Welcome to the Michael Schurmer Show. I'm your host Michael Schurmer. Today's a special episode.

I wanted to pay tribute to Pat Lindsey, the co-founder of The Skeptic Society and Skeptic magazine and the art director for 30 years of the magazine and

the latest issue of Skeptic which was almost completed when she died on July 24th 2021 here.

We were completing the magazine so we put her on the cover.

The cover was art was already done by Astor Alexander the artist and I asked

him to put Pat in the elevator with the alien figure.

And he did, beautiful.

So here's the back cover of the skeptic featuring Pat and then inside there's a whole tribute to Pat and

it was good to remember that people look differently younger than older. Here is Pat when she was 21 years old. I mean it's just

stunning how much all of his change as we get older. I met Pat and here's when I met her. This was that early 90s. This was in my garage. This is where we started the Skeptic Society in my garage. So I think for this tribute I will tell you a little bit about how I met Pat and then I'll read my tribute that I wrote to her in the magazine.

It's pretty upsetting to talk about it, to stop the cuff. I think I'll just read what I wrote.

It's super sad going into the office now because she's not there.

And even though I wasn't in the office every day the last couple years, we would talk pretty much every day.

And when I was out for long drives, I would just call her.

We would talk for hours.

And even now I go to pick up the phone to call her and

can do it really super sad and having to clean out her office and all her

stuff and all that it's really really depressing but but she was a tremendous influence on this whole

skeptical movement I'm fond of saying she's the most important person in the

history of skepticism that you've never heard of that like to be in the history of skepticism that you've never heard of.

Pat liked to be in the background. She was not fond of the public stage at all.

Anyway, this tribute is called All Our Yesterday's A Remembrance of Pat Lindsey.

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