine prayers so like that's true

I've got the head chopped off. Taylor, I'm going to give you one right now, okay? A man will be born of Eurasian descent who will start a war that is great. That's only three lines, so I don't believe that. Sure. And then fast forward 800 years. And I will certainly be right. Okay, you want to hear the second Antichrist?

That's right. It's going to be ridiculous. Yeah, go ahead. From the depths of the west of Europe, a young child will be born of poor people. He who by his tongue will seduce a great troop. His fame will increase towards the realm of the East. Yes. Very job. So he was born in Europe. He was poor. He's very good at speaking. And the realms of the East is like Japan. So obviously we know that the Nazis loved the occult. And they were like doing all this like weird shit in the background trying to like prove that they were like destined for all of this. And guess who fucking loved this? proud girl grubles miss the grubles she's the worst i know you just watched um the movie was it dead what's it called downfall

downfall um i know you just watch downfall proud grubles is out of her fucking mind obviously but she's reading this stuff and she's like oh my god hitler i think it's you like girl calm down i mean she she might be the scariest one out of all of them she just just what a what a fucking character um so um there's another one that says beasts ferocious with hunger will cross the rivers. The greater part

of the battlefield would be against Hister into a cage of iron will the great one be drawn when the child of Germany observes nothing. So that's saying like Hister basically means like the Danube River and like Germany. It's not, doesn't mean Hitler, but like, you know, it's also translated a thousand times. But there is like

the cage of iron could be his bunker because if Nostradamus had never seen a bunker that's maybe what he would think it was. You know. So that's how people do it. So I know you're like, who could the third one be? Was it Obama? Was it George W. Bush?

There's a bunch of stuff that's like a tyrant and burning and all these things. So there's another one. They're like, maybe he's with us right now. But if we're going by looks and we're saying the Antichrist is supposed to look like Nero, who is like dopey and has a, in fact, oh, no, I was going to say it's Eric Trump. Out of any of the Trump's, he's the dopyest one. Poor Eric. Poor, unlovable, Eric.

exactly it's like tiffany is also in that category but she also seems like she doesn't give a shit yeah she's the one that's like why can't i be the cool one i feel like he's like texting like a fake number being like daddy i love you like i love so proud of you son donald's like this one give my number to eric um so there's one about oh let me read you this one okay cities there will be scourges the like of which was never seen famine will within plague people put out by steel crying to the great immortal god for relief that's atomic bombs Nagasaki and Hiroshima September 11th there's earth shaking fire from the center of the earth will cause tremors around the new city true great rocks will war for a long time then areithia will bred in a new river I don't know what that means um anyway two great rocks new city new york potentially that so it was something else it was like you said it

earlier it was like two two brothers but that's not real that wasn't a real one okay so the history channel is just making shut up out of the whole cloth then yeah lovely okay and there's like a bunch of fake ones that are like oh that seems like really close to being like real you know you're like yeah it's a little too much so they're like fake ones around i had to get i got all of them from this like wonderful website called Crystal Links, which is from a psychic in New York. And for some reason, her website has lists all of the Nostradamus as Qualtrains. And it has a live monitor of earthquakes around the world and talks a lot about the end of the world. So it's a whole, it's a whole deal. But, you know, people, you can interpret them however they want. A couple that

are coming up that like people are using to potentially predict the future. There's one about that people say is about king charles so it goes for not wishing to consent to divorce which then afterwards will be recognized as unworthy the king of the aisles will be driven out by force in his place put one who will have no mark of a king the people are like maybe that means that prince harry is going to come back and be king made me laugh hysterically kind of like king remember king ralph it was like a movie with um john what's his name from Rosanne and he there was like the royal family was taking a picture and then they all got electrocuted because there was like it was raining and so he was going to be king he was like the hundredth in line and he had to be go to Europe and be the king so that's like that's one that seems

fun we're also very sick of the monarchy so like that could end I'd be down for that and then here's one more about climate change it says for 40 years the rainbow will not be seen for 40 years it will be seen every day the dry earth will grow more parched there'll be great floods when it is seen so like yeah weather's fucking crazy right now so this is this is all bringing back a very very distant memory for me so when i was in college i had a roommate who was like this like he was a very very sweet guy came up super religious and one day he asked me to like go to this like church thing that was in like a conference hall in a hotel like a holiday inn or something and so i go there and we realize this is one of those like doomsday pastor situations where it's just blood and fire

and just all that brimstone the whole place is packed and um we walk in i'm literally the only non-white person there and we walk in and also he had a painted toenails he was wearing sandals he had painted toenails because his girlfriend they got drunk the night before he she painted his toenails And so we walk in like every just staring at us. And he was quoting Nostradamus in his like brimstone. But he was he was applying it all to that moment in time. And that's, I just had a flashback to that exact moment. We ended up getting up after 10 minutes and walking away.

And it was really, really awkward. So wait, he left your friend with you? No, no, me and him, we both got up and walked out. We were like, we can't. We don't. This is not what we thought it was. he thought he was taking me to something that was going to be like more wholesome and like

and look like Christians like we're actually kind of a cool bunch and I was like yeah sure let's see what this is all about and then we go into this and I was like these people are fucking scary like they're like really really scary and what's even scarier is that they think they're not scary mm-hmm mm-hmm that also reminds me

I like I have read Dan Carlin's book The End is always near several times because it's like all about times in history where people thought that the world was ending you know yeah yeah do that. There is a new Nostradamus in India, you know, someone who, there's tons of these, but this particular person, he said that we're on the brink of World War III. And I'm like,

no shit, Sherlock. I can say that too. Yeah. The world's getting hotter. People are going crazy. Things are nuts. You know, sure. I get happy. And that can apply to like literally anytime at all. And also, you know, you mean anything, which is what makes it fun. And I think what makes it enduring. And I think that's also what Nostradomas wanted is to be like vague and, you know, you know, but kind of fun. So I'll end with, he wrote a letter to a chancellor in, in France and in 1566 before he died. And one of, and he talked about, you know, some of his prophecies. And then he said, quote, not that I'm foolish enough to claim to be a prophet, which is fun. So he kind of, he kind of knew that he kind of predicted that this is what he would be.

I mean, that's kind of good. He predicted what we would think of them. Yeah. Yeah. Which is kind of cool. Now I believe. Now I believe. And then I also wrote one for us.

You ready? Yes. Upon the airwaves, voices strong will sail from depths of despair, tales of trials unveil. Listeners gathered from distant realms hail, doomed to fail, shall in success prevail. I didn't write that. ChatGBT did. I knew ChatGBT.

As you were saying it. I was really trying to open strategy B.G to type in the command. That's pretty good though. But I got that for us. Yeah, it's it's super fun. It's fun to like,

just read through all of them and find one, random one. Let me just do one more random one. Stop. Nephew and blood of the new saint come through the surname. He will sustain arches and roof.

They will be driven out, put to death, chased nude into red and black. They will convert their green. I don't know, maybe that's about soccer and, and, uh, streaking. Why has there never been like a good movie made about Nostradam? Because he doesn't do anything, right?

Because all he does is right. So what are you going to do? Just follow him around and see him writing, like. Right. Because there's no like, because there is like a book that I didn't have a chance to read that is like an actual biography, but it's hard to find like, I watched several YouTube videos before I find one that actually felt like it was telling me the truth, like things about what had happened.

Because all like, there's so many that are like, dun dun dun dunn fire brimstone you know and then like but i'm like i do also want to know like when he was born and like his family life so he was just like a dude who was like kind of rich hanging out right in his prophecies having a good time lived in a little city in france you can go to a house he was having a good time he watched everybody die around he's having the best time possible he didn't okay yeah sure sure he was having the best time possible wait how old was he when he died? In his 60s.

Wow. You know. Yeah. Washing his hands. I've been like, fuck you guys. Wait, he goes, hold on. The nearest soon. By then 40 degrees, the sky shall burn to the great new city shall the fire draw nigh.

With vehemence, the flames shall spread and churn. When with the Normans, they conclude. Try. Okay. Anyways. So, very cool. Very cool.

Learn something. You brought back some fun memories for me. Yeah. So I really, really enjoyed that. Thanks.

Is there anything you want to say as we sign off? Yeah. So, well, I do want to thank our friend,

Nadine. She wrote us a really thoughtful email about our own fire and brimstone. The world is ending. What are we going to do

situation? And, you know, how we're talking about like the political climate and it's very stressful but also life has always been stressful so you just try to like guys just chill make it through yeah everybody chill like I know I know it is existential if this guy wins it's horrible if that guy wins this horrible it's all horrible it's gonna be fine like we will eventually there's enough systems in place to make everything kind of work and this always happened I mean whatever or not who cares

yeah who cares like also who cares like imagine being like a, you know, a newly wed couple in, like, Germany trying to just live your life in the 1940s, like, cool. Like, now we're in a war zone and our husband is sent to the bat. Like, things happen, and we just always move on from it. So it's going to be fine. You know, do your best, but it's fine. There you. Yes. And if you have any, thank you so much, Nadia. And I really appreciated your chatting with you this week.

And then I, yeah, if you have anything else you want to tell us, any ideas you want us to talk about we're at doomed to fail pod at gmail.com doomed to fill pod on all the socials i like almost think i'm going to quit ticot because i like paid for a advertisement like just like oh let me see what might happen and then we got like a ton of views and then after that i've getting zero views and it's like i think that they do like once once you pay once they want you to pay a million times and i'm like well i shouldn't have done that but i think everybody should quit ticot nobody thinks it's weird that it's a chinese company like why are we doing this everything is i mean so like safety to whatever um anyway the best way to share

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