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This is show 381. Lying is plastic.

Welcome to the show my friend so good to have you again and today we're going to be

talking about the importance of our mouths, truth, lying, being transparent.

So we're going to talk about this and I was preparing for the show today

and all of a sudden it hit me that today the Olympic trials begin in the United States. So they're gonna

the winners are gonna end up showing up in Paris for the Olympics 2024 but in the

United States you got to make the team and there's I think 10 days of

trials until we come up with our our track and field team and of course there's

swimming and there's all kinds of other things going on in the Olympics but one of the things that I was thinking about was that the truth is important in the Olympic trials as it is in the Olympics.

Cheating will eliminate you and so it is so important what you say and what you do, even at the

level of sports, you know, what are you taking into your body that might give you

the advantage and are you admitting it or if you get caught

are you going to make an excuse? Lying is, have you ever seen these things where you can touch them?

It's like a little rubber toy that you splat on the ground

and if you touch it in one area, it moves into another

and it's like a squishy toy.

Anyway, that's kind of what lying does is it just keeps changing and

that's where this idea of plastic comes from the idea of plastic the word

plastic go in Greek is to change shapes and so plastic surgery for example is to change the shape of your nose your face whatever it might be and lying is plastic it's always changing and changing the circumstances and it changes what people can can rely on with you or you rely on with somebody else.

So we're going to take a look at that. By the way, if you do want,

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