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Penn & Teller: Bullshit! · Season 1, Episode 4

“End of the World” quotes from Penn & Teller: Bullshit!

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“End of the World” · Season 1, Episode 4

In this episode: Penn (3)

So, when does Bruce believe the bombs will start dropping?

BBBruce Beech

The date which a lot of people feel right at this moment is about the 8th of December.

Relax! He's talking about 2002 [which had passed]. You can start breathing again!

[Bruce Beech laughs hysterically]

You know, when you hear about people predicting the end of the world, they're always predicting 60 to 90 % of the world's population is going to get killed. It's odd how they're always planning on what they're going to do when everyone else is dead. Teller and I have always played the odds, so, we're betting we're gonna die. You should see our credit card bills. They're higher than our cholesterol! Good thing we don't plan on paying 'em! [microphone appears] I'm sure that we—

CCameraman

Cut! Cut. The mic was in the shot. We have to go again.

Fuck you, it's the end of the world! If you live, you can fix it in post.

JHJohn Hogue

John Hogue; rogue scholar!

Get it? Hogue! Rogue! It rhymes! And scholar, well... not a chance.

CCameraman

Do you think that this tape will ever air?

BBBruce Beach

I don't give that a very high rate of probability.

[on the subject of decoding Nostradamus' writings]

JHJohn Hogue

Quatrain 97 of century, Volume 6 reads, "At 45 degrees latitude, the sky will burn. Fire approaches the great New City." At latitude 45 degrees the only new city since Nostradamus' time that you could call great and new and vast is the city that rests between 40 degrees and 41 degrees latitude, which is Manhattan and New York. Now... that's a little off.

JRJames Randi

Then, he's way off up in Canada or some place. […] When [Nostradamus] said "New City," he was referring to Naples [Italy]. He refers to it several times throughout his writings and makes it clear that he's talking about Naples. Not New York City.

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