WEBVTT 1 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:39.200 Thunder sound. Behold, brothers and sisters, gather around as we lament the 2 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:47.359 loss of our dear civilization. This is blurry photo. To those who are 3 00:00:47.399 --> 00:00:52.439 hearing us in the far distant future, perhaps alien archeologists, this represents the 4 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:59.359 pinnacle of mankind's achievements. Repent, repent, and be safe for low. 5 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:03.840 I am David Flora, and I am the broken remains of David Stacko. 6 00:01:04.239 --> 00:01:10.280 I never have an adjective for myself, and I do it to myself every 7 00:01:10.359 --> 00:01:15.159 time, every time I have every opportunity to call myself something and I just 8 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:19.760 say my name. Well, you don't spend as much time thinking about yourself 9 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:26.239 as I do. You're well adjustment, not me. I can't do anything 10 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:33.439 but think of cool adjectives for me. My world's coming to an end. 11 00:01:33.719 --> 00:01:36.079 Oh you and me, brother, you and me? Both? Am I 12 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:42.239 right? I one of these one of these uh episodes. I'm gonna strong 13 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:48.439 arm in an adjective in most product post production, so it's gonna be like, 14 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:57.719 hello, everyone, arm then please let your amigdala do that do the 15 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:06.599 the post. Oh man, well, you better hurry because not much time 16 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:12.680 left. TikTok. I hope everyone's doing all right, in their final days 17 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:19.360 and these the waiting hours of this dream we've called a life. That's right. 18 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:23.919 This uh, this podcast huge, giant, huge, it's it's a 19 00:02:23.960 --> 00:02:29.599 popular thing, and we actually we work really hard to kind of to dig 20 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:32.960 pick at the weirder corners of the of the weird tapestry. But this is 21 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:39.599 this we cannot ignore. No, this is so ubiquitous in culture and our 22 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:46.479 modern age of all the flashes and beeps and bloops. And you can't sneeze 23 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:52.000 on a chicken without hearing about the apocalypse, can't swing a dead cat without 24 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:59.080 hearing about the armageddons. So that's right. This is our pod episode of 25 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:01.879 Oh that is good. That doesn't count, though you still owe me puns 26 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:05.560 later. I got you, all right, I'll pay you in spades. 27 00:03:07.039 --> 00:03:14.319 You'll wish I didn't have. Yes, this week we are discussing in in 28 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:22.080 glorious, miraculous two part omnivision now in technicolor. But that's entirely up to 29 00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:27.599 you in the ability of your imagination to imagine what we're saying in color and 30 00:03:27.719 --> 00:03:31.879 then more than two dimensions, yeah, perhaps even more than three. Whoa, 31 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:35.759 Yeah, let's let's jump in this thing. As you said, two 32 00:03:35.759 --> 00:03:38.000 parters, so we got a lot of ground to come. Oh man, 33 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:39.879 and this is this is huge. This is it. This is us explaining 34 00:03:39.919 --> 00:03:46.599 why you will not be here in a month's time. The apocalypse, that's 35 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:53.360 the old familiar turn for everyone. I think the apocalypse refers to a revelation 36 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:57.639 of something hidden, that's that's a classic meaning or or something of a hidden 37 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:02.919 meaning. Today it's pretty common referring to prophecies about an end to time. 38 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:08.919 Yeah. Usually usually and believe me, we're going to get into everything else. 39 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:13.199 Usually a biblical in nature, yeah, yeah, but a biblical some 40 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:17.439 kind of or some kind of religion. Yeah. Apocalypticism is a fostering of 41 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:21.439 the belief that the world will end very soon. Also the next album by 42 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:27.720 Lady Gaga, Right, and I'm probably within one's own lifetime. Yeah, 43 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:32.199 everyone is positive that they are just they're the last people in line and we 44 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:35.839 are not in this one of the interesting things that I've learned about this. 45 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:41.000 We're not there, We're not like the Chosen One. Like it's every single 46 00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:44.839 generation has dealt with this crushing belief that we are the last people on earth. 47 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:46.879 Right, I want you it makes you wonder though if there was a 48 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:50.279 time, it's just not recorded that people were sitting around like, man, 49 00:04:50.399 --> 00:04:56.439 life's good, nothing to worry about here. Yeah, it's just gonna work, 50 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:00.360 tire and learn an instrument. I think things will just keep continuing as 51 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:03.720 they are. Ye, No change is imminent. Hey, help me build 52 00:05:03.720 --> 00:05:11.399 this temple. We'll call it go Beckley Teppi boo. This is all dealing 53 00:05:11.439 --> 00:05:15.160 with a thing called eschatology, which is the study of the end times. 54 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:20.360 It's concerned with what are believed to be the final events of history or the 55 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:26.439 ultimate destiny of humanity. Eschatology. That is a word. If you drop 56 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:29.800 it in the office, you are instantly an expert. Yeah, no one 57 00:05:29.879 --> 00:05:31.920 knows it. And when you say, you claim the right, so clip 58 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:35.959 and say that's right. A lot of times it will pertain to a prophecy, 59 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:42.360 a messiah, death, judgment, reunion with the divine, which is 60 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:48.120 another way of seeing death and judgment. A lot of apocalyptic literature deals with 61 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:54.399 large scale change. It also can deal with the end of reality as we 62 00:05:54.439 --> 00:05:58.959 know it, the start of something new in terms of living or thinking or 63 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:04.680 existing. He's come via war or violent destruction, a deities intervention, a 64 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:11.399 confrontation between good and evil, or a change in consciousness if you want to 65 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:15.959 raise your vibration. Yeah, this is everyone's This is everyone's big free ticket 66 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:19.120 for ascension. Yeah yeah, there you go. Or if you're the wicked, 67 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:25.480 you're a ticket to descension. Red light, honking horn. And now 68 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:28.519 you don't understand why you're going down to slide. And it's getting hotter and 69 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:31.240 hotter and more humid. It's not even a dry heat. Oh that's the 70 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:39.879 worst. That's just gonna end up in Florida. Just kidding. I lived 71 00:06:39.879 --> 00:06:44.279 in Florida for a while, so you're not kidding at all. The vast 72 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:49.839 majority of escatologies see the apocalypse of something good in the sense that it changes 73 00:06:50.199 --> 00:06:56.519 or cleanses things for you know, a better age to come. Yeah, 74 00:06:56.680 --> 00:07:00.480 no, I'll buy it. I mean, I mean, I see therespective 75 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:02.439 on that. I mean, the Christians had the millennial Age, and there's 76 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:06.839 like a cleansing kind of there's this this repeated theme of a cleansing of the 77 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:14.000 earth or or reductionism to a simpler time. But I think that anyone who 78 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:16.720 got what they quote unquote wanted would be sorely disappointed by what's in the box. 79 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:21.439 I'm going to go through. If you've got your seatbelt on, I'm 80 00:07:21.480 --> 00:07:28.000 going to go through a list of modern apocalyptic scenarios. Oh, thank you. 81 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:30.079 All right, when you say modern, do you what do you mean 82 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:34.439 by that? I mean things that could happen right now to us. Okay, 83 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:39.240 at any time, all right, you ready. I'd like to believe 84 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:44.240 I am probably not only not nuclear warfare, pandemic disease, alien attack, 85 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:48.720 impact of a celestial object, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, divine 86 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:55.319 judgment, climate change, resource depletion, ecological collapse, and the inevitable Nazis 87 00:07:55.399 --> 00:08:01.480 from hollow Earth, any of which could happen. All right now, I'd 88 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:03.879 like to thank you first of all for editing out all of my sobbing. 89 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:11.199 I did not realize things for that bad. It's been three days and I 90 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:18.000 think we're ready to continue. You can't. You can't hear it, but 91 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:22.240 I've grown a beard. No, they can hear it. Yeah, that 92 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:28.079 is one of my in the course of researching this, and as anyone listeners 93 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:33.120 can imagine, the Internet is built for two things. The first and foremost, 94 00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:37.639 as always, is pornography. The second of all is to catalog the 95 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:41.440 ways and means by which our society either could, should, will, or 96 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:46.879 will be saved from its demise. Right, I chose personally to kind of 97 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:50.559 research more of the things on your list that you just read, the things 98 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:54.519 that are very not only could happen, but in some cases are extraordinarily likely 99 00:08:54.600 --> 00:09:00.799 to happen. I like the more tangible threats to my existence, the existence 100 00:09:00.879 --> 00:09:03.960 as a society, and so those are the things that I like to look 101 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:07.600 at. So I did. I did more of my research on the things 102 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:13.279 that you just listed as opposed to like the religious or spiritual, your more 103 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:20.840 traditional apocalypse tie right, the workingman's apocalyptic scenarios. These are the things I 104 00:09:20.919 --> 00:09:28.200 research. Aren't your gram parents apocalypses. These are new and hip some of 105 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:31.679 them. Drink go gurt? Do you drink go gurt or eat it or 106 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:37.159 just choke on it? Why do you get near it? Because you're cool 107 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:43.039 and you're on the go. You probably have two skateboards. So nuclear warfare, 108 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:45.519 we all know, we know what we love it. We right, 109 00:09:45.759 --> 00:09:50.120 trying to listen to all the alien people tell us not to do it. 110 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:54.879 Pandemic disease. They get pretty scary with that, saying what could happen and 111 00:09:54.919 --> 00:09:58.720 how fast? And oh yeah, the transmission rates, the disease modeling. 112 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:03.679 It's a weird balancing act because people when they when they look at the idea 113 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:09.440 of a pandemic virus or bacterial phage or something like that, when people look 114 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:13.399 at those things, they kind of without meaning to, they bring their luggage 115 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:16.440 to the party. If people want to be afraid, if they want to 116 00:10:16.519 --> 00:10:18.440 be like, oh no, we could die at any second, if that's 117 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:22.240 kind of their their aim, it's very easy to say, well, you 118 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:26.960 know, look at the Spanish flu epidemic in the early twentieth century, so 119 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:30.720 bad that it's actually not in history books. People just were done with it 120 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:35.039 and people don't talk about it anymore. But the death rates are phenomenal for 121 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:37.759 it. And one of the reasons why it was so very bad as it 122 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:43.360 was in the run up to World War One, where every large country in 123 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:46.159 Europe and in the US were putting all of their people together, they were 124 00:10:46.279 --> 00:10:50.519 they were barracksing soldiers and moving them around on trains, and so there was 125 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:54.960 a while the world was getting more interconnected too. Exactly, so while the 126 00:10:54.960 --> 00:11:01.320 Spanish flu was a terrible disease, human beings were literally doing everything they could 127 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:05.360 to help it by putting people into these concentrated areas and then redistributing them to 128 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:11.360 more other concentrated areas. I honestly couldn't even think of a more effective way 129 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:15.679 of distributing a disease. Also, you're just coming off of in the Civil 130 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:20.000 War when they were just figuring out to wash their hands and tools and stuff 131 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:24.840 and hygiene, you know. Oh, and the race to isolate the cause 132 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:28.759 of the Spanish flu is fascinating, and I've read a bunch about it. 133 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:33.840 I love reading medical history and it's a cool, fascinating subject on these guys 134 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:37.360 who researched these diseases, and it's so much of it happened at the turn 135 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:41.360 of the twentieth century. But you have to balance those things. Yes, 136 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:43.720 we are we are far more mobile now than we ever were before. But 137 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:48.120 we also have a far better understanding of what makes us sick. There's no 138 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:54.879 guessing. We know very quickly if things are bacterial, or virological, or 139 00:11:54.039 --> 00:12:00.480 even preons. That's a pretty new one. It is. It is. 140 00:12:00.519 --> 00:12:05.919 It's what you get for driving hybrid cars. Notable side effects are a smug 141 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:15.240 sense of self satisfaction and odorless flagelens. But you know, like Chrisfield, 142 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:18.639 Jacob, you know, that's a new classification disease. But our ability to 143 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:24.200 diagnose, like our technology allows us such a faster response to diseases, that 144 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:28.039 while there are things that are still terrifying. I mean, we still have 145 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:33.559 outbreaks of Ebelow or or Marburg, you know, these these awful hemorrhagic fevers 146 00:12:33.559 --> 00:12:37.080 around the world. But we are far better at fighting than than we were 147 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:39.360 before. We would never in a million years say, oh, there's a 148 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:45.120 dangerous flu strain. Well, let's just put all the soldiers here and and 149 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:48.399 and we'll burn some nap the candles and hope that gets rid of it. 150 00:12:48.519 --> 00:12:52.600 Here have a pet monkey, right, you know where we're So those those 151 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:58.519 the risks of a of a more mobile society, a global mobile society, 152 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:01.759 are largely balanced. I mean, we have a world Health organization, we 153 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:07.120 have individual health organizations that do a very good job of cooperating with each other. 154 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:11.240 So while it is very possible that something could spread so quickly through a 155 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:15.080 major metropolitan area, I'm by no means saying oh we're safe. That could 156 00:13:15.120 --> 00:13:18.919 never happen there. We're much better at fighting it, and I feel like 157 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:24.679 that that very strongly mitigates the effect of virus whose means of progression. I 158 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:28.799 mean, we know how viruses replicate, and we can very quickly determine how 159 00:13:28.840 --> 00:13:33.399 effective a virus is and how it does propagate itself. So we're pretty good 160 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:37.200 at We're pretty good at identifying those things early on and sequestering them. Now, 161 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:39.159 there are things that, like I said, preon disease that's very new 162 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:41.720 to us, that's you know, ten years old, fifteen years old, 163 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:45.440 you know, something like that. There's always something that could come out of 164 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:48.679 left field that we've never seen before, or mutate or mutate, absolutely like 165 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:52.799 a new strain of something. But I think personally, I think that we 166 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:56.399 are at a much higher risk, especially in the US, of a badly 167 00:13:56.679 --> 00:14:01.960 done inoculation campaign or something that which is not to say you shouldn't get inoculated, 168 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:07.639 you should get your shots. There was a recent outbreak of meningitis from 169 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:11.320 that. Absolutely, yeah, the leningitis is a good example of that. 170 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:16.600 I think that we're more risk from ourselves than we are from the natural world, 171 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:20.080 which is what the rest of this list discusses. I mean, things 172 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:24.799 like nuclear war are a constant threat, but it's almost its own breaks. 173 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:28.759 Yeah. I mean, we have been as as a global society, as 174 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:33.440 a species, on the brink of nuclear war a handful of times, and 175 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:37.679 we just know how it ends. Everybody knows how it ends, which isn't 176 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:43.120 to say at some point, hopefully never that some complete lunatic would get his 177 00:14:43.200 --> 00:14:48.919 hands on such a weapon. But everyone, every person knows how that ends 178 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:52.039 for everyone. Everyone can now blow up everyone, so it's no point. 179 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:56.039 There's no point in blowing up anybody, right, So I don't think hester 180 00:14:56.320 --> 00:15:03.120 would be to be cool, just chill. I was never like a particularly 181 00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:09.519 globally concerned kid, but I do remember being in junior high in high school, 182 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:13.720 right after the dissolution of the Soviet Union going they did track down all 183 00:15:13.720 --> 00:15:16.799 those trucks with nukes on them, right, they know where all those are 184 00:15:16.039 --> 00:15:20.759 because things were real loosey goosey for a couple of years, and I remember 185 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:26.200 being really concerned about that. The answers, no, Yeah, what do 186 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:28.799 you think about the next one on the list? Alien attack? Alien attack 187 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:33.759 would be awesome, Yeah, I said it. Alien tack would be awesome, 188 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:35.799 because hey, aliens. Other things that would be awesome about it. 189 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:39.360 It wouldn't last long because we wouldn't last long. True, unless they wanted 190 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:43.200 to enslave us. Can't imagine they would. Seems like a lot of work. 191 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:46.360 But on the other hand, it's entirely possible. I mean, we're 192 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:50.600 functionally confined to this planet right now. We can attempt to go to other 193 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:56.759 places. And what's to keep an alien from quote unquote enslavingist just saying hey, 194 00:15:56.840 --> 00:16:00.399 you're all ours now, you just can't leave the planet. Yeah, 195 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:03.639 you know, it gives a territorial grab. You know, what if what 196 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:07.000 if we were to, you know, conquer a country of people that refuse 197 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:11.039 to leave their town, then you just announced that you've they're yours, and 198 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:15.000 no one in the town cares. That could go so many weird ways. 199 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:18.679 Sure I don't well sure, I mean yeah, yeah, impact of a 200 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:23.080 celestial object, I don't think that would happen, Okay, I mean, 201 00:16:23.159 --> 00:16:26.960 I mean the possibility is always there. This planet has been around for a 202 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:30.919 very long time. We've had plenty of time to clear our orbital path. 203 00:16:32.159 --> 00:16:37.000 While we do historically and have received what is I think a six extinction level 204 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:41.639 impacts to this planet. And I know that especially right now, I read 205 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:45.200 a whole article about this, how we are uniquely ill equipped to deal with 206 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:48.600 something like that. Were we to locate a large object heading straight for Earth, 207 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:52.200 I think they would say, well, we have maybe about six months 208 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:55.840 warning on that, and as it stands right now, we actually don't really 209 00:16:55.840 --> 00:17:00.799 have the capability of launching something to intercept that we don't have where we're kind 210 00:17:00.799 --> 00:17:04.480 of between space programs at the moment, but we don't really have the capability 211 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:10.279 of intercepting that. I think that there are certain things that don't merit concern 212 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:15.720 because either they could absolutely happen or they absolutely will never happen, alien attack 213 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:18.720 being one of them. Impact by immedia, I mean, these are the 214 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:22.400 things that are just guided by weird fate. Might might happen right now, 215 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:25.799 It could be happening as we speak and we just don't know it yet, 216 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:30.240 or it could never ever ever happen in our lifetimes. I mean just ever 217 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:33.960 we you know. I mean that's true. Space is big, right, 218 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:38.319 Space is inordinately big, and these impacts are probably fairly common in the early 219 00:17:38.359 --> 00:17:45.559 planetary formation. But a planet does sweep out its orbit and now, granted, 220 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:51.319 in the gigantic celestial universe, as as it is. We're not static. 221 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:53.640 We don't just keep going in the same circle. We don't keep literally 222 00:17:53.640 --> 00:17:56.680 treading over the same ground. You know, the galaxy itself is in an 223 00:17:56.759 --> 00:18:02.000 orbit around a universal core. You know, everything's moving, so we are 224 00:18:02.039 --> 00:18:06.319 always in a different area. But regionally, I think we've largely swept the 225 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:10.559 big players out of the field. And there are some efforts that gets continually 226 00:18:10.599 --> 00:18:14.480 funded worse and worse. But there are efforts to detect near Earth objects, 227 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:18.720 things that will potentially mess with our lives. But I don't put that. 228 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:21.880 That's not one of the things that I concerned myself so much with. Yeah, 229 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:26.680 Hollywood does, yeah, well, yeah, but we fixed it with 230 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:30.039 Morgan Freeman. That's right. Oh yeah, what was it the way it 231 00:18:30.279 --> 00:18:37.079 was? Which one did Morgan Freeman's Deep Impact President Morgan Freeman. Yeah, 232 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:40.960 that was a great one. I the scene where Talione gets obliterated on the 233 00:18:40.960 --> 00:18:44.759 beach, it was awesome. I like TALIONI yeah, but yeah, that 234 00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:51.440 I mean Armageddon. They did so much good scientific research when putting that movie 235 00:18:51.480 --> 00:18:55.160 together, and I was really surprised. I mean they really dotted all the 236 00:18:55.240 --> 00:19:00.759 teas and crossed all the eyes. Yeah, that that was a great, 237 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:06.160 terrible movie. I will say one thing that they got really solid on Armageddon 238 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:12.079 is Russian cosmonauts are absolutely that's crazy. Yeah. When I was in Antarctica, 239 00:19:12.119 --> 00:19:15.759 the Russians have a base there called Vostock, and one of the rules, 240 00:19:15.799 --> 00:19:21.000 one of their training guidelines for cosmonauts is they have to do like this 241 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:25.279 really long stint at the Russian Antarctic station in Vostok, which is not an 242 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:27.279 easy station to live at. And all of those guys come out of that 243 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:33.200 thing bug house nuts. And when I was in McMurdo, when I was 244 00:19:33.240 --> 00:19:36.759 shipping back home, there was a bunch of these Russian guys there who are 245 00:19:36.759 --> 00:19:41.119 also shipping back home. They just finished their prolonged stint and they took a 246 00:19:41.240 --> 00:19:45.079 like twenty four hours for them all to get confined to quarters for just getting 247 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:51.079 drunk and just raising hell and being absolutely bad bit crazy. So that's the 248 00:19:51.119 --> 00:19:53.559 part that they got right in Armageddon. That's my little two bits speech about 249 00:19:53.640 --> 00:20:00.200 Russian cosmonauts. How about cybernetic revolt. Oh see, that's one that I 250 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:04.119 like because that's one that we're building. We are working so hard to make 251 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:08.839 that happen. We are, I mean, and in this absolutely in our 252 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:14.960 lifetimes. Absolutely, these drones. We don't have enough pilots for drones right 253 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:18.720 now. And the way you fix that is by programming the drones to pilot 254 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:25.160 themselves. We already have autopiloting drones, and they you know, like like 255 00:20:25.240 --> 00:20:27.400 the beginning of every great movie. Oh no, we have like an override. 256 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:30.720 We haven't shutdown. It's absolutely going to happen. I mean. And 257 00:20:30.759 --> 00:20:33.720 when I say within our lifetimes, if even if your lifetime is ten more 258 00:20:33.799 --> 00:20:41.039 years, you're gonna see it like we're gonna see autonomous robots, military robots 259 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:45.279 destroying targets, and by targets I mean people right, terminator style. Absolutely, 260 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:48.680 and that I don't think that they're going to become sensient. I don't 261 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:52.200 think it would be like a Skynet thing. Yeah, I mean AI, 262 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:55.720 it kind of falls under that. I think that there will come a point 263 00:20:55.720 --> 00:20:59.039 at which AI is a genuine threat to us. Yeah. But what I 264 00:20:59.079 --> 00:21:03.640 see is when you create a bunch of computer based autonomous systems, someone will 265 00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:06.319 find a way to hack that, someone will find a way to gain control 266 00:21:06.359 --> 00:21:12.039 of that illicitly, and people, right, and people will die. Lots 267 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:15.480 of people will die as a result of that, and I think that the 268 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:18.319 better you arm these things, the more people that will die. Now on 269 00:21:18.359 --> 00:21:25.759 the heels of this technological singularity. That's the good one, that's the best, 270 00:21:25.880 --> 00:21:29.279 that's the best quote unquote apocalypse there is. I mean, when when 271 00:21:29.319 --> 00:21:33.319 there's no like the singularity capitalisque that people talk about. If you've never heard 272 00:21:33.319 --> 00:21:37.079 about it, it's really cool to just google it and just read a few 273 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:40.839 articles here, and there is the belief that we are going to within the 274 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:45.519 next hundred years of our life or maybe longer. I don't know that humans 275 00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:51.119 and technology in the Internet, all these things will fuse in some manner, 276 00:21:51.599 --> 00:21:56.200 whether we find a way to actually download a consciousness into an artificial network, 277 00:21:56.559 --> 00:22:02.480 or we bring the network into ourselves by means of implant that we can interface 278 00:22:02.519 --> 00:22:07.960 with it within our own skulls. Where there is no necessary distinction between you 279 00:22:08.200 --> 00:22:14.160 and your computer and your network, where your body is a largely non necessary 280 00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:18.640 thing. That we are all electrical signals, we travel where we want. 281 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:25.480 It's this this melding of man and technology that people refer to as the singularity, 282 00:22:26.039 --> 00:22:29.680 which sounds pretty damned cool to me. Why that would be considered an 283 00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:33.119 apocalypse? I'm not entirely certain, but I know that anyone who fights it 284 00:22:33.160 --> 00:22:37.400 would have to be rounded up and killed or made into slaves. So people 285 00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:41.200 get on the winning team now be on the right side of history. Phone, 286 00:22:41.319 --> 00:22:44.880 Yeah, exactly. This is not a difficult call to make. How 287 00:22:44.920 --> 00:22:49.480 about dysgenics. Yes, I did not know the phrase dysgenics until today, 288 00:22:49.599 --> 00:22:53.559 but I know exactly what you're talking about, and that is the belief that 289 00:22:53.559 --> 00:22:59.200 that over time, through and in some cases it's poor diet, like we 290 00:22:59.319 --> 00:23:04.599 like the way we eat, the way we um floorhide, but um, 291 00:23:04.720 --> 00:23:11.000 we are changing in for the worse we are. We are every generation is 292 00:23:11.079 --> 00:23:17.920 genetically worse off than the one before through damage, spray tanning, you know, 293 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:22.559 all these things that we are becoming less functional genetically, like our our 294 00:23:22.599 --> 00:23:26.640 actual genome is getting degraded over time. I'm not I am conflicted on that. 295 00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:30.559 I think that, Yeah, what what do you think with with this 296 00:23:30.599 --> 00:23:33.359 one? It's not a it's weird to put it in the apocalypse bucket because 297 00:23:33.559 --> 00:23:37.519 it's not something that happens quickly. Yeah, now, I it sounds like 298 00:23:37.559 --> 00:23:41.519 I probably just shot myself on the foot because it's on the list. But 299 00:23:41.759 --> 00:23:45.839 I was taking the list from a place a site that was you know, 300 00:23:45.960 --> 00:23:49.680 just listing all the possibilities, and I think they were probably thinking long haul 301 00:23:49.880 --> 00:23:52.240 on all this stuff. You know, what are all the things that are 302 00:23:52.279 --> 00:23:57.559 happening right in modern day and this could you know, it could really wreak 303 00:23:57.640 --> 00:24:07.359 havoc upon humanity by basically making the population just functionally inept now. And that's 304 00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:10.119 that's such a hard thing to to isolate. I mean, is that a 305 00:24:10.119 --> 00:24:14.839 cultural ineptitude? Is that a lack of overall like an idiocracy kind of thing, 306 00:24:15.039 --> 00:24:17.680 that's I think what it is. Yeah, it's uh, you know, 307 00:24:18.039 --> 00:24:22.400 m plants, Plants love electro likes you. That's what makes them grow. 308 00:24:22.759 --> 00:24:29.160 Ro likes make you strong, plant hard. Um. I would watch 309 00:24:29.200 --> 00:24:34.000 absolutely, I would watch a show called All My Balls. Um. But 310 00:24:34.119 --> 00:24:37.039 I that's that's a hard thing. Is that a social problem? Is that 311 00:24:37.079 --> 00:24:42.039 an actual biological issue? My belief is that one of the great things about 312 00:24:42.079 --> 00:24:48.279 having the ability to be self aware as humans are that lets us do virtually 313 00:24:48.359 --> 00:24:51.799 anything we feel like, good or bad or indifferent. I think that that 314 00:24:51.880 --> 00:24:55.839 takes the reins of evolution. I don't think that we need to worry about 315 00:24:55.480 --> 00:25:00.640 our genetic evolution anymore because we can literally correct it. We are the only 316 00:25:00.680 --> 00:25:03.559 animals on earth that can say, you know what, this is, how 317 00:25:03.559 --> 00:25:07.279 we're doing it from now on because we don't like the fact that we only 318 00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:11.640 have five fingers on each hand and seven would be way cooler. We can 319 00:25:11.759 --> 00:25:17.039 literally fix that if we are so inclined. So I think if left to 320 00:25:17.079 --> 00:25:21.240 our own devices, yes, and there are some sort of examples of that 321 00:25:21.400 --> 00:25:26.720 North and South Korea. The chronic lack of food in North Korea means that 322 00:25:26.759 --> 00:25:32.319 their medium height, their medium weight for both men and women is significantly lower 323 00:25:32.519 --> 00:25:37.160 than for South Korean men and women. Just so you get, you get 324 00:25:37.160 --> 00:25:41.400 owing to whatever circumstances, in this case, a terrible government, that there 325 00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:45.519 are these regionalized genetic differences, and genetic isn't even the right word. You 326 00:25:45.559 --> 00:25:49.799 know, if these kids had all been fed properly growing up, they would 327 00:25:49.839 --> 00:25:55.559 be stronger and taller, yeah, and smarter. There is also a lot 328 00:25:55.599 --> 00:25:59.079 of cognitive problems that come from malnourishment, and so I think that you're going 329 00:25:59.119 --> 00:26:02.480 to see those things crop up around the world. I don't think that anytime 330 00:26:02.519 --> 00:26:04.400 in the near future we're all going to join hands and fix these things. 331 00:26:04.559 --> 00:26:08.720 Were all going to join hands and turn the Jersey Shore on exactly. I 332 00:26:08.720 --> 00:26:14.319 mean that I think that we here in good old North America will spend more 333 00:26:14.359 --> 00:26:21.519 money on penis pills and things that burn fat, and people in South Central 334 00:26:21.519 --> 00:26:26.039 Asia are still going to need polio vaccines and things like that. How about 335 00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:30.119 divine judgment, We're going to go over that here. Yeah, I think 336 00:26:30.119 --> 00:26:33.559 that that's really I think you did a lot of great work on divine judgment. 337 00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:37.720 I have done everything I can in my life to incur the wrath of 338 00:26:37.720 --> 00:26:41.039 the Lord, our God, whoever you consider that to be so, I 339 00:26:41.079 --> 00:26:42.880 do consider that something of an inevitability. But I think it's going to be 340 00:26:44.000 --> 00:26:48.720 dulled down on a much more case by case basis. Yeah, I think 341 00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:52.799 that I will be singled out for my crimes and punished accordingly. How about 342 00:26:52.799 --> 00:26:56.799 climate change, That again, is something that is absolutely happening. Bad news, 343 00:26:56.839 --> 00:27:03.119 sorry everybody, that's happening lessing. Yeah, ice is melting, and 344 00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:08.480 this the climate change is a magnificently sticky wicket in that it actually starts to 345 00:27:08.519 --> 00:27:14.920 eke into some of our other apocalypses. Ziz APOCALYPTI sure not only do you 346 00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:19.559 get the problems of coastal flooding, crazy rain storms, the amount of energy, 347 00:27:19.880 --> 00:27:22.720 the way that changes the weather patterns on the Earth. You get crazy 348 00:27:22.839 --> 00:27:27.640 storms, which we've already started to get. Coastal flooding. We will lose 349 00:27:27.680 --> 00:27:32.519 cities, portions of the land will be gone forever. See in New Orleans, 350 00:27:32.799 --> 00:27:37.400 yeah, and my Atlantic city. And then the secondary effects of that 351 00:27:37.559 --> 00:27:41.119 when you get a lot of coastal flooding and you get the temperate zone on 352 00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:45.960 the globe becoming broader. It is now warmer, farther north and far south 353 00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:48.480 of the equator, more rain, You get more rain, but that also 354 00:27:48.599 --> 00:27:55.839 increases the range of disease carrying insects. Now, this is actually what I 355 00:27:55.920 --> 00:28:00.640 studied in college. Of the many times that I wasted in the terr classes, 356 00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:03.839 I took. What I ended up with was a degree in insects that 357 00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:10.039 carry infectious disease. And so you see things like dengey fever, yellow fever, 358 00:28:10.200 --> 00:28:15.359 malaria, these things spreading westn Island cephalitis. Absolutely, that's like the 359 00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:18.440 most recent fun thing to hit the US. But these diseases have not been 360 00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:25.440 eradicated. They are at best regionally controlled, but they still kill millions of 361 00:28:25.519 --> 00:28:29.920 people. It is a huge problem. And when these diseases start showing up 362 00:28:29.960 --> 00:28:32.960 in areas that are not equipped to deal with it anymore. That used to. 363 00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:36.880 I mean, the Tennessee Valley Authority drained the entire basin around the turn 364 00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:41.680 of the century, eliminating yellow fever from a huge port from the southeastern US. 365 00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:45.680 When those diseases come back, those areas that haven't seen them and forever 366 00:28:45.799 --> 00:28:49.279 have no ability to combat them, and so you get huge amounts of deaths 367 00:28:49.319 --> 00:28:55.599 from that. And these domino effects from a huge changing climate are so far 368 00:28:55.599 --> 00:29:00.039 reaching. That's just one example. YEA. Even geologically, the redistribution of 369 00:29:00.119 --> 00:29:04.400 that much mass of of a melting polar ice cap, of that much mass 370 00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:11.319 literally deforms the Earth itself and changes the manner in which the tectonic plates move. 371 00:29:11.519 --> 00:29:17.400 It can actually trigger huge cataclysmic earthquakes. And again that's those things happen 372 00:29:17.440 --> 00:29:22.559 on a geological timescale. We'll never see oh tectonic plate fly to this direction. 373 00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:26.359 You know, South American and Africa aren't going to crash into each other, 374 00:29:26.759 --> 00:29:30.680 but you will see more earthquakes. That that those things will happen literally 375 00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:34.359 as a result of global warming, and that the holes that the poles will 376 00:29:34.359 --> 00:29:41.039 open up for sure, absolutely, and we'll all ride our kayaks to safety. 377 00:29:41.240 --> 00:29:44.119 I can already tice that giant and grape they've got white. And for 378 00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:48.640 me, we also have resource depletion and ecological collapse, which I think go 379 00:29:48.759 --> 00:29:52.240 hand in hand in a way. Oh absolutely. I think that China has 380 00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:56.759 had for such a long time limits on their own nation's population to keep the 381 00:29:56.839 --> 00:30:02.160 number of people down. Very few other countries do whatsoever. And we just 382 00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:07.279 keep we just keep breeding, and we are already over pillaging the planet it 383 00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:11.519 is. This planet is not an internal free lunch buffet, right, And 384 00:30:11.559 --> 00:30:14.319 I think that, I mean maybe at Cynical, I don't think it ever 385 00:30:14.359 --> 00:30:17.759 will ever stop. I read a great book by Jared Diamond, the guy 386 00:30:17.799 --> 00:30:21.720 who wrote Gun, Germs and Steel. He wrote a book called Collapse, 387 00:30:21.880 --> 00:30:26.039 and it's about different societies historically on the Earth and how they collapsed, like 388 00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:30.920 what brought them to their end. They were very stable for hundreds of years 389 00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:33.200 and then they ended. Why and how that came about? And one of 390 00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:38.720 the really interesting things is the Polynesian islands in the South Pacific. They had 391 00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:45.240 a huge these giant boats that were the backbone of their society allowed them to 392 00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:48.680 travel between the islands that allowed them to fish in deeper waters to bring in 393 00:30:48.759 --> 00:30:51.920 more food, but they chopped too many of them down. This this one 394 00:30:52.039 --> 00:30:56.960 very specific species of palm tree which is now extinct, that would grow very 395 00:30:56.000 --> 00:31:00.480 fast and they could make these giant boats out of it. And he raises 396 00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:03.720 this amazing question. It's like, what what was the guy thinking as he 397 00:31:03.759 --> 00:31:07.240 cut the last one down? Is he looked around this whole island and saw 398 00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:10.920 but one tall tree left and cut it down. And that, I think 399 00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:15.559 is a perfect example of how people are. People just think it'll work out. 400 00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:18.079 They just think that ze, well, you know, something will come 401 00:31:18.079 --> 00:31:22.160 around the world owes us this. Yeah, this can't be the last one, 402 00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:26.480 but it is. And there are the last one of everything, and 403 00:31:26.599 --> 00:31:30.720 it's if you haven't read it, it's a great book, but it is 404 00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:36.440 as a tragic failing of human beings, regardless of what country or part of 405 00:31:36.440 --> 00:31:41.119 the globe you're from, that we just don't stop, We just don't figure 406 00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:45.039 it out. Absolutely. While there are portions of the population that are very 407 00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:48.160 concerned with that and trying to save it, and the highest of fives to 408 00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:52.759 them, there are still more people who are poor and desperate that just you 409 00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:56.119 know, maybe that last guy, he's not a villain. Maybe is he 410 00:31:56.160 --> 00:31:59.240 cut that tree down? He was crying, but his wife needs food and 411 00:31:59.279 --> 00:32:01.000 his kids are having and if he has this boat, he can go get 412 00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:05.920 more fish. Yeah. It's not even a captain planet. Like, there's 413 00:32:05.960 --> 00:32:10.480 no say, there's no supervillains. There's just poor people who are doing whatever 414 00:32:10.599 --> 00:32:15.119 is available. You know, nobody grows up in Kenya going God and those 415 00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:21.640 elephants. If it's the last thing I do to my last breath, I 416 00:32:21.720 --> 00:32:25.480 shall hunt there. They're there. They are people who just need food and 417 00:32:25.599 --> 00:32:29.960 money, they need to survive in this world, and they end up doing 418 00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:32.640 whatever they can to do it. And that means that there's no more rhinos. 419 00:32:32.759 --> 00:32:37.359 Yeah. Now, this obviously is not a problem for the Nazis in 420 00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:45.920 the Hollow Earth that will eventually come out in their advanced aircraft and destroy destroy 421 00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:50.279 the world for the Fatherland. Yeah, you know what, I think that 422 00:32:51.119 --> 00:32:55.519 one thing that happened when we recorded our Hollow Earth episode was actually a three 423 00:32:55.640 --> 00:33:00.799 parter, the third part talking about the time the Nazis and evaded the Hollow 424 00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:04.839 Earth completely took it over, killed the giants, and turned all the giant 425 00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:09.720 fruit into poisonous bombs and bread the super huge bats to drop upon majors and 426 00:33:09.720 --> 00:33:16.480 the entropolitinarias. Immediately after recording that, we were visited by some reptilian Nazis 427 00:33:16.799 --> 00:33:20.920 who made it quite clear to us that people that we know and love would 428 00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:23.440 be injured to the point of death where we to release Part three. So 429 00:33:23.480 --> 00:33:28.079 we didn't do that, right, So I can sound pretty good authority. 430 00:33:28.200 --> 00:33:31.839 Yeah, hollow Earth Nazis, that's happening. Oh you're you're going for it 431 00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:36.799 now? Huh, Well they showed us. They showed us all their plans. 432 00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:39.920 That's a lie. They there's no such thing as that. Oh now 433 00:33:39.960 --> 00:33:47.119 you're redacting it. Well I just got an email from that. Yeah, 434 00:33:47.160 --> 00:33:52.839 so that's uh, those are all a modern apocalyptic scenario. Well, the 435 00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:57.319 major I'm sure there are some crazy ones that are out there that we haven't 436 00:33:57.319 --> 00:34:00.599 even Uh oh, well there's you know, there's there's one other one that 437 00:34:00.839 --> 00:34:07.839 is phenomenal that is not so imminent or maybe it is Yellowstone National Park. 438 00:34:07.559 --> 00:34:12.960 Yeah, that's supervolcano. Yeah, they were doing some work. They had 439 00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:16.480 some geologists and Yellowstone years back trying to determine how, you know, where 440 00:34:16.559 --> 00:34:20.559 the volcano way is and where the caldera, and they couldn't find the caldera, 441 00:34:20.559 --> 00:34:22.360 and they thought, well, this is really unique. We've got this 442 00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:25.400 huge volcanic area, but we can't find the caldera. Some swoll folks from 443 00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:30.280 NASA sent over some of their satellite imagery because they thought it was cool looking. 444 00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:32.519 You know, there's so many sulfur dioxides and there's yellows and everything, 445 00:34:32.760 --> 00:34:36.840 and they just thought, hey, it was literally a hey, we thought, 446 00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:38.559 you guys think these pictures were pretty cool. You know, you could 447 00:34:38.559 --> 00:34:44.519 make postcards out of them. They send over their their satellite photography and these 448 00:34:44.559 --> 00:34:46.320 guys, you know, it was like the the really great moment in all 449 00:34:46.360 --> 00:34:52.000 those movies where someone just goes a Mother of God, it turns out the 450 00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:59.360 entirety of Yellowstone National Park is the caldera of the volcano. And not until 451 00:34:59.400 --> 00:35:05.360 they saw the satellite imagery they realize the size and scope of the volcano that 452 00:35:05.400 --> 00:35:08.119 they're dealing with. Now, were this too erupt, it would cover all 453 00:35:08.159 --> 00:35:14.840 of North America an approximately one centimeter of ash, everyone within say a thousand 454 00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:20.719 miles, which is a fairly big radius. Dead that would kill all vegetation 455 00:35:20.800 --> 00:35:25.559 North America. Nuclear winter for decades. That would be as close. That 456 00:35:25.599 --> 00:35:30.119 would be a very near thing. That would pretty that would come pretty close 457 00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:34.840 to end the end of the world, right right, that would and it's 458 00:35:34.920 --> 00:35:39.079 in it geologically erupts about every six hundred thousand years or side, and their 459 00:35:39.159 --> 00:35:44.880 last Yeah, her last eruption was six hundred and forty thousand years ago, 460 00:35:45.320 --> 00:35:51.079 So on the bad side, she's definitely due for a booming. On the 461 00:35:51.119 --> 00:35:54.280 plus side, there's a lot of geologists believe that part of what makes Yellowstone 462 00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:58.119 such a fascinating area, you know, the guysers, is that it's a 463 00:35:58.199 --> 00:36:02.800 continual venting of the presstion of gases and pressures. So they think that maybe 464 00:36:02.840 --> 00:36:07.199 that's this is it's far less likely to erupt in the manner it used to 465 00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:12.000 before because it has a more regular venting schedule, right. So it's it's 466 00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:15.519 a heck of a thing to realize that that you've been living on the back 467 00:36:15.559 --> 00:36:19.679 of the giant, terrifying volcano. It's yeah, it is terrifying. Indeed. 468 00:36:20.159 --> 00:36:22.320 Now for those of you who don't know what a caldera is, you 469 00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:25.599 think of your classic volcano, as you know, shooting up into the sky 470 00:36:27.480 --> 00:36:30.119 and then having the little lake of lava, you know, in the ringing 471 00:36:30.159 --> 00:36:34.320 and stuff, and you throw in a virgin in. Now this this one 472 00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:40.840 is actually a massive underground cavern that was hollowed out for one reason or another, 473 00:36:40.880 --> 00:36:45.760 but then filled with magma and the pressure of all that has just been 474 00:36:45.800 --> 00:36:50.760 you know, just continually builds in this in this cavern almost like a balloon. 475 00:36:51.199 --> 00:36:54.920 So you don't want to drill into it to relieve the pressure because then 476 00:36:54.920 --> 00:37:00.519 it would be like sticking a pin. I've just needed to relieve the pressure 477 00:37:00.519 --> 00:37:04.320 in the balloon, right, So you got to find a way to untie 478 00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:07.920 it from the bottom. It's not gonna happen. So that's why this is 479 00:37:07.960 --> 00:37:13.039 so so freaky because this, uh, it throws the world into one of 480 00:37:13.039 --> 00:37:15.239 these, like you said, nuclear winters, you know, where everything there's 481 00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:20.840 just a cloud in the sky that blocks out the sun, which adds you 482 00:37:20.880 --> 00:37:23.480 know, if if anything didn't get killed in the initial heat blast or the 483 00:37:23.559 --> 00:37:29.440 ash, then you've got the clouds that that will blot out the sun. 484 00:37:29.559 --> 00:37:32.360 So nothing grows. Isn't the sulfur gas the gas that comes along with it 485 00:37:34.360 --> 00:37:38.199 the rivers. It's one of the biggest cases in the old worst case scenario 486 00:37:38.599 --> 00:37:44.119 yeah, and sadly enough is one of the more probable ones too. If 487 00:37:44.159 --> 00:37:49.480 you ever read the book or saw the movie The Road, oh this it 488 00:37:49.599 --> 00:37:52.320 may you know something like that would be how life would probably end up. 489 00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:57.719 Yeah, And if you haven't read or seen that and you have a weak 490 00:37:57.800 --> 00:38:00.920 stomach, if you if you have, if you have a medium stomach, 491 00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:05.639 I would advise against or if you just if you're a little bit down in 492 00:38:05.679 --> 00:38:08.639 the dumps, you stay away from it. So this is the part we 493 00:38:08.679 --> 00:38:14.480 just review movies. Now here we go. What's the name of the guy, 494 00:38:14.559 --> 00:38:22.199 Carson McCullum or something, Cormick McCarthy. Cormick McCarthy, Caroline. Yeah, 495 00:38:22.480 --> 00:38:28.199 Cormack McCarthy wrote The Road. Yeah, it's it's pretty um rancho your 496 00:38:28.280 --> 00:38:34.199 soul um anyway, it's said in post apocalyptic times where there's it's it's just 497 00:38:34.480 --> 00:38:39.519 mostly all ash rain all the time, and it's pretty sad um. So 498 00:38:39.880 --> 00:38:45.280 that's uh, that's so some modern apocalypse for you. Let's get in the 499 00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:49.400 old time machine and go back to uh, talk about some eschatologies of the 500 00:38:49.400 --> 00:38:52.599 old major religions. Oh man, there's that word again. I'm not kidding. 501 00:38:52.599 --> 00:38:55.679 People learn the word eschatology drop it on your friends because you know this 502 00:38:55.760 --> 00:38:59.960 is a huge office conversation. Yep, you're gonna be talking about it. 503 00:39:00.239 --> 00:39:02.239 You drop this and people are just like, oh man, he knows. 504 00:39:02.760 --> 00:39:12.280 Yeah. Probably Statistically from what we've heard from RS Buddhist eschatology, Buddhist eschatology 505 00:39:12.320 --> 00:39:16.760 speaks of the appearance of the next Buddha, who's named Maya Trea, preceded 506 00:39:16.760 --> 00:39:22.679 by an age of about five hundred years, which in the Dark Ages was 507 00:39:22.800 --> 00:39:30.559 upped to five thousand years of societal degeneration, which means greed, lust, 508 00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:36.159 poverty, ill will, violence, murder, things like that will be prevalent. 509 00:39:36.760 --> 00:39:42.639 Sound familiar, Yeah, exactly, and everything will be forgotten in terms 510 00:39:42.679 --> 00:39:46.679 of Buddhist teachings, the dharma, the Buddha himself will even be forgotten, 511 00:39:47.440 --> 00:39:53.719 so that when that's all played its its hand, Maya Trea will come back 512 00:39:53.760 --> 00:39:59.760 and go on to teach dharma and bring enlightenment back to this plane of existence 513 00:40:00.199 --> 00:40:06.800 to establish an earthly paradise. Sounds good. Apparently the scripture I read something 514 00:40:06.800 --> 00:40:12.239 about the scripture concerning my Atrea is very much unlike any of the other scriptures 515 00:40:12.920 --> 00:40:17.920 in Buddhist literature. So there's there's a thought that it may have been added 516 00:40:19.199 --> 00:40:23.079 afterwards, or or maybe it's been tampered with somehow to make it more apocalyptic. 517 00:40:23.159 --> 00:40:28.079 And oh, there's there's that weird. There's somewhere a Buddhist at an 518 00:40:28.159 --> 00:40:31.639 editor's desk with giantsagaga and nah nah needs more pizzas. We got to really 519 00:40:31.639 --> 00:40:40.480 reach out and grab them, get their retention. Where's that poker kidsph editor 520 00:40:40.599 --> 00:40:51.280 Buddhists. So the Buddha gave a sermon of the Seven Sons, in which 521 00:40:51.280 --> 00:40:58.079 he described an apocalypse where seven sons would appear as sons as in stars like 522 00:40:58.239 --> 00:41:02.920 the Sun, causing progressive ruin with each Sun that appeared, until the Earth 523 00:41:04.039 --> 00:41:08.280 is basically engulfed by a vast inferno. So everything starts drying up, and 524 00:41:09.199 --> 00:41:15.480 everything starts wilting and dying, and then everything starts catching fire and basically melting 525 00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:22.519 into molten fire. That's really depressing. Well, and it's not even it 526 00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:25.920 doesn't even have the sexiness of a giant meteor impact, like, no, 527 00:41:27.000 --> 00:41:30.400 it's just it just gets warmer. Yeah, and it gets warmer, It 528 00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:34.840 gets warmer. Then you die, but then it still keeps getting warmer. 529 00:41:34.920 --> 00:41:39.119 Yeah, but that one has the number seven in it, which I mark 530 00:41:39.239 --> 00:41:43.280 that on your old post it note. Yeah, exactly. We will come 531 00:41:43.320 --> 00:41:45.079 back to that. I don't know if you ever heard that seven is an 532 00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:50.079 important number and none so none more important than in the end of days. 533 00:41:50.320 --> 00:41:53.679 Right. A lot of these eschatologies a lot of similarities between them. So 534 00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:59.280 just h note, lookout for patterns here there, They're gonna become an atche. 535 00:41:59.400 --> 00:42:00.679 Yeah. This is one of those kind of fun things where a lot 536 00:42:00.760 --> 00:42:07.440 of different cultures and religions have a very similar underlying logic to what's going on. 537 00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:19.119 Yeah, so that's Buddhist. Oh yeah, that had a very Eastern 538 00:42:19.239 --> 00:42:24.880 mystic sound to it that I enjoyed. Uh, let's go into Hindu eschatology, 539 00:42:25.360 --> 00:42:30.199 repeating the word so that you don't forget it. I I'm not around 540 00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:40.199 here. Remember the word seriously, say escatology. So Hinduism believes that time 541 00:42:40.280 --> 00:42:46.639 is cyclical, consisting of cycles known as kalpas and uh follow me here, 542 00:42:46.880 --> 00:42:57.920 Uh, okay one one kalpa is one thousand. Maha yuga's word is made 543 00:42:58.000 --> 00:43:01.599 up. A maha yuga, if if I'm getting this correctly, consists of 544 00:43:01.920 --> 00:43:08.840 four yugas, each broken down into two separate sections lasting many years. But 545 00:43:08.840 --> 00:43:14.519 but different years, uh, a descending order, Like the first one has 546 00:43:14.559 --> 00:43:17.119 a million point like seven years, the next one has a million point three, 547 00:43:17.280 --> 00:43:20.599 the next one has like eight hundred thousand something, you know. Like 548 00:43:21.320 --> 00:43:27.800 so there are four four yugas like that, and they total around four point 549 00:43:27.880 --> 00:43:34.039 three two million years. That's a cycle of of the yugas. They encompass 550 00:43:34.079 --> 00:43:40.760 a beginning of complete purity to dissent into total decay. The first yuga is 551 00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:46.079 when everything is pure and self aware and great. It just gets worse every 552 00:43:46.159 --> 00:43:52.000 day. And and yeah, yeah, I'm depressing. Is that it's believed 553 00:43:52.039 --> 00:43:57.360 we are in the last yuga right now, the Kali Yuga and human kind 554 00:43:57.400 --> 00:44:01.400 will ultimately be destroyed after degenerating and to war and ignorance, and then the 555 00:44:01.480 --> 00:44:06.920 cycle will start a new where everyone will come out and it'll be great. 556 00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:12.400 But at that time, the final incarnation of Vishnu, who at that time 557 00:44:12.440 --> 00:44:16.760 will be called Kalki, will appear on a white horse, amassing an army 558 00:44:16.800 --> 00:44:22.039 of pious souls and destroying evil to begin Satya Yuga, the first of the 559 00:44:22.519 --> 00:44:27.639 yuga cycles, to reset it again exactly. So we're just right now, 560 00:44:27.719 --> 00:44:31.559 just just wallowing in our own filth, Yeah, pretty much, and that 561 00:44:31.719 --> 00:44:37.079 is depressing. According to some Hindu I guess math about it, We've still 562 00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:40.079 got a good like five thousand years to go in here. Some of them 563 00:44:40.119 --> 00:44:43.800 think we're we're right at the end of it, but some think that we've 564 00:44:43.800 --> 00:44:46.239 still got quite a waste. We can still get a lot worse. Right. 565 00:44:46.360 --> 00:44:51.199 And in the Satya Yuga, people live for like one hundred thousand years. 566 00:44:51.599 --> 00:44:54.920 They don't really need like, they feed on spiritual energy, you know, 567 00:44:55.000 --> 00:45:00.960 they're they're one with everything. But then in the Kali Yuga degenerates down 568 00:45:00.960 --> 00:45:06.119 to where people live to be twenty years old at most. They're sexually mature 569 00:45:06.119 --> 00:45:10.480 at five. They're living in trees and caves, and that is that is 570 00:45:10.519 --> 00:45:15.239 such a depressing perspective because no matter where you're at, it's just tomorrow's worse. 571 00:45:16.159 --> 00:45:20.519 Yesterday was better. Think about how enlightening it would be if they had 572 00:45:20.519 --> 00:45:23.440 flipped it. Um, Yeah, you know, we're just yeah, we're 573 00:45:23.519 --> 00:45:27.320 here now and man, but we're tomorrow is going to be better, and 574 00:45:27.360 --> 00:45:30.519 it's my job to make it better. Well that's that's you know what next 575 00:45:30.559 --> 00:45:37.480 next podcast, Dave's problems with Hindus. So the Yuga cycles are the Satya 576 00:45:37.559 --> 00:45:40.559 Yuga, the Traita Yuga, the Devapara Yuga, and the Kali Yuga. 577 00:45:40.719 --> 00:45:49.840 All right, great, that's a Hindu. Nice. I liked where you 578 00:45:49.880 --> 00:45:52.280 got with that one. I feel like I could do a little dance to 579 00:45:52.320 --> 00:45:57.159 it. Let's let's talk about our friends in the Islam and the eschatology that 580 00:45:57.199 --> 00:46:00.239 they have. Yeah, I would very I'm very interested to hear this because 581 00:46:00.280 --> 00:46:02.360 I don't know anything about it, and I'll bet you it's fascinating, you 582 00:46:02.400 --> 00:46:07.039 know, strangely enough, not that far off from from the Christian and oh 583 00:46:07.239 --> 00:46:12.360 no, no, that can't be right. Sorry, it's perfectly balanced and 584 00:46:12.559 --> 00:46:19.760 one percent opposed to the Christian perspective. So it talks about Al Kayama, 585 00:46:20.039 --> 00:46:24.000 or the Last Judgment, and that's described through twelve major signs, along with 586 00:46:24.079 --> 00:46:30.519 many minor signs of the coming judgment. Corruption and chaos reigns. At the 587 00:46:30.559 --> 00:46:35.760 time of al Kayama. There will be a battle between add de Jal, 588 00:46:36.119 --> 00:46:40.280 who is, for all intents and purposes, the Antichrist, and the Machadi 589 00:46:40.760 --> 00:46:45.239 who is the guided One or the redeemer of Islam, and Issa who is 590 00:46:45.719 --> 00:46:52.000 Jesus a resurrection. No, wait, let's let's just not blow past that 591 00:46:52.280 --> 00:47:00.239 that signpost real quick? Do you mean literally Jesus or their religious equivalent of 592 00:47:00.320 --> 00:47:05.000 Jesus literally Jesus. They believe that Jesus didn't actually die on the cross, 593 00:47:05.119 --> 00:47:08.440 he was taken up into heaven where he lives currently, and he's going to 594 00:47:08.519 --> 00:47:15.760 come back to help the Mahadi to deliver the Islamic faithful from That is fascinating. 595 00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:17.880 I knew it. I knew. I didn't know about it, and 596 00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:22.239 I knew I wanted to. Yeah, they don't think he's the Messiah per 597 00:47:22.239 --> 00:47:24.880 se, but they think he's like, Oh, he's a great prophet. 598 00:47:24.920 --> 00:47:28.880 He's a cool guy. He's gonna be the sidekick, and when it all 599 00:47:28.920 --> 00:47:34.159 goes down, we're gonna need him on our side. Someone kicks the door 600 00:47:34.199 --> 00:47:37.639 and on Jesus's office and says, hey, we need you for one last 601 00:47:37.719 --> 00:47:40.199 mission. I told you I was out. I told you I was out. 602 00:47:40.679 --> 00:47:44.880 I haven't been on that I been down there for two thousand years, 603 00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:53.199 and they want me now. Jesus is here. I God, I knew 604 00:47:53.239 --> 00:47:59.440 he'd come back someday. They also have a resurrection of the dead and a 605 00:47:59.519 --> 00:48:01.840 judgment of the righteous and the wicked. At that time, after it's all 606 00:48:01.840 --> 00:48:07.719 said and done. Kind of silly for fighting. Here are some of the 607 00:48:07.760 --> 00:48:12.119 minor signs of the end times. There's a ton of minor signs, but 608 00:48:12.320 --> 00:48:16.519 the pencils ready. Here are the Here are some highlights. Men wear silky 609 00:48:16.559 --> 00:48:23.119 clothes and merry other men. Ding. Women are more numerous than men ding. 610 00:48:23.679 --> 00:48:34.639 Inanimate objects speak ding, sire, tell me a joke. I don't 611 00:48:34.639 --> 00:48:40.559 really know any good jokes none. In fact, you dirty whore. That 612 00:48:40.679 --> 00:48:45.440 was my phone talking. But there's a small spirit in there, or at 613 00:48:45.519 --> 00:48:52.440 least a demon right a gin? Uh So some of the major signs again, 614 00:48:52.920 --> 00:48:58.840 I repeat, we're four for four minor signs. I did not realize 615 00:48:58.880 --> 00:49:04.360 that that might tell phone was a harbinger of the apocalypse. What isn't anymore? 616 00:49:04.559 --> 00:49:09.960 But when I saw the service contract, I can believe it. Major 617 00:49:10.000 --> 00:49:15.400 signs. Mahdi appears on a white horse, the sun rises from the west, 618 00:49:15.760 --> 00:49:21.599 there's a trumpet sound, and humanity dies for forty years, and then 619 00:49:21.639 --> 00:49:25.320 there's a smoke in the sky for forty days, and then a second trumpet 620 00:49:25.360 --> 00:49:30.719 sounds to resurrect the dead, and then they are they're judged, so everyone's 621 00:49:30.719 --> 00:49:35.719 dead at the end of it. Then they all come back. Yeah, 622 00:49:36.239 --> 00:49:39.480 M I need to read more about that because that's interesting. It was really 623 00:49:39.559 --> 00:49:45.960 interesting to read about this stuff. And like I said, strikingly similar to 624 00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:50.360 a lot of other major religions. You know. But you've got a white 625 00:49:50.360 --> 00:49:54.679 horse, which we have already heard. You've got trumpet sounds which dare I 626 00:49:54.719 --> 00:50:02.960 say, we'll hear later thunder sound ominous. So yeah, that's uh, 627 00:50:04.079 --> 00:50:15.119 that's quickly uh Islamic, I don't make you think. I thought that that 628 00:50:15.159 --> 00:50:17.519 would that sound would remind me more of a Laddin, but it didn't. 629 00:50:19.480 --> 00:50:23.960 Great, let's go into h Judaism. Yeah, the end of days is 630 00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:29.159 called and and forgive me for the pronunciation, because a lot of a lot 631 00:50:29.199 --> 00:50:31.440 of places have what it's called. None of them have how to say it, 632 00:50:31.760 --> 00:50:37.639 no phonetic spellings. Ahara Hayamin. I thought that was that sounded great. 633 00:50:38.079 --> 00:50:44.719 Maybe in which tumultuous events will overturn the old world order, creating a 634 00:50:44.800 --> 00:50:51.119 new world order. What when God rules everything and he is recognized by everyone. 635 00:50:52.039 --> 00:50:54.679 The Talmud states that the world as we know it will only exist for 636 00:50:54.719 --> 00:51:00.000 six thousand years, beginning with Genesis in the Bible. Uh. That puts 637 00:51:00.079 --> 00:51:06.159 the end of time around two thousand, two hundred and forty got a ways 638 00:51:06.159 --> 00:51:10.239 to go, m the main tenants of the end days. The Jews will 639 00:51:10.320 --> 00:51:16.039 return to Israel. God helps Israel defeat it to enemies. A third temple 640 00:51:16.239 --> 00:51:22.079 in Jerusalem is built. A Jewish Messiah leads the people in a battle against 641 00:51:22.199 --> 00:51:28.840 Gog, king of Magog. At the Battle of Armageddon, the chauffar sounds, 642 00:51:28.960 --> 00:51:32.559 which is a ram's horn. The dead are resurrected and they are judged. 643 00:51:34.559 --> 00:51:37.000 That's that's basically it for I've been to a few funerals where they blew 644 00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:43.199 a chafar. Yeah, so again we got we've got the a horn sounding. 645 00:51:43.400 --> 00:51:45.280 Yeah, it might as well be a trumpet. We get. We 646 00:51:45.320 --> 00:51:50.360 get Armageddon and they're Gog and Magog. That one comes up some the dead 647 00:51:50.440 --> 00:51:52.960 resurrected and judged. Yeah, now the Gog and Magog we're gonna get. 648 00:51:53.000 --> 00:51:58.239 We're gonna come back around to that again later when we get to the kissing 649 00:51:58.280 --> 00:52:02.280 cousin of Judaism. Chris Chanity, I ever heard of it, um, 650 00:52:02.320 --> 00:52:07.920 But yeah, again, there's so many similarities here. It is. It 651 00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:10.199 is a little, it's it's it's fascinating and it's all I mean is it. 652 00:52:10.239 --> 00:52:14.599 Does it seem depressing at the same time that there there is such an 653 00:52:14.599 --> 00:52:21.079 extraordinary amount of common ground, even theologically, across these these beliefs. Depressing, 654 00:52:21.280 --> 00:52:24.719 Yeah, yeah, because because this is such a point of contention for 655 00:52:24.800 --> 00:52:30.800 everyone. It's just I don't know, it's like saying, I'm mad at 656 00:52:30.840 --> 00:52:34.280 you for wearing a two shirt. My two shirt is better, right, 657 00:52:34.719 --> 00:52:38.480 And and and the thing that is truly sad is that I would imagine both 658 00:52:38.519 --> 00:52:42.559 sides are like, yeah, yeah, we're at the end of the days. 659 00:52:42.760 --> 00:52:45.599 We have to raise an army to fight you. And they're like, 660 00:52:45.639 --> 00:52:50.360 that's what we're saying too. Like the everyone everyone thinks it's the other guy. 661 00:52:50.679 --> 00:52:52.760 They have to be fighting again. Yeah, that's true. And I 662 00:52:52.840 --> 00:52:58.679 went really quickly through through these tenants and here, of course it's it's stretched 663 00:52:59.000 --> 00:53:02.960 out quite a bit um within there. But these are these are the main 664 00:53:04.039 --> 00:53:07.960 highlights. And and again we see these over and over. They're they're the 665 00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:20.239 same things that come up a lot. And that's uh, that's Jewish eschatology. 666 00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:25.840 That's awesome. So what do you got next for us on our on 667 00:53:25.880 --> 00:53:31.400 our international globe trotting tour of cultures? How about standing in the Middle East 668 00:53:31.400 --> 00:53:37.280 and getting some Zoroastrianism. Oh that's exciting. Are you sure that's how that's 669 00:53:37.320 --> 00:53:44.679 pronounced. I've been told. So this is the oldest eschatology and recorded history. 670 00:53:44.920 --> 00:53:47.239 Oh see, now that there we go. So this one's right and 671 00:53:47.760 --> 00:53:51.960 true. This is the real one. This is basis the basis from many 672 00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:55.960 of the major religions uh, Christianity, Judaism, in Islam. The end 673 00:53:57.000 --> 00:54:01.239 of days uh happens when days are shorter. The land gets barren, men 674 00:54:01.280 --> 00:54:07.360 are deceitful and vile. A dark cloud makes the whole sky night, and 675 00:54:07.559 --> 00:54:12.840 it will rain more noxious creatures than winter. There's a guy by the name 676 00:54:12.880 --> 00:54:16.400 of sal Shunt, the man of Peace, who battles the forces of evil 677 00:54:16.480 --> 00:54:22.400 and triumphs by condemning them to an eternal existence in molten metal. And the 678 00:54:22.440 --> 00:54:28.559 final judgment will then commence with a resurrection and souls will be reunited with God 679 00:54:28.599 --> 00:54:34.400 to live in immortality. That's amazing. I don't know anything about Zarastrianism, 680 00:54:34.440 --> 00:54:38.519 but that's so, that's the oldest one. So it's the right one that 681 00:54:38.559 --> 00:54:42.559 works, right, this one, This one will get into later. I 682 00:54:42.599 --> 00:54:49.400 love that this mega episode is going to birth so many many babies of stuff 683 00:54:49.400 --> 00:54:53.960 to talk about later. Zarastrianism in particular is right along the lines of the 684 00:54:53.960 --> 00:55:00.639 Ananochi, which I want to talk about eventually, the Anna Nachi creatures who 685 00:55:01.079 --> 00:55:08.760 may have created mankind to harvest gold for them, monoatomic gold. Zerastrianism is 686 00:55:08.800 --> 00:55:14.840 a Mesopotamium. So yeah, there's there's a lot to this um that we 687 00:55:14.840 --> 00:55:16.840 we can cover later. Yeah, ably, Yeah, I love it when 688 00:55:16.960 --> 00:55:22.519 when these things raise as many, if not more questions and then we put 689 00:55:22.519 --> 00:55:25.119 to rest. But in this one we also we get another resurrection. We 690 00:55:25.199 --> 00:55:30.880 get one dude coming in saving the day kind of thing. Lone Ranger sands 691 00:55:30.960 --> 00:55:35.760 Tonto. I thought, I thought it was really interesting. They mentioned a 692 00:55:35.880 --> 00:55:38.960 dark cloud makes the whole sky night. Yeah, you just like the smoke 693 00:55:39.159 --> 00:55:45.360 and it will rain more noxious creatures than winter. That that sounds pretty nuclear 694 00:55:45.760 --> 00:55:54.039 winter to me. Yeah, absolutely cool. So that's zero. Okay, 695 00:55:54.119 --> 00:55:59.199 Now I know that you just made that one up, because I mean, 696 00:55:59.320 --> 00:56:04.559 was that was that an actual cultural Zorastrian sound? Part of it was Gungham 697 00:56:04.599 --> 00:56:10.000 style. I thought there was a reason I started dancing. Oddly enough, 698 00:56:10.159 --> 00:56:16.960 somebody has thrown out there that Gungham style was mentioned in a Nostradamus prophecy that 699 00:56:17.239 --> 00:56:22.960 the horseman from the East will be followed by nine zeros and the end will 700 00:56:22.960 --> 00:56:27.440 come or something like that, and then it shows like him doing that little 701 00:56:27.480 --> 00:56:32.679 horse dance and then one billion views on his video. This is this is 702 00:56:34.599 --> 00:56:42.159 I just uh, I just stole the pie off the seal. Oh, 703 00:56:42.239 --> 00:56:46.440 that is awesome to it. I got one more Norse eschatology, and before 704 00:56:46.519 --> 00:56:51.800 before I think we should break and go crack into some of the heavy hitters. 705 00:56:51.920 --> 00:56:57.039 Right, So Norse mythology, you've got a strong winter that comes on 706 00:56:57.159 --> 00:57:00.000 called fimble Winter, and that brings disorder and war to people of mid Guard, 707 00:57:00.360 --> 00:57:06.920 which is Earth basically, and that happens just before Ragnarok. And Ragnarok 708 00:57:07.119 --> 00:57:09.480 is the twilight of the gods or the end days of the gods. Also 709 00:57:09.519 --> 00:57:15.119 the coolest sounding of all the ends of days. Right, the gods all 710 00:57:15.159 --> 00:57:21.480 all get together in battle against the forces of chaos led by Loki and some 711 00:57:21.559 --> 00:57:29.239 monsters and giants, and yet don't forget the yoting and basically it's a huge 712 00:57:29.239 --> 00:57:32.679 fight. Everybody dies and the world is torn asunder. The Earth ends up 713 00:57:34.079 --> 00:57:39.320 sinking into the sea, and eventually land reappears and there are some survive, 714 00:57:39.400 --> 00:57:45.159 a couple of surviving gods and a man and a woman that survive to repopulate 715 00:57:45.199 --> 00:57:50.760 the earth and they live in basically a golden time from down That is unique. 716 00:57:51.079 --> 00:57:53.639 We have not heard that one yet. Yeah, where it's almost like 717 00:57:53.800 --> 00:57:57.599 the beginning is put at the end for this week. Yeah, it's just 718 00:57:57.639 --> 00:58:01.079 the reset of everything. I love what happened in in Norse mythology just in 719 00:58:01.079 --> 00:58:06.719 general, but for Raging Rock in particular. The final fight is, uh, 720 00:58:07.079 --> 00:58:09.719 it's just a mega Yeah, it's all your favorite stars and the giant 721 00:58:09.760 --> 00:58:15.480 cage match. It's awesome. Uh, We're going to take the Earth and 722 00:58:15.639 --> 00:58:23.880 submerge it into the CC. But there's all kinds of imagery in there. 723 00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:30.440 You've got the u Rman Gander, the world serpent comes out and Thor kills 724 00:58:30.519 --> 00:58:43.159 it, and then it's it's noxious Thor versus Located versus Yarned and garm see 725 00:58:43.199 --> 00:58:54.519 the Flaming Sword of s. Yeah, so that's that's that's pretty that's one 726 00:58:54.519 --> 00:58:59.840 of the most badasses that is. That is that is the the guy playing 727 00:58:59.840 --> 00:59:01.960 a guitar on a motorcycle. But of all of these that I've heard, 728 00:59:02.079 --> 00:59:07.599 also, not much to do with with mankind. This is yeah, mostly 729 00:59:07.760 --> 00:59:12.159 gods U in this, sir. We wrecked your house with our brawl. 730 00:59:14.760 --> 00:59:17.800 We're still alive. Can we crash? Yeah? So that's uh, that's 731 00:59:17.920 --> 00:59:28.599 north. You put the guitar in it because it rocks. And a motorcycle 732 00:59:28.760 --> 00:59:31.840 Mmm, I did that to myself. Let's call it today for for now, 733 00:59:32.079 --> 00:59:37.679 I need a nap with so much. You need to to go and 734 00:59:37.719 --> 00:59:40.639 think about all the sins that you've committed. No, you go think about 735 00:59:40.679 --> 00:59:45.199 what you've done. Oh that's awesome. We got some some part one puns. 736 00:59:45.559 --> 00:59:50.920 All right, let's do it. I got a big al Kiamas going 737 00:59:50.920 --> 00:59:54.440 out of business sale. Everything must go. What's the name, big al 738 00:59:54.480 --> 01:00:04.159 Kayamas, big alcay. This is going out of business sale. I judge 739 01:00:04.199 --> 01:00:10.960 these prices to be fair. What do you got You're gonna you're gonna hate 740 01:00:10.960 --> 01:00:17.760 to love this one. I've got a street car service named trolley Yuga. 741 01:00:20.559 --> 01:00:22.280 I like that. How long does it take you forever to get there? 742 01:00:23.559 --> 01:00:30.519 Each ride is incrementally shorter than the one before it. Okay, I've got 743 01:00:30.559 --> 01:00:35.679 one. Um. This is a judaic internet joke site called Hilaria hyamme. 744 01:00:37.199 --> 01:00:44.159 It's mostly uh, just meme jokes. It's like inger it is, but 745 01:00:44.239 --> 01:00:52.760 it's for judaic jokes. Hilaria, hyamme, I've got one more. Oh 746 01:00:52.760 --> 01:01:01.719 sweet, I've got a gentleman's club called Maya playa not maya tria, maya 747 01:01:01.760 --> 01:01:08.000 playa that again a week dismount. It's a pun. What do you want? 748 01:01:08.559 --> 01:01:14.440 We're just lucky to make it off the horse. We actually got a 749 01:01:14.480 --> 01:01:17.920 pun this week. Yes, sweet, delicious puns. Here's the pun sound 750 01:01:27.920 --> 01:01:31.639 triumph of children. Children, They're so happy as you see you guys, 751 01:01:31.679 --> 01:01:36.800 you you make children happy to send punts in. This one is from Kentucky 752 01:01:36.920 --> 01:01:45.519 native. Hey what hola hola hola Kentucky go bowling Green. I don't know 753 01:01:45.559 --> 01:01:49.639 anything about Kentucky. There is a bowling Green and Kentucky. It's good enough. 754 01:01:49.960 --> 01:01:52.840 Um, this is uh. This is a pun based on our channeling 755 01:01:52.880 --> 01:02:00.599 episode Sweet and it says it's a lamp reading shop called light to medium. 756 01:02:00.719 --> 01:02:07.519 Well done. That one that one bites off a couple puns in the same 757 01:02:07.639 --> 01:02:13.440 Yeah it does. That's a compound pun. Well done. Yeah you just 758 01:02:13.760 --> 01:02:17.400 yeah, you just elevated our game. Thank you. This is exactly that. 759 01:02:17.599 --> 01:02:21.559 That's that's what we wanted to see that want. That's that's how we 760 01:02:21.679 --> 01:02:27.119 learn. If you have any questions about anything that you've heard today, or 761 01:02:27.280 --> 01:02:31.440 perhaps would you like to correct any glaring inaccuracies about our quick cliff notes of 762 01:02:31.480 --> 01:02:36.239 your religious beliefs? Right, please tell us because we don't have to be 763 01:02:36.360 --> 01:02:38.800 right, We just prefer to be right. Yeah, we would love that. 764 01:02:38.920 --> 01:02:43.039 This is a This is a dense cookie to be gnawn on here. 765 01:02:43.079 --> 01:02:46.559 So if you have any corrections for us or anything to add in there that 766 01:02:46.559 --> 01:02:51.079 that you think is cool, send it our way via that contact form on 767 01:02:51.119 --> 01:02:54.440 blurry photos dot org. Huh like us on Facebook? Please? Yeah, 768 01:02:54.519 --> 01:02:59.119 because we like you. We like you, We'll like whatever you want. 769 01:02:59.400 --> 01:03:01.639 Yeah, do you have a beef jerky podcast? Because I want to hear 770 01:03:01.639 --> 01:03:06.679 about it? That would be awesome. And uh yeah, subscribe on the 771 01:03:07.199 --> 01:03:09.440 iTunes. We're available on iTunes. We're the only blurry photos on iTunes. 772 01:03:09.440 --> 01:03:13.119 Did you know that there's no even no one even just trying to touch us 773 01:03:13.280 --> 01:03:16.079 searching. We're not lying. You can actually just put in blurry and we 774 01:03:16.159 --> 01:03:20.280 come up like when it auto feels it's great. It makes me feel important 775 01:03:20.320 --> 01:03:22.280 and that's what I like about it. For now, though, we will 776 01:03:22.360 --> 01:03:28.159 leave you I glaring questions about what's coming next. Yeah, just sit there, 777 01:03:28.360 --> 01:03:31.159 just hold tight and don't worry, baby, We're coming back. We'll 778 01:03:31.199 --> 01:03:37.360 be back. I am the inestimable David Stecco. I said that first, 779 01:03:37.400 --> 01:03:39.360 and I'm drawing it out so as to give you time to think of some 780 01:03:39.440 --> 01:03:45.440 excellent adjectives. David Flora, and your time is out. I'm the inconceivable 781 01:03:45.559 --> 01:03:51.800 David Flora. Yeah, next time, we're gonna hit you with some Christian 782 01:03:51.920 --> 01:03:58.840 eschatology and the big One, the Big and Officers, the South American elephant 783 01:03:58.880 --> 01:04:01.119 in the room, h