How Do You Make a Guy Say Yes or No?

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This is some pretty heavy stuff. So so help us understand how exactly this allows them to communicate with him, right? Yes. There are two main stages to this, and it's quite complicated, but hope we will get through this. The first stage is basically training. You're training this guy to be able to say yes or no. That's the goal. And he does this by thinking of something. And that was his able of ju sort of boosting that signal up or boosting it down.

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This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Tori Dominguez and Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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