Alex Tsakiris on Consciousness - February 22, 2014
Where Did the Road Go?
Seriah Azkath
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🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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We talk with Alex Tsakiris, host of Skeptiko, who is a successful entrepreneur turned science podcaster. In 2007 he founded Skeptiko which has become the #1 podcast covering the science of human consciousness. Alex has appeared on syndicated radio talk shows both in the US and the UK and is well-know within the parapsychology and near-death experience research communities.
We will be discuss various aspects of consciousness, including Near Death Experiences, Out of Body Experiences, UFO Abductions, perception, skeptics, and close-mindedness.
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| 0:31.8 | where did the road go and i'm your host sarah as always and with us, we have Alex, and I don't want to butcher your last name. So why don't you tell us what it is? It's Sycarus. It's a caris. That's what I was going to say. Yeah, you would have had it. I just didn't want to, you know, get it wrong. And Alex, you're out in California at the moment right I am yeah |
| 0:56.0 | we're outside of San Diego okay and you do uh your own podcast called skeptico |
| 1:02.4 | yes skeptico with a K skeptical with a K my road led to skeptico so |
| 1:10.7 | all right and how long have you been doing that Skeptico with a K. My road led to skeptico. |
| 1:14.4 | All right. And how long have you been doing that? |
| 1:16.3 | Oh, about six years. |
| 1:18.5 | Okay. Why the K instead of a C? |
| 1:31.1 | Well, you know, the original skepticos were these group of guys, Greek philosophers, that questioned everything and worked really hard to never come to any conclusions, |
| 1:34.9 | but just kept searching for the questions. |
| 1:39.4 | So the original way it spelled is with a K, so there you go. |
| 1:40.1 | Nice. |
| 1:41.0 | Skepticos. |
| 1:46.7 | And I think it would be great if more skeptics actually kept to that idea rather than just being debunkers. |
| 1:52.5 | Well, it is kind of hard because they have co-opted that word, haven't they? |
| 1:52.8 | Yeah. It has a definite meaning that's different from the original meaning. |
| 1:57.0 | And I sometimes get into that with people. |
| 1:59.3 | Well, you know, what's a true skeptic? And, you know, you're not a skeptic and all that stuff. |
| 2:04.6 | It's a funny world we live in. |
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