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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 C...
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Listen to World's Greatest Con, a Society & Culture podcast by Dog And Pony Show Audio. Stream 34 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 34 episodesDo Rainmakers Believe They Make The Rain?
In 1915, San Diego is on the brink of becoming a major American city, if it doesn’t die of thirst first. Enter Charles Hatfield. He claims a...
Why Do We Call It A Ponzi Scheme?
Charles Ponzi conducted a financial fraud so audacious he became the biggest brand name in crime. Yet most people don’t know what he actuall...
Crazy Eddie - Part II
Eddie has a plan to make millions. It leaves him an international fugitive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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 d...
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...
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 happe...
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...
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. H...
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...
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 wi...
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...
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 answe...
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...
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, hope...
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...
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...
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 wil...
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:...
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 our f...
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