The Michael Shermer Show
Hosted by Michael Shermer · Michael Shermer
4.3from 935 ratings
- 954
- Episodes
- 237
- Transcribed
- 935
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
- 757K
- YouTube views
About The Michael Shermer Show
The Michael Shermer Show is a series of long-form conversations between Dr. Michael Shermer and leading scientists, philosophers, historians, scholars, writers and thinkers about the most important issues of our time.
- Publisher
- Michael Shermer
- Category
- science · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 22 Nov 2015
- Latest episode
- 31 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
237 of 954 episodes have a transcript.
31 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
How Much Credit Do You Deserve for Your Life?
17 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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11 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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How Much Credit Do You Deserve for Your Life?
Published 31 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yeah. So whatever kind of character traits you'd need to be good at that. So in the intellectual virtue stuff, we call them the anteater virtues. I don't know. Peter the anteater is the mascot for UCL. But they're things like intellectual humility, intellectual tenacity, curiosity, integrity. […]
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- Duncan Pritchard
- Antonio Damasio
- Shelby Steele
- Eli Steele
- Barry Markovsky
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- YouTube views
- 756,752
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.3 / 5
- 935 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 87 / 100
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- Quality
- 97
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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