253 - The World's Greatest Con - Brian Brushwood (rebroadcast)

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🗓️ 19 February 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we sit down with famed stage magician and 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.

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0:00.0	Stop!
0:00.8	Stop with the car!
0:02.1	You did it, Gain!
0:03.5	Stop!
0:04.4	Stop it for 5 dollars now,ז're the speed!
0:06.5	Stop!
0:06.9	Stop!
0:07.5	Awww!
0:08.4	No!
0:09.6	Where did you get me?
0:10.9	Man!
0:12.1	Woo!
0:13.3	This game is too gonna win me.
0:30.0	Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast, episode 253.
0:51.7	Today, these three players are after big bucks, but they'll have to avoid the whammy as they play the most exciting game of their lives.
1:06.7	From television, city, and Hollywood, it's time to press your luck!
1:13.7	I like to tell people, hey, you know the story about this guy and it's always a fun story about how somebody scammed the system kind of, maybe they didn't scam it.
1:27.7	They exposed the vulnerability in the system, maybe.
1:29.7	Yeah, or as hackers would express it, he discovered a zero-day exploit and exploited it live on national television.
1:38.7	That is my dear friend, Brian Brushwood, and we are talking about how, in 1983, someone used a VCR to tape and then memorize the patterns in the seemingly random selection sequence on the game show, press your luck.
1:57.7	Now, before this, most people had no idea that it was just a loop, an animation that played, and you could memorize it.
2:04.7	But if you did memorize it, you could perfectly press your buzzer and avoid all whammy's.
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