Hey, upgrade listeners. The first ever live recording of the upgrade will take place in Brooklyn,

New York on November 29th at the Bell House. We've got comedian Chris Getherd, comedian Akely

Hughes, and the nods Brittany Luce and Eric Eddings joining us. We'll also have a special

three-ingredient cocktail for fans of Lifehackers three-ingred ingredient happy hour. And it's going to be a

really fun night. Go to the Bellhouse, n.wai.com for tickets.

Hello and welcome to The Upgrade, the podcast from the team at LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time.

I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of Lifehacker.

And I'm Alice Bradley, Lifehacker's deputy editor.

And today we're talking about how to tell the truth and how to know when the people around you are being

less than truthful. We'll be hearing from MSNBC host and author Lawrence O'Donnell with a story

behind his book, Deadly Force, the murder of an unarmed black man and the police cover-up that

followed. When he heard her story and when he got the police reports, he knew exactly what he was looking at. He was looking

at a police murder. He was looking at a police coverup. I'll be chatting with writer and

semi-professional poker player Peter Alson about his former life as a bookmaker, and I'll get

some tips from him on how to tell when someone is lying. I think that there are people who are

very sensitive to those kinds of signals that people

put out when they're lying, when they're telling the truth.

We'll also speak with Lifehacker Deputy Editor Virginia Smith as we take a look at a story from

the Lifehacker archive, how to detect when someone's lying and get them to tell the truth.

Most of the ways that we think you can tell that someone is lying or persuade them to tell you what

really happened are totally wrong. I want to tell you something and I'm worried that you'll

use this to your advantage. Well, I've been hanging out with semi-professional poker players,

...