March 27, 2010 | reviews
If your crystal ball is as opaque as your last urine sample, fear not. The Shark Guys, in collaboration with our friends at Bad Psychics—the only kind—will gaze into the future by looking at the past, skyward at those luminous balls of thermonuclear plasma to tell you exactly what their relative positions mean (and this, without mass spectroscopy or a discount telescope from Radio Shack).
This week we bring you Episode 4 of The BadCast, a weekly podcast from Bad Psychics that examines psychic phenomena, astrology and other aspects of the paranormal that should not be brought up during a job interview.
In this week’s podcast, Derek Bartholomaus discusses the Independent Investigations Group (IIG) and their $50,000 Challenge, a prize given to anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event. Suffice it to say, up until now they’ve not had to cut any checks. In February 2010, playing card telepathic prognosticator (try fitting that on your business card) Regen Traynor took up the challenge, perhaps not as ideally prepared as he might’ve been—- certainly not for the World Poker Tour. We’ll let Derek take it from there.
Also, Aaron Lewis shows off the art of ‘Skeptical Letter Writing’. He spotted an ad in his local newspaper (a publication usually as he put it, “full of stories not exactly overflowing with veracity”) and discusses wacky medical claims relating to dermatology made therein.
Comedian Iszi Lawrence, of Oxford Skeptic in the Pub discusses rational belief systems at Birmingham Skeptics (It takes place in a pub as well. Note the odd squeaky door—-not a poltergeist—but someone recycling their beer). She talks about her fear of velocoraptors and her Christian upbringing (these two are presumably not related).
Finally, Shark Guy Noel Boivin discusses serial killers in a segment we might’ve called, Born Under a Bad Sign. Here, he examines the link between astrology and serial killers and whether Ted Bundy, a Sagittarian, according to his astrlogical profile, “teaches the rest of us a little more about what it means to be human.”
