Scamapalooza with Nicholas J. Johnson
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Scamapalooza with Nicholas J. Johnson
You can’t trust anyone. Particularly not author, entertainer and collector of scams Nicholas J. Johnson. Scamapalooza attempts to separate facts from fraud as Nicholas explores the worlds of deception, illusion and swindles with the rogue's gallery of writers, magicians, comedians and confidence a...
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69: Detecting Misinformation with Steve Rathje
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68: Collecting Magic with Kent Blackmore
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Magicians have secrets that you don’t see on stage. I’m not talking about HOW they do the t...
67: Nobody's Fool with Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris
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If I had an origin story as a magician/con artist/science communicator it would be me, in t...
66: Snake Oils with Dr Jo Clyne
Imagine it's 1850 and you live in a rural area, far away from doctors and the latest advances in medical technology.
And th...
65: Deceptive Animals with Lixing Sun
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I busted my cat scratching the couch yesterday. As soon as she caught my eye, she stopped s...
64: The Sting 2 with Nick Mason
I’m often asked what my favourite con artist movie is and I always have a different answer.
Usually, I’ll say Ridley Scott...
63: The Little Golden Calf with Maya Vinokour
If I told you that “the cafeteria is permanently closed for the schnitzel inventory.” what would you think I was saying?
If...
62: Corporate Bullshit with Ian McCarthy
Have you ever had to deal with corporate bullshit?
Had your projects “put on the back burner”?
O...
61: Card Counting with Steven Bridges
If I had to guess what the cardinal rule for card counters was, “Don’t draw attention to yourself” would be way up there.
W...
60: The Shell Game with Nick Stein
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 magic...
59: The Music Man with Em Chandler
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-...
58: Deepak Chropa's Bullshit with Gordon Pennycook
I have long suspected that Deepak Chopra spouts garbage. Despite being a trained physician, the author and self-help guru’s trademark new-age rambling...
57: Cassie Chadwick with Tori Telfer
How does the daughter of a railroad hand become a millionaire in an age when women couldn’t even open a bank account?
If yo...
56: Performing Deception with Brian Rappert
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 lear...
55: Science Magic with Dr Matt Pritchard
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 i...
54: Hocus Pocus Practice Focus with Amy Kimlat
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 bo...
53: Card Shark with Nicolai Troshinsky
Why have there not been more video games about card cheating?
I remember playing Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist as a...
52: The Life Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit with John Petrocelli
Did you know the world “bullshit” might just be an Australian invention?
During World War I, Australian troops found themselves ar...
51: Harry Potter and The Cursed Child with Lee Cohen
Magicians have a complicated relationship with the Harry Potter franchise.
On the one hand, the success of J K Rowling's creation...
50: Bro Science and The Liver King with Dr Vyom Sharma
There's been a weird evolution in the wellness industry.
What was once a market dominated by new age, holistic, self-care has see...
An announcement from Nicholas
Scamapalooza is back.
New episodes are dropping in December 2022. Make sure you're subscribed so that you don't miss out on...
48: Counting Cards with Dale Sadler
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...
47: The Truth About Lies with Dr Celine Van Golde
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…...
46: Women In Magic with Carisa Hendrix
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...
45: The Ethics Of Mentalism with Jon Archer
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 then fool...
44: The Doctor Will See You Now with Dr Vyom Sharma
How do working GPs deal with alternative medicine? These frontline healthcare practitioners have to deal with constant red tape, constant education, s...
43: OzLockCon and Lockpicking with Topaz.
OzLockCon is Australia’s first conference dedicated to locksport and physical security. From the amateur lockpicker to the professional security exper...
42: The Gullibility Test with Alessa Teunisse
Why, given the constant need for people to measure everything from their personalities to their intellect, is there no test for gullibility?
41: Fake News with Toby Halligan
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 from the rea...
40: Paper Moon with Sarah Baggs
🎶It's only a paper moon, sailing over a cardboard sea.🎶
And this week's episode is only pop culture queen Sarah Baggs exp...
39: The Annals of Gullibility with Stephen Greenspan
Stephen Greenspan has dedicated a large part of his career to explaining why people act gullibly. As a psychologist and author, he’s drawn from resear...
38: I Love Phillip Morris Vs FOCUS with Martin Dunlop
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 s...
37: Charles Dawson at The Labrastory (LIVE)
The Laborastory is a science storytelling event in Melbourne that comes to tell the stories of science – the heroes, the egos, the breakthroughs and t...
36: Brain Magic with Tony Barnhart
Anthony “Magic Tony” Barnhart is a cognitive psychologist at Arizona State University. He studies the psychological processes underlying handwritten w...
35: Now You Seem Mean 2 with Nick Mason
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 sequel to th...
34: The Gentle Grafter with Tosh Greenslade
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? That classic...
33: Alien Autopsy Part 2 with Spyros Melaris
In the second part of Nicholas’ conversation with Spyros Melaris about the 1995 Alien Autopsy video, Spyros discuss the fallout from the hoax video, h...
32: Alien Autopsy Part 1 with Spyros Melaris
In 1995, the world was captivated by the Alien Autopsy video, a grainy 17 minute film supposedly depicting the disection of an alien “Grey” in Roswell...
31: Small Time Criminals with Ben McKenzie and Kevin Turner
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 computer gam...
30: The Bullshitters Book Club with Vinny DePonto
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 are writt...