I Love That Your Anthology Comes Out After That Book

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There's a reason that our tag line is, cons don't fool us because stupid. They fool us because we're human. And ther's there's nothing wrong with being human. Yes, we are composed of flawed, wetwar that that cannot be patched. These are the stories, both heroic and tragic, of people who exploit those for good or for ill. That's what i love about doing an anthology season, is that we have stories of the powerful screwn over the little guy. We've got clean actors who are in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's aa, my hope is that by the end of season too, between between the world conquering hit

In this episode, we sit down with famed stage magician, infamous instructor of the school of scams, Brian Brushwood, whose new podcast explores the world's greatest con artists and con jobs from World War II to modern game shows.

We cover everything in this episode from why you can't con an honest person to the power of shame and fame to folk psychology to how the British conned Hitler using one of the oldest tricks in the book to how one man broke the code for Press Your Luck earning him the most money ever awarded in a single day on any program in the history of game shows.

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