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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

230 - Michael Shermer (Author, Skeptic, Atheist)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2017

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Michael Shermer is the Publisher of Skeptic magazine, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University. He is the author of The Believing Brain, Why People Believe Weird Things, Why Darwin Matters, and others. His latest book is The Moral Arc, now out in paperback.



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Radio Manu, Papa Tzango.

0:02.4

Charlie

0:03.6

Welcome to another edition of Ten Gently Speaking.

0:33.4

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0:40.4

The fuck am I saying?

0:42.2

Artisanal.

0:43.2

See that's what happens when you do something artisanally.

0:46.4

You have small errors.

0:48.7

Any flaws you detect in this podcast are part of the manufacturing process and add to

0:54.0

the charm of the podcast.

0:56.9

Like free range, cage free podcasting coming to you from Topanga, California, where it's

1:03.7

been raining like a mother fucker for the last 24 hours.

1:09.2

They say it's the biggest storm of the last six or seven years that's just come through.

1:17.3

So far we haven't been cut off from the rest of the world the way we were a few weeks

1:21.4

ago and the last storm came through.

1:25.0

Anyway, this episode is with Michael Schumer, famous author, skeptic editor of Skeptic magazine,

1:33.5

super interesting guy, very smart.

1:36.5

He hangs with people like Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins and as I learned today he's

1:42.4

become friendly with Deepak Chopra interestingly, sort of unusual, you know, cat and dog kind

1:50.8

of friendship.

1:51.8

But I'm in favor of those.

1:53.0

That's great.

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