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Welcome to Skepical Sunday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. Today I'm here with Skeptical Sunday co-host writer and researcher Nick Pell. On the Jordan Harbinger show, a bunch of people just turned this episode off, by the way, Nick. You have that effect on people. They either come for Nick Pell or they leave because of Nick Pell. That's how this works now. You people who leave will soon be staying for me. You just don't know it yet. Challenge accepted. On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills are the world's most fascinating people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you. And our mission is to help you become a better informed, more critical thinker. During the week, we have long-forms

conversations with a variety of amazing folks, from spies to CEOs, athletes, authors, thinkers,

and performers. On Sundays, though, we do skeptical Sunday. We're a rotating guest co-host

and I break down a topic you may have never thought about and debunk common

misconceptions about that topic. Topics like the lottery, reiki healing, diet pills, energy drinks,

internet porn, homeopathy, and more. And if you're new to the show or you want to tell

your friends about the show, I suggest our episode starter packs. These are collections of our

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here on the show. Just visit jordanharbinger.com slash start or search for us in your Spotify app to get

started. Today on the show, a police detective sits in a dimly lit smoke-filled office researching the disappearance of a small girl. She's the picture of the type of girl the media gives extra attention to. Pretty, blonde, precocious, and worst of all, there are absolutely no leads. It's like she disappeared into thin air. The detective is at the end of his rope. He's tried everything he knows to get the case going, but to no avail. The parents are frantic. They're willing to do anything to get their child back, even if it means using decidedly unorthodox methods. So the parents start to demand that the police use a psychic. You may have seen this on the news, and if you're old enough, on the show Unsolved Mysteries, and like a lot of people, you've probably wondered to yourself if people really do this, and if it actually works. You may have reasoned that, hey, if they keep doing it, it's got to work sometimes, so much so that we're going to dig deep into the world of psychics today, not just any psychics, but the ones of the cops call in when they hit a dead end in a case.

Does it ever work? And if not, why do they keep doing it? Here today to help me peer into the

crystal ball is writer and researcher Nick Pell. Nick, have you ever been to a psychic?

No, but someone made a shitload of calls to Miss Cleo from my house in high school.

Yeah.

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