Three-Card Monte: Inside the Street Con Where the Mark Never Wins
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A cardboard box, three face-down cards, and a stranger who just won a pile of cash by pointing a...
10 Okt 21min
Detection Dogs: A Miracle Nose and the False Alerts Courts Ignore
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 2002 a woman tried to carry marijuana into a Brisbane prison inside a balloon smeared with co...
10 Okt 23min
The Shell Game: A 2,000-Year-Old Con That Targets Your Ego
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Three shells, one pea, and a crowd of people who seem to be winning. The shell game looks like a...
10 Okt 18min
Sir Robert Peel: The Prime Minister Who Betrayed His Party Twice
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Robert Peel was born in 1788 to a Lancashire textile magnate who threatened to disinherit him un...
10 Okt 24min
Polar Bears: Black Skin, Clear Fur, and an All-In Bet on Sea Ice
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The polar bear is not white. Its skin is black, and every strand of its fur is transparent and h...
10 Okt 22min
The Storming of the Bastille: A Hunt for Gunpowder, Not Prisoners
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!When the crowd took the Bastille on July 14, 1789, it found seven prisoners: four forgers, two m...
10 Okt 24min
Vigilantism Explained: From Gary Plauche to Mobs and Death Squads
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On March 16, 1984, in the Baton Rouge airport, Gary Plauche stepped away from a bank of payphone...
10 Okt 18min
The History of the Mug Shot: How Bertillon Turned Faces Into Evidence
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Mug was 18th century street slang for a face. Add the word shot and everyone pictures the same t...
10 Okt 20min
