From Revisionist History: Way to Go, Ohio

World's Greatest Con

Dog And Pony Show Audio

True Crime, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Brian Brushwood brings you an update on the work of World's Greatest Con season three.

Meanwhile...

We’re sharing a bonus episode from our friends at Revisionist History, Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast about things misunderstood and overlooked. This season, Malcolm’s obsessed with experiments – natural experiments, scientific experiments, thought experiments. In this preview, you’ll learn about a mysterious and disfiguring disease plagued parts of the world. No one could find a remedy, until a doctor in Ohio conducted a controversial experiment and finally found a cure …with an everyday condiment. You can hear more of Revisionist History at:

https://podcasts.pushkin.fm/rhs7?sid=con.

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0:00.0	This is World's Greatest Con, I'm Brian Brushwood.
0:11.0	Hello you beautiful rogues, it has been too long.
0:14.8	Season 3 is coming together in a way that none of us ever imagined.
0:20.4	It is unfolding with surprises we never saw coming, and it's happening faster than we dared
0:26.6	hope.
0:27.6	We've never told a story like this one.
0:31.2	We just got back from a week on the road collecting boots on the ground interviews.
0:36.6	When you find out what the subject of season 3 is, you might think you know the tale, but
0:42.3	I guarantee you, you've never heard it the way we're about to tell it.
0:48.4	So thank you to all of the patrons who've been supporting this independent journalism,
0:53.6	and thank you for your patience while you've been waiting.
0:56.6	So I brought you a gift, and a few questions.
1:00.3	I got permission to share an episode of Malcolm Gladwell's podcast, Revisionist History.
1:07.3	As you listen, I want you to notice the three totally different ethical conundrums that
1:13.2	you're faced with, as they get more and more into the realm of the con man.
1:20.8	Season 1 is a scientific who done it.
1:23.3	There's a killer of foot.
1:24.5	You get to find out who it is.
1:27.3	When we get to part 2, we have to design a practical solution that people are going to want
1:33.1	to participate in.
1:34.3	What behavioral economists call a nudge?
1:38.8	How do you get somebody to want to participate in something that they may not understand but
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