Shermer Says 4: Venezuela, ICE in Minnesota, UFOs & UAPs, and Social Norms Around Single-Sex Spaces
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Welcome to another episode of the Michael Shermer Show. I'm your host, Michael Shermer. This is an fourth episode of Shermer says, in which I'm going to offer a few thoughts unscripted mostly on the deposing at a Venezuela dictator, Nicolas Maduro. The trans woman caught masturbating in the California Planet Fitness women's locker room, the Minneapolis ice shooting, which has dominated the headlines for the last several days, and of course the perennial announcement that the disclosure of aliens visiting Earth is coming any day now, and all of this in the first eleven days of January. Yes, I'm recording this on January.
January eleventh, my intention was to start the year off by recording a few episodes uh about my forthcoming book, Truth, what it is, how to find it, why it still matters. The pub date is January 27th, which is like an eternity from now, given the news cycle with a half life of about two hours. It's just astonishing. I mean, I go back to the, you know, coming online in the 19, early 1990s when the, you know, news cycle was days and weeks, where like my monthly column in Scientific American, you know, would just go on and on for weeks of people discussing it. Now, uh, nothing lasts more than a few minutes to a few hours, or if it's a huge cultural event like the ice shooting, then a few days.
Anyway, so wow, okay, so um on this particular case uh I have notes that I'm gonna kinda scan through and read from, but uh mostly these are unscripted. The deposing of the Venezuela dictator, Nicolas Maduro, yeah, that's a good thing, right? He's a bad guy. Um and if it's possible to depose him and replace him cleanly with Maria Corina Machado, the Nobel Prize, Peace Prize winner, who spearheaded the opposition party, who really should be the president.
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