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World's Greatest Con

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Cons don't fool us because we're stupid, they fool us because we're human. This might be the World's Greatest Con.

  • 38 minutes 32 seconds
    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 trick sure death? By pulling an all-in audacious scheme that only works if you have the element of surprise. How long can the Royal Navy keep the Q Ship con going before time runs out?




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    26 August 2024, 5:00 am
  • 46 minutes 27 seconds
    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 happens next is the most famous, high stakes magic performance in history.


    What the unbelievable story of Houdin tells us about or desire to believe and the distractions that lead con artists to take advantage.


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    15 July 2024, 9:31 pm
  • 47 minutes 52 seconds
    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 a new hostile governor and the bewildered residents of Orlando who have no idea what to expect from incoming Disney empire. 


    The drive to make EPCOT a reality... just might be the World's Greatest Con.


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    22 November 2023, 6:02 am
  • 55 minutes 19 seconds
    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.


    He doesn't want Disneyland East, he is driven to build EPCOT.


    Far from the adult binge drinking paradise we know in Orlando today, the original idea of EPCOT is a planned community that requires massive land acquisition and never-before-seen government permissions. And by the way, you need to do it in secret. 


    Walt Disney's quest for total control just might be... the World's Greatest Con.


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    22 November 2023, 6:00 am
  • 1 hour 21 minutes
    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 the subject matter of our Project Alpha investigation... World's Greatest Con disagrees. 


    Also, an interview with Michael Shermer of Skeptic Magazine discussing the science and shame of being taken in by incorrect information and the legacy of Project Alpha. 


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    17 July 2023, 4:53 pm
  • 32 minutes 55 seconds
    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 with James Randi and it was indeed found. But one episode surprised us... James Randi in his own words describing Project Alpha in 2008.

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    16 May 2023, 9:03 pm
  • 48 minutes 34 seconds
    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 emails and feedback including questions about James Randi and a moment when William Shatner blessed the podcast with an epic rendition of our title.

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    8 May 2023, 2:00 am
  • 1 hour 11 minutes
    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 answer lingering questions. 




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    1 May 2023, 2:00 am
  • 41 minutes 59 seconds
    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 later. We unpack 40 years of consequences from the triumph and betrayal of Project Alpha. 




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    23 April 2023, 2:30 pm
  • 51 minutes 53 seconds
    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, hopefully. Yet, that means total humiliation for the professors and researchers Mike and Steve have come to know and appreciate. It all comes to a head at a conference in Madison, Wisconsin where the boys have to witness a truly disturbing consequence to their deception.

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    17 April 2023, 2:30 am
  • 53 minutes
    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 both see a world being defrauded by hucksters. They both apply to the Mac Lab study in St. Louis and are accepted. They both believe the other to be a liability in a long con. Can they coexist?

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    10 April 2023, 3:37 am
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