Prepare for Doomsday: The 2012 Phenomenon Pt. 2

08/29/23 • 46 min

It's part two of our look back at the hysteria surrounding the Mayan Long Count calendar. This time we take a deep dive into a relatively early History Channel special that looks deep into Maya prophecies and determines that the ancient people were desparately trying to tell us about the future of...the United States? We briefly discuss the 2012 film, Divorce Court, and in the end we sadly dip back into some New Age predictions.
It's highly suggested you listen to Pt. 1 first, at least to make sense of all of the calendar stuff.
Theme song is “Satellites” by Swenny.

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Harmonic Convergence: The 2012 Phenomenon Pt. 1

Patrick takes Alex on a trip through history, as we look at the Mayan Long Count calendar and why some people thought the world would end in 2012. We discuss who the Maya are, how their various calendars work, and how the 2012 "doomsday" myth morphed over the years. Both Alex and Patrick express, frankly, rage at trying to pin down exactly what some New Age leaders were trying to say would happen in 2012. We've got blood rituals, we've got universal telepathy, we've got the poles flipping.
Theme song is “Satellites” by Swenny.

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Patrick and Alex welcome their friends and hosts of the Unprofessional Development podcast, Tudisco and Mealey, to use their expertise as educators to evaluate predictions from the past about what teaching would be like in the future. We evaluate a series of predictions from 1900, 1927, 1931, and 1958. This conversation has far more focus on pneumatic tubes, eugenics, Mad Max, and ICBMs than you might expect.
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