Detecting Lies with Brad Beeler

DEVIANT

Cold Open Media

True Crime

4.8 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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We're diving dive deep into the world of polygraphs, interrogations, and lie detection with Brad Beeler, a former Secret Service agent with 25 years of experience. Brad shares insights from his illustrious career in protective services and polygraph examination, including the science behind polygraphs, how investigators use them to detect truth and practical strategies from his new book, 'Tell Me Everything.' Learn how to read body language, decode social cues, and understand the emotional impact of working with criminals. Whether you're negotiating at a car dealership or navigating personal relationships, Brad's expertise will make you more adept at spotting deception and communicating effectively. GET BRAD'S BOOK HERE: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tell-Me-Everything/Brad-Beeler/9781637748428 JOIN OUR PATREON: http://www.deviantpodcast.com Visit DEVIANT's socials: http://www.instagram.com/deviant.podcast http://www.tiktok.com/@deviant.podcast READ THE HAPPINESS EXPERIMENT: ⁠https://go.happinessexperiment.com/begin-aff-o2?am_id=podcast2025&utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=michael⁠ Copyright 2025 Cold Open Media LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.2	We've all been lied to by someone. We've all been worked by someone. It doesn't feel good.
1:05.5	Today on Deviant Offscript, though, we're going to get a little help. We're talking to Brad
1:10.1	Beeler. He spent 25 years
1:11.9	with the U.S. Secret Service. And yeah, he did protection like with presidents and dignitaries,
1:17.7	but his real expertise wasn't polygraphing people and interrogating people and learning
1:22.8	how to read them. He has more polygraph experience and has done more of them than anybody
1:27.2	in U.S. Secret Service history. So today, we are going to learn how polygraphs work, how investigators
1:34.8	use them to find out the truth or to help them in interrogations or to catch people. And through
1:40.7	all those polygraphs and interrogations, Brad really learned how people work,
1:44.5	how they communicate, right? How to read body language, how to read social cues. And sometimes that's
1:49.8	something we could all use little help with. And he has a new book called Tell Me Everything,
1:53.5	a secret service agent's proven strategies for earning trust, revealing the truth, and communicating
1:58.3	with anyone. And we're going to talk about that too and learn how you can use some of those skills that
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