Nostradamus: Predictor of the future? Not so much.

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 22 January 2015

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Nostradamus delighted us all in grade school, but it turns out the real guy wasn't quite as prescient as we were led to believe. In truth, he wrote a lot of purposefully confusing riddles that people have twisted into meaning exactly what they want them t

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0:31.3	Welcome to Stucky Should Know from HouseofWorks.com.
0:41.3	Hey and welcome to the podcast on Josh Clark.
0:43.8	There's Chalice W. Chuck Bryant.
0:45.2	There's Jerry.
0:47.4	I predict this will be the best podcast of the new year.
0:53.1	I don't know about that one.
0:55.1	I think that prediction is coming true.
0:57.4	The first month when Gray filled the sky, the recorders of Gobbledygook hit a high water
1:06.5	mark.
1:07.5	It's a little on the nose for no Stardomus.
1:10.2	Actually, I should have been even more vague.
1:12.6	Like way bigger.
1:14.0	Yeah, that was like explicit for him.
1:17.3	Because Nostradamus used to like to just basically take concepts and words and put them together
1:24.8	and pretend like they were going to happen.
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