Panaply.

The following podcast contains explicit language. This is Why a Y. I'm Andrea Selenzi. And before this show, I don't know if you guys know this about me, but I used to produce a daily news show for Slate magazine called the gist and hosted by Mike Pesca.

And it's still one of my favorite podcasts. Mike and I worked together on 500 episodes, so at this point I know when the guy enjoys an

interview he'll kind of bound out of the studio with a boyish grin on his face

and start repeating random facts and tidbits that he just learned to everyone around

the office.

And that's what he did after interviewing my guest today.

Seth Stevens Dividowitz.

He's the author of the book Everybody Lies, Big Data, New Data, and what the internet can tell us about who

we really are.

Mike Pesca put that book in my hand and he said, there's stuff in here.

About dating. So we booked Seth and he came by to chat with our show about his new book.

I always have had this sneaking suspicion that things aren't as they seem and that people are lying to me and that there's more of the story than I'm being told.

So like when I said, I heard you on the gist with Mike Pesca and you sounded really good you're like oh there's more to the story that she's not telling me.

Yeah, no so what happens is we had this pre-com, before the podcast, we had a brief conversation, and Andrea is like, oh, I heard you on the,

Mike Pesca really liked you on the podcast.

And I've recently had this experience where I was teaching a class at Warden and all the students came up to me and told me how much they love me, how great the class was, and then I just got my evaluations and they were horrible.

And now I'm just in a panic because I feel like you can't

trust anything anybody tells you when they say people just say good job no

how you did or say you look good, you sound good, you did a great job, great speech. Great talk. We like this. We like that and you don't know what to believe.

Yeah, and as a lady it's like, oh, that's a cool dress. Are you saying that's a cool dress because it stands out to you because it's somehow abnormal or

is it actually just a really cool dress? I actually so I've been on as part of my

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