Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNeil deGrasse Tyson on UFOs, Government Files, and the Physics of Alien Claims
Episode 611
Neil deGrasse Tyson returns to The Michael Shermer Show to talk UFOs, aliens, government files, eyewitness testimony, and his new book Take Me to You…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
From Newspapers to Influencers: Who Controls Reality Now? (Ashley Rindsberg)
Episode 610
Journalist and author Ashley Rindsberg returns to The Michael Shermer Show for a wide-ranging conversation about the new media world: influencers wit…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
The New War on Free Speech: Why Power Turns Everyone Into a Censor
Episode 609
Free speech was supposed to be the great settled achievement of liberal democracy. Then came social media, cancel culture, campus speech battles, hat…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The UFO Files Were Declassified Today
Episode 608
The long-promised UFO files have finally been released.
In this solo commentary, Michael Shermer examines the newly declassified documents, photograp…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Why Everything Falls Apart—And How to Keep It Going (Stewart Brand)
Episode 607
Stewart Brand has spent a lifetime thinking about tools, systems, civilization, and the long future. Best known as the creator of the Whole Earth Cat…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Scientist Who Tried to Prove Reincarnation
Episode 606
Can memories survive death? It sounds like the kind of question skeptics usually dismiss before the conversation even starts. But Ian Stevenson was n…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Why Do We Exist? Hakeem Oluseyi
Episode 605
Astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi has lived a life that sounds almost impossible: a childhood marked by poverty, violence, and constant upheaval; a teena…
4 months ago
Shermer Says 9: The "Dead Scientists," Explained
Episode 604
A viral story is spreading across media: a mysterious string of scientists connected to UFOs, nuclear weapons, aerospace, and defense work have disap…
4 months, 1 week ago
Not Monsters. Not Madmen. Just Men.
Episode 603
What kind of person helps build a regime like the Third Reich? A monster? A madman? Or something far more unsettling?
Michael Shermer sits down with …
4 months, 1 week ago
Flourishing in the Age of Algorithms
Episode 602
What actually makes a life feel meaningful? In this conversation, Daniel Coyle joins Michael Shermer to talk about why fulfillment rarely comes from …
4 months, 2 weeks ago