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The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

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🗓️ 12 February 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Are you dead wrong to trust the funeral industry in having your best interests at heart when it's time to shuffle off your mortal coil?

Welcome to Skeptical Sunday, a special edition of The Jordan Harbinger Show where Jordan and fact-checker, comedian, and podcast host David C. Smalley break down a topic that you may have never thought about, open things up, and debunk common misconceptions.

On This Week's Skeptical Sunday, We Discuss:

The average cost of a funeral is over $11,000.
Lack of regulation and high prices lead to some families not being able to afford funerals. As a result, about 88,000 bodies go unclaimed each year.
Grieving people may not have the emotional energy or knowledge to compare prices, leading to exploitation by funeral companies — like Service Corporation International (SCI), whose prices are 47 percent to 72 percent higher than competitors.
4.3 million gallons of embalming fluid are used in the US each year, which potentially get into the drinking water. 1.4 million cremations recorded in 2017 created CO2 emissions equalling 52,000 cars on the road.
Funerals.org provides information on funeral arrangements and what is necessary versus what is being sold by funeral homes.
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0:00.0	Special thanks to Peloton for sponsoring this episode of the Jordan Harbinger Show.
0:07.7	Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger. And this is Skeptical Sunday,
0:11.3	a special edition of the Jordan Harbinger Show where fact checker and comedian David C.
0:15.3	Smalley and yours truly break down a topic that y'all may have never thought about.
0:19.8	Open things up, debunk some common misconceptions, topics such as why the Olympics are kind of a
0:24.6	sham, why expiration dates on food are pretty much nonsense, why tipping is maybe racist, recycling,
0:30.6	ban foods, toothpaste, chemtrails, a lot more. Normally on the Jordan Harbinger Show we decode
0:35.3	the stories, secrets and skills of the world's most fascinating people and then turn their wisdom
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1:07.2	Topics like persuasion and influence, technology, futurism, crime and cults and more, just visit
1:12.8	jordanharbinger.com slash start or take a look in your Spotify app to get started. Now everyone
1:18.4	knows that dying isn't fun, but now it's even worse because if you're like most Americans,
1:24.2	you probably can afford it. And today's skeptic comedian, David C. Smolley is here to tell us
1:29.1	why dying is even harder and more expensive than we previously thought. That's right Jordan.
1:34.0	Thanks for having me. Yeah. Look, if you want to die, you better start saving some money first.
1:38.4	Right. I mean, you thought healthcare was expensive. Try not caring for your health at all. In
1:42.4	addition to inflation and all the other things that we have to pay for these days, now we got to
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