226 - The World's Greatest Con - Brian Brushwood
You Are Not So Smart
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The World's Greatest Hogan
"I love that you frame it as the world's greatest khon, because i feel i've felt this way forvor every time," he says. "People who are we would call con artists, they, through a b, testingd and and like actually practice,. predicted and privately sorted and categorized a lot of things that didn't become part of quantified science until the seventies, the nineties, the two thousands." He adds: "They already had a handle on how to operate within that world without having a foundation of text books to lean upon"
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