Scam School
Sezon 2012
TV-PG
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!
Where to Watch Scam School • Sezon 2012
52 Episodes
- Awesome Chess Puzzles That'll Fool a Genius!
E1Awesome Chess Puzzles That'll Fool a Genius!We're still hung over from celebrating the New Year, so we're taking a break from the bar. This week, Scam School is back in session at one of the martest universities in the country! Watch the Stanford Chess Club take on the "Eight Queens" puzzle. - Lazy Ass Card Trick: They Do The Work, YOU Take the Credit!
E3Lazy Ass Card Trick: They Do The Work, YOU Take the Credit!Why handle a bunch of cards when you can sit back, drink and let your friends do it all for you? In this episode we learn an awesome card trick where you barely even have to touch the deck. - Rings, Strings and Newspaper Tricks with Diamond Jim Tyler!
E10Rings, Strings and Newspaper Tricks with Diamond Jim Tyler!This week we give you the first in a series of episodes guest starring Brian's pal, the award-winning badass magician Diamond Jim Tyler! Be like Diamond Jim and explode your friend's brains with an easy-to-learn newspaper prediction trick. - Use ESP to Read Invisible Dice!
E11Use ESP to Read Invisible Dice!Diamond Jim Tyler is back with another awesomely simple trick! In this episode, we learn how to figure out what number your friend rolled on a pair of "invisible dice." You'll have to do some basic math, but it's guaranteed to work every time and blow everybody's mind. - Mind-Blowing Mathematical Puzzles!
E12Mind-Blowing Mathematical Puzzles!This week we've got two good brainteasers. One is tough, but the other is a real stumper! First, see if you can arrange six cigarettes (or pencils, or straws...) in a way so that each one is touch the other five. Next, try the same thing with SEVEN! - Easy Trick To Get a Girl's Phone Number!
E13Easy Trick To Get a Girl's Phone Number!Diamond Jim Tyler is BACK with another trick up his sleeve. Using basic math and a smart phone calculator, he'll show you how to get a girl's digits. Guaranteed to impress the ladies! Or maybe creep them out a little.. - Use Psychic Powers to Create a Card Magic Miracle!
E15Use Psychic Powers to Create a Card Magic Miracle!How do you get your friends to correctly guess the color of every card in a deck, face down? Wish ESP! Okay, not really. Just watch this episode and brian will show you the secret to this mind blowing card trick! - Look Like a Real Card Sharp with These Fancy Moves & Flourishes!
E18Look Like a Real Card Sharp with These Fancy Moves & Flourishes!If you want to perform advanced card tricks, you've gotta learn your fundamentals first. In this epsiode, Brian teaches four basic card flourishes that you should know before you go pro. All it takes is a little practice to nail these down! - Fool Yourself with This Super Simple Card Trick!
E19Fool Yourself with This Super Simple Card Trick!In our final episode with Diamond Jim Tyler, we learn an awesomely simple card trick that requires no skill! It's based on Jim Steinmeyer's famous nine card trick, which you might remember from a previous episode of Scam School as the "Spelling Bee" trick. - Fool Your Friends with an Old Carnival Scam: Pricking the Garter!
E20Fool Your Friends with an Old Carnival Scam: Pricking the Garter!In this episode, Brian teaches an earlier version of the "fast and loose" con game we've learned on Scam School before. This one's known as "pricking the garter" and instead of a chain, we use a rolled up belt. - Awesome Impromptu Trick: How to Unbreak a Rubber Band
E22Awesome Impromptu Trick: How to Unbreak a Rubber BandHere's the first in a series of episodes where Michael blows our minds with an amazing performance and teaches us a thing or two about magic. This week: the card on the ceiling trick, followed by a lesson on how to break, then UNbreak, a rubber band. - Fire Eating Part 2: Advanced Vapor Tricks!
E23Fire Eating Part 2: Advanced Vapor Tricks!In part two of Brian's fire eating lesson, our Revision3 hosts learn one of the advanced moves that makes fire eating look super badass! Watch Max Scoville, Anthony Carboni, Veronica Belmont and Andrew Bancroft attempt the vapor trick. - Make Two Awesome Predictions in One Winning Poker Trick!
E24Make Two Awesome Predictions in One Winning Poker Trick!This week we're back at the bar for a poker trick that is almost brilliant in its simplicity! You can perform it anywhere, anytime and you don't even need a special deck for it. It starts with a prediction and an easy setup.. - More Magic From a Master: Restoring a Tom Card and How to Fake-Break a Phone with Magician Michael Ammar!
E25More Magic From a Master: Restoring a Tom Card and How to Fake-Break a Phone with Magician Michael Ammar!We're back at Misdirections Magic Shop in San Francisco to witness the wizardly of Michael Ammar! In this episode, we watch him rip and restore a torn card. Plus we'll learn how to fake our friends into thinking their phone screen is busted. Psych! - How To Count Cards & Beat The Casino! How To Count Cards & Beat The Casino!
E26How To Count Cards & Beat The Casino! How To Count Cards & Beat The Casino!Counting cards isn't illegal, but you might get your butt kicked if you're caught. Don't let that stop you from trying! In this episode, Brian shows us a card counting method you can do on the sly. - Fire Eating Flourishes! Fire Tossing and Tongue Transfers to Impress - It's Getting Hot in Here!
E27Fire Eating Flourishes! Fire Tossing and Tongue Transfers to Impress - It's Getting Hot in Here!In honor of the Fourth of July, we bring you more fire shenanigans! We literally toss and transfer fire! Get ready to be wowed. - Dollar Folding Magic: How to Make a Bill Fold Itself!
E28Dollar Folding Magic: How to Make a Bill Fold Itself!In this episode we head back to Misdirections Magic Shop in San Francisco for another mind-blowing performance from Michael, PLUS he'll show you how to freak out your friends with a self-folding dollar bill. - Set Your Hands, Floor and CLOTHES on Fire - Safely!
E29Set Your Hands, Floor and CLOTHES on Fire - Safely!In this episode, we'll see Rev3 Host Anthony Carboni learn advanced maneuvers - like the fire finger transfer, the pants on fire trick and the most visually stunning of all - the fire floor transfer! (Don't try this at home!) - The Classic Cup and Ball Trick with a Twist and an Amazingly EASY Gag with Business Cards!
E30The Classic Cup and Ball Trick with a Twist and an Amazingly EASY Gag with Business Cards!You may have seen a variation of the cup and ball trick before, but in this episode our special guest, Michael Ammar takes it to a whole new level. Even Brian's mind was blown! - The GROSSEST Magic Trick You Can Do: Psychic Surgery! It's Blood & Gore Galore!
E31The GROSSEST Magic Trick You Can Do: Psychic Surgery! It's Blood & Gore Galore!Be prepared to get messy because you're about to learn how to rip out people's guts using the precision of a mad scientist - with your bare hands! - 4 EASY Business Card Tricks to Make a BIG First Impression!
E324 EASY Business Card Tricks to Make a BIG First Impression!Brian and guest Michael Ammar are back with even more quick and simple maneuvers guaranteed to impress anyone who asks you, "Can I have your card?" Plus watch Michael pull a scarf through a solid object! - Learn the Secret Moves of Pro Wrestling: Fake Hits and Slams!
E34Learn the Secret Moves of Pro Wrestling: Fake Hits and Slams!This week we attempt to answer the age-old question: Is pro wrestling real or fake? Watch the master become the student as Brian finds out the trade secrets behind this pre-determined "sport" from a wrestling school graduate. - Fast & Furious Magic: Quick Pencil Tricks to Try on Your Friends!
E35Fast & Furious Magic: Quick Pencil Tricks to Try on Your Friends!Sometimes one short trick won't do on its own, but a bunch of them in a rapid succession can have awesome results! Watch Brian and guest magician Robert Strong run through a few fun little gags you can do with pencils or straws. - Put Your Wizard Mind to the Test: Make These Good Puzzles Even Better!
E37Put Your Wizard Mind to the Test: Make These Good Puzzles Even Better!This week it's time to test the limits of your imagination! We've got two matchstick puzzles you can try out on your friends and see how you can improve them. - Scam School Heads to Jakarta To Meet The Indonesian David Blaine
E39Scam School Heads to Jakarta To Meet The Indonesian David BlaineIn this episode, we follow Brian on his journey to "Mahakarya Magician" in Jakarta. The we go backstage before the show to meet two of Indonesia's most famous magic superstars and get a glimpse at their magic powers... - Behind the Scenes of the World's Biggest Magic Special!
E41Behind the Scenes of the World's Biggest Magic Special!This week we show you more of Brian's Indonesian adventure. Follow him to Jakarta as he prepares for one of the biggest live televised magic specials in the world, get a glimpse of some of the onstage "Mahakarya Magician" performances... - Turn Coffee Creamer into a FLAMETHROWER!
E42Turn Coffee Creamer into a FLAMETHROWER!Playing with fire never gets old! This week we learn how to create amazing jets of flame using ordinary matches and some powdered coffee creamer. BONUS: Another Scam School devotee gets his own personal fire-eating lesson from Brian. In this episode, Brian harnesses the power of coffee creamer to create magnificent pillars of fire! In other words, Brian teaches a couple how to ignite animal fats in powdered coffee creamer. It results in a stream of combustable coffee creamer and you end up seeing a long line of fire! Plus, Brian personally teaches yet another Scam School devotee how to eat fire! - How to Eat Freaking Lighbulbs!
E46How to Eat Freaking Lighbulbs!DON'T TRY THIS TRICK AT HOME!! After watching the look on Anthony Carboni's face, as he attempts to eat glass from an incadescent light bulb, you probably won't want to try it anyway. Brian Brushwood lays down the strategic way to "chew glass". DO NOT USE FLORECENT LIGHT BULBS!!!! DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! DO NOT USE FLORECENT LIGHT BULBS!!!! Fluorescent lights contain small amounts of mercury, a poisonous substance. The phosphor coating on the inside glass is also harmful. If a human or pet is cut, the phosphor will prevent blood from clotting. Once again, DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! Enjoy though, as Brian shows you a dangerous sideshow trick that's been done for years. - The Perfect Card Trick... Where THEY Do All The Work!
E47The Perfect Card Trick... Where THEY Do All The Work!In this episode, we show you how to have people read YOUR mind with this simple card trick! So you can read people's mind in a card trick? That's child's play, get people to read YOUR mind to really blow them away. It's not that hard either, you'll just need a little help from a... ehem.. marked deck. - Use HYPNOSIS to LEVITATE Your Friends!
E49Use HYPNOSIS to LEVITATE Your Friends!If you have four able bodied people and four chairs, then you can perform this awesome hypnotic levitation trick! There's nothing more awesome than the ability to amaze people with little to no props. On today's Scam School, you'll learn how to weave your friends together as if they were one big sleeping pretzel, with nothing more than four chairs. - Warp A Card Inside-Out IN THEIR HANDS!
E51Warp A Card Inside-Out IN THEIR HANDS!Learn how to warp a card and defy logic in this episode of Scam School. You can't turn a card inside out. Right? Turns out you can and Brian Brushwood blows some minds by doing so under the cover of darkness. Learn the logic behind this simple card folding (and cutting) scam. - Take All Their Money with These Dice Scams!
E52Take All Their Money with These Dice Scams!The only thing you need to pull off these two scams is a few dice. That and a few suckers with money in their pockets! Learn how to scam your friends in this week's Scam School with just a few dice. The first trick involves a bit of dice-on-finger physics that will stump everyone. The second trick is a variation of the previously played "Nim". It's a race to the number 50!
