Selects: Nostradamus: Predictor of the future? Not so much.

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🗓️ 17 December 2022

⏱️ 44 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 to mean. Learn all about Nostradamus in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	My father was a block star.
0:01.7	It was like Bidlemania.
0:03.2	But not here in America.
0:04.7	Dean Reed criticized the American government
0:06.8	from behind the Iron Curtain.
0:08.3	He had lots of enemies.
0:09.7	He'll calm you down, you can call out.
0:11.3	He wanted to come back home and then
0:13.4	the unthinkable happened.
0:15.0	Dean Reed died.
0:16.2	Come with me, Ramona Reed,
0:17.8	to learn more about the extraordinary life
0:20.0	and mysterious death of revolutionary.
0:22.7	Listen to Red Elvis, a Curiosity Audio Network podcast
0:25.8	on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast,
0:28.0	or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.9	Hey everyone, it's Josh.
0:31.9	And for this week's Select, I've chosen our 2015 episode,
0:35.4	Nostradamus, predictor of the future, not so much.
0:39.2	Nostradamus, if that even is his real name, which it isn't,
0:43.0	must have rude the day he was born after you heard this episode.
0:46.2	We disassemble his so-called prophetic abilities so hard.
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