Scamapalooza with Nicholas J. Johnson

PATREONMY STUFFSTEVE'S WEBSITE STEVE'S TIKTOKI’ve been sick for the past few months. Which is why there has been an episode of a Scamapalooza in a little while.Instead, I’ve been spending a lot of tim...

16 Sep 202356min

Support the podcast on Patreon!Magicians have secrets that you don’t see on stage. I’m not talking about HOW they do the tricks—the trapdoors and mirrors—but the mundane secrets that make the show hap...

26 Jul 202348min

Support the podcast on Patreon!If I had an origin story as a magician/con artist/science communicator it would be me, in the early 2000s, hunching over my computer trying to count how many times a bas...

14 Jul 202353min

Imagine it's 1850 and you live in a rural area, far away from doctors and the latest advances in medical technology.And then you get sick. What would you do?It's this fear that gave rise to The Snake ...

28 Jun 202340min

Support Scamapalooza On PatreonI busted my cat scratching the couch yesterday. As soon as she caught my eye, she stopped scratching and started to stretch instead, acting as if she’d hadn't just been ...

14 Jun 202344min

I’m often asked what my favourite con artist movie is and I always have a different answer. Usually, I’ll say Ridley Scott’s Matchstick Men or David Mamet’s House of Games. If I’m feeling a little pre...

31 Mai 20231h 15min

If I told you that “the cafeteria is permanently closed for the schnitzel inventory.” what would you think I was saying?If your Russian, the chances are you’d know exactly what I was getting at.The no...

17 Mai 202339min

Have you ever had to deal with corporate bullshit?Had your projects “put on the back burner”?Or had your job “right-sized”? Also, what the hell is “disruption?”Ian McCarthy is the Professor of Innovat...

2 Mai 202336min