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Podcast Description
If Harvard offered a PhD in deceit, this would be it. Brian Brushwood takes viewers on an inside tour of bar tricks, street cons, and scams. If you watch carefully, you'll never have to pay for a drink again! "Scam School" is a short-format series, with each episode teaching a usable bar trick, street con, or scam to pull on friends. The show is based largely on Brian Brushwood's book Cheats, Cons, Swindles and Tricks: 57 Ways to Scam a Free Drink, Brian's lecture Scams, Sasquatch, and the Supernatural, and the dozens of bar-tricks, puzzles, and scams Brian has picked up over his 8 years of touring nationwide.
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VideoAwesome Impromptu Trick: How to Unbreak a Rubber Band - Scam School | Here's the first in a series of episodes where Michael blows our minds with an amazing performance and teaches us a thing or two about magic. This week: the card on the ceiling trick, followed by a lesson on how to break, then UNbreak, a rubber band. | 5/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoFire Eating - The Basics! - Scam School | WARNING: The ONLY safe way to learn fire eating is under the personal training of an experienced professional... which is exactly what our Revision3 hosts Veronica Belmont, Anthony Carboni and Max Scoville do in this week's episode! | 5/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoFool Your Friends with an Old Carnival Scam: Pricking the Garter! - Scam School | In this episode, Brian teaches an earlier version of the "fast and loose" con game we've learned on Scam School before. This one's known as "pricking the garter" and instead of a chain, we use a rolled up belt. | 5/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoFool Yourself with This Super Simple Card Trick! - Scam School | In our final episode with Diamond Jim Tyler, we learn an awesomely simple card trick that requires no skill! It's based on Jim Steinmeyer's famous nine card trick, which you might remember from a previous episode of Scam School as the "Spelling Bee" tric | 5/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoLook Like a Real Card Sharp with These Fancy Moves & Flourishes! - Scam School | If you want to perform advanced card tricks, you've gotta learn your fundamentals first. In this episode, Brian teaches four basic card flourishes that you should know before you go pro. All it takes is a little practice to nail these down! | 5/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoPull Off the Easiest Tricks with Rubber Bands! - Scam School | You probably have a bunch of rubber bands lying around anyway - why not turn them into tools of trickery? In this episode, we'll learn some easy peasy lessons in rubber band magic! | 4/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoHold a Full, Open Beer Bottle Upside Down Without Spilling It! - Scam School | Can you hold an open beer bottle upside down without spilling it? Diamond Jim Tyler can! Watch this episode and learn how to amaze your friends! | 4/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoUse Psychic Powers to Create a Card Magic Miracle! - Scam School | How do you get your friends to correctly guess the color of every card in a deck, face down? With ESP! Okay, not really. Just watch this episode and Brian will show you the secret to this mind blowing card trick! | 4/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoScore Free Drinks With Paper Clips! - Scam School | Discover the perfect trick for office parties. All you need is a bowl of water and some paper clips. Question: Will they float? Answer: Yes! But how? Watch this episode and find out. | 4/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoEasy Trick To Get a Girl's Phone Number! - Scam School | Diamond Jim Tyler is BACK with another trick up his sleeve. Using basic math and a smart phone calculator, he'll show you how to get a girl's digits. Guaranteed to impress the ladies! Or maybe creep them out a little ... | 3/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoMind-Blowing Mathematical Puzzles! - Scam School | This week we've got two good brainteasers. One is tough, but the other is a real stumper! First, see if you can arrange six cigarettes (or pencils, or straws ...) in a way so that each one is touching the other five. Next, try the same thing with SEVEN! | 3/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoUse ESP to Read Invisible Dice! - Scam School | Diamond Jim Tyler is back with another awesomely simple trick! In this episode, we learn how to figure out what numbers your friend rolled on a pair of "invisible dice." You'll have to do some basic math, but it's guaranteed to work every time and blow e | 3/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoRings, Strings and Newspaper Tricks with Diamond Jim Tyler! - Scam School | This week we give you the first in a series of episodes guest starring Brian's pal, the award-winning badass magician Diamond Jim Tyler! Be like Diamond Jim and explode your friends' brains with an easy-to-learn newspaper prediction trick. Bonus performa | 3/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoSuper Fun, Super Simple Match Trick! - Scam School | In this episode we stump our guests with a puzzle that requires the simplest of props! All you need are some matchsticks and either a coin, a paperclip, or in this case, an Altoid. | 2/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoBusting Egg Myths! - Scam School | What you don't know about eggs will blow your mind! Watch Brian and special guest Anthony Carboni of New Challenger test out some common egg myths and misconceptions. | 2/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoThe Amazing Scorched Card Trick - Scam School | It's another kick-ass trick from the magical mind of Daniel Garcia! In this episode, we use FIRE to find a card in the middle of the deck. Watch and learn. | 2/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoOne Badass Cocktail Napkin Origami Trick! - Scam School | Are you a topology whiz or a total dumbass? Put your brain to the test with these awesome napkin folding puzzles! | 2/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoPerform a Mental Miracle with Coins! - Scam School | Our second to last episode with Daniel Garcia involves a simple yet amazing trick where your friends line up some coins in random order and you predict the order they choose! | 2/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoAwesome Chess Puzzle: Turn Your Chess Board into a Minesweeper Game! - Scam School | It's our third and final installment with the Stanford Chess Club. This week, we challenge these geniuses to solve three "Chess Minesweeper" puzzles. | 1/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoLazy Ass Card Trick: They Do The Work, YOU Take the Credit! - Scam School | Why handle a bunch of cards when you can sit back, drink and let your friends do it all for you? In this episode we learn an awesome card trick where you barely even have to touch the deck. They do all the shuffling and cutting, but you're still able to | 1/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoTurn Your Phone Into a Mind Reading Tool! - Scam School | Mark Watson, aka SoldierKnowsBest, is BACK to be scammed once again by Brian and Daniel Garcia! Learn how to trick your friends into thinking you've "programmed" them to think about a specific person or object. All you need to do is make a couple lists o | 1/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoAwesome Chess Puzzles That'll Fool a Genius! - Scam School | We're still hung over from celebrating the New Year, so we're taking a break from the bar. This week, Scam School is back in session at one of the smartest universities in the country! Watch the Stanford Chess Club take on the "Eight Queens" puzzle and s | 1/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoThe One-Handed Upside Down Drink Slam! - Scam School | Here's a gag that will either make you totally bad ass, or totally wet! The challenge: using only one hand and no outside assistance, see if you can drink the water out of an upside down pint glass, spilling no more than 10% of the water inside. Check ou | 12/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoHow to Get a Beer For a Dollar! - Scam School | A trick so nice, we did it twice! Blow the minds of your friends when you show them that the cards chosen out of a shuffled deck perfectly MATCH the serial number on a dollar bill! It's super simple to learn this one! Watch two different groups get scam | 12/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoThe Most Epic Chess Scam of All Time! - Scam School | Brian matches wits with the Stanford Chess Club to put one of his favorite chess scams to the test! | 12/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 25 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
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Not only is scam school clever but all the stuff actually WORKS! i tried the "bang your head" on a freind it took him 14 hits!
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Magic tricks, not scams
Brian is a magician, not a scam artist. Every one of these shows involves a manipulation of the enviornment to a point that the game doesn't even resemble the original starting point. It is so far devolved from reality that no reasonable person would mistake it for anything but a magic trick.
What do I mean? When Brian teaches you to cheat at poker, he only means at a game that involves two people and ten, preselected cards. Scamming somebody at rock, paper, scissors? That involves a contortion of the game that requires sugar packets and rolled up pieces of paper.
At no point do his purported victims not realize they are just participating in a magic trick. And at no point will you fool anybody doing these so called scams. There is no scam, only entertainment.
Although Brian is an entertaining magician who is teaching us a few simple tricks, do not confuse this podcast for something to teach anything that will actually fool anybody. It should be called "magic school," not scam school.
Those looking for grifter or hustler tricks of the trade must look elsewhere.
