Welcome to Skeptical Sunday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. Today I'm here with Skeptical Sunday

co-host comedian and skeptic Michael Regelio. On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the story

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

On Sundays, though, it's skeptical Sunday. A rotating guest co-host and I break down a topic

you may have never thought about and debunk common misconceptions

about that topic, such as tipping, acupuncture, astrology, diet pills, self-help cults, bottled water,

and more. If you're new to the show or you want to tell your friends about the show, I suggest our

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negotiation, psychology, disinformation, junk science, crime and cults, and more that'll help new listeners get a taste of everything we do here on the show. Just visit jordanharbinger.com slash start or search for us in your Spotify app to get started. Now tell me if this sounds familiar. You walk up to a counter, you order some food, the person taps the order into an iPad, and then turns

around and says, it's going to just ask you a quick question, and you think, oh, it's going to ask me a question. This inanimate iPad suddenly developed curiosity. What could it possibly want to know that you, the human being standing right here who just took my order, can't explain. You took my order. You're looking at me expectantly. But now we've got to consult the iPad. What's going on here?

All right. being standing right here who just took my order, can't explain. You took my order, you're looking

at me expectantly, but now we've got to consult the iPad. What's going on here? All right, let's see the

question. Ah, okay. It wants to know if I would like to tip you. For what? You haven't made the food.

I haven't gotten the food. We're both standing here, staring at each other. So the question isn't would I like to

tip. The question is, can I predict the future? I'm sensing missing utensils, mild disappointment.

And if you're one of the growing number of Americans also getting fed up with this phenomenon,

you might be asking yourself, how did we get here? Why do I have to tip everyone, seemingly?

And how is it acceptable that we tip before the service is even complete, sometimes even before it

begins? And more importantly, why do we even tip at all? Today, skeptic, comedian, and most

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