Michael Shermer Learns the Art of Con Games Part 1

[sqazsquat]

honestly, the new angry birds seasons is ridiculously difficult. i beat the original version easily and even got three stars on every single level, but the seasons levels are so tough!! especially halloween and christmas.

[ssovFF]

This is easy. Just use the Sleight of Hand Pro perk, and Ninja Pro

[scrabbleking1965]

saw the 3 card monty at the San Jose flea market years ago, Vietnamese woman lost $50 on first try and NEVER EVER in my life have I seen anybody throw fit like she did. MIND BOWLING her display!! She got her $50 back

[grateser]

you see in london instead of con artists he have some youths that just pulls a knife on you and says "gimme your money blud" ...

[sapperzulu]

@grateser They use guns in Los Angeles

[impalax327]

Should really be titled TEACHES con tricks, being the small minded con artist he is.

[bgearing]

Uh. Skeptics go up against the government on the lottery all the time. But there's really no point.. The government tells you what the scam is. They publish the odds of winning. But since people don't understand statistics, they still play.

[jojoinhere]

i believe the lottery is a con most of the time. but no skeptic dare to go up against the government...

[REIGN131]

Aww man i got screwed once in manhattan ny, it was the three little cups & one cup had the ball under it. i was so sure which one was the right one- lost 60 bucks on a single play. The guy @ the end is 100% Right - we can be educated about the situation, Know its a con & impossible to win, but yet still try to play anyway

[xSilverPhinx]

Dude, just bet on any of the ones you're sure are not the right one.

[Paradoxical003]

ok, what do you wanna talk about?

[pimpmyride666]

Doing cons require very good acting skills and you can't be too nervous at the time.

[bendtx]

Wow, that guy at the end perfectly explains why some of us play those carnival games that you can't win. I goto the Texas State Fair for the car show and the amazing food, but while walking through the rigged game area I always end up thinking "I know I can do it this time, I've figured it out!".

[dahur]

The UFO video shermer on Larry King Live, is systematically removing our pro ET-UFO posts, and within minutes 5-10 negative ratings. We are really putting it to the shermer machine, and somebody(guess who) doesn't like it. This confirms we are getting to him.

[funwjoshnjenn]

what if different people bet on 2 different cards(boxes)? How does the con man say "I don't want you to bet this one?"

Aren't real games some win some lose?

[TheOracleNow]

He said it in the video, he can make any box empty or full, if you pick the actual full one he'll open another one that's not bet on as the full box. Unwinnable game, unless all three are bet on there is still no winners.

[therugdoctoranimesux]

And this is why skeptics do what they do. Let's all thank Mr Shermer!

Thank you, Mr Shermer!

[impalax327]

@therugdoctoranimesux sceptics do what they do because they have a basic self-hate syndrome and enjoy being seen as martyrs for a deluded cause. If you give any credence to Shermer you need a better education, some friends and a life, not the lonely sad existence you endure now.

[Shikamaru747]

@impalax327 The fact that you misspelled 'skeptics', despite it being *in* the comment you're replying to, instantly destroys any credibility you might have had.

Also, you expect us to believe that all skeptics secretly hate themselves with no evidence to back it up.

Don't be stupid.

[ai1888]

@Shikamaru747 Actually it can be spelled both ways. Otherwise, yeah , that imapax kid is a douche.

[Shikamaru747]

@ai1888 Alright, that's what I get for being careless. Thanks for pointing that out.

[pomegranateish]

@Shikamaru747

You tard, some countries spell skeptic with a 'c'.

[Shikamaru747]

@pomegranateish That was from three months ago, and it was already pointed out in a much more respectful manner in the comment *directly above* it, which you have apparently missed..

[fashionwhorexo]

that dude has skills.

[averit]

Ha! I never played this game so it's good to know it's so evil. ;p

[LUFTRITTER01]

This video is amazing.

[kornbelt]

that's beautiful :D

[Godzilla1985]

Black people trash their own neighborhoods, then blame in on white folks. Then they come to the downtown areas to run their scams on younger white kids.

[Godzilla1985]

Mostly Black criminals play this game.

[Jordancdarwin]

If you had perhaps been involved in amateur physics experiments on the heat capacity of metal, or were able to disprove now-known facets of materials science using the scientific method then you would have a valid argument.

The reason you feel you know there is a conspiracy is a defence mechanism. Your dislike of the government for failing to prevent the situation now manifests itself as a conspiracy theory in vigour befitting of such a tragedy.

Google "The scientific cycle" & "falsifiability"

[Jordancdarwin]

Yeah, I don't think that the current US government can plan an absolute-precision event and keep it, and it's execution entirely in secret whilst simultaneously planning a facade-response. Remember, you're talking about a government that struggles to co-ordinate rebuilding the "twin towers" and giving them a miraculous efficiency.

Your derivation of truth does not stem from a valid, reproducible background - the "9/11" report does have falsifiable data. Don't get excited on the word "false".

[spacekadet3]

one more comment. there is no way any of this could have been kept secret by a government agency. if it happened the way you think then hundreds must have been involved. maybe thousands. i used to work for the government (and dont say i;m in on it. it was the tax dept). most people who work for the government are interested in 3 things. computer solitair, whats for lunch or how can i sleep with my secretary. its not loke the movies.

[Vitotesta]

First let me say that I truly appreciate your tone instead of the usually youtube spats. I have books from current time as well as books which date back to the '50's which detail how if ANYONE says two peeps to anyone else about subversive activity that they will be either fined, jailed, killed or have family killed. You don't think that's enough to keep quiet until it happens to you. PLUS..many who have been threatened HAVE come forward anyway! Why ignore the truth?

[spacekadet3]

really? the guys who planted the charges in the wtc have come forward?

[Vitotesta]

The Ulitimate Con?....911 ! Watch 'Loose Change' and see how your government made it LOOK like a terrorist attach. Real terrorists? They live in the White House. War? It's a money making CON. That's not an insult to fallen heroes it's a wake up call

folks. Research while the internet is still

legal!

[spacekadet3]

bigfoot was responsible for 9/11. loose change was made by the whitehouse to distract people from the real terrorists. the big feet! did you see the pentagon? the hole was not made by a plane. it could only have been made by a bigfoot running real fast. who funded loose change? haliburton! check the records!

[Vitotesta]

If you believe in bigfoot it must be because you feel there is a bigfoot up your hind end when in fact it is the little dick in the whitehouse that is 'F'ing you from behind. Just relax and enjoy it cause there is plenty more coming your way from your pal 'W'.

[spacekadet3]

i hate bush. but he didnt plan 9/11 or shoot kennedy or shooy down the hindenberg.

[Vitotesta]

Thank you for being relatively civil! I don't belive that George Bush could plan to tie his own shoes but his dad had a hand in Kennedy's assasination (Zapata Oil, CIA etc.)

911 was hardly a terrorist attack. There is plenty of evidence as well as testiment from NYFD that what was sold to J.Q. Public was

B.S.. I just think that it is time to stop laughing and comparing real domestic generated terrorism with Bigfoot. People are blindly patriotic and asleep while being raped and gutted by liars.

[spacekadet3]

i have looked at both sides. the buildings fell straight down because thats the only way they could. they wouldnt fall up or tip over like a tree. those planes caused alot of structure damage and all that fuel weakened what was left. i remember a plane crash in florida a few years ago that killed a member of the san diego chargers. when the news helicopter flew over the site there was no trace of the plane. cheney and rumsfeld should be in jail for those "weapons of mass dest" but not for 9/11.

[spacekadet3]

p.s. bushs lawyer could plead mentally incompitent to stand trial and get off.

[Vitotesta]

It's not just the way buildings fell. Security tied to Bush. The building was 'prepared' prior to 911. Firemen felt and heard explosions inconsistent with crash or fuel leak. Planes were UNMARKED! "Terrorists' still alive, no wreckage in Pennsylvania, Pentagon hole and wreckage were not result of plane. Cellphone calls were bogas. Plenty of evidence. Iraq had no weapons. P.S. If we're the mightiest militia on earth why the struggle with the Flintstones? Perpetual war. Public struggle = Profit.

[spacekadet3]

we could level iraq if we wanted to. just like isreal could level palestine. one side wants to just kill soldiers who are hiding among civilians. thats why we dont carpet bomb. i do think the bush administration is prolonging iraq because haliburton is making a fortune. i think its a very big stretch to think the white house planted charges in every floor of the wtc. nobody saw hundreds of charges being wired into every floor? that is going overboard.

[spacekadet3]

also, my comment about the florida plane crash shows that planes can hit so hard that nothing is left. or nothing seen by flying overhead.

[dreamvisionnetwork]

yeah I agree that planting Bombs on structural parts of the building on 110 storie/story building with out leaving a single trace of drilling or dirt or nothing and then have 50.000 people working the building not noticing a single weird thing is far fetched. at least a slight drill dust would have been seen or left to be found.

[OSOK995]

Are you serious?

Like 50 of the people who worked there said they found all the metal was melted in the P1 level, they described it being like a molten lava

And that was their exact words. You can see it on Zeitgeist if you don't believe me.

Is that enough evidence or are you gonna tell me jet fuel melted all the structural steel?

Because you do realize you need something like thermite to do that and it's scientifically impossible to melt all that steel with just jet fuel.

[ScathenC]

You do realise that Zeitgeist is a satirical comedy, don't you?

[OSOK995]

Well I wouldn't compare a 757 airplane to a helicopter but ok, lets say it's true.

Flight 77 had two rolls-Royce engines

made of steel and titanium alloy and weight 6 tons each. It is scientifically impossible that 12 tons of steel and titanium was vaporized by

jet fuel.

And that's not me saying all that, I got it from the documentary Zeitgeist.

[dreamvisionnetwork]

The 2 motors were found.

[OSOK995]

Uh no, they haven't been found.

Where'd you get your false info anyway?

How can they be all over the news that they've melted and then be found?

[ScathenC]

Well Zeitgeist must be correct then.

[brianrstevens]

lol 5 dollar bets awesome

[hoskeebo]

They really left out a lot of the real work. This was a pretty rudimentary setup. Still, it was a nice vid, and Dan and Michael are performing a good service. I just wish they wouldn't expose things like the "hype," because too many tyros will think they "know something" now. A little bit of knowledge is sometime worse than none.

[ampsarus]

skeptic magazine- Thanks Steven! lol

[SistemaKaoso]

Hey. That's in Santa Monica's 3rd Street Promenade. Michael Shermer was there....he's dreamy.

[ripperarn]

thats skeptic not sceptic

[Greyghostvol1]

from...the world known, famous science historian and sceptic Michael Shermer?

[enahsshane]

What are these clips from?