Poker tells made Zachary Elwood's name, then made him a skeptic of his own industry. Zachary Elwood, host of the People Who Read People podcast and author of the Reading Poker Tells trilogy.

Join us as dig into what years of high stakes poker actually proved about deception, why most popular body language advice collapses under scrutiny, and how a game with instant feedback taught him to distrust claims the rest of the field still sells as fact.

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Cains Jawbone is a 1934 literary puzzle by Edward Powys Mathers, pen name Torquemada. 100 pages of dense prose, six murders, six murderers, printed deliberately out of order with no map, no key, and no instructions. The number of possible arrangements is 9.3 followed by 157 zeros. Only four people in history have solved it correctly.

This is Episode 1. I'm a licensed private investigator, trained mentalist, and memory competitor, and I'm treating this exactly like a criminal investigation: evidence gathered, weighted, corroborated, and tested before any conclusion gets made. No guessing. No rushing to a solution that feels right. Every connection has to be earned.

We start here. With method. With one page. With the question of who is actually speaking.
Follow along. This is going to take a while.

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00:00 Introduction
01:24 Introduction to the jawbone
27:32 Technical aspects of puzzle solving
33:18 The studio solving room
47:07 Closing

Trust is not something you give. It is something that gets taken, using documented mechanisms, before you have processed a single piece of evidence. Ben Cardall and Bob Pointer map the full architecture of manufactured likeability: the Halo Effect, affinity bias, the chameleon effect, the Liking Principle, and the mere exposure effect. Then they show you how to audit your own responses and spot engineered rapport in real interactions.

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