If Harvard offered a PhD in deceit, this would be it. Award-winning
magician Brian Brushwood takes viewers on an inside tour of bar tricks,
street cons, and scams. If you watch carefully, you'll never have to
pay for a drink again!
Episode 31: How To Predict The Future
What's better than a card trick? Predicting the FREAKING FUTURE,
which is exactly what you'll do in this scam. We call it Pigment
Prediction.
If Harvard offered a PhD in deceit, this would be it. Award-winning magician Brian Brushwood takes viewers on an inside tour of bar tricks, street cons, and scams. If you watch carefully, you'll never have to pay for a drink again!
Episode 11 - Static Charge Match:
Effect: Despite being an insulator, Brian is able to charge a
match with static electricity which then causes another match to jump
into the air.
"Scam School" is a short-format series, with each episode teaching a usable bar trick, street con, or scam to pull on friends.
The show is based largely on Brian Brushwood's book Cheats, Cons,
Swindles and Tricks: 57 Ways to Scam a Free Drink, Brian’s lecture, and the dozens of bar-tricks, puzzles, and scams Brian has picked up over his 8 years of touring nationwide.
Episode 1 - The Human Chimney:
From nowhere, you produce billows of smoke out of your mouth...it's like you've manufactured smoke in your lungs!