John and Mike set their sights on the future of world civilization in this edition of the show. The conversation makes its way through a ridiculously broad array of topics and showcases our hosts' love of history and armchair futurology. Our longest show yet, it wastes no time and is packed to the brim with...well, exactly what our listeners have grown to expect from the Armchair.

Corrections:

-Julius Caesar brought about the end of the Roman Republic, not the Roman Empire.

-The photographs of US soldiers in the Forbidden City John was thinking about are from the Boxer Rebellion, not the Opium war.  The Boxer Rebellion was another major European invasion of China, involving what became known as the 8-Nation Alliance: the Empire of Japan, the Russian Empire, England/UK, the French Third Republic, the United States, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Kingdom of Italy.

-At one point, John mentions that Russia is not a nation-state.  He should more accurately state that the Soviet Union was not a nation-state.  The Soviet Union tried to be a nation-state united under the banner of Communism, but it ended up being a multi-ethnic empire where the Russian core ruled over a vast periphery of Central Asian people and white Europeans.