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.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@jameshill2450]

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.

[@wozlaser]

yeah no love, cruel even. no room mic either, how hard is that to get off a camera, tragic lazyness editor, should reupload

[@MidnightSt]

yeah, some TED cameramen are as if they only cammed their way to the position =D

[@mattjohnston2]

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

[@wozlaser]

the presentation being missing from the edit is really heartless

[@StaticImage]

Yes... yes, it was. I was thinking the same thing. That killed this whole presentation.

[@robbiepolo7634]

Yes it must have been the editor's first day on the job.

[@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.

[@claytongrange2137]

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

[@NoMoneyHubby]

*High pitch sing yell "MODERN ROooooGUE!!!"*

[@rsoxfan123]

This audience sucked but Brian was great!

[@Matio25091]

No, I think the audience was fine. The only audio in the video was Brian's mic. And as a headset mic, it doesn't pick up audience laughter because it's too far away. Really just a terrible editing job like Matt Johnston has said above.

[@kamoroso94]

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!

[@SidneyJupiter]

Whoever filmed and edited this clearly was not a modern rogue

[@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

[@WadeWilson-]

A good view of the presentation would be nice.

[@Digifier]

What we learned from this video: Let Reddit do it and succeed

[@Rune77]

Digifier Reddit always solves problems.

[@joeybootsify]

Thanks for the shout out 00:24

[@FusionDeveloper]

Best Tedx Talk of all time!

[@AMindInOverdrive]

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

[@samsharma8621]

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

[@romeorey1661]

favourite channel ever,scamschool😊👍

[@eighdinthole1513]

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

[@Matio25091]

The only audio was Brian's mic. The mic doesn't pick up the audience. Terrible editing done by TEDx

[@andrewlow9417]

wow shwood the look is really modern rougey

[@Braincain007]

Andrew Low hmmm

[@cspruce8853]

t h e r e i s n o c i n s h w o o d

[@zonust1928]

I think a sequel should follow the diamond club

[@zahidshabir4038]

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

[@wozlaser]

lazy editing with no crowd audio and no view of his slides when he references them. it's not like they couldn't get his powerpoint or whatever, and mix in some camera audio or something for the crowd

[@thechosenofmystra9397]

Very informative!

[@nocultist7050]

Ryan Rushwood?

[@cap6733]

Nah nam that's salty tushwood

[@unamuseddeathgod5128]

Nah its doowhsurb nayrb

[@henryambrose8607]

That's just a rodcaster. Totally different guy.

[@joblessalex]

9:20 he really wants to curse....

[@reverseflash4979]

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

[@haydenthompson1281]

Lol brian was hilarious

[@grimlizard4520]

Looks like somebody read the book, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion .

[@kevinspliid8509]

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

[@TOSUnbound]

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

[@balta8520]

9 million subscribers. Only 5000 views and eleven comments. Seems legit

[@TheRussianGenius]

I guess their posting so much content that it's difficult for the viewers to keep up.

[@martinalexhuh]

What on earth is a magician doing here?

[@fz8692]

Hello guys this is TheRussianGenius

[@unpluggedtoaster7421]

Thank god he doesn’t have his old hair

[@shoonger001]

unplugged toaster nah he looks lame now...

[@jaaaakert]

Brian uses the DENNIS method

[@MinecraftTutorialVideo]

Does that guy gargle hydrochloric acid? :)

[@YourTransmissionRepair]

One of the few TEDx fails you'll ever see.

[@shrimatkapoor2200]

Lol literally noone in the crowd, he's basically showing off to nobody

[@moeenuddin6756]

This guy is a wiz when it comes to grab someone Attention

[@isaacsexton7631]

Pleasant comment here.

[@geoffreylee5199]

Bad cutting, directing, and editing. Camera is fine.

[@awakenyourspirit2219]

I miss the hair tho.

[@jakethewolfie119]

I'm 5th... Last comment was 2 months ago.

[@grantp4821]

[@ThePeterDislikeShow]

Brian you look a heck of a lot older compared to just a few years ago when you were making videos about a card trick involving the 8 of spades. What did you do? So I can learn not to make the same mistake.

[@katiekat4457]

He seemed more legit with the spiky hair and no beard than he does now. With the spikes he looked like he was somebody and somebody with confidence and somebody who might have done something important. How else would you walk around with spiky hair like that if you didn’t do something important. Now he looks like a car mechanic and someone without a lot of money. Like somebody that made less than a car mechanic. Great guy though.

[@kitsunekid16]

Katie Kat he looked like a 30 year old going through a midlife crisis

[@kitsunekid16]

Love the guy but it's the truth lol

[@shoonger001]

Urban Kitsune nah its LIES! REPENT SINNER!

[@yegorpl9973]

Total repeat of the previous talk on the same theme.

[@ge3466]

Brian Brushwood cannot stop laughing at his own , what he thinks are jokes. Thats his thing. He is his own laugh track. I guess it might work if he was ever funny but he just isn't. The guy tries way, way too hard. At his age if he hasn't made it ....he probably won't.

[@shoonger001]

G E someone is Jellie... Like peanut butter, banana and Jelly sandwich Jellie. Even the banana is made out of jelly...