"The Siddler" returns for its third season on Sunday. The series is based on the real-life story of Project Alpha, a science fiction project led by James Randy. "We had one mandate from the very beginning," says co-creator Justin Weisman.
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.