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.
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=URQF9KkbU7s
Nostradamus 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=Lsrc0NHE5Fo
https://www.crystalinks.com/quatrains.html
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Welcome to doomed to fail. And I am Taylor, joined by Farz
>> Taylor: In the matter of the people of state of California versus ornithal James Simpson, case number ba zero nine six. And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your.
>> Farz: And we are live. Taylor, would you like to introduce us? I remembered that we have two introductions.
>> Taylor: Yeah.
>> Farz: Are you impressed?
>> Taylor: I'm super impressed.
>> Farz: Thank you.
>> Taylor: 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 Farz. Farz, how are you?
>> Farz: I'm good. Guys, we really want to get rich and famous. Please, please, please tell your friends. Please tell your friends, 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 doom to fill mugs.
>> Taylor: Perfect pitch. It's exactly the right time to bring that up. Great.
>> Farz: I am otherwise doing well.
Taylor: I am not endorsing what's going on in America right now
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.
>> Taylor: 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.
>> Farz: and what is going on in America right now?
>> Taylor: Just like the giant chitter that we're living in right now.
>> Farz: 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 attention. It was something really funny like that, but I don't know exactly the word words were.
>> Taylor: Yeah, it's a. It's going to be an interesting couple of months.
I'm going to the White House in two weeks for a personal tour
oh, but I am actually speaking of America. did I tell you I'm going to the White House in a few weeks? What, for, like, just for, like, the personal tour? Like the civilian tour? Nothing special. But, like, 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, like, two weeks.
>> Farz: No way. So is this just like a family trip to DC?
>> Taylor: Yeah, we're going to Annapolis, and, we're gonna get, like, an Airbnb by, like, the water, and we're going to do that, and I'm gonna see my brother, and I'm gonna see, my husband's family, and then I have to work, like, I have to, like, be around for work, but I'm gonna take one day off, and we're gonna go to DC because I really wanna take the kids to DC. I want them to, like, go to the museums and stuff. There's so much to do. It's gonna be gross and, like, very hot and humid. But, 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 a stick, so I'm super excited.
>> Farz: You know, it's interesting because every time I go to DC, I always myself, why don't I actually act like a tourist and enjoy this?
>> Taylor: Yeah.
>> Farz: It was literally the last time was the first time I ever did. It was just by some fluke that somebody I was with 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 never? It's. It's so. The grandeur of. It's just really, really impressive. So that's cool.
>> Taylor: Yeah. Yeah. So I'm excited.
>> Farz: Awesome. Very, exciting. so you said that's two weeks from now, right?
>> Taylor: Yeah.
>> Farz: Cool. One week. You're in Annapolis.
>> Taylor: Yep.
>> Farz: Nice.
>> Taylor: Nice.
>> Farz: Fun little trip. cool.
Taylor: I'm going to talk about Nostradamus today
Well, we go ahead and kick things off. I think you go first today.
>> Taylor: I do, I do, I do. and I am ready. I was typing up to the minute as I am wants 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.
>> Farz: And, I mean, some of it was good stories.
>> Taylor: Yeah. But, like, a lot of it was rough, you know? And, so I want 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?
>> Farz: Jesus? Buddha.
>> Taylor: I mean, like, someone who could see the future.
>> Farz: Nostradamus.
>> Taylor: Yes.
>> Farz: Nice.
>> Taylor: And we talk about Nostramus.
>> Farz: Very exciting.
>> Taylor: 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 see if this is true. there's. The history channel is wild these days. So I was, like, watching this history.
>> Farz: The History channel.
>> Taylor: Jesus. It's unbelievable. Like, I'm watching these. These nostradamus 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 Nostradamus as well, you know? So 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 30,000,000th 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, put them upside down, then George H. Bush is the antichrist.
>> Farz: I'm like, taylor, that is the exact episode I watched, like, decades ago. Because the second you said the History Channel, there was something about the Twin Towers, and it was just like, we'll talk about that. Okay, yeah, we'll go into it. But, you're right, but my impression of all this is like, it's like horoscope stuff. It's like if you just extrapolate far enough out, anything is true.
>> Taylor: 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 feel like the first time I really heard about Nostradamus was after September 11, because there was that fake one around where it was like, two brothers will fall in the new city that wasn't real. That wasn't even, like, a real one. But, like, we'll talk about September 11, 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 N's are ten and the I's are a 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 in something, you can spell anything. You know? It's like, if you like, what is it? The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog that has every letter in it.
>> Farz: Right?
>> Taylor: And so, like, if I wrote that down, I could predict literally anything, because I have all the letters available to me.
>> Farz: Totally.
>> Taylor: So.
Let's talk about who Nostradamus was and how he predicted things
So first, let's talk about who Nostradamus was, and then we'll talk about some of his fun quatrains and things that we can, talk about how he predicted things.
>> Farz: What is a coltrane? I remember that, too.
>> Taylor: Yeah. I'll tell you in a little bit.
>> Farz: Okay, we'll get to it.
>> Taylor: so Michel 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 Croquis, 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.
>> Farz: Yeah, no kidding. What a cool name.
>> Taylor: oh, it's Pierre notre Dame. Give me some cigarettes, you know? so, 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, 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. it was closed because of the plague, so he lives in, like, a rough time.
>> Farz: if I recall, it's considered the worst time in history to be alive.
>> Taylor: 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, like, 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?
>> Farz: I thought you were going 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.
>> Taylor: By accident, you know, being like, well, tell the. 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?
>> Farz: Right, right.
>> Taylor: So you're not astronomer, 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 for washing their hands. You know? And there's always the guy who's like, maybe we should wash our hands before we're, like, wrist 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 talked 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.
>> Farz: I don't get, like, how humans were so filthy.
>> Taylor: It seems pretty obvious to me that you don't want to be actively dirty.
>> Farz: This sounds probably perverted, but my head instantly goes to sex. I'm like, how did anybody. How did anybody. Every consideration, you just have, like, a.
>> Taylor: Constant Uti, plus every other syphilis and every other disease, everyone's just, like, gross. And, like, besides the dirt, I mean.
>> Farz: 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 ahead smelling out. I don't know. I don't know.
>> Taylor: Yeah, I mean, I feel like if we went there, we'd be like, I can't do this. Yeah.
>> Farz: They probably think we're freaks because we're not covered in, like, slime.
>> Taylor: 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.
>> Farz: Like, burn him. Witch.
>> Taylor: Exactly. Like, 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.
>> Farz: Yeah.
>> Taylor: You know? 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, 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 of vitamin C, and vitamin C fights infections. So that also, like, accidentally helped as well.
>> Farz: Makes sense.
>> Taylor: 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?
>> Farz: Like, I don't think emergency does anything for me.
>> Taylor: I don't think. I think it's like.
>> Farz: I think it's a placebo.
>> Taylor: I think so, too.
>> Farz: Okay.
>> Taylor: More of similarly. Yeah, you know what I mean?
>> Farz: You. You all heard it here first, people.
>> Taylor: I think you heard it a long time ago on the news, but we are reiterating it. Yes, you did catch that.
Having a job during college is my villain origin story
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 Montpelier. I'm so sorry. whatever. You know what I mean? but because he had had a job as an apothecary, he got kicked out of the university because you weren't supposed to have had a job, because university was for people who had never had jobs. It was like, more like a genteel place. and then also, just having a job during college is my villain origin story, because people were, like, some of the bitchiest stuff to me about, like, having to have a job.
>> Farz: What? What? Like, what did you do?
>> Taylor: Like, I just always had to have a job because I didn't have any money, and my m parents never were able to give me any money. And so I was at 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.
>> Farz: What was your job?
>> Taylor: I worked at 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. But 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 out in Italy, and I have to get a job. But, like, thank you.
>> Farz: I, 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 bank of America. How can I help you? You see so much weird shit doing that. Like, people who were, like, scamming people, people sending in. There were so many times when, like, somebody was sending, like, an id to, like, cash a check. I was like, this is, like, an obviously fake id. We're. We're taking possession of this and calling the police. And then people just, like, start really cool.
>> Taylor: They have, like, a dead body in the. In the, seat being like, he says, it's fine, dude.
>> Farz: 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. It just smelled like urine.
>> Taylor: Oh, no.
>> Farz: And we're like, oh, my God, he just died. And so they had to come room with him.
>> Taylor: Wow.
>> Farz: That's nothing to do with your Nostradamus story. But I also had to work during college, so I can.
>> Taylor: And I think it gives you character is part of my point.
>> Farz: Yeah, that's why we're so hard working.
>> Taylor: 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's happening at this time and for being a heretic, but they let him out. There's, 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.
>> Farz: Amen.
>> Taylor: M. 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 hobbies, and he starts to write. And, one of the things that he does is kind of get into the occult. So he starts to do these predictions and talk about what could happen. And he writes a book called an almanac, which is like, kind of like a, this is what's gonna happen in the next year. Like, every year, he'll write an almanac. 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.
>> Farz: I don't, I don't agree with that because an almanac is supposed to be historical referential data for the future. Actually, I've, I actually do use almanacs every now and then, and he's not.
>> Taylor: 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.
Use an almanac to estimate what the predictable weather might look like
>> Farz: Got it.
>> Taylor: Use a farmers almanac.
>> Farz: 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, the only way you know is through an almanac.
>> Taylor: Totally. That's not what he was doing. But that makes sense that you got it.
>> Farz: Did I throw you off by saying I use an almanac?
>> Taylor: I was laughing. I'm like, do you use it for your crops? Like, what do you need? But that totally makes sense.
>> Farz: There you go.
>> Taylor: So he, people loved, loved this. 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. again, it's a very hard time to be alive. Like, this seems like a nice break to read this and try to think about it. 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 Adelphi used to do.
>> Farz: I don't remember that.
>> Taylor: Which is hilarious, because that's not what he did. 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. 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 practicing magic, then he was okay. So he didn't get inquisitioned.
>> Farz: I wouldn't even. I, won't even go near it. Like, why even dabble a little bit? Yeah. Why even be, like, close to an accusation? Accusation during the inquisition?
>> Taylor: Totally. I think he's just trying to find something to do and, like, wants to.
>> Farz: Be worse time to be alive, you know?
>> Taylor: 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 the 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 like if you know you're gonna die, you know you're gonna die.
>> Farz: Yeah, I feel like I'm gonna die a lot. Like, sorry. Sorry. I don't feel like I'm gonna die, but, like, I know when it's, like, okay, bedtime is probably gonna be in about 2 hours. Cause I already feel that, like, my eyes are getting heavy.
>> Taylor: Yeah. So that's his life.
Paul's big work is the prophecies, which is a collection of 942
Let's talk about his works. His big work is the prophecies, which is a collection of 942 quatrains. The 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. It's like a four line prediction. Each one is four lines. That's why it's a quatrain. Four.
>> Farz: Got it.
>> Taylor: Okay. There are 942 over ten centuries. So a century is actually. Is just, like, a collection of 100 of them. One collection is 42 instead of 100. I don't know why, but that's. That's why there's 942. He got here by, like, reading a lot. He loved ancient history. He loved, like, learning about, like, ancient gods. There's other predictions from, like, saints and things that he, like, copied. He copies them from other languages. So it's not all brand new. He didn't make it all up, but he's kind of, like, amalgamating things. He makes it look like he made them all up.
>> Farz: Right.
>> Taylor: Basically, another thing that he talks a lot about, he says things like Mars and Neptune and Jupiter, and then in, the History Channel, they're like, he's 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.
>> Farz: But wait, what was he saying?
>> Taylor: He says, like, mars, a lot like, mars, will rise, but he's talking about the gods, not like the plan.
>> Farz: 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?
>> Taylor: Good. Recall. Recall. Who knows? some of the things he said that are, like, a little creepy is like, he does. Some of his Paul trains have things like giant metal beasts, or, like, giant metal beasts will come out of the sea, and they're like, well, it's definitely a submarine, or, like, definitely a, a car or some sort of machine that 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, 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?
>> Farz: Yeah, I can see that.
Taylor: Let's look at some predictions that have actually happened
>> Taylor: 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 VII. 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 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 II, 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 he got stabbed in the eye and in the throat. So two wounds and took ten days for him to die, which sounds fucking terrible. So that's, like, kind of happened.
>> Farz: Okay. But if you were actually able to predict things, just fucking say it.
>> Taylor: No, I know.
>> Farz: I mean, that's the part of it where it goes back to the horoscope stuff. It's like, so why don't you just say that he was wearing a golden. This guy's gonna wear a golden helmet. Get stabbed in the eye.
>> Taylor: Totally. No, totally. And then, like, it says, they say that she had tried to tell him not to do this joust. 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.
>> Farz: No, you shouldn't. You should never change history.
>> Taylor: You should. You should save Abraham Lincoln.
>> Farz: We don't know what happens if you change history. Like, never change history.
>> Taylor: I know you haven't read it, but, Stephen King wrote 11 22 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 acquired by Canada. Everyone's a communist. Like, all this stuff happens, you know.
>> Farz: 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.
>> Taylor: 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.
>> Farz: Okay, let's try it.
>> Taylor: 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.
>> Farz: Come on, taylor, you have some faith in me.
>> Taylor: That was pretty easy.
>> Farz: Okay. Yeah, exactly. The great fire of London.
>> Taylor: Yes, indeed. 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. There's a lady super specific. Yeah. 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, 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 the Bible. And he talks about the translations and things like that. And one thing that he says is, like, there's 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.
>> Farz: You heard it first. Taylor is the Antichrist.
>> Taylor: Not the. But a. There isn't one. It's not a thing. But, 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.
>> Farz: I only know that they call George W. Bush the Antichrist. The guy who literally, just, like, paints watercolors all day.
>> Taylor: If you take this word and you took the first two letters, make them lowercase, flip them upside down, and then squint, it kind of looks like George Bush.
>> Farz: Our politics is so insanely. Every. Everyone is the Antichrist.
>> Taylor: They said that about Obama.
>> Farz: They called Obama the Antichrist.
>> Taylor: I know what he did.
>> Farz: What did he do? He wore a tan suit.
>> Taylor: One day, one time. Never forget.
Taylor: Okay, who do you think is the Antichrist
Never forget. Okay, I'm gonna read it to you, and you tell me, who do you 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.
>> Farz: yeah, that's Nero.
>> Taylor: No, that's Napoleon.
>> Farz: Oh, well, he said near Italy.
>> Taylor: Yeah, he was born in Corsica.
>> Farz: Oh, shit. That's right.
>> Taylor: That's right. Not in Italy, but, like, the island next to Italy. so he could be a butcher because a lot of people died. Totally fair. there's one about in the same time, the French Revolution. So this is not the Antichrist, but just, like, keeping us in the right timeline. for the french revolution, there's from the enslaved populace, songs, chants 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. Everyone got the head chopped off.
>> Farz: 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.
>> Taylor: That's only three lines, so. I don't believe it.
>> Farz: Sure. And then fast forward 800 years, and I will certainly be right.
>> Taylor: Okay, you want to hear the second? Antichrist?
>> Farz: That's ridiculous. Yeah, go ahead.
>> Taylor: 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. Great 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 fraud. Grubbles. Miss the grubbles. She's the worst. I know you just watched, the movie. Was it dead? What's it called?
>> Farz: Downfall.
>> Taylor: Downfall. I know you just watched Downfall. Proud girlbles 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.
>> Farz: I mean, she might be the scariest one out of all of them.
>> Taylor: She means just. Just. What a fucking character.
There are several Nostradamus predictions that people use to predict future
so, 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, histor basically means, like, the Danube river in, like, Germany. It doesn't mean Hitler, but, like, you know, it's also translated. 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, in fact. Oh, no. I was going to say it's Eric Trump. Out of any of the trumps. He's the dopeystone.
>> Farz: Poor Eric. Poor, unlovable Eric.
>> Taylor: Exactly.
>> Farz: It's like, Tiffany is also in that category, but she also seems like she doesn't give a shit.
>> Taylor: Yeah.
>> Farz: Eric is the one that's like, why can't I be the cool one?
>> Taylor: I feel like he's, like, texting, like, a fake number, being like, daddy, I love you to be like, I love. So proud of you, son.
>> Farz: Donald's like, did someone give my number to Eric?
>> Taylor: so there's one about. Oh, let me read you this one. Okay. Near the gates, within two 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.
>> Farz: Sure.
>> Taylor: September 11, 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 Aretha will ride in a new river. I don't know what that means. anyway, two great rocks, new city, New York, potentially. That.
>> Farz: So it was something else. It was like you said it earlier, was like two brothers, but that's not real.
>> Taylor: That wasn't a real one.
>> Farz: Okay, so the History channel is just making shit about a whole cloth then. yeah. Lovely.
>> Taylor: Yes.
>> Farz: Okay.
>> Taylor: 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 there's, 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 Nostradamus 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 deal. But, people, you can interpret them however they want. a couple that are coming up that people are using to potentially predict the future. There's one 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 isles will be driven out by force. In his place put one who will have no mark of a king. 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, John what's his name from Roseanne. 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 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 will be great floods when it is seen. So, like, yeah, weather's fucking crazy right now.
>> Farz: So 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.
He asked me to go to a party with him. And I was like, yeah, sure. Let's see what this is all about
And, 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. She painted his toenails. And so we walk in, like everybody's just staring at us, and he was quoting Nostradamus in his, like, brimstone. But he was, he was, he was applying it all to that moment in time.
>> Farz: And. And that's. I just had a flashback to that exact moment. We ended up getting up after ten minutes and walking away, and it was really, really awkward.
>> Taylor: So wait, he left your friend for you?
>> Farz: No, no. Me and him, we both got up and walked out. We were like, we can't. We don't. This is not. We thought it was, Yeah, he thought he was taking me to something that was gonna be, like, more wholesome and, like, it looked 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.
>> Taylor: Mm Mm
Vince: Nostradamus predicted many things. Like, things about what had happened
That also reminds me, I like, I have read Dan, Carlin's book, the end is always near several times, because, like, all about times in history where people thought that the world was ending, you know, 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 three. 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 could apply to, like, literally anytime at all. and also, you know, it can mean anything. which is what makes it fun, and I think what makes it enduring. And I think that also what Nostradamus wanted is to be, like, vague and, you know, kind of fun. So I'll end with. He wrote a letter to a chancellor in, in France in 1566 before he died. And, he talked about, you know, some of his prophecies. And then he said, quote, not, but I'm foolish enough to claim to be a prophet, which is fun.
>> Farz: 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.
>> Taylor: Yeah.
>> Farz: Yeah, we just kind of cool.
>> Taylor: Now I believe. Now I believe. And then, I also wrote one for us. You ready?
>> Farz: Yes.
>> Taylor: 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. Chat GPT did.
>> Farz: I knew Chad GBt, as you were saying it. I was really trying to open chat GBT to type.
>> Taylor: Vince.
>> Farz: That'S. That's pretty good, though.
>> Taylor: But I got that for us. yeah, it's super fun. It's fun to, like. It's, like, read through all of them and find one random one. Let me just do one more random one. M stop. Nephew and blood of the new saint come through the surname. He will sustained 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, streaking.
>> Farz: Why has there never been, like, a good movie made about Nostradamus? Because he doesn't do anything. Right? Because all he does is write. So what are you gonna do? Just follow him around? See him writing?
>> Taylor: 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 dun dun dun. 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, writing his prophecies, having a good time. Lived in a little city in France. You can go to his house.
>> Farz: He had a good time. He grew up during the plague. He watched.
>> Taylor: He's having the best time possible. He didn't.
>> Farz: Okay, yeah, sure, sure. He was having the best time possible. Wait, how old was he when he died of.
>> Taylor: In his sixties. Wow, good.
>> Farz: know.
>> Taylor: Yeah. Washing his hands. Been like, fuck you guys.
>> Farz: Wait. He goes, hold on. The nearest five and 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 conclusions try. Okay. Anyways, so, very cool, very cool. learned something. you brought back some fun memories for me, so I really, really enjoyed that.
>> Taylor: Thanks.
Taylor: Everybody chill. The world is ending. So you just try to, like, guys, just chill
>> Farz: Is there anything you want to say as we sign off?
>> Taylor: Yes. 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 gonna 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. Just chill.
>> Farz: Everybody chill. Like, I know, I know. It is existential. If this guy wins, it's horrible. If that guy wins, it's horrible. It's all hor. Like, it's gonna be fine. We will eventually. There's enough systems in place to make everything kind of work and always happened.
>> Taylor: I mean, whatever. Or not. Who cares?
>> Farz: Yeah, also, who cares? Like, like, imagine being like, you know, a newlywed couple in, like, Germany trying to just live your life in the 1940s. Like, cool. Like, now we're in a war zone, and my husband is sent to the bat. Like, things happen, and we just always move on from it. So it's gonna be fine.
>> Taylor: You know, do your best, but it's fine. Yes. And if you have any. Thank you so much, Nadine. 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 doomtofellpodmail.com, doomed to fill pod on all the socials. I, like, almost think I'm going to quit TikTok because I 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 gotten zero views. And I looked that up, and it's like a thing 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.
>> Farz: Done that, but I think everybody should quit TikTok. Nobody thinks it's weird that it's a chinese company?
>> Taylor: Like, no, no.
>> Farz: Why are we doing this?
>> Taylor: Everything is. I mean, like, safe data, whatever. anyway, the best way to share a podcast is to tell your friends. So please, tell your friends, tell your.
>> Farz: Friends, tell your family, tell your loved ones. Download the podcast on their phones without telling them.
>> Taylor: Yeah. While they're sleeping.
>> Farz: While they're sleeping.
>> Taylor: You can use their face while they're sleeping.
>> Farz: Yeah, get your spout. Like, just find a way. Anyway, we should all just have our loved ones, passcode so we can spy on them. Anyways, so this is a really good way to utilize that, that spying technology.
>> Taylor: Perfect.
>> Farz: Great. don't listen to me. Cool. Taylor, we'll go ahead and sign off then. Thank you. Thanks, everyone.