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🗓️ 14 March 2022
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A ranking member of the military finds himself in the center of pop culture, the hot seat on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire in 2001. After an embarrassing first day, he goes on an unlikely run to riches. A turnaround so unlikely he is accused of cheating with quite possibly the dumbest plan in deception history.
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0:00.0 | This is world's greatest con. |
0:03.0 | I'm Brian Brushwood. |
0:05.0 | As best I could tell, there are three things every con needs. |
0:10.0 | You gotta have a plan or skill. When we took on Hitler we saw that months of planning |
0:19.6 | years of idea development every possibility accounted for. You got to have the |
0:26.4 | opportunity, the right window. For Dan Enright it was having his show for NBC. The most important part, the part where we get the word |
0:38.3 | Khan is confidence, the confidence to reach for that brass ring. |
0:45.0 | And I'm pretty sure this scales at all levels. |
0:48.0 | For example, here's a con that you may be unwittingly or |
0:52.0 | willingly have pulled off yourself. It's you and your |
0:55.9 | buddies. You're out at lunch. There's an awful lot of you. The bill comes. Are we going |
1:00.5 | to split it? How are we going to split? Usually nobody wants to think about this. |
1:04.0 | But if you're a responsible adult, somebody takes charge. |
1:07.0 | It goes through, who had the steak, who had the coffee, |
1:10.0 | who had the nachos, who had the shrimp, who had the ramen. |
1:15.0 | I don't know what restaurant this is. It's got to be major pandas, steak grill, and tacharya. |
1:22.0 | As you go through everything, eventually you realize... date grill and talkaria. |
1:29.0 | As you go through everything, eventually you realize that the stack of cash you have is significantly more than the tab. So you decide that your job is done. |
1:32.0 | And whoopsie doodle, wouldn't know it there's so much there including tip that you don't need to pay for your lunch |
1:37.4 | Not a very good scam not a very hard con |
1:40.9 | Didn't require a lot of skill or a lot of planning, but it did take |
1:45.1 | confidence and the opportunity. If you've ever found yourself in this situation, you |
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