#89: Apocalypse How: Tom Phillips and the Impending Doom of the 112th Pope

We Can Be Weirdos

Global

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Tom Phillips is a British author, journalist, and humorist known for his witty and insightful takes on history and human folly. A former editorial director at Full Fact, the UK’s independent fact-checking charity, Phillips has written books such as Humans: A Brief History of How We Fcked It All Up* and Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsht*. His works blend humor with historical analysis, exploring humanity’s mistakes and misconceptions in an engaging and accessible way.

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0:35.9	Warning. The following podcast contains strong language, bizarre theories, unexplainable experiences,
0:42.4	and an impossible scarf from another universe.
0:45.7	It may not be suitable for younger weirdos.
0:49.4	And I distinctly saw a shape of basically a teenage girl, sort of standing in the road and then retreating backwards, melting into the verge at the side of the road.
1:35.9	Oh! Hello and welcome to another episode of We Can Be Weirdos. My name is Dan Schreiber and today's episode comes to you just two days after the assassination files have been finally released.
1:41.5	That's over 80,000 classified documents that relate to the JFK assassination.
1:46.9	They've finally been made public, completely unredacted, apparently.
1:52.8	And I guess now we sit and wait as historians and conspiracy theorists and people generally interested in that story, sieve through the material and see what they can find.
1:59.2	I was pretty excited, I've got to say, when this news dropped.
2:01.6	Not because I'm an overly interested person in the JFK assassination,
2:06.6	but I'm curious about what the answers within the document are going to do to the conspiracy theory community.
2:12.6	Because this is a fascinating one.
2:13.6	It's probably got nothing in there that's going to solve it,
2:16.6	but there's no question that it will have stuff in there that's going to solve it, but there's no
2:17.8	question that it will have stuff in there that is going to spawn new theories and build off this
2:23.0	plus 50 year-long mystery, and I'm keen to see where it goes. Because generally, I'm not
2:29.8	overly interested in conspiracy theories. Many listeners of this show will know that. I find them
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