 Welcome to The Randy Show. I am Brian Thompson from the James Randy Educational Foundation and with me as always is the man himself, James Randy. Hi there Brian, how have you been? I've been alright. It's been a busy, busy week and I heard, I don't know if this is true, but somebody told me that you have a fairly impressive artifact that's come into your possession. I came upon this. This is an addition of Nostradamus, of the predictions of Nostradamus, Le Profitie. And what's interesting about it is this is the only one I guess you can see that fairly accurately there. This is from 1668, which is a later addition, 1555 was the first. And this is from 1668, but there are many additions of it. The interesting thing about this particular one here, this is the size, literally the same measurement and sizing as the original book of Nostradamus, because the paper was pretty valuable in those days, as you know. There's nonsense in here anyway, so if you're going to print nonsense, print it small. But this addition is not listed anywhere in the bibliography of the additions of the processes of Nostradamus, which is very interesting to me. I'd like to know if I've got something to really extremely wear on my hands. This is one of these things that our good friend who will remain nameless at the moment, because he blushes easily, who is our main sponsor over the years, who deals in rare books. And he bought a lot from Sotheby's in the UK, and this little book was tucked away. It's leather bound, it's beautifully beautifully done, beautifully done. Now this is a rebinding by the way, and certainly wasn't done in 1668, but it's really beautifully done, I must say. And it says right there Nostradamus, which you can probably read if you're very careful. Okay anyway, this is interesting to me because it's not listed in any of the very plentiful biographies, pardon me, the bibliographies of the the processes of Nostradamus. So I don't know that it's extremely rare, only one was printed, I'm not too sure. But the differences in the different additions of Nostradamus are very interesting too. There was one that came along, and I had to check this one out. I haven't had the opportunity to look it up. There are a couple of prophecies there that very distinctly refer to Cardinal Richelieu in France who was a very controversial character, and they obviously were doted upon by readers of the prophecies because they doomed him to hell and he was going to be cast down from his high office and such. The problem was that those two quadrants don't exist in any other edition of Nostradamus because this was printed up as a political move, can you imagine? That's really going far out to have these thousands of prophecies printed here in a tiny book like that and all bound very carefully to introduce quadrants that weren't in the original and I guess they sent a copy of it to Richelieu and said so there, haha. But in reference to any other copy of the prophecies we showed that those were invented and the French was totally different too. The French, the old French says O.F. officially. Old French is very very strange. I'm sure it's as weird as folks like me who were forced to memorize parts of the Canterbury tales and can barely recognize that as English. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh yes, Sumerians are coming in and a few things like that. Yeah, well in a way that's the story of my most recent invention. This is going into the big mechanical safe downstairs. We actually have the safe along with my 1568 edition of Nostradamus sort of way earlier than that and my discovery of witchcraft. One of the very old copies of it that survived James the, was it James the first of England? It was James the second of Scotland. It's a very complicated thing. I mean there's James the first of England, there's James the amazing of Toronto. Yeah, there you go. Thank you. Thank you very much. I have to ask you, I have to ask you one question about this. Yes, certainly, certainly. Have you ever been tempted to doom your enemies via coded quatrain? In French, no. My French is almost intolerable. It's undutwa katsang sis set widnuf dis. This is French-Canadian French, that's the way they count Tim in French Canada and Parisians just shudder when they hear this kind of pronunciation. The Randy Show is a production of the James Randy Educational Foundation to learn more about how we promote science and critical thinking, go to randy.org.