Hello, welcome to an Arras and Kerry the show where we don't just report on French science

spirituality claims of the paranormal no no no no no no no we either take part ourselves

and or talk to someone who's an expert.

Yep, when they make the claims we show up so you don't have to, I'm Ross Blascher.

I'm Kerry Poppy.

This time we showed up at an author's house.

Yes, we showed up at the home of Dr. Carol Tavras.

I was excited that you'd reached out to Carol Tavras because well she's one of my favorite

authors.

She wrote your actual favorite book.

My actual favorite book.

I've talked about it on the podcast before.

If you know me, I probably put this in front of you at some point.

It's called Mistakes Were Made, but not by me.

How we justify foolish beliefs, acts, hurtful decisions, something like that.

I'm paraphrasing the subtitle.

The subtitle is why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions and hurtful acts.

Here we go.

It's fantastic.

It's all about cognitive dissonance on personal level all the way up to governmental actions,

just how this affects our lives.

One of those things where if you're aware of it as sort of a tool in your life, I don't

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