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The Michael Shermer Show · 2025-03-18 · 102 min · 20,946 words

The Hoax of the Century: Iron Mountain

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The Michael Sherman Show. Okay. Little story by way of introduction to my guest today. In nineteen seventy two

I started college at Glenhill College. It's a community college. Wasn't sure what I wanted to study. Uh at all. And uh pretty much in high school I studied sports and girls, so that was that that was my background for academia. And uh and community colleges at the time, at least in California, were free.

So that was a nice way to get rid of my general education and my first class was an astronomy course from Professor Richard Hardison. Who was the best teacher I ever had. So just Pure luck. Anyway, uh I wasn't I was pretty much a middle of the bell curve student. But um

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