Conman vs Mark: The Gift of Fear

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"The conman has the advantage of a massive a symmetry. He gets to spend, he or she gets to spend a lot of time crafting this initial." "We got one thing, we have a very finely tuned sense of ish intuition when it comes to danger" 'You want to cater to all those, but you must not push'

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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