Episode Transcript: #846 - Michael Shermer

Three, two, one, boom! Michael Shermer is here, ladies and gentlemen, again, and we've been talking about silly people for the past 15 minutes.

We just, we had to get warmed up.

The list is endless.

We had to get warmed up with body doubles.

Conspiracies.

Flat earthers.

Yeah, flat earthers. Forests aren't real. Is that what they're saying, Jamie? The flat earthers?

We're going to talk about the flat earthers for one reason.

The reason why I wanted to bring this up is because I think there's a lot of folks out there that are super gullible, and I think they're being trolled.

I think they're being trolled by people who put together these, it's one of two options.

Either they're being trolled by people who put together these elaborate arguments for something that they don't believe because they're just trying to make money off of YouTube views, which is entirely possible.

And this needs to be thought of. It really needs to be considered because YouTube videos can be extremely lucrative.

If you can get a YouTube video with millions of hits, and a lot of these videos on all sorts of different conspiracies and all sorts of different crazy things can generate that kind of volume, you're making real money.

Pennies on the dollar, but if it's millions, you can...

It starts becoming real money, and if you do a bunch of them, and you do them on a regular basis, it becomes a gig.

It becomes like what they do.

They create these silly videos.

But people who just don't have the time or the inclination to actually read scientific papers and articles and journals and all these different things that explain how we've known for a long time that the Earth is round.

Right. Yeah, it's a myth that Columbus proved that the Earth is not flat, that it's round.

The ancients knew, the Greeks knew, Columbus knew, everyone knew then that it was round.