The Skeptics Guide #1000 - Sep 7 2024
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What are the SGU hosts saying about their 1,000th episode and community legacy?
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This recording is the 1,000th episode of the SGU.
I mean, seriously, did you guys imagine we would be here, like, almost 20 years later? You know, we started doing this show. We're like, hey, let's do a podcast. Now, we would be sitting here doing our 1,000th episode in front of, you know, a few people. You guys should be here. There's a couple people in the audience who came out to see us.
What do you think? I mean, all of it is overwhelming. You know, like, as we've been building up to this, like, you know, a couple years ago, we started talking about, oh, my God, we are, like, we are...
Yeah, it sort of like dawned on us, like, yeah, in a couple of years, we're going to be up to 1,000. We should do something for that.
All of us collectively can't help but look back and think about it. This is scheduled for us. We do this on Wednesday nights. We record. We talk to each other. And then it's over, and we go on. For you, it's over. For me, it's beginning. Post-production. the power of the, of this 1000th episode realization, right? There's a lot, there is a lot of emotion here. It's not, this isn't really about science, right? It isn't like a scientific, it's partly about science. The show is about science, but you know, the thing that, That's why I'm here. That we set out to do when we started this show was to help people, to educate people, to change their lives.
Yeah, it was critical thinking, scientific literacy, and then along the way we picked up media savvy as well. Those are the three legs of the stool, basically.
You completely missed what I was trying to say.
Go ahead. Just clarifying.
Yeah, no, I hear you. But the impact that we have, we have people that have decided to come watch us record this show, not because they like, you know, they want to hear you talk more about the brain. It's more about they want to be a part of the SGU community. They want to, you know, it's a human interaction. Jay, it's 100% because they want to hear me talk about the brain.
Can we agree to disagree?
But seriously, I hear what you're saying. Obviously, it's about community as well. Because we started out as a skeptical organization, right? As a community. Before we were a podcast, it was all about just networking with other people who were skeptical and wanted to promote that. And we wrote articles and whatever. But that was window dressing. It was the physical interaction. When we did the podcast, it's because we wanted to reach beyond our 200 people in Connecticut. You know what I mean? Right. To take advantage of this newfangled thing called social media to see if we could reach more people. And I think it worked. A little. Experiment successful.
But we're done now, right? A thousand, right? Yeah. Could I relax? Wednesday nights, could I just relax and, you know, right?
We've talked about this. I mean, it's a hard thing to think about. We've been renewed for another thousand episodes. Yeah.
We all signed contracts.
The next 20 years are going to be very hard, right? We're going to all become very old.
Well, here's the question. Here's the question. So there's like tons of bands that tour nowadays where there's no original members of that band, right? So like, you know, you see the Doobie Brothers and it's like one guy. Or it's like you see Foghat and it's the roadie of the cousin who used to carry the bass guitar and that's Foghat. Do you ever see... Like the skeptics out of the universe being a bunch of other people that somehow kind of will cycle their way in.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What are the SGU hosts saying about their 1,000th episode and community legacy?
0:00–23:37
2
How is SGU planning to recruit and train younger skeptical correspondents?
23:37–52:35
3
What is the 20-year retrospective on climate change denial and evidence for global warming?
52:35–1:04:34
4
What breakthrough did National Ignition Facility achieve and does it mean practical fusion is near?
1:04:34–1:05:57
5
How do tokamaks like ITER and MIT’s SPARC compare for commercial fusion prospects?
1:05:57–1:10:21
6
Which medical scams and wellness trends have caused real harm over the past 20 years?
1:10:21–1:16:58
7
How has media coverage shaped UFO beliefs and what do polls say about public perception?
1:16:58–2:04:01