"Project Alpha" is the story of two teenagers who try to pull off a magic trick. The film stars James Randy, Steve Shaw and Mike Edwards. "There's no way that this story happens without James Randy," says director Tom Charity.
We sit down with Brian Brushwood to discuss how he put together this most recent season of The World's Greatest Con, his podcast about incredible scams. This season is all about how two teenagers pulled off an incredible hoax called Project Alpha, a con job and a publicity stunt, meant to improve scientific rigor and methodology when it comes to studying the possibility of the existence of psychic phenomena.