Season two of "The John Sutter Show" is out now. The first season was broken into four chapters, each with a different important lesson. This year's episode focuses on the game show conman who defrauded his way to fame and fortune by lying under oath in front of a federal grand jury. It also looks at what happened when one man set up an entire scheme that later became movie quiz show 21.
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.