Dear skeptical folks:

On Monday the 11th I taped a segment in New York for the Charlie Rose show
(PBS 11-12pm in most markets) and tomorrow night I will be on the Tom Snyder
Late Late show sometime between 12:30-1:30am (if it goes as before I'll be on
from 1:25-1:30!). The Rose show is suppose to air sometime this week. The way
these things go, however, you never know for certain until it actually airs.
I have only been on Dateline once, and the exact moment my segment was to
begin (9:15pm) the program was interrupted by the announcement that TWA
Flight 800 had gone down. Almost as dramatic, the exact moment my appearance
on Oprah was to begin the program was interrupted by the announcement that
the OJ jury had reached a verdict. Such is the nature of the news media.

Re: sleep deprivation. I think all this travel is starting to catch up with
me. For the week during Race Across America I only got about 4 hours of sleep
per 24 hours, flew from the finish line in Savannah back to Los Angeles to
tape a Leeza show, then flew to Chicago (where I was introduced on the Milt
Rosenberg show as "SRI LEAHCIM REMREHS," the great Vedic sage from India for
which I did "psychic" readings on callers), then to New York, to Boston, back
to New York, then back to L.A. Along the way I left my electric razor in
Savannah, bought another razor and left that one in Chicago, bought another
and left it in New York. Twice I left my money clip on public counters (but
no one took it) and once I left it in the green room at a talk show. I bought
my wife and daughter presents in Boston and promptly left them there upon
departing. Finally, I left my $900 suit in the changing room at the Charlie
Rose show. The last straw came tonight. While making an espresso (probably
the last thing I need now) I forgot to put the cup under the spout and very
black coffee ran all over the counter, cabinets, floor, carpet, etc. Kim, of
course, was thrilled. I've either got a brain tumor or need some serious
sleep. Kim just thinks I'm acting the way I always act, only in spades.

Michael Shermer

P.S. The callers on the Milt Rosenberg show gave me a 95% rating on my
ability to do "psychic" readings. After I was "exposed" one called back and
said she new all along and just played along!