The Prophecy of the Popes

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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It seemed the world paused on April 21, 2025, when 88-year-old Pope Francis passed away after a long struggle with multiple health issues. As the Catholic church and the world at large wonders what the future will bring, a once-obscure piece of writing is back in the public zeitgeist: the "Prophecy of the Popes," which purports to predict the ascension of all Popes up until the rise of the antichrist. Why are some people so concerned? Well, according to the true believers -- Francis was the second to last Pope in the prophecy. And the next just may be the final Pope, leading to the destruction of Rome and the end of civilization as we know it.

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0:00.0	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.
0:06.5	You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:12.0	A production of IHeart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt.
0:28.3	My name is Noel.
0:29.5	They call me Ben.
0:30.7	We're joined as always with our super producer, Andrew, the Triforce Howard.
0:35.0	Most importantly, you are you.
0:37.0	You are here. That makes this the stuff
0:39.5	they don't want you to know, but riddle me this, friends and neighbors. Who's not here? If you
0:45.3	guess, Pope Francis, you are correct. Ouch. Yeah. R. IP, the Pope. Yes, Pope Francis passed away on April 21st, 2025.
0:57.5	The official cause per the Vatican is a stroke and cardiac arrest after, you know,
1:03.1	known continuing complications with double pneumonia, a respiratory tract infection.
1:08.5	These can be very dangerous things, especially for people who are getting
1:12.4	up in years. He had a life well lived. He passed at the age of 88. And he had been, you know,
1:20.0	like we said, he had been struggling for some time leading up to his passage. And I don't know,
1:27.2	guys, we talked about this off air. We mentioned this in a
1:30.5	strange news segment a while back, or pretty recently, actually. And I think it's fair to say that
1:36.5	although we are not ourselves practicing Catholics, we do acknowledge the global grief
1:43.6	felt by billions of people in the wake of
1:46.5	the Pope's death.
1:48.4	Well, he was like a meaningful Pope, too.
1:50.1	I was talking to my friend Harry, a friend of the show who's visiting me.
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