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🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey, James Corbett here. |
0:02.7 | Do you remember back in the year 999 when Pope Sylvester II? |
0:08.1 | Yes, real name, look it up, predicted the beginning of the end of the world in the year |
0:13.3 | 1000? |
0:14.3 | What a fruitcake! |
0:16.0 | And do you remember back in the 16th century when English witch, Mother Shepton predicted, the world to an end |
0:22.9 | will come in 1881. What a loon! And do you remember all those Mayan calendar aficionados who tried |
0:32.0 | to convince us that the world was coming to an end in 2012 and we were going to be shunted off into |
0:37.0 | some alternate reality where Donald Trump was going to be end in 2012, and we were going to be shunted off into some alternate reality |
0:38.2 | where Donald Trump was going to be president and billionaire tech overlords were going to be |
0:43.5 | trying to shove brain ships in our brain. |
0:46.3 | Okay, well, that one might be true. |
0:49.0 | But you know what I mean? |
0:50.3 | The world is always ending, according to someone or other. And of course, every single one of |
0:58.8 | those end-of-the-world predictions throughout the entire course of human history has been wrong, |
1:04.6 | but people keep making them. And more to the point, people keep listening. But why? |
1:12.1 | Today, we are going to explore what compels people to constantly predict the end of the world, |
1:18.5 | what compels other people to listen to those predictions, |
1:22.2 | and what this whole process can teach us about the world we're living in |
1:26.0 | with the help of Peter Thiel and the |
1:29.9 | Antichrist? |
1:31.5 | Brock, hit the theme. |
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