Social scamming | Brian Brushwood | TEDxHartford

A look into scamming -- from a professional scammer.

Brian Brushwood is a magician, podcaster, author, lecturer, and comedian. He is the creator and host of over 500 episodes of Discovery’s “Scam School." In the show, he teaches the audience entertaining tricks at bars so they can “scam” a free drink from their friends. In 2015, his first full season of “Hacking the System” debuted on the National Geographic Channel.

[jameshill]

Protip: When your speaker very clearly makes a point that something "Looked liked this": [insert painfully obvious allusion to prepared image of "this"] it's probably a good idea to show what "this" is at that time.

[mattjohnston]

A shame. Brian did a good job...the camera and editing was terrible.

[StaticImage]

What, were there 5 people in that crowd? What happened here? The audio was choppy, when he was showing things important to the talk, we never saw them, and it looks like whoever put this video together just did not care at all. That's not fair to Brian.

[claytongrange]

Wish I could see what he's putting up on screen

[rsoxfan]

This audience sucked but Brian was great!

[kamoroso]

Now that's what I call rigging the system. Nice work, Brian! It's amazing to me the power of social action. You demonstrated it well!

[smokishonline]

I love to go back watching these. Been following and watching Brian since the Diggnation days. So cool to look back at these.

[HappyOrwell]

Brian's stuff is great. I wish we could see the stuff on the screen

[SidneyJupiter]

Whoever filmed and edited this clearly was not a modern rogue

[WadeWilson-]

A good view of the presentation would be nice.

[AMindInOverdrive]

Terrible editing/camera work that missed the things the guy was referring to or pointing at...come on!!!

[eighdin]

Where was the enthusiasm? Such a cool presentation but no audience basically

[samsharma]

I love him because of his shows ... ❤ from India sir

[Digifier]

What we learned from this video:

Let Reddit do it and succeed

[andrewlow]

wow shwood the look is really modern rougey

[zahidshabir]

Can't believe a 3 month old video on a channel with 10M subs has 5K views and 200 likes as well as only 5 comments before mine

[zonust]

I think a sequel should follow the diamond club

[TOSUnbound]

I love how he almost said YouTube Algorithm instead of iTunes algorithm 😂🤣

[kevinspliid]

Somtimes big books make the best seller cause they buy up their own book

[reverseflash]

Hmm. This audience isn’t really laughing much. I was laughing quite a bit at his little asides.