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World's Greatest Con

The Greatest Magic Show of all Time was a Lie

World's Greatest Con

Dog And Pony Show Audio

True Crime, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The true story of how Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin is called out of retirement to help quell an uprising in French Colonial Algeria. What happens next is the most famous, high stakes magic performance in history.


What the unbelievable story of Houdin tells us about or desire to believe and the distractions that lead con artists to take advantage.



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0:00.0

Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival,

0:06.0

three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized tent,

0:10.7

Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.

0:13.1

All right.

0:14.0

Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior.

0:16.8

And don't get us started on Mel.

0:19.4

But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.

0:22.8

All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat.

0:25.8

Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel with us.

0:28.0

P and Dau Ferris, there is another way.

0:30.2

This is world's Greatest Con.

0:35.0

I'm Brian Brushwood.

0:37.0

In many great cons, you got two phases.

0:41.0

You have the expectation, but then there's the excitement. The expectation, that's story, that's the

0:50.5

tableau. Sometimes you say it out loud. Other times you simply show it.

0:57.6

Picture the man who walks in with a hard scrabble tail for the guy at the cash register.

1:02.8

The guy at the register doesn't care, but I mean, it's interesting enough in the middle of a double shift.

1:08.8

But then comes the excitement.

1:11.7

This weirdo customer can't remember anything.

1:14.0

They're suddenly asking for three different denominations of money.

1:18.0

You heard the sad sack tale, you watch the confusion.

1:22.0

At this point you're invested, you feel bad for him.

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