0304 - Side Characters

World's Greatest Con

Dog And Pony Show Audio

True Crime, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

At a 1983 press conference in New York City, the entire charade is revealed. It’s recorded for a prime time NBC special set to air two weeks later. We unpack 40 years of consequences from the triumph and betrayal of Project Alpha.

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0:00.0	This is world's greatest con. I'm Brian Brushwood.
0:21.0	Wake up. It's late February in Manhattan, 1983.
0:28.0	Today is the day. The day they've dreamed of.
0:34.0	34 degrees. Stretch. Put on your clothes.
0:38.0	For Mike, that means a black suit, black tie.
0:42.0	A choir boy from Iowa is about to deliver justice to the wicked.
0:46.0	For Steve, it's a green shirt with white, normed stripes.
0:50.0	The forgotten sun is going to show what happens to those who underestimate him.
0:57.0	Mike and Steve both read the same book about how Yuri Geller took advantage of academia.
1:03.0	How Randy fought against it.
1:05.0	And in the last four years at the Mac Lab, they've lived it.
1:10.0	Risk, skill, trust, friendship, deceit, harm.
1:18.0	They've lived all of it. All of it for today.
1:22.0	Because today's the day they reveal that not only compare psychologists be fooled, but they were.
1:28.0	They were fooled by Mike and Steve.
1:37.0	Journalists are shuffling all around the offices of Discover Magazine.
1:41.0	Camera men wearing cargo shorts are studying tripods.
1:45.0	Magazine writers, clad in pantyhose and shoulder pads, topped with teased out hair.
1:50.0	All of the press has been led to believe that Randy is going to finally admit defeat.
1:56.0	He's going to admit that psychics are real.
1:59.0	He's going to admit he's found the genuine article.
2:04.0	But that's all stage dressing.
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