All episodes of The Michael Shermer Show

The Michael Shermer Show · 2025-08-12 · 75 min · 13,463 words

Is Nuclear Energy Our Best Shot at Saving the Planet?

Listen to the original audio · Transcribed with NVIDIA Parakeet · Why times can differ in your player

You're listening to the Michael Shermer Show. Here it is today. We're recording this on Friday, but we're releasing this on your pub date Tuesday. Grand future of the untold story of nuclear electricity and how it will save the world. Isabel, nice to see you.

Nice to see you. By the way, we did a whole issue of Skeptic on Energy in which we published uh Robert Zubrin's uh article on the case for nuclear. Oh, great. When when did I come out? Uh let's see, that was uh let's see, fall uh fall summer of 23.

So Wow, okay. We support the cause. Yeah, no, it's that it's astonishing to me that just everything you wrote in this book, which is so clear and so obvious and so such a fun read, by the way, you're you're a good writer. I think that uh how how is it possible this is not already happening on a huge scale? It's a good question.

That is the first couple of minutes. The rest is $1.49.

We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (75 minutes, 13,463 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.

No account needed, we create one from your checkout email. With credits it is 1 credit; packs start at 5 episodes for $3.49, and monthly plans are cheaper still.

get it now

Ready in under two minutes.

credits never expire

Packs go up to 1,000 episodes. Need more? Email contact@podmenti.com and we will make you one.

One episode is up to 4 hours of audio; a longer one counts as one more for every started 4 hours. Secure checkout by Stripe. Paying once needs no account: we create one from your email. By paying you agree to the terms.