I would stay and watch these bizarre movies, some of them classics of cinema and others drive-in movies that Tim League had purchased. “It introduced me to a community of like-minded nitwits, and also that was really my film school. And check out some highlights from the discussion below.

Listen to the complete interview with Owen Egerton in Episode 444 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (above).

“But as the book came to be, and as Donald Trump was elected, I found more and more that those conspiracy theories weren’t so cute, that that power could move in a bunch of different ways-and a dangerous way.” “When I was writing about the Hollow Earth, I was celebrating people’s ability to believe what was obviously not true,” he says. While he was writing the book, Egerton viewed the Hollow Earth Theory as a bit of harmless fun, but recent events have made him reconsider that view. But who knows? We might not be hearing from them for a few years, and then they’ll come out of the South Pole, and the world will have changed.” “It was funded, and then it was going to have to be funded by people sending money, and it’s kind of gone up and down. “It kind of went in and out of being able to happen,” Egerton says. (Hollow Earth lore holds that giant holes, known as Symmes Holes, are located at either pole.) Unfortunately the trip never happened, at least as far as he knows. To get to the bottom of the theory, Egerton even volunteered to sail to the North Pole on a Russian icebreaker as part of an expedition to locate an entrance to the Hollow Earth. “Almost every book event I did for Hollow, there would be one or two people at the back of the room, and they’d be really excited that I’d written this book, and I think really disappointed when I started saying the Earth is not hollow,” Egerton says. The idea of a Hollow Earth may sound ridiculous, but the theory was once taken seriously by scientists and politicians, and even today it still has a few diehard adherents.

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