World's Greatest Con
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World's Greatest Con
Brian Brushwood (Scam School, Modern Rogue, Scam Nation) brings you the hidden stories behind the most audacious con jobs, swindles and heists in history. Email the show at Worlds Greatest Con at Gmail dot comSupport us directly at Patreon dot com slash Greatest Con Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...
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31 EpisodenCrazy Eddie - Part II
Eddie has a plan to make millions. It leaves him an international fugitive.
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Crazy Eddie - Part I
A New York City upstart becomes a legend in the city that never sleeps. But his greed leaves him teetering on the edge of fame, wealth and death.
Q Ships
The Germans have invented an aquatic killing machine the likes of which the world has never known. If you are one of its victims, how do you trick sur...
The Greatest Magic Show of all Time was a Lie
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...
EPCOT - Part II
Walt is dead. His dream of EPCOT isn't.
Roy Disney puts off his own retirement to attempt to finish his brother's final plan. In his way is a ne...
EPCOT - Part I
Walt Disney doesn't want to expand, he wants to build his masterpiece.
He doesn't want to sell more popcorn, he wants to defeat communism.
Uri Geller hijacks the New York Times, An Interview with Michael Shermer
Brian and Justin discuss an article in the New York Times alleging that magic has forgiven it's 50-year grudge with Uri Geller. Considering the subjec...
In James Randi's Own Words
A funny thing happened as we finished our season. We asked for listeners to unearth an old podcast WGC co-creator Justin Robert Young did with James R...
An Update On Project Alpha and Your Emails
Sometimes when you tell a story, you change it. We have an update on one of the central figures in Project Alpha. Brian Brushwood reads your emails an...
Back In The Lab - Project Alpha Part V
In a rare, candid, conversation Brian Brushwood sits down with Mike Edwards and Banachek to get even more stories from the Mac Lab and answer lingerin...
Side Characters - Project Alpha Part IV
At a 1983 press conference in New York City, the entire charade is revealed. It’s recorded for a prime time NBC special set to air two weeks later. We...
Demonic - Project Alpha Part III
The boys are a team, they’ve been fooling the Mac Lab for over a year but what comes next? Fame and fortune for the Project Alpha team, hopefully. Yet...
Alpha - Project Alpha Part II
Steve Shaw is an orphan who bounced around the globe. Mike Edwards is an Iowa choirboy who fulfilled every hope of his loving parents. They both see a...
Project - Project Alpha Part I
The Cold War is on, the threat of nuclear annihilation is constant. In a world of fear, a social contagion breaks out: the belief in psychic powers. M...
Project Alpha Trailer - Season 3 of World's Greatest Con Begins April 10, 2023
Two boys demonstrate genuine psychic powers in a rigorous academic study in the late 1970s. When the results are revealed, the academics will be at th...
Presenting Don't Explain
Brian is in the booth recording Season Three of World's Greatest Con but in the meantime, Dog and Pony Show Audio has a new series for you: Don't Expl...
From Revisionist History: Way to Go, Ohio
Brian Brushwood brings you an update on the work of World's Greatest Con season three.
Meanwhile...
We’re sharing a bonus episode from ou...
Interview with John Madden, Director of "Operation Mincemeat"
Brian chats with John Madden about his new film Operation Mincemeat available on Netflix in America now. The film is adapted from the same book we use...
From Cautionary Tales: Fairies or Fakes?
Here’s a special preview of the Cautionary Tales podcast from Pushkin Industries. On Cautionary Tales, bestselling author Tim Harford shares stories o...
Television Game Show Questions - Game Shows Part VI
Brian is joined by WGC co-creator Justin Robert Young to answer your questions from this season.
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The Price Is Right's Perfect Bid - Game Shows Part V
Only one man has guessed the exact amount on the Price Is Right's Final Showcase Showdown in the modern history of the show.
He says he came up...
Super Password Put This Liar In Jail - Game Shows Part IV
A wanted con decides to fund his escape from the law on the television game show Super Password. He plays fairly. He wins. All hell breaks loose.
Charles Ingram and the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire scandal - Game Shows Part III
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 embarrass...
Michael Larson broke Press Your Luck - Game Shows Part II
The largest single-day haul in game show history. An Ohio conman exploits Press Your Luck so cleanly they're forced to admit it and hand him the cash....
Twenty One and the 1950s Quiz Show Scandals - Game Shows Part I
A producer decides to juice his quiz show by feeding answers to contestants. The attention makes them rich and famous but the revelation of the scheme...
Operation Mincemeat Questions - Operation Mincemeat Part IV
0105: Operation Mincemeat Questions - Brian answers questions about the debut season of World's Greatest Con.
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The Moment Of Surrender - Operation Mincemeat Part IV
0104: The Moment Of Surrender - Every con has a moment of surrender, when you've done all the work and now the mark needs to fool themselves. Our hero...
In The Flesh - Operation Mincemeat Part III
0103: In The Flesh - The Twenty Committee wrote a story that could fool Hitler. Now they just need to make it real. Brian explores the disgusting gulf...
When Is The Perfect Story Too Perfect? - Operation Mincemeat Part II
0102: When is the perfect story too perfect? - The Twenty Committee have the go ahead to fool Hitler with the most audacious Trojan Horse in history....
How To Fool Hitler - Operation Mincemeat Part I
0101: How To Fool Hitler - The Allies have an audacious plan to win WW2. Drop a body with misinformation to hoax Hitler into believing they'll attack...
World's Greatest Con Feature Trailer
Feature Trailer - Brian Brushwood is on a quest to find the World's Greatest Con.
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