Season 3
Episodes
How Romance Scams Really Work | Forensic Linguist Dr Elisabeth Carter
The evidence in a romance scam is all there in writing. Every message, every apology, every “be careful, there are scammers on here” sits in the chat log like a frozen crime scene. Dr Elisabeth Carter, criminologist...
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How to Tell If Someone Is Lying...ish (Microexpressions Won't)
Spotting lying, we are told is just Somebody freeze framed a grieving parent's face, announced "duping delight" to four million followers, and the comment section returned a verdict before the police did. The lie...
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The Real Life Sherlock | Solving Cain's Jawbone Ep 5 | Just Like Everyone
Many a true word is spoken in jest and only some of them from Sherlock. Except on page eighteen of Cain's Jawbone, where it isn't. One word has been swapped, and I read straight past it three times.
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The Real Life Sherlock | Cain's Jawbone Ep 4 | Trust No One
Cain's Jawbone is a 1934 literary puzzle by Edward Powys Mathers, pen name Torquemada. 100 scrambled pages, six murders, no key, no instructions, and only four verified solutions in ninety years.
In a bid to live up...
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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:– 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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