Seekers 2012 – Documentary series for the History Channel, surrounding the Mayan prediction that 2012 will be the END OF DAYS as well as other unexplained phenomena.
What We Are Looking For:
Male & Female Investigators who are scientists, explorers, or adventurers with advanced degrees (Ph.D desired).
Ideally, investigators would already be a team (husband and wife, co- workers) who fall somewhere between the FBI Agents on “The X Files” and “Indiana Jones”. One is a believer, the other a skeptic. One is driven by reason, science and empirical evidence, the other by feelings, intuitions and faith.
Okay, let me stop you there.
What IS it with everyone wanting bloody PhDs?? Okay, sure, sure, I’m on a podcast that has featured at least TWO women with PhDs during its time. But I’m really getting quite a complex about being ‘the one at the conference without the PhD.’ Not as if a PhD is going to guarantee that you can hit a mark and look meaningfully down the camera and say ’so… what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?’
If I get any more of this PhD-required nonsense, I’m going to start using someone’s tongue as a soap-dish.
Secondly, if I were to do this show, I’d only do it with both Richard Saunders and Dr Rachael Dunlop as my co-workers – and we’d want as much origami paper as we can carry and possibly a small pony and a box of ducks.
Contact Information
Name: Kylie Sturgess.
Website/Blog: www.podblack.com
Recent Photo: Here you go.
Give us the web address of the video you want us to check out. (i.e. http://www.youtube.com/): Here’s me eating a dangerous amount of Vegemite. Should give you a good idea of my mad skillz.
Please Answer Following Questions
* Question 1.
Do you think there is any basis in fact for the End of Days Prediction in the Mayan and other cultures. If so, what is the basis of your belief? If not, why not.
Okay, go check out Ben Radford’s work on this – ‘The Truth about 2012 Doomsday Hype‘. He even got within spitting distance of John Cusak and didn’t ask for two dollars, so he must be the sensible sort.
More recently, Don Yeomans, manager of NASA’s Near Earth Object office has produced a video and written an article, providing the scientific realities surrounding the celestial happenings of 2012. Wahhh, if it wasn’t for those gosh-darned NASA sorts…
There’s also Brian Cox, demonstrating a remarkable amount of control when really, he should be dashing his brains out on the stupid of it all:
* Question 2.
How much have you studied 2012 phenomena? What methodology have you used.
I typed in ‘2012 oh my sodding god what a load of monkey cage debris‘ into Google. Seemed to work fine for me – sent me straight to the MySpace page of a Frank Zappa fan. What more can you want?
* Question 3. Are you interested in other mysterious and unexplained phenomena? If so, what is your methodology?*
Well, I’m currently doing a Masters degree on a similar topic, but that’s not a PhD and since we all know about your petty prejudices, so you know where you can put that question and I hope you use a corkscrew.
* Question 4. What would you choose to explore regarding either 2012 or other unexplained phenomena? Oddities, myths, truths? What methodology would you use? *
I’d probably phone Dr Karen Stollznow and when she’s finished laughing and rolling on the floor, we’d go check out some kitten pics on Catherine’s site. What was the task you wanted us to do again?
* Question 5. What makes you more unique than other 2012 scholars?
What, APART from the fact I have two Masters degrees and no PhD? Fetch the soap…
You should see me wearing these boots. Really. Today a guy was so distracted, that he walked solidly into a pine tree when I was heading to the Curtin Uni library and we had to check that he didn’t have concussion.You don’t get that sort of entertainment on the telly these days! I’d say that’s skillz.
Additionally, Dr Rachie is more woman than even television can handle and I regularly crash the server when she’s on live streaming video with Richard on 2GB, and I have clogged up Twitpic with all the screenshots I’ve snapped.
Richard Saunders, on the other hand, has to be kept in a separate envelope so he doesn’t get mixed up with his tax receipts.
* Question 6. Tell us something else that makes you interesting.
I work with Richard Saunders on a podcast and he hasn’t killed me yet?
* Question 7. Have you had other television experience?
There was that one time I fell out of a school bus window waving frantically when they were filming ‘Minty‘ down in Bunbury, but I suspect that was edited out.
* Question 8. What are your concerns in participating in the project? What are your hopes?
Apart from the inevitable world peace and solution to the problem of social inequity and world hunger, I’m kind of hoping that we can break Richard’s usual polite reserve and have him completely go bonkers in the face of some of the claims. Additionally, if Dr Rachie and I can sabotage his trailer and repaper it completely in optical illusions and rubber pigs, it’d be savage!
* Question 9. How much time do you have to devote to this series? How flexible is your schedule?
If you get all three of us, I imagine we’ll stay long enough to interview everyone on the set for our podcast. That’s kind of what we do.
* Question 10. Is there anything we haven’t asked that you would like to tell us? If so, now is your chance.
I really think that after all those pro-paranormal programs that have been shown on the History channel and the dismal failure of the last X-Files movie, that you should just outright hire Mil Millington and his girlfriend for this show.
I mean, think about it. She’ll be yelling in German in some supermarket about how the tins of peaches are forming a pyramid of power that will herald the end of the world, whilst he’s in the parking lot in a locked car just screaming and screaming and screaming. That would be great television.
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Heh… Classic
Re: Q5; “more unique”? I think they should have gotten someone with a Masters degree to vet their questions. By definition, you can’t have “more” unique.
pictures of the shoes, or they didn’t happen
“If, at the turn of the 21s century, you still believe that’s the case, than you are a twat”
brilliant. check out the other bits of brian in the car, hilarious
I consumed this post listening to The Incredible Bongo Band as all things 2012 should now be consumed, thanks to the trailer of the film.
Wait, not that trailer. This trailer.
Yeas, now you see (may have seen already, I suppose, but can’t be repeated too often I find).
Picturing the gleefully bonkers Skeptic Apocalypse Hour soundtracked thus is something every TV exec should do immediately. Fame and fortune ensues. (The hit show’s cast would acrimoniously split years later over contractual disputes thought to stem from the unwillingness of the eastcoasters to drop or shuffle the talent in the “Kylie’ll eat it” and “Nompocalypse” segments)
God, almost cacked myself.
Those kittehs are so cute too. Love the names.
Well, I could spend all day here! Between watching you consume something which looks amazingly similar to something I scraped off my shoe this morning and the hours and hours worth of kitten pics, I’m set!
I think I know a couple of people who would love to do that show. As soon as the judge accepts their plea agreement for the balloon fiasco, they’ll be free to travel!
On a side note, If you think it’s bad being the Double-Master-Nondoc, try being ABD for 3 years in a field in which your MA is pretty worthless w/o a PhD.
Heh, yes, the Kitten pics are absolute classics – and you can donate to help out the shelter (in fact, must do that again tomorrow!).
Here’s my boots! http://twitpic.com/id46y
Those boots! I’d walk into a tree too, or start making ltos fo tyops…
Ha, ha – I wish some of you guys would get to go on the show – but how interesting would that be if you debunked it in five minutes and moved onto something else?
This is my favorite piece of 2012 debunking
Information is beautiful 2012 graph
Wahh! Thanks Tonia!
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