Shermer Says 3: Weird Experiences, the Meaning of Dreams, and What Mark Twain Knew About Reality

Hey everybody, it's Michael Schirmer, and it's time for another episode of the Michael Shermer Show. This is the solo commentary, Shermer says, episode number three. These have turned out to be hugely popular, so I'm going to keep doing these once a week, as long as I have something to say. This one was triggered by an email I got from a longtime friend of mine named Lon Haldeman. Those of you that, uh few of you that are into cycling will recognize that name as the winner of the first Great American bike race, later Race Across America, 1982 and 1983.

Here's Lon. I wrote a book on this whole thing, the history of Race Across America, now completely outdated. But there he is. So there's a picture of Lon right there. Okay.

And there's Lon and I riding in the race across America, just so you have an image to look at there. Anyway, I've known Lon uh Long uh for a long time. Uh and uh he went on to put on um transcontinental tours called pack tours, uh, for which his parents uh often helped, along with his wife uh r uh Susan. And uh his parents, Ed and Mary Jane. Ed died a couple years ago, and Mary Jane just died a couple weeks ago.

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