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PATREONMY STUFFSTEVE'S WEBSITE STEVE'S TIKTOKI’ve been sick for the past few months. Which is why there has been an episode of a Scamapalooza in a little while.Instead, I’ve been spending a lot of time in bed feeling sorry for myself wh
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 trapdoors and mirrors—but the mundane secrets that make the show happen. The tour schedules, the marketing
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, hunching over my computer trying to count how many times a basketball is being thrown while completely
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. What would you do?It's this fear that gave rise to The Snake Oil Salesmen, travelling hucksters who s
Support Scamapalooza On PatreonI busted my cat scratching the couch yesterday. As soon as she caught my eye, she stopped scratching and started to stretch instead, acting as if she’d hadn't just been digging her claws into our brand new four
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 or David Mamet’s House of Games. If I’m feeling a little pretentious I might name drop Fellini’s Il
If I told you that “the cafeteria is permanently closed for the schnitzel inventory.” what would you think I was saying?If your Russian, the chances are you’d know exactly what I was getting at.The novel The Little Golden Calf is the story
If I told you that “the cafeteria is permanently closed for the schnitzel inventory.” what would you think I was saying?If your Russian, the chances are you’d know exactly what I was getting at.The novel The Little Golden Calf is the story
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 hell is “disruption?”Ian McCarthy is the Professor of Innovation and Operations Management at Sim
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 counting isn’t illegal, casinos aren’t too keen on having players use probability to actually win at blackjack
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's a magician impressing audiences with hand-carved replica walnuts and silicone peas.However, despite
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 who—despite their dodgy dealings—always does the right thing in the end.After all, they have a code.
I have long suspected that Deepak Chopra spouts garbage. Despite being a trained physician, the author and self-help guru’s trademark new-age ramblings have always struck me as little more than pseudo-scientific garbage.But, I’m also the kind
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 Chadwick, the answer is you pull off one of the most audacious scams in history, a fraud that took millions
Have you ever thought about how magicians learn their tricks? Not the methods—the smoke and mirrors behind the illusion—but the actual process of learning a new effect. Even magicians don’t think too much about how they learn magic, treating
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 impenetrable optical illusions on social media. A toy elephant vanishes in a split second in impossible circumstan
My kid just performed their first solo magic show. In front of 300 of their peers, they correctly predicted a randomly selected TV show, vanished a bottle of coke and tricked the principal into opening a can of spring snakes.Classic comedy!
Why have there not been more video games about card cheating?I remember playing Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist as a kid and thinking that the stage of the game where you have to catch the Wheaton “Aces” Hall cheating was the best bit.
Did you know the world “bullshit” might just be an Australian invention?During World War I, Australian troops found themselves arriving at the front and suddenly under the command of British officers. These officers were obsessed with appea
Magicians have a complicated relationship with the Harry Potter franchise. On the one hand, the success of J K Rowling's creation has given them hours of work at movie premieres, book launches, and themed events. On the other hand, it's hard
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 rise in hypermasculine, ideology-driven bro science.Forget Gwenyth Paltrow’s jade vagina eggs, these
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 with magicians, authors, psychologists, con artists and other liars.www.conman.com.au
Imagine you're a professional magician, performing a few card tricks at function when you're approached by a mysterious stranger who wants to make use of your unique set of skills. He wants to turn you into a card counter.That is exactly wha
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 detectors is…they probably don’t work. So why do they show in popular culture on reality tv shows and, most
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 ideas of gender, young boys who got into magic to pick up girls and antisocial men of all ages who stru
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