The Evidence for Aliens, the Afterlife, Bigfoot, Sea Monsters, and More | Miguel Sancho

Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Ten Percent Happier Podcast. I'm your host, Dan Harris. We talk a lot on this show about the value of having an open mind, about intellectual humility. But how open minded should you be when it comes to things like Bigfoot or UFOs or the afterlife? Today we're talking to an experienced journalist, a hardened skeptic, my old friend Miguel Sancho. We used to work together at ABC News, where he helped to run the legendary uh news magazine show twenty twenty. Miguel has gone on to become the executive producer of a show called The Proof Is Out There, which is on the History Channel, and he's got a new book, which is called Evidence of the Extraordinary. We're gonna talk about how Miguel has gone from, as I said, a hardened skeptic

To somebody who is a little bit more open minded. Miguel Sancho. Welcome back to the show. Dan, great to see you. Honored to be on your show and uh grateful, of course, to your audience for lending us a little bit of their time. Let's make it worthwhile. Let me just start with your story. So I mean, I worked with you. We started working together like I think the late aughts and we did a bunch of investigative stories together. We took on self help

Fuckaroos and we took on the the Church of Scientology and my memory of you is is of somebody who was pretty hard bitten in his skepticism and atheism, et cetera, et cetera. But now you're uh the executive producer of a show called The Proof Is Out There and you've got this new book. So like what has happened? Give me your arc. Yeah, so it would be great if there was some sort of dramatic, you know, Damascus Road Epiphany and I could kind of complete the uh Stereotypical Hollywood arc of the cynical hardened journalism. Profession who has

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