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Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

Have you ever been burned by somebody because they told you an outright lie?

Can I happen to your personal or business life?

You're on Cloud 9, your girlfriend tells you she loves you only to find out later she's been cheating on you for months.

The client says their business is solvent but they end up bankrupt and you lose a ton of money on the account.

Wouldn't be great to avoid these situations by being able to tell right then and there if someone is lying to you.

Well my guest today has spent his career in the CIA sussing out to septic behavior and developed a system to help other agents know when someone is lying or telling the truth.

His name is Michael Floyd and besides being a former CIA agent he's also co-author of the book Spide the Lie.

On today's show Michael Dispelt submits about lie detection like for example there's really no such thing as lie detection.

Rather Michael argues you should focus on behavioral and verbal cues that suggest someone is deceiving you when you see those cues to investigate further.

He then walks us through the system he used during his career as a CIA agent and now is a corporate consultant to flush out liars.

After the show is over check out the show notes at a.wim.is slash by the live.

Michael joins me now via clearcast.io.

Michael Floyd welcome to the show.

Well thank you Brett it's good to be here.

So you wrote a book along with your co-authors called Spide the Lie.

It's about did well kind of debunking some of the myths about lie detection and we'll get into that a little bit but before we do let's get your background is really interesting.

What's your background that led you to write this book about how to.

Figure out if someone's lying to you well it goes back to 1972 straight out of college undergraduate school I went into the army military police.

I went through officer basic training in Fort Gordon Georgia where the original government polygraph school was and that that piqued my interest when I got out of the military.

I ended up in Chicago at a company called John Reed associates to get my master of science degree and detection of deception when I graduated they invited me to join the staff.

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