Kinda reminds me of when I would go to a bar/club and strike up conversations with people nearby. If the random topic of conversation even suggested that a group was conspiring to do something, it would end the conversation in short order. It was hard to bite my tongue and not ask "Did you just see that?", when there was an example right in front of us, like a pro sports game playing on the TVs and the refs would make a bad call at just the right moment in order to change who won.