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Article on Rob McConnell re 2012.12.21 World won’t end Friday Thank You To Our Don’t stop saving for Broadcast Sponsors mortgage payments, says X- Who Helped Make Zone’s Rob McConnell The ‘X’ Zone Radio/TV 2012.12.21 Hour Live By Gord Bowes, News staff Broadcast The world won’t end Friday. Probably. C <1-> %?//1== Just the same, Rob McConnell will be on the air for 26 hours checking around the globe for any signs of The End. McConnell, a Mountain resident who Linda Jacobs - Sponsor - has been following the paranormal and other www.readlindajacobs.com fringe elements of human existence for nearly two decades, will start broadcasting his Dr Carl O Helvie - Sponsor - marathon X-Zone show at 11 p.m. Thursday. www.beatlungcancer.net Throughout the show he will be in touch with people around the world to get updates on really hasn’t been a lot of talk about this Ellena Lieberman - Sponsor - whether the Mayans were right and knew this particular doomsday. He was expecting a www.dynamicmanifestation.com was the day the earth’s axis would tilt or Planet crescendo toward Dec. 21, much like what X would return. happened in 1999 during Y2K fears. Freda Wagman - Sponsor - “We’re going to be globe hopping, “When you look up the history (of the www.snippetsfromthetrenches.com asking people if the world is going on still Mayan theory) the whole thing is a little where they are,” he says. whacky, but I thought the media would run with Prism International Publishing - It will air on radio stations around North it.“ Sponsor - www.prismpublishing.ca America. McConnell will also broadcast the His 50th video — “If we’re around,” show with video at xzone2012.com. Nabuurs jokes — will be unveiled Friday at Dr. Robert Christensen - Sponsor - Through history there have regularly funny820.com. www.drbobscrusade.com been doomsday prophesies — more than 200 by Nabuurs says he has heard stories of McConnell’s count. people stockpiling water and canned goods, but Theatre of the Mind - Sponsor - About a decade ago, the idea that the end one person near his cottage has thought even www.RobertLamar.ca of the 13-baktun cycle of the Mayan “long further ahead. count” system of timekeeping — Dec. 21 2012 “He has stockpiled literally thousands of Jan Starks - AM 1610 KKRP - — meant that ancient Mayans knew something cases of toilet paper. He’s convinced that’s www.kkrp1610.com the rest of us didn’t, that being doomsday. going to be like gold!” he says. “I can picture McConnell went to Mexico in February to find this guy on the 22nd going ‘What am I going to out the truth. do now?’ ” The TalkStar Radio Network - “We talked to the Mayans. They said, Nabuurs adds there is a possibility the Broadcast Sponsor - ‘We didn’t say that,’ ” he says. “They said, Mayan calendar has already ended and we are www.talkstarradio.com ‘What do you do on Dec. 31?’ I told them we all okay because the Mayans didn’t take into have a party and turn the calendar over and start account our leap years. Ted Unarce - www.tedunarce.com again.” “We’ve screwed with the calendar so “Everybody likes to take a prophecy and many times I don’t know how anybody could Canadian Radio/TV Network - bend it to suit their own means,” says figure it out.” [] Broadcast Sponsor - McConnell. “I certainly haven’t stopped putting www.canadianradiotv.com money away for the mortgage payments.” Thank You to The Media for McConnell says over the last 20 years in James K Papp - Sponsor - the paranormal business, he has turned from Their Coverage of www.inquirewithin.com someone who took most everything at face The ‘X’ Zone Radio/TV value to the biggest skeptic. 2012.12.21 Hour Live Mosaic Capital Group - Sponsor - “I want to believe, but I want to cut www.mosaiccapitalgroup.ca through the crap,” he says. “Not one of these Broadcast Including... reports has come from NASA or another Rob Catlin - Sponsor - credible scientific source.” Ed Shiflett - TALKSTAR RADIO www.supermannorth.com Unless, of course, the government wants NETWORK - www.talkstarradio.com to keep it secret. Miller’s Auto Detailing - Sponsor - Mike Nabuurs has been having a little Lawrence Diskin - CHCH TV - Hamilton www.millersautodetailing.org fun with the doomsday prediction this year. - www.chch.com For 50 Fridays, the ambassador of Dr William Schneid - Sponsor - comedy at radio station Funny 820 has been Bill Kelly - AM 900 CHML - Hamilton - www.worldfind.com counting down to the end the world, poking www.900chml.com some fun along the way. “I saw it as an opportunity to turn it on Jeff Mahoney - THE HAMILTON Invesec Security Consultants - Sponsor - its head and make something good out of it,” SPECTATOR - Hamilton - www.invesec.com says the west Mountain resident. www.thespec.com Nabuurs says he had complaints early on RAM Media Company - Sponsor - from people who misunderstood what he was Gord Bowes - MOUNTAIN NEWS - www.rammediaco.com doing — they had probably never watched one Hamilton - www.hamiltonnews.com of the videos — and thought he was playing into Celebrity Death Certificates - Sponsor - people’s irrational fears. Martha Jette - EXAMINER.com www.celebritydeathcertificates.org But overall he’s he’s surprised there