About this season
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!
Episodes (41)
1. How to Rip a Phonebook in Half!
Aired 1 January 2009 • 10 min
The tables are turned on Brian, as he is the student learning from the ultimate master of strength!
2. Another Short Con with a Magic Bill
Aired 8 January 2009 • 9 min
We've covered a few magic tricks, and we've covered a few street crimes. This episode we're going to combine the two and get a magic trick that acts as a smokescreen for an actual crime.
3. How to predict the future using dominoes!
Aired 15 January 2009 • 9 min
It's true: you can never have too much money, have too many friends, or know too many ways to predict the freaking future.
4. How to bend a thick nail or wrench with your bare hands!
Aired 22 January 2009 • 8 min
We're back with another dirty trick, designed to teach you how to FAKE your way into (almost) duplicating the feats of the world's strongest men.
5. Use 6 Coins to get 1 FREE Drink!
Aired 29 January 2009 • 11 min
Brian introduces a new diabolical coin puzzle to stump your friends.
6. The trick that fooled Einstein
Aired 5 February 2009 • 10 min
Watch Brian scam Olympic gold medalist Jonny Moseley with a few coins, and some algebra!
7. How to Magically Bend a Horseshoe With Your Bare Hands!
Aired 12 February 2009 • 8 min
Watch Brian make you think he can use his bare hands to bend a horseshoe and to roll a frying pan!
8. Easy card trick called The Spelling Bee
Aired 19 February 2009 • 11 min
It's rare to find a trick that you can actually fool yourself with...and that's exactly what you get with this episode!
9. Fake Telepathy and Scam School in SPACE!
Aired 26 February 2009 • 13 min
We made it! 50 episodes of Scam School! YEE-HAW!! You learn fake ESP powers and we show you the Mind Control trick from outer space!
10. Be a Strongman and Learn Four Feats of Strength!
Aired 5 March 2009 • 9 min
Welcome to graduation! This is your senior year of Strength School, co-hosted by world record holder and supreme bad ass, Dennis Rogers!
11. We give you the power of Telekinesis!
Aired 12 March 2009 • 7 min
Make everyone believe you can move an object with your freakin' mind!
12. Brian Live and Direct from Austin and SXSW
Aired 18 March 2009 • 21 min
Watch Brian open for Diggnation with an unforgettable live show from Austin, TX at Stubb's Bar-B-Q!!
13. Learn how to eat some balls of fire!
Aired 25 March 2009 • 9 min
Impress everyone at the next party you attend by learning a simple fire eating trick!
14. Watch Cali Lewis, Tony Hsieh and Jay Adelson get scammed!
Aired 1 April 2009 • 10 min
Brian performs some magic tricks in front of some big wig web celebs!
15. The Vanishing Card Trick
Aired 8 April 2009 • 12 min
Learn how to make a card vanish and land in the most unlikely location.
16. Be a Pool Shark!
Aired 15 April 2009 • 7 min
It's crazy to say it, but we're a year into Scam School, and only now are getting around to addressing one of the biggest, most popular items in any bar: the pool table.
17. An Easy Mix Match Card Trick
Aired 22 April 2009 • 10 min
This week, a card effect that requires no dexterity or skill whatsoever, and (best of all), uses only 10 cards out of the deck!
18. Learn the Kung-Fu Match Trap Scam!
Aired 29 April 2009 • 8 min
From Scam School fan "Cowboy" in the UK, comes the most insidious, diabolical, GENIUS prank Brian has seen since the quarter-on-forehead scam!
19. Get lucky, ridiculously lucky with two new card tricks!
Aired 7 May 2009 • 9 min
If you're comfortable with taking a little risk for a chance at a HUGE reward, you're going to love this week's episode.
20. Three caps, one beverage
Aired 13 May 2009 • 7 min
This week, we've got a simple puzzle with an impossible-sounding setup.
21. Crack the Government Conspiracy!
Aired 20 May 2009 • 13 min
Brian hangs out with the crew from CO-OP and schools them on how to uncover a conspiracy theory!
22. Scam Your Way Into Anything! (Brian's SXSW Panel) (1)
Aired 27 May 2009 • 23 min
Get ready to learn how to scam your way into anything, or anyone!
23. Scam Your Way Into Anything! (Plus Bonus Q and A!) (2)
Aired 4 June 2009 • 37 min
The second half of Brian's "Scam Your Way Into Anything" panel record from SXSW Interactive!
24. Break out of police issued handcuffs!
Aired 10 June 2009 • 10 min
Because sooner or later, every scammer finds himself in a pair of handcuffs.
25. Two killer close up performances from Brian!
Aired 17 June 2009 • 13 min
Here it is! Our final SXSW episode, where you'll see Brian scam and be scammed by Digg CEO Jay Adelson and astronaut/ubergeek Richard Garriott.
26. The House of Nails Trick
Aired 24 June 2009 • 7 min
This week a puzzle (involving nails) that stumped Brian!
27. Always have a winning hand with an easy poker cheat!
Aired 1 July 2009 • 12 min
An easy trick that lets you cheat your friends at poker!
28. How to open most padlocks WITHOUT the combination or keys!
Aired 8 July 2009 • 10 min
No locker or bike is safe once you learn this trick!
29. We call this one "Through the Table"!
Aired 15 July 2009 • 7 min
Move a solid object straight through any table!
30. Always win a virtual version of Rock-Paper-Scissors
Aired 22 July 2009 • 12 min
Without looking, peeking, or even cheating, the scam artist can tell who will win in a virtual game of rock-paper-scissors
31. How to get out of Thumbcuffs!
Aired 29 July 2009 • 13 min
This week -- they're trickier, harder, and sneakier than handcuffs: we escape from thumbcuffs!
38. Brian vs. Revision3 and the Memory Test!
Aired 16 September 2009 • 11 min
Think you're smart? Wait until you see the surprising results of the Memory test...
39. The Ultimate Card Cheat
Aired 23 September 2009 • 15 min
Cheat at ANY game of cards!
40. Fine Dining scam!
Aired 30 September 2009 • 8 min
An impossible riddle with an unbeatable payoff!
41. The Heist II
Aired 7 October 2009 • 8 min
Do you remember "The Heist" from episode 21? Well, the sequel is even more unfair than the original!
42. "31" - the ultimate rigged card game
Aired 14 October 2009 • 11 min
Use this rigged game to cheat your friends twice in a row!
49. Cheat at Texas Hold 'Em!
Aired 2 December 2009 • 15 min
Computer-Generated stack allows your to CHEAT at Texas Hold 'Em!
50. Pool Hall Scams
Aired 9 December 2009 • 11 min
2 pool hall scams guaranteed to win you some cash!
51. Easy Book Test
Aired 16 December 2009 • 14 min
Read your friends' minds with this easy book test miracle!
52. Psychic Dice to Punk the Drunk
Aired 23 December 2009 • 11 min
Easy dice trick lets you read drunk people's minds!
53. Get Cork'd! Stump The Drunk With An Easy Cork
Aired 30 December 2009 • 13 min
Cork trick is nearly impossible for them to copy!