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Is the world going to end in 2012? · Stuff You Should Know

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  Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera.
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  Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know?
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  Speaker 1: From house Stuff Works dot com? Hey, and welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Chuck Bryant. Your lude, Chuck,
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  Speaker 1: what delude? Oh but you said I'm alluded with a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of both, Chuck, great? Yes, so this is
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  Speaker 1: stuff you should know. I did? I did say your
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  Speaker 1: full name? Didn't I? No, it doesn't matter. Just Chuck,
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  Speaker 1: just Chuck CB. Yeah. Hell o, l So Chuck. Um,
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  Speaker 1: did you know that just a couple of days ago,
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  Speaker 1: the Earth actually had a near miss with an asteroid?
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  Speaker 1: I did hear about that? Someone actually, a fan wrote
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  Speaker 1: in and told me that I wasn't aware. Yeah, this
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  Speaker 1: this asteroid about the size of a ten story building.
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  Speaker 1: We know the height. I don't know the width or
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  Speaker 1: death or anything. But UM passed within fifty thou miles
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  Speaker 1: of Earth, which NASA considers a close call. Right, I
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  Speaker 1: believe that is what they call it, or near miss
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  Speaker 1: same thing, UM, But uh, the there've been closer asteroids
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  Speaker 1: very recently, think two thousand four, two thousand six one
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  Speaker 1: UM came within five thousand miles, but the thing was
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  Speaker 1: pretty small and would have done much damage. This one
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  Speaker 1: came within fifty thousand miles, which is a fifth of
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  Speaker 1: the distance between us and the moon, so it was
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  Speaker 1: really close. And it was about the same size as
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  Speaker 1: the one that um leveled eight hundred square miles of
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  Speaker 1: Siberia n eight Wow, So it could have been a
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  Speaker 1: real problem, right right, we need we should have gotten
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Willison the Gang of Drillers to go up and
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  Speaker 1: uh explode it with I think they were at the ready. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Ben Affleck too. Yeah, that was a terrible movie. It
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  Speaker 1: really was. Are we allowed to say that? Oh, it
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  Speaker 1: was a terrible movie. It was. Thank you Michael Bay
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  Speaker 1: for that stinker. That's funny that you bring up Michael
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  Speaker 1: Bay's name because he's doing something right now that um
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  Speaker 1: we'll be out soon. I believe he may have already finished.
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  Speaker 1: He's directing a movie called two thousand twelve. No he's not. Yeah, yes,
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  Speaker 1: Rowland Emerick directed that film. Well, then we need to
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  Speaker 1: update this article because this says Michael Bay. I believe
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  Speaker 1: he's producing it. Same thing. Okay, okay, Michael Bay is
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  Speaker 1: uh I worked with him. Let's hear it. Chuck, I
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  Speaker 1: can't tell this full story honestly, because I would I
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  Speaker 1: would most definitely get a phone call from his people.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but yeah, I worked with him on a
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  Speaker 1: truck commercial like the Grand Canyon. Pretty cool, very cool.
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  Speaker 1: What truck the Canyon? Earra Oh I don't even remember. Okay, So, um,
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  Speaker 1: well I bring up twelve because that's kind of what
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about today. And Josh, this is another listener
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  Speaker 1: suggestion we're kind of diving into these from Jason of
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  Speaker 1: Santa Barbara wanted to hear about the doomsday theories of
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  Speaker 1: the year twelve. So yeah, yeah, thanks Jason. Let's let's
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  Speaker 1: do this, right, Chuck. Yes, okay, So basically it's not
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  Speaker 1: just the year. Um, there's actually a specific date December one,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand twelve, the Winner Solstice. And actually I was
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  Speaker 1: on a site called all About twelve and it's sites
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  Speaker 1: eleven eleven A m. Greenwich meantime as the moment when
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  Speaker 1: the world's going to end. Really yeah, I think I
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  Speaker 1: will hold off on buying my Christmas presents that year
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  Speaker 1: till the twenty two. You do anyway, don't you? So
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  Speaker 1: you know the end of the world is not gonna
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  Speaker 1: if I plumped down like several hundred dollars on gifts
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  Speaker 1: from my wife and then the world ended. Well, you're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna need money anyway after the apocalypse comes. That's alright,
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  Speaker 1: so well, Chuck. December twenty one, two thousand and twelve.
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  Speaker 1: This is not an arbitrary date right now. This is
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  Speaker 1: actually based on the Mind calendar or one of them, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they had several The first we should probably say this
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  Speaker 1: is this is actually becoming something of a trend. This
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  Speaker 1: this kind of doomsday prophecy that uh, December twenty first,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand twelve, is UM is going to see the
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  Speaker 1: end of the world or at least significant changes. UM.
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  Speaker 1: There's all sorts of groups around the world. I read
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  Speaker 1: an article about one in Belgium, led by a guy
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  Speaker 1: named what's his name Patrick? Yeah you heard of him too, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I read that He's he's developing quite a following, and
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  Speaker 1: apparently they he and his people have UM found a
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  Speaker 1: plot of land in Africa in the highlands, I imagine
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in Ethiopia, UM, where they're going to basically hold
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  Speaker 1: up and wait and then come back out and try
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  Speaker 1: starting civilization up again. It's what he said he's stockpiling stuff.
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  Speaker 1: He quit his job a couple of years ago after
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  Speaker 1: he saved up some money, and yeah, yeah, yeah. And
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  Speaker 1: I mean we're talking probably the thousands of people who
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  Speaker 1: are you know, actively thinking that this is going to
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  Speaker 1: happen and maybe making preparations about it. But it seems
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  Speaker 1: to UH to be gathering steam the closer we get
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  Speaker 1: into two thousand twelve. Right, you remember why two K
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember what a paranoid time that was? Well
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  Speaker 1: for me, No, man, I remember, And I'm not just
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  Speaker 1: saying this now, but I remember at the time saying,
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  Speaker 1: not that's gonna happen. Nothing's gonna go wrong. Elevators aren't
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  Speaker 1: gonna fall down the side of the building, and all
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  Speaker 1: our computers aren't going to explode. And I just remember
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  Speaker 1: thinking it's just all much ado about nothing. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like you were in the minority then, like think about
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  Speaker 1: remember X files had a tremendous run, and I think
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  Speaker 1: a lot of it was because of the changing over
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  Speaker 1: from you know, what one millennia do another. For some reason,
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  Speaker 1: we friends attached great significance to a change in calendar,
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  Speaker 1: even though it's a human construct, right, But I mean
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  Speaker 1: it also these kind of doomsday prophecies. These um fears
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  Speaker 1: that the world is gonna end are usually they usually
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  Speaker 1: reflect like our cultural concerns at the time, like hy
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  Speaker 1: two k uh that fears about that began to grow
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  Speaker 1: alongside technology. Technology was taking off, and like the Internet
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  Speaker 1: was this huge thing that we hadn't really figured out
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  Speaker 1: what to do with except to put like really really
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  Speaker 1: dirty porn that involved goats onto you know. So it
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  Speaker 1: seemed like, you know, y two k it was tech
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  Speaker 1: knowledgey based concern is fear and this two thousand twelve thing,
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  Speaker 1: it's taking place, it's transpiring. UM while we're very we've
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  Speaker 1: become a very eco conscious and um society. We're aware
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  Speaker 1: of our environmental impact, and it seems like part of
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  Speaker 1: two thousands, the two thousand twelve movement is kind of
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  Speaker 1: this back to Earth thing. I think I get the
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  Speaker 1: sense that a lot of people who are like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna be prepared, I'm gonna make it, I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 1: one of the lucky people who gets to repopulate earth.
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  Speaker 1: And part of that is knowing how to plant crops
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  Speaker 1: and you know, like raise livestock and that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: So it seems to reflect the kind of the green
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  Speaker 1: consciousness that we have right now. Although the common thread,
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  Speaker 1: of course is that the world's going in right exactly,
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  Speaker 1: and I think global warming has got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people scared and a lot of the people the verse
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  Speaker 1: that's so good. You like that. A lot of bring
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  Speaker 1: up things like global warming is like, this is a
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  Speaker 1: sign the oceans will boil and uh, you know, volcanoes
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  Speaker 1: will erupt and mass chaos. And a critic would say, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: volcanoes erupt, you know fairly commonly. There are earthquakes and
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  Speaker 1: there are floods. These things happen. You know, we don't
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  Speaker 1: have enough of a handle on climatology to really say
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  Speaker 1: either way, which is I think why debates like these rags? Right, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So like we said, the December twenty first, two thousand twelve,
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  Speaker 1: the date it's based on a Mayan calendar. That's where
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  Speaker 1: it all started. And actually among uh to borrow your terms. Um,
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  Speaker 1: there's there's a predominant theory that the Mayans, the Mayan civilization,
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  Speaker 1: were either aliens or in contact with aliens. And when
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  Speaker 1: you kind of starting to look at the Mayan's you
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  Speaker 1: could you get an idea of how somebody could say
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  Speaker 1: that they they earliest Mayan settlement they found um is
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  Speaker 1: from and they just kind of live primitively for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of millennia and then out of nowhere, there's this
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  Speaker 1: sudden birth of ingenuity and insight from the third century
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  Speaker 1: to the tenth century CE, and all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: that the minds like developed this really tremendous understanding of mathematics,
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  Speaker 1: including zero, which you can't function. You can't create a
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  Speaker 1: mathematical system without zero. You have to have zero, and
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  Speaker 1: it's it's very elusive and rare, and to develop it
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  Speaker 1: out of nowhere is really something. Um. They understood crop domestication,
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  Speaker 1: really elaborate architecture UM. And you know, they became arguably
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  Speaker 1: the most advanced pre Columbian civilization and mess Mesoamerica almost
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  Speaker 1: overnight historically speaking, right, Yeah, I think they were easily
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  Speaker 1: the most advanced. They had an advanced system of writing,
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  Speaker 1: they were the first people to do that. They had
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  Speaker 1: a recorded history, they were the first civilization to record
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  Speaker 1: their own history. Yeah, astronomy, Matt, like you said, mathematics, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the other things that they were really
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  Speaker 1: really good at was marking time, especially through calendars and
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  Speaker 1: building things. They were they were good at building things
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  Speaker 1: and um blood lighting big into blood lighting really and
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  Speaker 1: human sacrifice. Yeah sure, yeah, but blood ritual blood lighting
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  Speaker 1: as well. Okay you can't. You can't leave that out
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  Speaker 1: for the person whose blood is being it's pretty significant experience,
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  Speaker 1: I imagine, uh, and probably for the person who's doing
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  Speaker 1: the cutting two. But we'll find out later. UM. So
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  Speaker 1: they had twenty different calendars at least that we know of, UM,
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  Speaker 1: and actually five of them are still kept in secret.
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  Speaker 1: Five bands today really kind of makes you wonder what
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  Speaker 1: this five calendars are counting, right, UM. But there there's this,
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  Speaker 1: there's I guess I call him the Big three calendars,
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  Speaker 1: the Zulkin, which is actually a two hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 1: day calendar that actually um parallels human gestation all about twelve. Again.
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  Speaker 1: That that site, UM, which I found pretty cool. They
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  Speaker 1: basically have a calendar for a pregnancy. Right. There's the
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  Speaker 1: hob h a B. Yeah, that's three hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 1: days with a five day period called the Way Up,
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  Speaker 1: which basically it's a solar calendars, but it's essentially the
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  Speaker 1: same thing as the one that we UM use, the
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  Speaker 1: Gregorian calendar that we exactly. And then there's the calendar Round,
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  Speaker 1: which is a fifty two year calendar, and then there's
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  Speaker 1: there's actually the big one. This is the one that
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  Speaker 1: all of this doomsday stuff is centered around, and it's
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  Speaker 1: called what the Long Count calendar, right, yes, and that's
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  Speaker 1: all about the Great Cycle, is what they call it, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: which is a period of five thousand, one twenty five
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  Speaker 1: point three six years very specific yeah, um, approximately, right, um.
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  Speaker 1: And we know that this date of December twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand twelve is the end of this Great Cycle
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  Speaker 1: thanks to the conquistadors. So they show up and just
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  Speaker 1: completely subjugate and commit genocide against the Mayans. Some of
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  Speaker 1: them were left alive. Um. And actually there was one
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  Speaker 1: Mayan scholar who adopted the Gregorian calendar in conjunction with
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  Speaker 1: the Long Count calendar and started recording the same dates
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  Speaker 1: on both and so eventually, um, some scholars went back
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  Speaker 1: and started comparing dates and found the path and finally
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  Speaker 1: determined that the last beginning of the beginning of the
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  Speaker 1: last Great Cycle was August thirteen, fourteen b C. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, five thousand, twenty five years after that is
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  Speaker 1: point three six point three six would be December one,
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  Speaker 1: So that's how we know that the the Mayan calendar
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  Speaker 1: is going to reset itself on that date, right, But
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  Speaker 1: I think it's now is where we should note that
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  Speaker 1: the Mayans did not say this was the end of
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  Speaker 1: the world. It was a restarting of the Great cycle,
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  Speaker 1: and they, I believe, had gone through three other great cycles.
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  Speaker 1: Is that correct so far? Yeah? Yeah, So they didn't
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  Speaker 1: think it was gonna be the end of the world.
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  Speaker 1: This is uh, something that other people have kind of
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  Speaker 1: put on it, And apparently we're as far as the
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  Speaker 1: minds are concerned, we're extraordinarily lucky to live through the
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  Speaker 1: end of a great cycle in the beginning of another.
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  Speaker 1: One's a time of really good luck. It's a time
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  Speaker 1: to celebrate, exactly. It's not really a time to stock
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  Speaker 1: up on bottle water, you know, evaporated milk. Yeah, exactly. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, so that's kind of one of the fatal
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  Speaker 1: flaws I think in this the whole doomsday prophecies, that
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  Speaker 1: the very people whose calendar it's based on didn't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: believe this, right, well, right, but the reason and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I did a little more research too, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of Mayan scholars are really upset about this that it
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  Speaker 1: cast them in in a negative light, and they're saying,
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  Speaker 1: this is not all accurate, This is not at all accurate. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: and Mines didn't believe this, and this is something we
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  Speaker 1: put on it because of the uh. It ends with
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  Speaker 1: a winter solstice. That's the key right right there. There
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  Speaker 1: are a couple of things that doing research I found
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  Speaker 1: slightly unsettling. Let's hear them, and okay, I can I
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  Speaker 1: tell you a quick white two K story. Yeah. I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't big into it either, but I'm kind of one
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  Speaker 1: of those. I was a cub scout for a little while,
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  Speaker 1: never made it to boy scouts because I thought, respecting
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  Speaker 1: your elders just because they're old, that's a stupid concept,
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  Speaker 1: and I quit um. But I was a boy scout
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  Speaker 1: long enough to learn to prepare just in case. So
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  Speaker 1: on December thirty one, I was at Philips Arena at
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  Speaker 1: a widespread panic show, and had you followed me back
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  Speaker 1: to my van, you would have found a four ten shotgun,
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  Speaker 1: some shells, my dogs, some water, and a couple of
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  Speaker 1: other supplies. And I was ready to go to the
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  Speaker 1: Georgia Mountains. Just I'm very serious, kidding, Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a younger um much more out of it. Josh made
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  Speaker 1: that decision, but hey, if it had happened, I would
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  Speaker 1: have I would have, you know, been fine. I was
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  Speaker 1: at the Gravity Pub in East Atlanta at night. Were
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  Speaker 1: you a great place bringing in the new year? That's great?
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  Speaker 1: Chuck a plug for the Gravity Pub seriously, and Philips arena.
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  Speaker 1: Um So, come to Atlanta. We've got at least two
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  Speaker 1: things for you to do. Um So, my point is
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  Speaker 1: is that I'm not necessarily a really nervous person about
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  Speaker 1: stuff like this. Um I I am prepared. I'm probably
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  Speaker 1: not gonna do anything for December twenty first, two thousand
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  Speaker 1: twelves and maybe throw a party. But there are a
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  Speaker 1: couple of things, like I said, doing research that I
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  Speaker 1: found that work on a weird about December twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand twelve. One of them is that on that date,
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  Speaker 1: the winter solstice, the sun is actually going to be
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  Speaker 1: on that one day at the center of the Milky Way.
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  Speaker 1: The last time that happened was about twenty six thousand
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  Speaker 1: years ago, and apparently only happens every twenty six thou
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  Speaker 1: years yea or so, And we're talking like a day.
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  Speaker 1: This is this will it will be in that position
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  Speaker 1: for a day, and probably not even the whole day
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  Speaker 1: at eleven eleven, maybe even who knows. I found that
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  Speaker 1: a little significant. UM. And then another is that we
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  Speaker 1: are actually beginning a new sun spot cycle. This is
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  Speaker 1: something that actually if you read some of the literature, um,
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  Speaker 1: they keep talking about sun spots and sun spots and
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  Speaker 1: how it's going to create you know, severe climate change
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  Speaker 1: and imbalance in Earth processes. And on July thirty one,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand six, uh NASA astronomers found a backwards sun spot,
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  Speaker 1: meaning that it was polar I it's in the wrong
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  Speaker 1: direction from south to north rather than a lying north
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  Speaker 1: to south. It appeared on the Sun and it's basically
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  Speaker 1: a planet sized magnet and they've been waiting for it
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  Speaker 1: because it's it signals the start of a new solar cycle.
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  Speaker 1: Okay um, and when that happens, we have like proton
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  Speaker 1: storms and it actually messes with the Earth's magnetic field.
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  Speaker 1: These happened, UM. Oh, I don't know, every every every
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  Speaker 1: few years. I think a new there's a few year
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  Speaker 1: period between solar cycles. UM. So it's not that significant,
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  Speaker 1: but it could have a big effect. The thing is
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  Speaker 1: is the Earth. So magnetic field right now is in
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  Speaker 1: the process of reversing. It is. Did you did you
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  Speaker 1: read about this? I did, and I know that think
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  Speaker 1: that polar reversal might be one of the significant events,
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  Speaker 1: as in sunrises in the west, sets in the east,
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  Speaker 1: that kind of thing. And actually it is like I
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  Speaker 1: read on a Science Daily of that we're about in
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  Speaker 1: about probably years or saying it's going to reverse, and
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  Speaker 1: it happens randomly, and they know that it's reverse through
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  Speaker 1: some very clever techniques. They find ancient lava flow, and lava,
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  Speaker 1: because of its composition, aligns itself with magnetic north. It
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  Speaker 1: flows right, so whatever direction it's flowing in it basically
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  Speaker 1: leaves like a line of this is where magnetic north
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  Speaker 1: was on this day. And if you can date that
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  Speaker 1: lava flow, then you know, right then hundreds of thousands
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  Speaker 1: or millions of years ago, that's where magnetic north was right.
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  Speaker 1: So they're finding now, um that that the the magnetic
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  Speaker 1: field on Earth is reversing, and this only happens about
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  Speaker 1: every seven hundred and eighty thousand years. So all these
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  Speaker 1: things are kind of significant. And I can understand how
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  Speaker 1: somebody who is very concerned about war famine, pestilence, and
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  Speaker 1: it is, you know, conceivably into the end of the world. Sure, sure,
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  Speaker 1: UM could kind of take all this information in and say, yea,
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  Speaker 1: the summer twenty two thousand twelve and I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 1: in a bunker in Ethiopia. I see your point, Josh,
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  Speaker 1: But most serious scholars say there's nothing to it. And
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  Speaker 1: I didn't find any mainstream scientists to endorse anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone I ran across is like, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: this is not going to happen, and in fact they
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  Speaker 1: call it. A lot of them just call it out
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  Speaker 1: as down irresponsible to spread something like this, but not
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  Speaker 1: not only that, but a way to make a quick
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  Speaker 1: money to with another criticism, I son, so will the
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  Speaker 1: world really end in two thousand twelve? I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and say probably not, because humanity is far
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  Speaker 1: too blemish to get off that lucky. Yeah. Wow, that's
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  Speaker 1: an interesting point of view. I don't think it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: end a twelve either, don't. Okay, we're in agreement, Chuck.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: We typically don't give our opinions, but darn it, that's mine. Yeah,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: And um, anybody out there stocking up for two thousand
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: twelve when listening to this podcast, more power to you.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Sure you will have the last laugh at the world
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: really does it, as we usually say to each his
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: own and or her own. And if that's what you believe,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: then yea stock up. Yeah, Chuck, that's one of those
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: podcasts that now that we've done it, it stays done.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: I don't understand that. You don't have to. Okay, you'll
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: find out on December twenty twelve. You rat so, Chuck.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: We're big time now and I want to I think
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: I think we should express this. We have a spoken
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: word album for love God, Chuck. We have a spoken
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: word album available for sale on iTunes. Right now, Let's
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: let's discuss, uh, correct, Josh, is the stuff you should know?
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Super stuffed Guide to the Economy beautiful? And what we
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: tried to do is breakdown economics and the economy in
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: a way that the layman can understand, because we'd layman
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: as well. Exactly. We learned a lot. We think you'll
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: learn a lot. Yeah, I'm pretty proud of it. I'm too.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I think it's worth four bucks. I do too. And Jerry,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: our producer, did an outstanding job with the sound design.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: It's much different and very special. We would be nowhere
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: without her. So you guys can find that on iTunes.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: All I have to do is type super stuffed into
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: their handy search bar, and from my experience, as the
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: first thing that comes up and have at it, I
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: wouldn't click on anything else that said super stuff. Let's
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: put it away, agreed, Chuck agreed. And while we're at it,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: while we're just plugging away, let's talk about our blog too,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: which frankly I've come to be pretty proud of. I
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: wasn't sure about the blogging thing at first, and I'm like,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: I get this. Yeah, Yeah, we have a blog now
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: called Stuff you Should Know, and you can access it
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: through the homepage on the right hand side there at
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: how stuff works dot com. And uh we post twice
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: a day. One of us posts. I post in the morning,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Chuck posts at night. Both of them are well worth reading.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: And Chuck likes to do a little recap on Fridays
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: of the podcast the Weekend Podcasting, and we will answer you.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: We chat with the folks. Yes, we follow up, and
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: it's a good way to reach us. Yeah. What, Chuck
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: likes to interact with you guys more than I do.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Because he likes to show off his cool guy hat
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: in in his photo that pops up every time he
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: posts something. So so ask us to come out and
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: play and we will. Okay, So relief. Yes, we we
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: got the spoken We're It album knocked out, we got
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: the blog knocked out. You know what that means. It's
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: time for yes, l M. But listener mail, listener mail, right, Josh.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: This is significant because today is the day where we
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: retire Haiku Theater. Thank you? Did everyone here that we
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: are retiring Hiku Theater. We love your high Kus and
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: you can still send him if you want, but we're
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: not going to read him anymore. I agreed. Thank you, Chuck,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you Chuck. Okay, so check, let's do it.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: This is the final. Um, how can we get Jerry?
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Maybe a drum roll in here? Right? And I should
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: say that one of the reasons we were retiring is
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: because we received the best Hiku ever and it cannot
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: be topped, and so I'm still looking forward to this one.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: All right, So here we go. Um. Nathan of Akron,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Ohio says, I'm a c P, a anesthesiologist. Man, they
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: make some loot. Belinda, who doesn't say where she's from,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: says Hiku and search bar no article for learning. I
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: had to google, so I think she was expecting an
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: article on hikus h. David, who is an l V
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: in which I believe is a nurse, says frozen missed
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: on ground. The railing has lots of holes. It's a
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: long way down. He's referring, of course, to Niagara Falls.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Uh Jesse, I'm gonna read this one pretty quickly. Odin
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: has an eye. Valhalla is in asgard. I do not
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: know why Thor has a hammer. Heimdal nine moms and
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: white God, please enlighten me. Balder dreamt his death, his
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: mom frigg dreamt it as well. Mistletoe, who knew then
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: him on Loki for Seti and his justice. How does
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: this all fit there? I have no idea how Norse
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: mythology in haiku that was gorgeous. We have one that
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: just came in today from Ryan, and I was gonna
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: not use it, but I told him I would make
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: a joke about him being a hack poet. Okay, so
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: here we go, And you did? You fulfilled your obligation
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: urban exploring squatting best place to get shot? Yes, I
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: am smarter, keep up the great work. I'll continue to listen.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Knowledge is power is that? Was that in hiku form? Yeah? Okay,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: uh two more. Cassie in Minneapolis is getting married this June,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: and we wish her all the best. She does a dance,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: she says, stuff podcast alight. When I get a new podcast,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: I dance at my desk. Good luck, test and your groom.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: And now the last one ever, folks, that you will
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: ever hear from my mouth. This comes to us from
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Austin from Fort Worth, Texas. He has this to say,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: uninvited guests at night, they in my food, Los cocaraches,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: tell me their secrets. One podcast to rule them all,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Los Coca And that was the best hiku I've ever
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: heard in my life. Wow from Austin. So thank you Austin.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Congratulations Austin, you just ended hi Ku theater forever. So
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: thanks Austin. That was awesome, awesome, awesome. Agreed, law school arches,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: and thanks to everybody who sent us in hikus. Please
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: stop now. We love your creativity, but too much of
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: a good thing, and we'll move on. We'll think of
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: something else creative you guys can do for agreed. So
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: In the meantime, if you wanted to say hi, tell
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: us that um, we said something wrong, or send us
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: anything UM. I believe one of them was Shakespearean sonnets.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: We're an idea in iambic pentameter. That was Jonathan Strickland
• 23:27
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• 23:31
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• 23:33
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