53: Card Shark with Nicolai Troshinsky
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 Dec 202239min
52: The Life Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit with John Petrocelli
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 Dec 202250min
51: Harry Potter and The Cursed Child with Lee Cohen
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 Dec 202247min
50: Bro Science and The Liver King with Dr Vyom Sharma
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 Dec 202239min
An announcement from Nicholas
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 Dec 20225min
48: Counting Cards with Dale Sadler
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
47: The Truth About Lies with Dr Celine Van Golde
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
46: Women In Magic with Carisa Hendrix
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 It’s an industry dominated by men and populated by old guys with outdated ideas of gender, young boys who got into magic to pick up g...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 Juli 201749min
