Feed Drop! Tales From Aztlantis and "Remembering the Maya Apocalypse"
Skeptoid
Brian Dunning
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2026
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
As a thoughtful primer for our Skeptoid Adventure through the Maya World of the Yucatán coast this December, we're dropping an episode from our good friends at the Tales From Aztlantis podcast that's all about the so-called "Mayan Calender" that was the source of so much hype -- and some real harm -- leading up to December 2012.
FUN FACT: Tales From Aztlantis co-host and Indigenous Chicano archaeologist and ethnohistorian Kurly Tlapoyawa will be our guide on "The Mysteries of the Maya" Skeptoid Adventure this December!
skeptoid.com/adventures
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, Brian here. |
| 0:02.1 | Here's something special for those of you who can't get enough skeptoid. |
| 0:06.4 | This December, we have two skeptoid adventures running back to back, and you can do both |
| 0:13.0 | as a little holiday present to yourself. |
| 0:15.8 | First, join me and New Orleans expert Chris Purley for a two-night French Quarter getaway, where ghosts, |
| 0:22.9 | vampires, and voodoo queens get the full skeptoid treatment. Benyés, jazz, swamp tours, |
| 0:30.8 | and the city's famous above-ground cemeteries included. In the very next day, we set sail with |
| 0:37.3 | archaeologist Curley Tlopo Yawa |
| 0:39.6 | for a seven-night Maya expedition through Cosumel, Roatan, and Harvest Key, separating Maya myth from |
| 0:47.4 | magnificent reality at every stop. Book both and we'll knock an additional $500 off your total. |
| 0:54.8 | One adventure or both. |
| 0:56.6 | The choice is yours. |
| 0:58.0 | Get all the details and reserve your spot at sceptoid.com slash adventures. |
| 1:03.4 | That's sceptoid.com slash adventures. |
| 1:07.4 | Hope to see you there. |
| 1:17.6 | Hey, Al, Brian from Skeptoid here, and boy do we have a treat for you today. Do you remember all that talk about the end of days leading up to December 2012? |
| 1:22.6 | The Apocalypse was upon us. |
| 1:24.6 | A chain of mega-disasters would consume earth and civilization would be obliterated. |
| 1:31.4 | Or something like that. Well, our good friends at the Tales from Astlantis podcast did an episode back in |
| 1:40.0 | 2022 on the so-called Maya apocalypse to shed light on what all of that was really about. |
| 1:47.4 | And since we're heading to the heart of the Maya world on one of our skeptoid adventures this |
| 1:52.1 | December, we thought we would offer this episode as a thoughtful primer for our upcoming expedition. |
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