technically simon, the skin is an organ, the lung is an organ. you have two organs that get wounded by a bullet. two separate wounds, although they would be one due to entry point. so yes... for henry, that would be correct because you have the eye and the brain. two separate organs with different degrees of trauma. and the wounds would actually have slightly different entry points from the lance. so one action caused to two wounds that ultimately combined led to henrys death. im not 100% on whether or not he was wearing a gold helm at the time of the injury. so at the very least, it is his most accurate prediction. they say if you throw enough wet pasta at the wall, something is bound to stick eventually. ofc, knowing how to toss that pasta, what temp, angle, etc., makes a huge difference. and nostradamus was at the very least educated enough to be able to figure out how to read patterns and used information as a tool. he was probably the only person in the 15th century in europe to have any modicum of sense, which is why he is really famous.
Look, I know that the main point here is that Nostradamus was a fraud, like any psychic or astrologer, which is of course true. But Hitler was absolutely *quite* poor in his youth: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_wealth_and_income Maybe try reading the script before you record it, and make sure that you actually know what you're talking about before you go off-script. Otherwise, you really kinda end up sounding like a complete jackass.
In the year of double-twenty and three, A bearded oracle, bald as can be. A TH-cam host, channels vast and grand, "Fact Boi" they called him, across the land. With voice like a whisper, soothing and wise, He delved into mysteries that confound the eyes. Unsolved crimes and secrets untold, In the world of facts, his tales unfold. Megaprojects looming, colossal in scale, His laughter echoing through podcasting's trail. Geography and biography, his domain, A modern sage, a knowledge reign. In the quiet of night, when the moon takes its flight, Fact Boi's voice, a lullaby so right. Helping many to sleep with tales of intrigue, Dreaming of mysteries only he could besiege. Hilarious and interesting, a beacon of cheer, His beard and his wit, bringing joy near. Nostradamus foresaw, in the digital sea, Fact Boi's legacy, timeless decree. 🎉
I wish I could give you a thousand likes! This is fantastic! Thank you so much for your most clever and pointed verse. You might be able to make your name live on in history - nah, just kidding, but I do think you could be an able, publishable writer. All the best. 😻
Damn it, Simon! Doctor of Biochemistry here. Firstly, we had a form of antibiotics before Flemming's discovery. They were sulfur based compounds. They weren't great, but they were real medicine. Second, Pasteurization is the process in which certain potables are made safe to consume, by raising the temperature of the liquid at a specific rate, to a specific temperature, for a specific amount of time. Those specific parameters are determined by the liquid that is being put through the process.
Usually 180- 200 degrees Fahrenheit. Hold for about 20-30. Allow to cool to around 100 degrees before transfer. *I work in a plant that requires pasteurization for products*
🤣 😍 Nearly a year ago I said something similar on a different channel's video about Nostradamus, and my comment got deleted. I didn't even use "bad" language, either.
Well I can take claim of that too since, in a story I was writting I at first wanted to put Russia goes at war with a neighboring country. But then thought against it cause it might be assuming too much and just put some vague European country. P.S: I wrote that part in 2021
Hes right up there with astrology predictions. Absolutely bonkers that every single [starsign] will go through the exact same thing every month but people believe because it's always super vague and applicable in 11ty million different ways
Nostradamus. The original “Lost in Translation” I had a friend who absolutely believed in the ability to predict things. I sent a list of 5 predictions that I just made up. At the end of the year I got 4 of 5. The look I got when I broke the news that I made them was priceless.
Ok as a French person who was born in the city where Nostradamus spent most of his life (Simon said the name of the city and very well!), hearing Simon trying to pronounce French names was and seeing a video about the famous dude of your little city were hilarious (but you did great sometimes Simon, really!). Unfortunately, I don't live in Montpellier to check the library there. Nostradamus doesn't even have a big house/museum there, it's pretty small. The only nice thing is a whole mural down with his face on it but it's a bit hidden in the center of the city. He's famous but not enough to bring a lot of tourists to the city. His predictions were as accurate as horoscopes are to lure people into beliveing them and having some solace or fear in their lives.
I am not French, but grew up speaking/reading it. It's always been...interesting. I think the "chevaux" episode caught me the most because he kept mixing singular English and plural French. 😅
I once saw a documentary where a professor made some predictions he knew would most likely come true within a year. An earthquake with a certain magnitude and so on. And of course he was right, because he knew the probability of those events. Now add a longer time than one year and make those predictions really vague + writing them down in a way that leaves even more room for interpretation. Nostradamus was pretty clever - he's still conning people long after his death, which is hard to achieve.
@@135fortemy husband was in China mid November and we were all very sick by mid December, he was sick the first week and by Dec 12 he was in the er because of difficulty breathing. He was diagnosed with “atypical bronchitis/pneumonia” because they didn’t know what was wrong with him. We all spent the rest of the month sick at home. Very sick. Why was he in China? He’s a commercial pilot and the places he was were packed with people, not just Chinese but lots of tourists.
Retrograde, for those curious, is quite an interesting phenomenon: Two objects resolve around a central point, in this case Mercury/Earth/Sun. The observer is located on one of those two objects, in this case Earth The observer is following the orbit of the other object, in this case Mercury At some point Mercury will start going backwards across the sky before going forward once more. Congratulations, you now know what it means when Mercury is going in Retrograde... that period where it moves backwards across the sky. It is an error when using an observational point that has not been fixed, once you correct that... it vanishes.
4:00 - Mid roll ads 5:50 - Chapter 1 - Early life 13:55 - Chapter 2 - The good doctor 24:05 - Chapter 3 - The rise of nostradamus 37:45 - Chapter 4 - The prophecies 54:20 - Chapter 5 - Fake it till make it 1:06:15 - Wrap up
To be fair lavender oil is antibacterial so ramming a load up your beaks probably not the worst idea, honestly I did really want a plague doctor outfit for the lockdown
It meant that there as a huge change in value of workers. Less workers, businesses needed people to make them money, so they were forced to offer more and more wages.
Nostradamus was apparently buried with a medallion predicting he’d be exhumed in the future. That was a prediction with no chance of failure because if he hadn’t been exhumed no one would have found the medallion and know he’d made the prediction .
Does anyone else use Simon’s videos to fall asleep? I’m not saying it’s boring (the opposite )but something about his voice helps me sleep. I especially love the long videos.” For this reason. I have to watch them for a whole week just to finish the video because I fall asleep after 10 minutes.
Almost every day the last two weeks 😅 interesting enough to pay attention, not too interesting too fight to stay awake and the thing about his voice you said
I do the same on Spotify so I don't have adverts interrupting me as I drift off. Then restart the podcast at the last point I remember the following night until I've listened to it all lol
Every night for me. Then I will rewatch the video the next morning over coffee. There's just something about his voice and cadence that helps me fall asleep.
There was a fun list in a skeptics magazine many years back that had a list of “average probability predictions” for the coming year. They included dramatic sounding predictions about airline crashes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and other disasters. They sounded spookily accurately worded, but then went on to tell you the yearly averages of these things happening. If you kept the location vague or in areas that are more likely to be struck by earthquakes and volcanoes, you could be fairly “accurate”.
Simon talking about realizing how close the past is as he ages is so relatable. It really gives one a new perspective on just how awful the past was and how far we've come in a short time. We still have a long way to go, but it kind of gives me hope to realize how quickly some things have changed.
I'm most amazed that Simon got distracted by a package, went and dealt with it, then came back... and remembered the squirrel moment point he'd been talking about. For me... that thought would be gone, as well as the next thought, and probably the thought after that as well!
24:51 Yes Mercury being in retrograde is a thing. It just means it is moving the opposite way in the sky as it normally does (because it is orbiting the son faster), it is an optical illusion.
Well, that by definition means it’s not a thing. Nothing is actually happening or changing. Just an optical illusion meaning it’s not really happening so there’s nothing different.
One time working at a bookstore someone called asking if Nostradamus had any new books coming out. Which would be more impressive than any of the predictions coming true honestly.
I knew about Pasteur's rabies vaccine because of a set of biography books my mom bought when i was a baby. Value Tales are great for young children to learn about real people in history in a fun way.
The “as I get older” tangent is so real. I used to think 1982 was ancient history but I’ve now lived longer than the time between 1982 and my birth in 2002.
Now if Simon and his team do an episode on more contemporary con art..., I mean seer, Baba Vanga, whos predications are plastered bloody everywhere (and since I am Bulgarian, that goes double for me) it would be amazing.
I was about to comment about baba Vanga! I have a Macedonian background and see posts about her on Macedonian sites every now and then and can’t understand how many people believe her crap, I mean, accurate predictions - allegedly. 😂
Regarding things not actually being that long ago, I have a friend in her 80s whose father fought alongside Winston Churchill in the boer wars. (Her father was quite old when she was born.)
I am very old. When I was young, but sufficiently old enough enough to understand the passing of time, I was presented to an old fellow in my south Devon town whose great-grandfather had served in Nelson's navy. History has no start or finishing point. History is people.
The best description I have heard is to shoot an arrow into the side of a barn and allow someone in the future to walk up and paint a bullseye around it.
How to be a prophet with a %100 success rate. Step 1: Describe a past event, leaving out the details and specifics. Step 2: Wait. Eventually the past will repeat itself. Remember there is no time limit if you haven’t provided one. Every day your prophecy hasn’t been fulfilled brings you one day closer to being right.
I had an extremely well-timed ad: Simon: What're you doing, drinking that clean water? You idiot! Just pray harder and bleed everywhere! Ad: An official message from Medicare. 🤣🤣
Dude my grandfather is 95. It's crazy to think that he grew up before like the highway system, and refrigerators, and antibiotics. He's remarkably well adapted, but every once in a while you're like "holy shit, my Grandmother referred to herself as Mrs. (My grandfather's name)." Or, when my Gma passed a couple years ago and we needed to teach him how to run the wash and use the microwave for the first time.
I don't think Notradamus was "accidentally" a good plague. I think he might have actually had been figuring out what needed to be done to help people. He kept talking crap about other doctors including the ones at the school he was going to because he actually used observations instead of whatever bullshit was popular. He might not have known the chemistry or biology, but he probably actually sat there and observed what worked.
yeah from what I'm listening, he just seems like a guy who thought outside of the knowledge framework of reference at the time, and sure, his predictions are bullshit and only become true by the same principle of the 1000 monkeys on typewriters writing out shakespeare, but he seems like just a fairly intelligent guy who could see patterns and derive knowledge from it
Regarding the translation of Middle French, I’m an Arabic/English translator (written translation) despite specializing in a different language, we pretty much learn the same theoretical concepts/approaches. BUT, our number 1 rule is to translate the text as closely as possible to the original one. If there is no word equivalent to the original text , we transcribe it. From what Kevin wrote, I believe the translator was rendering the text to be used as the main reference for ppl to lookup rather than the original text. Plus, I believe there r small groups/communities that retained some Middle French in their current lingo🧐
Here is one of Nostradamus' lost prophecies. I think it is very accurate... In realms of pixels, a Whistler shall rise, With words that enthrall and stories that surprise. From humble beginnings, his voice will take flight, Reaching corners unknown, bathed in digital light. With wit as his weapon and laughter his shield, He'll conquer the masses, their hearts he will wield. His wisdom and humor, a captivating blend, A feast for the senses, a journey without end.
Fun fact: Bloodletting still kinda exists, in particular using leeches... Leeches are useful since they can direct the flow of blood in a patient in useful ways... Can in some cases prevent needing to do an amputation... But yeah, these are like sanitized leeches being used in a way that's backed by science... Not just recklessly bleeding a person to try and achieve a balance in the humors or whatever...
Not even just with leeches. People with excessive iron in their blood can be prescribed "phlebotomy" which in practice often means "donate some blood more often than usual."
Nostradamus might not have been a prophet, but his cherry jelly recipe is amazing. Granted, I replace the cyanide flavor with a hint of almond extract, but it's genuinely the best jelly I've ever had.
New York City is at 40 degrees latitude. The best book on Nostradamus is The Mask of Nostradamus by James Randi, who debunks all the prophecies that Simon debunks and a lot more. Great video.
My first thought when he read was maybe the Korean War..... then I looked it up, and ummm, 38. So close. I guess I could fudge it and hope people don't fact-check it, lol
as Kevin notes though, it does go through Belfast, and we certainly had a fun quirky period of blowing each other up from 1969 to 1998ish (ceasefire was supposed to be in 98 but it kinda... well. Oops).
It's funny hearing Simon talking about not seeing someone write a check in twenty years, my mother wrote one at the grocery store just less than four hours ago! lol
That's why Simon mentioned that this was a normal thing for Americans. I don't know about the other continents, but cheques are just not a thing in Europe. I have never seen a cheque in my life, and I'm only a few years younger than Simon. To me, cheques are a thing that only exists in Hollywood movies.
@@trishapellis It's not a common practice now, a majority of the following generations have never written a check before and hardly anyone still writes checks (my mother is an exception).
I basically only write checks for two reasons - for taxes and when I find some crumple flyer from my kids school about a fundraiser or trip that must be paid by X date and I don't have cash on me. Although, I think there is probably a work around for both of those if I tried.
Simon, mercury retrograde (or any other planet going retrograde) is a real astronomical phenomenon where, due to the movements of both earth any the other planet, the other planet (in this case mercury) *appears* to move “backwards” when viewed in earth’s sky. That part is definitively real; whether that has any meaning for life on earth is a separate question.
The typical "plague doctor" outfit that we erroneously associate with the middle ages didn't start being worn until the 17th century... long after Nostradamus.
Simon, that tangent about how we are all going to be forgotten and nothing we do matters and that eventually Hitler will be forgotten was the most random multi-tangent Ive ever seen and I’m here for it😂😂😂😂
Simon: I won't name any names, since they've managed to avoid conviction despite perpetuating obvious frauds. Me, remembering commercials in the 90's: But Miss Cleo knows!
Don't be too worried about sounding ignorant while processing things in your own way. It's fun to hear how people think things through in their own unfiltered ways. It might not be politically correct enough for all the nitpickers out there, but we need that kind of thinking right now. None of us know everything after all!
What a coincidence, I saw a tabloid first page stated "Our astrologist and Nostradamus predict a bad 2024". And just thinking Simon reaction and here I have it. 🤣🤣🤣
I don’t know how I never saw your channels the past three years but I found you about two months ago. Your a LEGEND my dude Cheers from the great white north 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
when simon was going over banks and how we[usa] still use checks, when he started saying when the last time he's seen a check, i said 'when u go outside'
I think you named the show perfectly i love these types of shows but they can be very harmful when they pass them off as fact rather than an interesting thought experiments (ancient aliens is the best example) your show actually offers progression of the story and a logically consistent conclusion instead of ending in the same spot they started or spreading misinformation. Ive found that people who are smart but uneducated can be very negatively influenced by that type of program because the information is presented without any counter arguments in an intelligent appealing manner people can be convinced simply because they heard one side first.
If you’re vague enough and enough people read the book they could find similarities in events that line up with the book or just do something that he predicted so it would come true.
Simon: bamboozled by the concept of a bank giving you a free calendar in the year 2023 me: bamboozled by the concept of Kevin getting his free calendar from a bank instead of the local hardware store like me 😂
Me: Wondering why you didn't just reuse your 2017 calendar for 2023 :P Seriously, whencanireusethiscalendar is a hilariously great website if you notice you've got a years old calendar still hanging up somewhere :D
I love this channel because you do challenge and debunk alot of so-called legends. However, my favorite is still the JFK episode where you were slightly swayed into believing there's some sketchy shit going on.
"retrograde" is a completly normal therm and refers to the orientation in 3d space compared to your reference. for spaceships its very important - we call them: prograde - retrograde (towards and backwards in the direction of travel) and radial in- Radial out (perpendicular to prograde)and target - anti target (towards or backwards to your taget f.e. Moon.) and normal - antinormal (perpendicular to your orbital plane) its easy to see it in a picture.
Speaking of moons cycles, my last birthday was on the Cold Moon, the first full moon in December (and for 2022 it was the last full moon of the year). The Flower Moon this year fell on the graduation day of my Health Sciences Associate Degree.
11:12 In Germany, (and Switzerland, Austria) there are still active Apotheken (or Drogerien) who hand out Drugs, Pills, Remedies, medicines etc. They also were back in time the only place to get Gasoline for your car since there weren’t any petrol stations (yet).
That's always been my thing with these and pretty much any any other "prophesy": if you have to wait for the event to occur before you can massage the words to fit the event, what is even the point (other than appealing to it as evidence for your favourite imaginary friend)?
I can't tell you how thankful I am for this channel. I married a Russian girl some 10 years ago, and I had no idea Russians were so insanely superstitious (and that's putting it politely). I don't care to change her mind; she can believe whatever she likes, but I often whip a video out from this channel to keep her superstitions from being forced on me. Simon could be thought of as a one man protection racket, but for knowledge.
"Retrograde" means that a planet is appearing to reverse its course across the sky, which happens when it's on the other side of the sun from us. Today it's just a neat optical illusion that astronomers get excited about, but back before they figured out heliocentrism it seemed a lot more mysterious and foreboding.
Magazines at 8 bucks a pop is cheaper than a single academic paper around 20 ish bucks. If you are not afflilated with an institution (university), writing new articles can become very expensive.
I can't wait to see Simon's reaction to all of Nostradamus's definitely real predictions. And don't forget, you can get access to all of my uncut and uncensored scripts!
@@ThatWriterKevin you’re the actual writer for Simon, correct? If so yes, he can make you and other writers who comment into channel moderators and your names should stand out iirc. he might have to look around in his account or TH-cam Studio for the option, not sure. If I can figure it out I’ll get back to you, but ya’ll are smart cookies :) Just offering my thoughts!
33:27 in fairness to the old timey astrologers, they were tracking the position of the planets relative to the constellations. This is very relevant for things like almanacs, tracking seasons, navigating, etc. Just because you can’t predict the future doesn’t mean the information is completely worthless, and it’s obvious when someone is lying about where the planets are in the sky. People kept charts of that stuff
Simon, your team should look into Dorothy Eady (Omm Setty), she was an Egyptologist and claimed to be an incarnation of a priestess from the 19th dynasty. She predicted the locations of archeological finds and had an uncanny knowledge of the temple of Abydos and was an excellent translator of hieroglyphics. Shw worked with many renowned Egyptologists.
Only issue I have with the whole video is the statement that English is the national language of the USA. Strangely enough, the USA is one of the few countries with no official national language.
If anything, it's American..... we don't speak proper English, just like people from Mexico don't speak actual Spanish. Languages get changed to fit people
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technically simon, the skin is an organ, the lung is an organ. you have two organs that get wounded by a bullet. two separate wounds, although they would be one due to entry point. so yes... for henry, that would be correct because you have the eye and the brain. two separate organs with different degrees of trauma. and the wounds would actually have slightly different entry points from the lance. so one action caused to two wounds that ultimately combined led to henrys death. im not 100% on whether or not he was wearing a gold helm at the time of the injury.
so at the very least, it is his most accurate prediction. they say if you throw enough wet pasta at the wall, something is bound to stick eventually. ofc, knowing how to toss that pasta, what temp, angle, etc., makes a huge difference. and nostradamus was at the very least educated enough to be able to figure out how to read patterns and used information as a tool. he was probably the only person in the 15th century in europe to have any modicum of sense, which is why he is really famous.
@@patrickaycock3655 Actually, not pasta, try human fecal matter.
"If you are a bit more bald!?!" Bit racist to people with hair Simon.
Hi mate, I loved this wondering style of discussion.
Awesome!
Glenn
Look, I know that the main point here is that Nostradamus was a fraud, like any psychic or astrologer, which is of course true. But Hitler was absolutely *quite* poor in his youth:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_wealth_and_income
Maybe try reading the script before you record it, and make sure that you actually know what you're talking about before you go off-script. Otherwise, you really kinda end up sounding like a complete jackass.
In the year of double-twenty and three,
A bearded oracle, bald as can be.
A TH-cam host, channels vast and grand,
"Fact Boi" they called him, across the land.
With voice like a whisper, soothing and wise,
He delved into mysteries that confound the eyes.
Unsolved crimes and secrets untold,
In the world of facts, his tales unfold.
Megaprojects looming, colossal in scale,
His laughter echoing through podcasting's trail.
Geography and biography, his domain,
A modern sage, a knowledge reign.
In the quiet of night, when the moon takes its flight,
Fact Boi's voice, a lullaby so right.
Helping many to sleep with tales of intrigue,
Dreaming of mysteries only he could besiege.
Hilarious and interesting, a beacon of cheer,
His beard and his wit, bringing joy near.
Nostradamus foresaw, in the digital sea,
Fact Boi's legacy, timeless decree. 🎉
This is the most well earned like I’ve ever given! 🤣
I wish I could give you a thousand likes! This is fantastic! Thank you so much for your most clever and pointed verse.
You might be able to make your name live on in history - nah, just kidding, but I do think you could be an able, publishable writer.
All the best. 😻
Excellent 👏👏👏👏👏
Wooooowww!!!
That is brilliant!
Damn it, Simon! Doctor of Biochemistry here. Firstly, we had a form of antibiotics before Flemming's discovery. They were sulfur based compounds. They weren't great, but they were real medicine. Second, Pasteurization is the process in which certain potables are made safe to consume, by raising the temperature of the liquid at a specific rate, to a specific temperature, for a specific amount of time. Those specific parameters are determined by the liquid that is being put through the process.
go back into the lab nerd and cure my diseases
Usually 180- 200 degrees Fahrenheit. Hold for about 20-30. Allow to cool to around 100 degrees before transfer.
*I work in a plant that requires pasteurization for products*
Is honey an anti biotic?
@@FinrodFelagundTheFairFahrenheit is not real science!! 😉😜🙃
@@MaartenOosterbaanDon't fear the units of freedom.
If by accurately, you mean vaguely enough to be interpreted as whatever we want, then yes, he did an amazing job.
🤣 😍
Nearly a year ago I said something similar on a different channel's video about Nostradamus, and my comment got deleted. I didn't even use "bad" language, either.
Well I can take claim of that too since, in a story I was writting I at first wanted to put Russia goes at war with a neighboring country. But then thought against it cause it might be assuming too much and just put some vague European country.
P.S: I wrote that part in 2021
He pretty much predicted my gaming mishaps
Hes right up there with astrology predictions. Absolutely bonkers that every single [starsign] will go through the exact same thing every month but people believe because it's always super vague and applicable in 11ty million different ways
If you actually read his predictions, they are far worse than this. Theyre just gibberish.
Nostradamus. The original “Lost in Translation”
I had a friend who absolutely believed in the ability to predict things. I sent a list of 5 predictions that I just made up.
At the end of the year I got 4 of 5. The look I got when I broke the news that I made them was priceless.
True Legend™️ behavior! Bravo!
Now I'm intrigued.
Can you TL'DR what you "predicted"?
Btw: Well played 😅
@@JustsomeSteveno, because it's a made-up story
Me: I should go to bed
Simon: Here's an hour long DTU vid with a blatantly sarcastic clickbait title.
Me: *Shakes fist at clouds*
11pm here🎉 Honestly, we can rest when we die😂😂😂
Half 10 here. I have to wake up at 5am for work.. oh well guess I'll just put that idea off for a bit 😅
7:44 PM here, but bed wasn't looking that bad before the upload. So... I'm with you.
I'm like that with reading 😄 "I'll just read one more page..."
@@Kait-tee I know that one all too well. I like Terry Pratchett, he didn't use chapters, it's so hard to find a place to stop.
Ok as a French person who was born in the city where Nostradamus spent most of his life (Simon said the name of the city and very well!), hearing Simon trying to pronounce French names was and seeing a video about the famous dude of your little city were hilarious (but you did great sometimes Simon, really!). Unfortunately, I don't live in Montpellier to check the library there. Nostradamus doesn't even have a big house/museum there, it's pretty small. The only nice thing is a whole mural down with his face on it but it's a bit hidden in the center of the city. He's famous but not enough to bring a lot of tourists to the city.
His predictions were as accurate as horoscopes are to lure people into beliveing them and having some solace or fear in their lives.
You'd think he'd have a handle on the name Guy 😅 he's from England not America lol
@wickedwitchofthewest5104
I read your entire comment in a french accent.
I am not French, but grew up speaking/reading it. It's always been...interesting. I think the "chevaux" episode caught me the most because he kept mixing singular English and plural French. 😅
You are giving him more credit than his predictions deserve. They were cryptic gibberish
@@-Jason-L That's also what horoscopes are, so fairly accurate comparison yeah?
By being vague.
😂
@@Francesboo222- Just like the Bible.
@@gpaull2nahh thats just crazy stories
And dumb luck
@@wolfgangpeter2995 crazy sadistic and shocking stories, at least most of the Old Testament with incredible egotistical and sadistic gawd.
I once saw a documentary where a professor made some predictions he knew would most likely come true within a year. An earthquake with a certain magnitude and so on. And of course he was right, because he knew the probability of those events.
Now add a longer time than one year and make those predictions really vague + writing them down in a way that leaves even more room for interpretation.
Nostradamus was pretty clever - he's still conning people long after his death, which is hard to achieve.
I loved how Simon’s last video on Nostradamus in 2019 featured Simon predicting the upcoming pandemic at the end of it.
Iirc, they were documenting cases as early as November in the States.
@@135forte perhaps but we all know Simon records well in advance 🤷🏼♀️
@@135fortemy husband was in China mid November and we were all very sick by mid December, he was sick the first week and by Dec 12 he was in the er because of difficulty breathing. He was diagnosed with “atypical bronchitis/pneumonia” because they didn’t know what was wrong with him. We all spent the rest of the month sick at home. Very sick.
Why was he in China? He’s a commercial pilot and the places he was were packed with people, not just Chinese but lots of tourists.
@@Fiona2254 I just remember headlines about a new virus running alongside Koby's death.
Epidemiologists have been predicting a pandemic like Covid for years.
Retrograde, for those curious, is quite an interesting phenomenon:
Two objects resolve around a central point, in this case Mercury/Earth/Sun.
The observer is located on one of those two objects, in this case Earth
The observer is following the orbit of the other object, in this case Mercury
At some point Mercury will start going backwards across the sky before going forward once more. Congratulations, you now know what it means when Mercury is going in Retrograde... that period where it moves backwards across the sky. It is an error when using an observational point that has not been fixed, once you correct that... it vanishes.
I am about to make an amazing prediction, Simon will make 3 more videos about Nostradamus and forget the others each time.
Someone should give you a job working for the Royal family!
4:00 - Mid roll ads
5:50 - Chapter 1 - Early life
13:55 - Chapter 2 - The good doctor
24:05 - Chapter 3 - The rise of nostradamus
37:45 - Chapter 4 - The prophecies
54:20 - Chapter 5 - Fake it till make it
1:06:15 - Wrap up
To be fair lavender oil is antibacterial so ramming a load up your beaks probably not the worst idea, honestly I did really want a plague doctor outfit for the lockdown
I wanted one then and still want one now.
@@HangryVelociraptor same honestly there's something about them that makes me go hell yeah boiii
you willhave to wait until the next pandemic. i wonder what the next pandemic will be called….heineken or something…
Wasn’t expecting Simon to go all “Thanos was right” twenty-something minutes in. Lol
It meant that there as a huge change in value of workers. Less workers, businesses needed people to make them money, so they were forced to offer more and more wages.
"for the good of humanity we must kill half of humanity" -- Simon Whistler 2023
Simon: "For the good of all mankind, half the population must die!"
COVID 19: "Hmmm...."
Nostradamus was apparently buried with a medallion predicting he’d be exhumed in the future. That was a prediction with no chance of failure because if he hadn’t been exhumed no one would have found the medallion and know he’d made the prediction .
The medallion just said. " I knew you'd dig me up"
@@jond661😅 #winning
That was clever af, tho.
@@jond661 or maybe "I've been waiting for you" or "called it"
@@wolvie1618”I knew it.” - Nostradamus 😂
Nice shot at Uri Gell.... I mean, TOTALLY RANDOM SPOON BENDING CHARLATAN! allegedly, of course 😂
Does anyone else use Simon’s videos to fall asleep? I’m not saying it’s boring (the opposite )but something about his voice helps me sleep. I especially love the long videos.” For this reason. I have to watch them for a whole week just to finish the video because I fall asleep after 10 minutes.
Almost every day the last two weeks 😅 interesting enough to pay attention, not too interesting too fight to stay awake and the thing about his voice you said
I do the same on Spotify so I don't have adverts interrupting me as I drift off.
Then restart the podcast at the last point I remember the following night until I've listened to it all lol
I used to watch documentaries but now its Simon. 😂
Every night for me. Then I will rewatch the video the next morning over coffee. There's just something about his voice and cadence that helps me fall asleep.
Try listening to Disparu. You will fall asleep laughing:)
There was a fun list in a skeptics magazine many years back that had a list of “average probability predictions” for the coming year. They included dramatic sounding predictions about airline crashes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and other disasters. They sounded spookily accurately worded, but then went on to tell you the yearly averages of these things happening. If you kept the location vague or in areas that are more likely to be struck by earthquakes and volcanoes, you could be fairly “accurate”.
"CAN YOU IMAGINE BEING A WOMAN?"
Simon, we're right here in the audience, Sir. We dont have to imagine.
There's also the whole "women's suffrage" ending is location dependent. Where I'm from it ended in the late 1870's.
Every G I R L on the Internet is a Guy In Real Life
@@BezoomyKoshka-ip4dz Damn, I should tell my boss to give me a raise.
@@Kipicus Well, it was almost true a while back.
Pretty sure he meant imagine being a woman in the past when they had no rights and were thought to be witches if they behaved oddly.
Simon talking about realizing how close the past is as he ages is so relatable. It really gives one a new perspective on just how awful the past was and how far we've come in a short time.
We still have a long way to go, but it kind of gives me hope to realize how quickly some things have changed.
just wanted to say that I LOVE your profile pic. hope your Christmas is exceptional
@@variaxi935 Thanks! You too.
That “would be putting it rather mildly” was the most British thing I have ever heard Simon say lol
I'm most amazed that Simon got distracted by a package, went and dealt with it, then came back... and remembered the squirrel moment point he'd been talking about. For me... that thought would be gone, as well as the next thought, and probably the thought after that as well!
I would have forgotten about the video entirely
Simon and crew, you should do a video on the dead internet theory. It’s very interesting and I think there may be something to it.
24:51 Yes Mercury being in retrograde is a thing. It just means it is moving the opposite way in the sky as it normally does (because it is orbiting the son faster), it is an optical illusion.
Well, that by definition means it’s not a thing. Nothing is actually happening or changing. Just an optical illusion meaning it’s not really happening so there’s nothing different.
If it's going the right way is it called grade?
I am nearly 100% confident I’ve heard Simon talk about the ball cancer cds before. I’ve spent too much time here
A few times! 😂
One time working at a bookstore someone called asking if Nostradamus had any new books coming out. Which would be more impressive than any of the predictions coming true honestly.
The sarcasm and skepticism are some of the most entertaining things about this channel.
Sure they are...
I knew about Pasteur's rabies vaccine because of a set of biography books my mom bought when i was a baby. Value Tales are great for young children to learn about real people in history in a fun way.
Simon, we're here for the tangents, laughter and memes. Just keep the good work, all the team.
The tangents are definitely part of why I find him entertaining. LOL Thanks for this comment, I can see lots of others agree with us!!
The “as I get older” tangent is so real. I used to think 1982 was ancient history but I’ve now lived longer than the time between 1982 and my birth in 2002.
Oh god I was born in 2001 and this just broke me
@@BL-ch9ytyou and me both
I was born in 1982 and you have made me feel ancient
"What was I talking about?"
A tangent of a tangent of a tangent.... it's another awesome Tangentception! 😄
Now if Simon and his team do an episode on more contemporary con art..., I mean seer, Baba Vanga, whos predications are plastered bloody everywhere (and since I am Bulgarian, that goes double for me) it would be amazing.
I was about to comment about baba Vanga! I have a Macedonian background and see posts about her on Macedonian sites every now and then and can’t understand how many people believe her crap, I mean, accurate predictions - allegedly. 😂
Hasn't he done one already?
I use to be a believer when I was 15 years old. A lots changed in my perceptions of the real world in 35 years.
Regarding things not actually being that long ago, I have a friend in her 80s whose father fought alongside Winston Churchill in the boer wars. (Her father was quite old when she was born.)
I am very old. When I was young, but sufficiently old enough enough to understand the passing of time, I was presented to an old fellow in my south Devon town whose great-grandfather had served in Nelson's navy.
History has no start or finishing point. History is people.
Honestly, I just want to hear Simon's thoughts about people who put stock in prognostication.
The best description I have heard is to shoot an arrow into the side of a barn and allow someone in the future to walk up and paint a bullseye around it.
How to be a prophet with a %100 success rate.
Step 1: Describe a past event, leaving out the details and specifics.
Step 2: Wait. Eventually the past will repeat itself. Remember there is no time limit if you haven’t provided one. Every day your prophecy hasn’t been fulfilled brings you one day closer to being right.
I had an extremely well-timed ad:
Simon: What're you doing, drinking that clean water? You idiot! Just pray harder and bleed everywhere!
Ad: An official message from Medicare. 🤣🤣
Dude my grandfather is 95. It's crazy to think that he grew up before like the highway system, and refrigerators, and antibiotics. He's remarkably well adapted, but every once in a while you're like "holy shit, my Grandmother referred to herself as Mrs. (My grandfather's name)." Or, when my Gma passed a couple years ago and we needed to teach him how to run the wash and use the microwave for the first time.
I don't think Notradamus was "accidentally" a good plague. I think he might have actually had been figuring out what needed to be done to help people. He kept talking crap about other doctors including the ones at the school he was going to because he actually used observations instead of whatever bullshit was popular. He might not have known the chemistry or biology, but he probably actually sat there and observed what worked.
Personally I think his collected works are a proper plague upon humanity. I do believe you missed the word "doctor" in your first sentence.n
yeah from what I'm listening, he just seems like a guy who thought outside of the knowledge framework of reference at the time, and sure, his predictions are bullshit and only become true by the same principle of the 1000 monkeys on typewriters writing out shakespeare, but he seems like just a fairly intelligent guy who could see patterns and derive knowledge from it
Simons understatement of the day “Hitler will be forgotten and he was a right knob”
I snort laughed at the utter understated Britishness. Never change, Fact Boi.
Regarding the translation of Middle French, I’m an Arabic/English translator (written translation) despite specializing in a different language, we pretty much learn the same theoretical concepts/approaches. BUT, our number 1 rule is to translate the text as closely as possible to the original one. If there is no word equivalent to the original text , we transcribe it. From what Kevin wrote, I believe the translator was rendering the text to be used as the main reference for ppl to lookup rather than the original text. Plus, I believe there r small groups/communities that retained some Middle French in their current lingo🧐
Here is one of Nostradamus' lost prophecies. I think it is very accurate...
In realms of pixels, a Whistler shall rise,
With words that enthrall and stories that surprise.
From humble beginnings, his voice will take flight,
Reaching corners unknown, bathed in digital light.
With wit as his weapon and laughter his shield,
He'll conquer the masses, their hearts he will wield.
His wisdom and humor, a captivating blend,
A feast for the senses, a journey without end.
Fun fact: Bloodletting still kinda exists, in particular using leeches... Leeches are useful since they can direct the flow of blood in a patient in useful ways... Can in some cases prevent needing to do an amputation... But yeah, these are like sanitized leeches being used in a way that's backed by science... Not just recklessly bleeding a person to try and achieve a balance in the humors or whatever...
Not even just with leeches. People with excessive iron in their blood can be prescribed "phlebotomy" which in practice often means "donate some blood more often than usual."
"Why am I talking about this? No reason - let's carry on!" I LOVE you, Simon!!!
23:15 there's this really obscure series of super hero movies where the main villain had a plan like that.
Decoding the Unknown=The Lizard Overlords favorite channel. Or just another Simon's tangent channel. Cheers from Tennessee
"let's Nostradamus this shit" should be a T-shirt/merch for this channel. Just Simon in 1500s garb and that text
Nostradamus might not have been a prophet, but his cherry jelly recipe is amazing. Granted, I replace the cyanide flavor with a hint of almond extract, but it's genuinely the best jelly I've ever had.
As a french speaking, i love your french accent, made me laugh a lot :D
Simon: Kill half of humanity...like a James Bond villain.
Thanos: *already forgotten and crying in the corner *
You should get one of your writers (for whichever chanel it fits into) to look at The Simpsons predictions.
Yes! I love this idea.
Nice to see Simon come up with the Thanos/Kingsmen theory of resource management
I think the Avengers owe Thanos an apology. Maybe he could have been more target on who he vanished but he was right…
"for the good of humanity we must kill half of humanity" -- Simon Whistler 2023
I love that Simon unintentionally quoted Thanos lol and he has no idea.
Step by step guide to predict the future:
Step 1 - predict EVERYTHING, even contradictions
Step 2 - be extremely vague
true, true...
Step 3 - Prophet? (Profit)
@@jacksonnn1661 Prophet always equals profit for many.
New York City is at 40 degrees latitude. The best book on Nostradamus is The Mask of Nostradamus by James Randi, who debunks all the prophecies that Simon debunks and a lot more. Great video.
My first thought when he read was maybe the Korean War..... then I looked it up, and ummm, 38. So close. I guess I could fudge it and hope people don't fact-check it, lol
as Kevin notes though, it does go through Belfast, and we certainly had a fun quirky period of blowing each other up from 1969 to 1998ish (ceasefire was supposed to be in 98 but it kinda... well. Oops).
It's funny hearing Simon talking about not seeing someone write a check in twenty years, my mother wrote one at the grocery store just less than four hours ago! lol
That's why Simon mentioned that this was a normal thing for Americans. I don't know about the other continents, but cheques are just not a thing in Europe. I have never seen a cheque in my life, and I'm only a few years younger than Simon. To me, cheques are a thing that only exists in Hollywood movies.
@@trishapellis It's not a common practice now, a majority of the following generations have never written a check before and hardly anyone still writes checks (my mother is an exception).
I basically only write checks for two reasons - for taxes and when I find some crumple flyer from my kids school about a fundraiser or trip that must be paid by X date and I don't have cash on me.
Although, I think there is probably a work around for both of those if I tried.
@@theConquerersMama Nice!
As an Australian I haven’t seen or heard of a cheque since the eighties.
Simon, mercury retrograde (or any other planet going retrograde) is a real astronomical phenomenon where, due to the movements of both earth any the other planet, the other planet (in this case mercury) *appears* to move “backwards” when viewed in earth’s sky. That part is definitively real; whether that has any meaning for life on earth is a separate question.
The typical "plague doctor" outfit that we erroneously associate with the middle ages didn't start being worn until the 17th century... long after Nostradamus.
Simon, that tangent about how we are all going to be forgotten and nothing we do matters and that eventually Hitler will be forgotten was the most random multi-tangent Ive ever seen and I’m here for it😂😂😂😂
Simon: I won't name any names, since they've managed to avoid conviction despite perpetuating obvious frauds.
Me, remembering commercials in the 90's: But Miss Cleo knows!
Don't be too worried about sounding ignorant while processing things in your own way. It's fun to hear how people think things through in their own unfiltered ways. It might not be politically correct enough for all the nitpickers out there, but we need that kind of thinking right now. None of us know everything after all!
What a coincidence, I saw a tabloid first page stated "Our astrologist and Nostradamus predict a bad 2024". And just thinking Simon reaction and here I have it. 🤣🤣🤣
Every time Simon says "herbs and spices"...I immediately visualize The Colonel saving us all from the plague with regular doses of KFC
I don’t know how I never saw your channels the past three years but I found you about two months ago.
Your a LEGEND my dude
Cheers from the great white north 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Welcome to the legion of legends. 😁
@@SquirrelNebula Thx for the welcome 😅
is it true that canadians eat fries in gravy?… are they still crunchy with all the sauce on top?
when simon was going over banks and how we[usa] still use checks, when he started saying when the last time he's seen a check, i said 'when u go outside'
I think you named the show perfectly i love these types of shows but they can be very harmful when they pass them off as fact rather than an interesting thought experiments (ancient aliens is the best example) your show actually offers progression of the story and a logically consistent conclusion instead of ending in the same spot they started or spreading misinformation. Ive found that people who are smart but uneducated can be very negatively influenced by that type of program because the information is presented without any counter arguments in an intelligent appealing manner people can be convinced simply because they heard one side first.
If you’re vague enough and enough people read the book they could find similarities in events that line up with the book or just do something that he predicted so it would come true.
Simon: bamboozled by the concept of a bank giving you a free calendar in the year 2023
me: bamboozled by the concept of Kevin getting his free calendar from a bank instead of the local hardware store like me 😂
Me: Wondering why you didn't just reuse your 2017 calendar for 2023 :P
Seriously, whencanireusethiscalendar is a hilariously great website if you notice you've got a years old calendar still hanging up somewhere :D
Mine are handed out by the local supermarket and apothecary…
Ours are given out by tradesmen (plumbers, etc) and gas stations 😂
@@Bob-Jenkins You have a local apothecary in this day and age?
I actively miss the free calendars that the chinese take out places used to hand out 💔
I love this channel because you do challenge and debunk alot of so-called legends. However, my favorite is still the JFK episode where you were slightly swayed into believing there's some sketchy shit going on.
He's always talked about believing that
When ever Alanis Morissette comes up I have the desire to watch “Dogma”.
Nostradamus' predictions only work because they are all phrased like "Tomarrow you'll wake up do a bunch of stuff and then go back to sleep!"
It’s sad that Uri Geller’s career wasn’t effectively ended by the late great James Randi when he was so savagely exposed as a fake on Johnny Carson.
Simon's mother-in-law being Slavic, I'm surprised she didn't just give y'all onions and garlic to keep you healthy 😂😂
Simon is the funniest guy on TH-cam! I watch it because he makes it hilarious. Ball cancer hahaha
"retrograde" is a completly normal therm and refers to the orientation in 3d space compared to your reference.
for spaceships its very important - we call them: prograde - retrograde (towards and backwards in the direction of travel) and radial in- Radial out (perpendicular to prograde)and target - anti target (towards or backwards to your taget f.e. Moon.) and normal - antinormal (perpendicular to your orbital plane)
its easy to see it in a picture.
"The last time I saw a cheque was..." Gee, Simon, I assumed you'd see Czechs quite frequently.
Lol you thought the same thing as me 😂
Hahahahaha!
23:30 not Simon describing the actual plot of the Avengers’ Thanos thruline as a James Bond villain lmao
Simon's fixation on rabies and carbon monoxide poisoning is always guaranteed lol
Speaking of moons cycles, my last birthday was on the Cold Moon, the first full moon in December (and for 2022 it was the last full moon of the year).
The Flower Moon this year fell on the graduation day of my Health Sciences Associate Degree.
11:12 In Germany, (and Switzerland, Austria) there are still active Apotheken (or Drogerien) who hand out Drugs, Pills, Remedies, medicines etc. They also were back in time the only place to get Gasoline for your car since there weren’t any petrol stations (yet).
He finds a way to mention Adolph in every video I watch a lot of his channels and he does it all the time
it’s spelled Adolf…
I've got it !!! My grandma passed away in July 1999 on my birthday in fact. Thank you for recognizing my family Nostradamus!!
That's always been my thing with these and pretty much any any other "prophesy": if you have to wait for the event to occur before you can massage the words to fit the event, what is even the point (other than appealing to it as evidence for your favourite imaginary friend)?
French person listening here, living at 1000km from Montpellier tho, so I'll see what I can do... maybe...
"AH Si-mohn! You roast ME! Haunh Haunh Haunh!"
Nostradamus actually predicted the Simpsons making predictions. 😊
your saying he predicted that someone else would in future also predict something…
Simon: "i wasnt a good student"
Also Simon: teaching millions of people about history, science, & space on 800 different channels, DAILY 😅
I am certain that he is just triplets that dress the same 😂
I can't tell you how thankful I am for this channel. I married a Russian girl some 10 years ago, and I had no idea Russians were so insanely superstitious (and that's putting it politely). I don't care to change her mind; she can believe whatever she likes, but I often whip a video out from this channel to keep her superstitions from being forced on me. Simon could be thought of as a one man protection racket, but for knowledge.
2:25 I love a conspiracy theory, but I watch your videos to keep myself grounded, and I love your snarky comments haha
Preach me some single bullet theory person from another person...uh,...look being p.c. is hard...but facts
Simon is practically compelled to tease his mother-in-law. 💀
"Retrograde" means that a planet is appearing to reverse its course across the sky, which happens when it's on the other side of the sun from us. Today it's just a neat optical illusion that astronomers get excited about, but back before they figured out heliocentrism it seemed a lot more mysterious and foreboding.
It's the astrologers that get excited, astronomers know what's happening and are not that surprised.
Who got more correct predictions, Nostradamus or The Simpsons?
Simpsons. Definitely Simpsons, lol.
Magazines at 8 bucks a pop is cheaper than a single academic paper around 20 ish bucks. If you are not afflilated with an institution (university), writing new articles can become very expensive.
I can't wait to see Simon's reaction to all of Nostradamus's definitely real predictions.
And don't forget, you can get access to all of my uncut and uncensored scripts!
you should totally be a channel moderator so your name stands out
@@wolfiemuseis that an option?
@@ThatWriterKevin you’re the actual writer for Simon, correct? If so yes, he can make you and other writers who comment into channel moderators and your names should stand out iirc. he might have to look around in his account or TH-cam Studio for the option, not sure. If I can figure it out I’ll get back to you, but ya’ll are smart cookies :) Just offering my thoughts!
@@wolfiemuse It would definitely be useful if we were able to do that for sure
33:27 in fairness to the old timey astrologers, they were tracking the position of the planets relative to the constellations. This is very relevant for things like almanacs, tracking seasons, navigating, etc. Just because you can’t predict the future doesn’t mean the information is completely worthless, and it’s obvious when someone is lying about where the planets are in the sky. People kept charts of that stuff
Nostradamus predicted this
Allegedly
Simon, your team should look into Dorothy Eady (Omm Setty), she was an Egyptologist and claimed to be an incarnation of a priestess from the 19th dynasty. She predicted the locations of archeological finds and had an uncanny knowledge of the temple of Abydos and was an excellent translator of hieroglyphics. Shw worked with many renowned Egyptologists.
Only issue I have with the whole video is the statement that English is the national language of the USA. Strangely enough, the USA is one of the few countries with no official national language.
@Jay-eu5zq actually you're 100% incorrect. You might want to look it up. Before looking like an idiot..... oh too late
If anything, it's American..... we don't speak proper English, just like people from Mexico don't speak actual Spanish.
Languages get changed to fit people
@Jay-eu5zqI think they mean “officially.” Like, it’s not a federal law. Other countries, like India, do.