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Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

Something will happen, eventually

Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2016

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Your host opens his file of near misses and close calls. Joe Mazur examines the math and myth behind the stories we call coincidences. Plus a grasp at the law of truly large numbers.

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You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything.

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fm. Thanks. Hey dear listener, it's me Benjamin Walker. I just

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This installment is called Something Will Happen, eventually. Using advanced

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using advanced technology I've been keeping tabs on the movements of

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certain individuals both known and unknown to me.

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Using the same methodologies that intelligence agencies use to build profiles of possible

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jihadis or subversives, I've been tracking their movements and associations across continents

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and decades.

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And I've happened upon a number of strange coincidence-like coincidences.

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For example, I have an ex-girlfriend, Marquetta.

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From her LinkedIn page, I gleaned that on the night of July 1st, 2012, she was camping in Yellowstone at a K-O-A site near the West Yellowstone entrance.

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