The Truth About Lie Detectors
The Bravo Docket
Cesie and Angela
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Legal team, today we’re switching things up and diving into the strange, controversial world of lie detector tests. From their 1920s origins and ties to Wonder Woman’s lasso of truth to infamous pop culture moments and why most courts won’t accept them as evidence, we’re unpacking the history, science, and drama behind the lie detector test — including its recent cameo on RHOC.
What’s on the docket?
- RHOC’s recent polygraph ambush
- The history and origins of the lie detector test
- The lie detector’s boom in policing and ties to Wonder Woman
- Famous cases where polygraphs played a role
- How polygraphs actually work
- Licensing requirements for administrators
- Why most courts reject them as evidence
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| 0:06.4 | I think one of the things that we get really annoyed with as Housewives fans is just hypocrisy. |
| 0:13.6 | We like delusion, but we don't like it when things are applied unfairly to one person |
| 0:18.4 | and they don't count for another person, especially on the same cast. |
| 0:22.3 | And when they were going through the results and some of them were like, oh, well, that can't be |
| 0:28.7 | right. That's not right. And everybody was like, oh, sure, you know, when it's Tamara or when it's |
| 0:33.1 | Heather and it's a weird response or does it match with what we think? But then when it came to Katie, it says you're a liar, so you definitely are. |
| 0:44.7 | Welcome to the Bravo Docket. |
| 0:50.5 | We're your favorite reality TV drama meets the courtroom. |
| 0:54.1 | I'm Sessie. And I'm Angela and we're |
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| 1:06.1 | 101. Let's get into today's case. |
| 1:13.5 | Welcome back to the Bravo docket. |
| 1:16.5 | We are going to do something different today. |
| 1:22.2 | And instead of talking about a specific housewives lawsuit, we're going to talk about something that has come up in several criminal cases. |
| 1:27.2 | It's kind of part of the zeitgeist. When you think of a |
| 1:31.2 | crime movie, you sort of think of this. And the reason we're talking about it is because of the most |
| 1:37.1 | recent episode of the Real Housewives of Orange County. And that is the polygraph test. |
| 1:43.5 | So I thought it would be interesting to go through the history of polygraph tests, |
| 1:48.9 | talk about its appearance in pop culture, |
| 1:51.4 | and then talk about the admissibility of polygraph results in cases |
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