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 (12)
1. Blow Hard Scam
Aired 6 January 2010 • 12 min
Bottle bet makes 'em look goofy AND win you a free drink
2. Use Non-Transitive Dice to cheat your friends!
Aired 13 January 2010 • 14 min
Math paradox lets you cheat your friends
3. Psychic Matchbooks
Aired 20 January 2010 • 12 min
3 simple matchbooks for a mental miracle and an easy free drink!
4. The Hot Seat Card Trick
Aired 27 January 2010 • 15 min
This week: a killer card trick, complete with a twist at the end... this card trick works BETTER because it screws up!
5. The Brain-Drain Telepathy Trick
Aired 3 February 2010 • 12 min
It's a real-life Vulcan mind-meld!
6. The Birthday Scam and our 100th Episode extravaganza!
Aired 10 February 2010 • 15 min
For our 100th episode, we've got a statistical scam that sounds impossible.
7. Dime in Bottle Scam
Aired 17 February 2010 • 10 min
Get two puzzles for the price of one!
8. Leverage!
Aired 24 February 2010 • 10 min
Use leverage to make your friends look dumb!
9. Heads/Tails Trick! Read Their Minds Using the Change in Their Pocket!
Aired 3 March 2010 • 14 min
Amazing trick reads minds with NO trick coins, NO secret helpers... and no cheating!
10. The Magician-Killer Card Trick
Aired 10 March 2010 • 13 min
Easy trick fools magicians!
11. How to throw cards like Gambit!
Aired 17 March 2010 • 13 min
Hurl playing cards 50 feet at a time! Fling them hard enough to break water balloons, or even embed them into aluminum sheeting!
12. Live from Stubbs BBQ in Austin - 2010!
Aired 24 March 2010 • 28 min
Check out Brian's live show from Austin, as he opened for Diggnation!