Episode 3 – BSPsychic: A Fortune-ate Experience

In this episode, Chris and Cody visit a real life psychic. They share their experiences from beginning to end, including the psychic’s profession of angels, and more importantly, her amazing wallflower bench. Going into the episode, both Chris and Cody were skeptics, but by the end, one of them might have been converted to a believer. The episode also discusses the history of psychics and typical techniques scammers use. BS Weekly segment will provide a story in which a terminally ill man requests to be contacted after his death. Today’s drinks of choice: Prophecy-Red Blend; Stark Raving-Cabernet.


Advisory Warning: 0-13s
Intro Music: 13-27s
Podcast Intro: 27-52s
This Week’s Topic: 52-4:00m
Alcohol Reveal: 4:00-5:50m
History: 5:50-8:21m
Statistics: 8:21-9:44m
Reddit Story: 9:44-11:15m
Chris’s Experience: 11:15-26:00m
What makes a scammer: 26:00-35:26m
Cody’s Experience: 35:26-48:10m
BS Weekly: 48:10-49:23m
Thanks and Signoff: 49:23-51:37m
Exit Music: 51:37-52:02m

Music: “I Have Heard of a Place” by The Astrometrics

Links

History/Stats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic
Personality Tests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect
Scamming Tricks:  https://www.thrillist.com/culture/7-tricks-psychics-and-mediums-use-how-psychics-use-cold-reading-the-forer-effect
Keith Barry, TED Talk:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GigYWy2UmOY
BS Weekly:  https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/dead-man-asks-for-psychics-to-contact-him