A couple of days ago I recorded a video interview with the Fourcast podcast, where four people sit around and predict the future. It was a lot of fun — we talked about beaming energy, world governments, Firefly, colonizing the Moon, and BBQs. Seriously.

You can download the MP3 directly, and they posted the whole video to YouTube.

Or you can watch it right here from the comfort of your monitor:

A few notes:

1) I’m not sure I was correct about Tesla coils, but they do seem to be a bad way to transmit energy.

2) It’s true, I still haven’t seen "Avatar".

3) Here’s the exoplanet advance I mentioned. I also mentioned Kepler.

4) I didn’t want to get into specifics on the religion topic (at the 24 – 27 minute mark) because this wasn’t the place, but if you take a look over at the Middle East and still disagree with me, well, I can’t help ya.

5) Yes, that’s Stewie on my wall. My wife gave me that poster a couple of years ago. Victory is mine!

My thanks to the guys at Fourcast for letting me spew unfettered misinformation^* for an hour. It was fun!

That was not a typo. My friend/part-time stalker Ashley Paramore interviewed me at TAM 8 during the "Skeptics in the Tub" after-hours get-together. So yeah, we’re in swimsuits, and she interviews me. It was my first time being interviewed in a hot tub, so that all by itself is rather exciting to me. For you, seeing me partially naked may curb that somewhat. YMMV.

The background audio is a bit loud, but it’s not too hard to hear us. The red color is due to low light conditions plus the weird lighting outside at the casino.

As usual when someone interviews me, I’m a smartass for the first few minutes, but then we get down to business: my tattoo, Bad Universe, Universe Today, Pamela Gay, and skepticism. I listened to the interview, and I have to say I pontificate an awful lot for a guy standing around in swim trunks. Still, I’m glad I got a chance to say some of that stuff. The last three minutes or so are actually rather important… they’re important issues to me, but also, I think, to the skeptic community at large. And I’ll have more to say on that subject hopefully soon.

While I was at The Amaz!ng Meeting 8 in Las Vegas in July, I was interviewed by my friends Richard Saunders and Rachael Dunlop from The Skeptic Zone, the premier critical thinking podcast in Australia.

We talked about TAM Oz, Minties, telescopes, WIMPs and MACHOs, the LHC, Brian Cox, and Gia Milinovitch, and my no-longer Sooper Sekrit Project.

You can grab the interview at the Skeptic Zone website, and here’s a direct link to the MP3.

While I was at TAM 8, Hemant Mehta and Robin Ferguson from The Friendly Atheist and interviewed me about the JREF, my Sooper Sekrit Project, and many things skeptical. It was too long to transcribe, so they put it up as a recording.

If you’re wondering about my razor joke right at the very start, I was poking fun at their recording device, which looks much like my shaver. But we covered a lot of ground, including PepsiGate, Skeptologists, and of course my talk at TAM 8 which has caused, to my bemusement, so much controversy. I’ll have more about that later, but for now you’ll hear something about it in this interview.

D. J. Grothe, the new President of the James Randi Educational Foundation, was interviewed by the folks at Pod Delusion. I’ve embedded the interview below (D. J.’s part starts around the 10:40 mark).

D. J. is a good guy, and I think the JREF is in excellent hands.

Tip o’ the electron to Jon Treadway, and James O’Malley for the embed.

The California Literary Review asked me to answer some questions pertaining to Chapter 1 of my book, Death from the Skies!, where I talk about asteroid impacts. They’ve posted my replies on their site.

This is such a broad and interesting topic, and it’s really hard to boil down the important stuff to just a few dozen words. I tend to be a bit, um, wordy, so sometimes I have a hard time saying my name in a few dozen words, but I hope that the Q&A gives you a sense of what’s going on.