Season 3
Episodes
He Ran the UK's Fraud Squad. Now He Fights AI Fraud
Ai is here and David Clarke spent his career catching fraudsters, first as a City of London Police Fraud Squad chief, then building the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau from the ground up. Now he's watching...
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Dark Triad At Work: How To Spot A Manipulator
Your best performer might be running on narcissism, Machiavellianism, or psychopathy, and the org chart rewards it. This is the Dark Triad without the textbook, applied to the office and the relationships you can't...
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Nudge Theory: How Choice Architecture Runs Your Life
You didn't choose that option. Something built the room you chose it in, and it built the room before you walked in.
In this episode:ā€“ What choice architecture actually is and why nudge theory changed behavioural...
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The Real Life Sherlock | Cain's Jawbone Ep 3 | Can't Cheat This
I have been called a Real Life Sherlock by many folks I respect within Law Enforcement. Cain's Jawbone is the puzzle that gets to decide if that's actually earned. In 1942 a crossword got too easy, so the Daily...
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Close Protection Is Observation, Not Action
Everyone thinks close protection is the suit, the earpiece, the guy scanning a crowd like he's in a Statham film. It isn't. It's advance work nobody sees, a plan already three versions deep before the principal...
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What Actually Predicts Divorce (According to the Divorce Doctor)
Sherlock built his method on reading behaviour before anyone spoke a word. Turns out marriages run on the same evidence. Sue Palmer Cole, the divorce doctor and founder of the Divorce Academy, joins Ben and Bob to...
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Solving Cain's Jawbone | The Man Who Built The Trap w/Real Life Sherlock (Ep 2)
Before you can solve the world's hardest literary puzzle, you need to understand who built it and why.
Edward Powys Mathers was a Persian poetry translator who spent thirteen years setting cryptic crosswords for the...
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Why "Limited" Breaks Your Brain
"Only 3 left." "Offer ends tonight." Your brain doesn't ask if it's true, it just reacts. This episode breaks down exactly why manufactured scarcity works and how to spot it before it spots you.
In this episode:- The...
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Zachary Elwood (People Who Read People) on Poker Tells and Why Most Body Language Advice Is Wrong
Poker tells made Zachary Elwood's name, then made him a skeptic of his own industry. Zachary Elwood, host of the People Who Read People podcast and author of the Reading Poker Tells trilogy.
Join us as dig into what...
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Cains Jawbone: 100 Pages. No Order. Six Murders Part 1
Cains Jawbone is a 1934 literary puzzle by Edward Powys Mathers, pen name Torquemada. 100 pages of dense prose, six murders, six murderers, printed deliberately out of order with no map, no key, and no instructions....
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The Likeability Algorithm: How Trust Gets Manufactured Before You Notice
Trust is not something you give. It is something that gets taken, using documented mechanisms, before you have processed a single piece of evidence. Ben Cardall and Bob Pointer map the full architecture of...
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Lie Detection vs Investigative Interviewing: The Truth
Lie detection has been the wrong goal all along. Mark Anderson spent decades in law enforcement, and his conclusion is blunt: the mindset you carry into an interview matters more than any signal you think you're...
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