"I want season two to be a show that I get to watch with lots of clips from these game shows," he says. "How much would you be willing to pay to buy a ticket to just spin this thing? That's literally whatever amount of cash happens to be in my pocket." The price is right for the Plinko machine, and it will be prominently placed on Netflix.
In this episode, we sit down with famed stage magician and 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.