Scamapalooza with Nicholas J. Johnson

Why have there not been more video games about card cheating? I remember playing Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist as a kid and thinking that the stage of the game where you have to catch the Wheato...

20 Des 202239min

Did you know the world “bullshit” might just be an Australian invention?During World War I, Australian troops found themselves arriving at the front and suddenly under the command of British officers....

13 Des 202250min

Magicians have a complicated relationship with the Harry Potter franchise. On the one hand, the success of J K Rowling's creation has given them hours of work at movie premieres, book launches, and th...

6 Des 202247min

There's been a weird evolution in the wellness industry. What was once a market dominated by new age, holistic, self-care has seen a recent rise in hypermasculine, ideology-driven bro science.Forget G...

5 Des 202239min

Scamapalooza is back.New episodes are dropping in December 2022. Make sure you're subscribed so that you don't miss out on the wild chats with magicians, authors, psychologists, con artists and other ...

2 Des 20225min

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 of your unique set of skills. He wants to turn yo...

23 Okt 20171h 2min

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…they probably don’t work. So why do they show in p...

25 Aug 201746min

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 It’s an industry dominated by men and populated by old guys with outdated ideas of gender, young boys who got into magic to pick up g...

23 Jul 201749min