266 - Project Alpha - Brian Brushwood

You Are Not So Smart

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🗓️ 6 August 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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We sit down with Brian Brushwood to discuss how he put together this most recent season of The World's Greatest Con, his podcast about incredible scams. This season is all about how two teenagers pulled off an incredible hoax called Project Alpha, a con job and a publicity stunt, meant to improve scientific rigor and methodology when it comes to studying the possibility of the existence of psychic phenomena.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast.
0:27.6	Episode 266.
0:46.2	What I didn't expect is to find out that this is also the story of two undercover cops who
0:51.8	get too deep into it.
0:53.8	At some point they realize these are human beings that they're working with.
0:58.3	These aren't the faceless enemy whoever they are, and they want out at some point.
1:04.2	I'd like to explain why we did it, the rationale behind it.
1:13.0	I would like to find out what the fallout was on that, because I don't know any of that.
1:21.4	I can't apologize for any of that if I don't know.
1:24.9	Knowing what I know now, I think the reveal would have been done differently.
1:34.5	I fear that he believes we ruin part of his life, because keep in mind, I mean, my God,
1:40.5	right?
1:41.5	You've been going for years, 180 hours, you're responsible for half a million dollars,
1:47.0	and it comes out that you've been conned.
1:55.4	Those were the voices of my dear friend, Brian Brushwood, and two men he recently interviewed
2:00.4	for a new podcast series about an incredible hoax, an incredible con job, an incredible publicity
2:07.8	stunt, meant to improve scientific rigor and methodology.
2:12.6	We have one quest, and it is to figure out history's greatest deceptions.
2:19.1	We started season one with how the Allies pulled Hitler.
2:22.9	We did season two all about game shows, and how they were the next evolution of a midway
2:28.3	carnival, and boy, season three is something special.
2:33.0	In this episode, we will sit down with Brian to discuss how we put this most recent season
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