226 - The World's Greatest Con - Brian Brushwood

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🗓️ 20 February 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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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.LINK TO THE SIGN UP FOR THE FREE CONVERSATION LAB ONLINE WORKSHOP: https://www.mishaglouberman.com/yansswelcomePatreon: http://patreon.com/youarenotsosmart

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0:00.0	Stop! Stop in the car!
0:02.0	You did it again!
0:04.0	Stop! Stop it!
0:06.0	Stop! Stop!
0:30.0	We are calling a buffet! They went fire!
0:34.0	Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast!
0:40.0	Episode 226
0:42.0	Music
0:58.0	Today these three players are after big bucks
1:02.0	but they'll have to avoid the whammy as they play the most exciting game of their lives!
1:06.0	From television, city, and Hollywood, it's time to press your luck!
1:16.0	Anytime I watch press your luck, I like to tell people, hey you know the story about this guy
1:22.0	and it's always a fun story about how somebody scam the system
1:26.0	kind of, maybe they didn't scam it, they exposed the vulnerability in the system maybe
1:30.0	Yeah or as hackers would express it, he discovered a zero-day exploit
1:34.0	and exploited it live on national television
1:42.0	That is my dear friend Brian Brushwood
1:44.0	and we are talking about how in 1983 someone used a VCR to tape
1:50.0	and then memorize the patterns in the seemingly random selection sequence
1:54.0	on the game show, press your luck
1:58.0	Now before this most people had no idea that it was just a loop
2:02.0	an animation that played and you could memorize it
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