0201: Twenty One and the 1950s Quiz Show Scandals

World's Greatest Con

Dog And Pony Show Audio

True Crime, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

A producer decides to juice his quiz show by feeding answers to contestants. The attention makes them rich and famous but the revelation of the scheme extracts a terrible societal cost from everyone who took the bargain.

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0:00.0	Some things just add some play to your day.
0:02.8	Catching the toast as it pops out of the toaster.
0:05.6	Dancing down the street to your favourite place.
0:08.8	Wearing a sparkly boots to the shop.
0:11.2	Best of all, picking the new Red Scratch Card.
0:14.0	A Red Scratch Card, please.
0:15.7	Thank you.
0:16.7	And doing your own drum roll.
0:18.5	This is exciting.
0:21.4	Add some play to your day,
0:22.8	with Scratch Cards from the National Lottery.
0:24.8	So it's too big, place more.
0:26.4	Rules and procedures are by a players must be 18 or over.
0:30.4	This is World's Greatest Con.
0:35.6	I'm Brian Brushwood.
0:39.5	All right, it's 1957 and 200 people are getting pulled into a grand jury.
0:47.2	They're all told the same thing.
0:48.8	Tell the truth, you'll be on your way.
0:50.8	But if you lie, you are going to be indicted on federal perjury charges.
0:57.3	And these people aren't just anyone.
1:00.0	We're talking about lawyers, professors,
1:02.6	active military, respected individuals, people with a lot to lose
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