Episodes

  • World's Greatest Con Feature Trailer

    World's Greatest Con Feature Trailer
    Jun 7 2021
    Feature Trailer - Brian Brushwood is on a quest to find the World's Greatest Con.

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    7 mins
  • 0101: How To Fool Hitler

    0101: How To Fool Hitler
    Jun 14 2021

    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 the wrong place. The only problem? They have to approve it first.

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    38 mins
  • 0102: When Is The Perfect Story Too Perfect?

    0102: When Is The Perfect Story Too Perfect?
    Jun 16 2021

    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. Can they help themselves from over writing it into a bad soap opera?

    "Still Alive" piano cover played by Claire Waluch. Find her at Readyclaireone on YouTube.

    Video game checkpoint theme is "Cascade" by Kubbi.


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    41 mins
  • 0103: In The Flesh

    0103: In The Flesh
    Jun 21 2021
    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 between the fantasy of a fake solider and the reality of a discarded corpse.

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    47 mins
  • 0104: The Moment Of Surrender

    0104: The Moment Of Surrender
    Jun 28 2021
    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 heroes haves surrendered, will Hitler do his part and fall for the what is quite possibly the world's greatest con?

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    52 mins
  • 0105: Operation Mincemeat Questions

    0105: Operation Mincemeat Questions
    Jul 5 2021

    0105: Operation Mincemeat Questions - Brian answers questions about the debut season of World's Greatest Con.

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    32 mins
  • 0201: Twenty One and the 1950s Quiz Show Scandals

    0201: Twenty One and the 1950s Quiz Show Scandals
    Feb 28 2022

    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 extracts a terrible societal cost from everyone who took the bargain.

    "...Baby One More Time" Piano Cover: Björn Gottschall http://www.bjoerngottschall.com

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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • 0202: Michael Larson broke Press Your Luck

    0202: Michael Larson broke Press Your Luck
    Mar 7 2022

    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. That's only the beginning of his strange, sad story.

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    50 mins