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Michael Shermer

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and we're live mr. Shermer welcome thanks thanks for having me thanks for being here man I appreciate

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it I have been paying attention to your work for a long time it's uh you're the one yeah thanks yes

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I'm one of those guys I'm sure you've got a lot but uh I've got a bunch of your books here thanks

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for bringing those in I really appreciate that sure stuff to read now um how did you get involved

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in skepticism I know you started off as a cyclist right uh yeah well I was a a bike racer from uh

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1980 to about 1990 about 10 years in between when I was uh first in college I went to Pepperdine and

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then Cal State Fullerton and then I just was burnt out I had a master's degree and uh yeah I just

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decided I didn't want to do another six straight years of PhD work so I quit and I went over the

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placement office at Cal State Fullerton and said well I need a job they said what can you do I said

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nothing I'm I have no skills I'm a college student but I like to write so I got a job at a bike

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magazine my first job out of college and it was a trade magazine for um for the bike industry but I

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got right into cycling right away about a bike the first week and I went so you weren't a bike rider

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before this job oh that's interesting yeah yeah and I went to um a big event at uh Griffith Park

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where they had a Yoplait Yogurt 50 kilometer bike race and Jonathan Boyer was the big star he had the

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first American to do the Tour de France and I saw him it's like wow this is a cool sport so I just

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got into it just started uh you know riding and racing and and then I did uh we started Race Across

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America in 1992 in 1982 and so I quit my job and just did that for for a decade I had corporate

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sponsors and we had ABC Wide World of Sports contract with them to film it and you know we turned it into

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a little little mini culture business and you know ultra but the ultra endurance sports were just

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taking off the Ironman became famous in the early 80s John Howard who won it uh was one of the first

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