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PATREON MY STUFF STEVE'S WEBSITE STEVE'S TIKTOK I’ve been sick for the past few months. Which is why there has been an episode of a Scamapal...
Support the podcast on Patreon ! Magicians have secrets that you don’t see on stage. I’m not talking about HOW they do the tricks—the trapdo...
Support the podcast on Patreon ! If I had an origin story as a magician/con artist/science communicator it would be me, in the early 2000s,...
Imagine it's 1850 and you live in a rural area, far away from doctors and the latest advances in medical technology. And then you get sick....
Support Scamapalooza On Patreon I busted my cat scratching the couch yesterday. As soon as she caught my eye, she stopped scratching and sta...
I’m often asked what my favourite con artist movie is and I always have a different answer. Usually, I’ll say Ridley Scott’s Matchstick Men...
If I told you that “the cafeteria is permanently closed for the schnitzel inventory.” what would you think I was saying? If your Russian, th...
Have you ever had to deal with corporate bullshit? Had your projects “put on the back burner”? Or had your job “right-sized”? Also, what the...
If I had to guess what the cardinal rule for card counters was, “Don’t draw attention to yourself” would be way up there. While card countin...
Every other week, I am sent a video of someone playing The Shell Game. Maybe it's a cat finding a single treat under three cups, or maybe it...
There is a popular image of a con artist that doesn’t exist in the real world. It’s an image of well-dressed, suave, fast-talking swindlers...
I have long suspected that Deepak Chopra spouts garbage. Despite being a trained physician, the author and self-help guru’s trademark new-ag...
How does the daughter of a railroad hand become a millionaire in an age when women couldn’t even open a bank account? If you’re Cassie Chadw...
Have you ever thought about how magicians learn their tricks? Not the methods—the smoke and mirrors behind the illusion—but the actual proce...
If you know me then you’ll know that my nemesis is Dr Matt Pritchard. For the last few years, this evil genius has been creating impenetrabl...
My kid just performed their first solo magic show. In front of 300 of their peers, they correctly predicted a randomly selected TV show, van...
Why have there not been more video games about card cheating? I remember playing Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist as a kid and thinking t...
Did you know the world “bullshit” might just be an Australian invention? During World War I, Australian troops found themselves arriving at...
Magicians have a complicated relationship with the Harry Potter franchise. On the one hand, the success of J K Rowling's creation has given...
There's been a weird evolution in the wellness industry. What was once a market dominated by new age, holistic, self-care has seen a recent...
Scamapalooza is back. New episodes are dropping in December 2022. Make sure you're subscribed so that you don't miss out on the wild chats w...
Imagine you're a professional magician, performing a few card tricks at function when you're approached by a mysterious stranger who wants t...
What would you say is the best method of detecting lies? A truth serum? A polygraph machine? A body language expert? The truth about lie det...
I have always assumed that it must be hard to be a woman in magic. It’s an industry dominated by men and populated by old guys with outdated...
What’s the difference between a con artist and a magician? A great magician tells you they’re about to lie you. They admit it out right. And...
How do working GPs deal with alternative medicine? These frontline healthcare practitioners have to deal with constant red tape, constant ed...
OzLockCon is Australia’s first conference dedicated to locksport and physical security. From the amateur lockpicker to the professional secu...
Why, given the constant need for people to measure everything from their personalities to their intellect, is there no test for gullibility?...
We are living in a golden age of bullshit. Nowhere is this more evident than in the media where fake news is now almost indistinguishable fr...
🎶It's only a paper moon, sailing over a cardboard sea.🎶 And this week's episode is only pop culture queen Sarah Baggs exploring the whimsi...
Stephen Greenspan has dedicated a large part of his career to explaining why people act gullibly. As a psychologist and author, he’s drawn f...
There are no two con artists films less alike than I Love You Phillip Morris and FOCUS. One is a true story, the other fiction. One is slick...
The Laborastory is a science storytelling event in Melbourne that comes to tell the stories of science – the heroes, the egos, the breakthro...
Anthony “Magic Tony” Barnhart is a cognitive psychologist at Arizona State University. He studies the psychological processes underlying han...
Nick Mason, from the Weekly Planet Podcast, returns to help Nicholas deal with complex feelings about the 2016 film Now You See Me 2. The se...
Do you remember that story about the man who sold his fob watch to buy his wife a comb while she sold her hair to buy him a watch chain? Tha...
In the second part of Nicholas’ conversation with Spyros Melaris about the 1995 Alien Autopsy video, Spyros discuss the fallout from the hoa...
In 1995, the world was captivated by the Alien Autopsy video, a grainy 17 minute film supposedly depicting the disection of an alien “Grey”...
Ben and Kevin just want to play. As two members of Pop Up Playground they create fun, immersive game experiences that feel like real live co...
Everyone wants to be a good liar. Or at the very least, be able to spot a good liar. But what do you do when all of the books on the subject...
Dom and Dumber have taken on a mammoth task, combining magic and sketch comedy into an entirely new genre. In this week's Scamapalooza, Dom...
Paul Zenon is the father of street magic, the first magician to take close up magic to the streets in his successful TV specials. However, P...
How does a psychic prove they are the real deal? For close to a hundred years, skeptics around the world have been offering cash prizes to a...
Orson Welles' last project before the descending into a life of frozen pea commercials and voicing Transformers was F Is A Fake. The film is...
Jan Marshall is an intelligent woman. She’s university educated, articulate and has lived and travelled around the world. So why, in 2012, d...
Scamapalooza returns for 2016. On this week’s episode Nicholas is flying solo as he recounts the top episodes of last year, reveals a few re...
Harry Houdini was not just one of history’s most famous magicians he was also obsessed with death and the afterlife, dedicating years to unc...
On 25 August 1835, The Sun newspaper in New York reported that a telescope had been invented so powerful that it could see the surface of th...
Piff The Magic Dragon isn’t your usual magician. He plays Las Vegas and wows judges on TV shows like America’s Got Talent and Penn and Telle...
The Sting is the king of con artist movies and the godfather of every twist happy heist movie from Ocean’s 11 to Matchstick Men. This week o...