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World's Greatest Con
Presenting Don't Explain
Brian is in the booth recording Season Three of World's Greatest Con but in the meantime, Dog and Pony Show Audio has a new series for you: Don't Explain.
Every time you go to the theater, you're experience an onslaught of movie tropes. Every romantic comedy has the down-on-her-luck best friend. Every action movie has the badass one-liners. Every Oscar-bait drama has that tear-jerker ending.
But where do those tropes come from? How do audiences become so aware of Hollywood's bag of tricks, parody movies can become a massive genre on their own?
This series explores the birth, death, and rebirth of one of the most successful cinematic genres ever: the rockstar biopic. In this episode, we start from the beginning, focusing on the earliest established tropes of the genre.
Lady Sings the Blues, The Buddy Holly Story, and 8 Mile.
The first episode is available now in this feed and the reminder of the season is ready to binge on the Don't Explain feed on all podcast platforms.
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World's Greatest Con Feature Trailer
07:16Feature Trailer - Brian Brushwood is on a quest to find the World's Greatest Con.1. 0101: How To Fool Hitler
37:390101: How To Fool Hitler - The Allies have an audacious plan to win WW2. Drop a body with misinformation to hoax Hitler into believing they'll attack the wrong place. The only problem? They have to approve it first. Support the show directly by buying actual spy gear at con.scamstuff.com2. 0102: When Is The Perfect Story Too Perfect?
41:210102: When is the perfect story too perfect? - The Twenty Committee have the go ahead to fool Hitler with the most audacious Trojan Horse in history. Can they help themselves from over writing it into a bad soap opera? "Still Alive" piano cover played by Claire Waluch. Find her at Readyclaireone on YouTube. Video game checkpoint theme is "Cascade" by Kubbi.3. 0103: In The Flesh
46:370103: In The Flesh - The Twenty Committee wrote a story that could fool Hitler. Now they just need to make it real. Brian explores the disgusting gulf between the fantasy of a fake solider and the reality of a discarded corpse.4. 0104: The Moment Of Surrender
51:440104: The Moment Of Surrender - Every con has a moment of surrender, when you've done all the work and now the mark needs to fool themselves. Our heroes haves surrendered, will Hitler do his part and fall for the what is quite possibly the world's greatest con?5. 0105: Operation Mincemeat Questions
31:440105: Operation Mincemeat Questions - Brian answers questions about the debut season of World's Greatest Con. Patreon.com/GreatestCon1. 0201: Twenty One and the 1950s Quiz Show Scandals
01:15:31A producer decides to juice his quiz show by feeding answers to contestants. The attention makes them rich and famous but the revelation of the scheme extracts a terrible societal cost from everyone who took the bargain. "...Baby One More Time" Piano Cover: Björn Gottschall http://www.bjoerngottschall.com Ad Free Episodes: Patreon.com/GreatestCon Support The Show: http://betterhelp.com/WGC http://ExpressVPN.com/WGC http://Blinkist.com/WGC2. 0202: Michael Larson broke Press Your Luck
49:59The largest single-day haul in game show history. An Ohio conman exploits Press Your Luck so cleanly they're forced to admit it and hand him the cash. That's only the beginning of his strange, sad story. Ad Free Episodes: Patreon.com/GreatestCon Support The Show: http://betterhelp.com/WGC http://geologie.com/greatestcon3. 0203: Charles Ingram and the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire scandal
01:04:54A ranking member of the military finds himself in the center of pop culture, the hot seat on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire in 2001. After an embarrassing first day, he goes on an unlikely run to riches. A turnaround so unlikely he is accused of cheating with quite possibly the dumbest plan in deception history. Ad Free Episodes: Patreon.com/GreatestCon Support The Show: http://geologie.com/greatestcon http://AdamandEve.com Code: CON http://Blinkist.com/WGC