Psych Out, Pt 3: Repeat After Me

The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

Mark Chrisler

Science, Natural Sciences, Design, Arts, History

4.7 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.4	This episode is brought to you by Diet Coke.
0:09.2	Time for a Diet Coke break.
0:13.1	Enjoy what you like.
0:16.2	Just how you like it.
0:20.7	This is my taste.
0:24.5	What's yours?
0:27.5	Celebrate your unique taste with Diet Coke.
0:33.5	Thoughtful driving tips from ESO, number three.
0:37.2	This is Kieran. He's doing 70 on the motorway.
0:40.5	On his way to a cheeky spa appointment, though his diaries as he's visiting a client. Nauty Kieran.
0:48.0	Lowering his speed to 60 could save him up to 9% in fuel on the journey. Enjoy that hot stone massage, Kieran.
0:56.2	Slowing down a little.
0:57.9	This is the final episode of a three-part series.
1:01.0	So we're going to begin with a little recap.
1:03.2	But if there's only one thing you bring to this conclusion,
1:06.9	I want it to be that all of this happened because of a horse.
1:15.9	A purportedly psychic horse called Lady Wonder, in reality a semi-sophisticated parlor trick,
1:23.3	the invention of a Virginia farmer's wife named Claudia Fonda.
1:31.2	Up until the late 1920s, research into psychic phenomena,
1:34.9	whether supportive or critical, tended to be anecdotal.
1:38.1	Some medium would claim to have special powers, and some investigator would come along to spot-check their acts.
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