The Stage Hypnotist Says, Now You're Getting Cooler

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A stage hypnotist asks, who here in this room would like to be hypnotized? This feels like a very small moment. It's the most important moment because you are self selecting for compliance. We hear directives and sleep; we know while we're up there on stage, what he means is, act as though you just went into slumber. The reliability of these reactions to fame and shame, that's what allows stage hypnotists to make a living doing this.

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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