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Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

Armstrong & Getty

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4.8816 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Jack has a list of old-timey baby names that are apparently making a comeback, and our ombudsman brought an error to our attention that must be rectified.  

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0:00.0

Isaac, Ernest, Archie, thanks for listening.

0:03.1

It's one more thing.

0:04.8

Armstrong and Getty.

0:06.3

One more thing.

0:10.1

You're going to thank everybody.

0:11.5

It's going to take you out because we're huge.

0:13.4

I'll explain that in a second.

0:14.6

I've got this.

0:15.4

Will this trick let you know if your kids are lying to you?

0:20.5

It's just handed to me. If you're a parent, you can smell about 90% of your kids are lying to you. Let's just handed to me.

0:21.6

If you're a parent, you can smell about 90% of your kids lies, right?

0:25.0

Yeah, it is amazing.

0:30.3

But here's a trick, according to UK researchers.

0:35.5

That liars who have to multitask are much easier to expose.

0:39.1

The idea is that lying requires more mental energy than telling the truth.

0:42.5

That's interesting.

0:43.7

Oh, yeah, that's clearly true.

0:44.9

So giving an additional unrelated task to think about makes it more of a struggle to maintain a lie.

0:51.8

Wow.

0:53.7

Wow. This rings true. So how would I apply that? You'd say, yeah, I want to talk to you about how the, to cite a particularly idiotic sitcom example. I want to talk to you about how the cookie jar got broken while we clean this chair.

1:12.9

Or I don't know.

1:14.0

I'm trying to think what would be a task that would take at least minimal mental energy.

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