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The Grift podcast

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The Grift

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  Panoply  

When we hear about confidence games, we think, “never me.” Welcome to The Grift, a show about con artists and the lives they ruin. Best-selling author and New Yorker writer Maria Konnikova takes us to the darker side of human nature and deceit. Ten stories about card sharks, cult leaders, art forgers, impostors, and more. Why do we fall for them time and time again?

When we hear about confidence games, we think, “never me.” Welcome to The Grift, a show about con artists and the lives they ruin. Best-selling author and New Yorker writer Maria Konnikova takes us to the darker side of human nature and deceit. Ten stories about card sharks, cult leaders, art forgers, impostors, and more. Why do we fall for them time and time again?

 

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#12

The Grift Presents: Family Ghosts

The Grift presents an episode of another Panoply podcast we think our listeners will love:... more

11 Dec 2017

55 MINS

55:32

11 Dec 2017

#11

The Greatest Impostor

Ferdinand Demara is quite possibly the greatest con artist you’ve never heard of. With goo... more

06 Jun 2017

40 MINS

40:02

06 Jun 2017

#10

Crooked Carnival

Peter Fenton made a career out of crafting that con we’ve all fallen for: the con of fanta... more

30 May 2017

33 MINS

33:04

30 May 2017

#9

Psychic Faith

A fraud is lurking on most every block of most every city and town, all over the world: th... more

23 May 2017

32 MINS

32:39

23 May 2017

#8

For a Small Investment...

Oscar Hartzell, born to humble beginnings, would go on to craft one of the most elaborate ... more

16 May 2017

33 MINS

33:29

16 May 2017

#7

The One Who Almost Got Away

Sam Israel not only ran one of the most successful Ponzi schemes in history, he would even... more

09 May 2017

32 MINS

32:07

09 May 2017

#6

Loving a Lie

Maria talks with the Atlantic’s Emily Yoffe about the most common grift of them all: the s... more

02 May 2017

31 MINS

31:57

02 May 2017

#5

The Religion of the Black Dog

A small secretive cult was started in the 1970s and operated out of New Jersey for decades... more

25 Apr 2017

45 MINS

45:12

25 Apr 2017

#4

The Self-Made Heiress

Cassie Chadwick was one of the most famous, or infamous, seductresses of the Gilded Age. S... more

18 Apr 2017

33 MINS

33:21

18 Apr 2017

#3

Genuine Fake

The only thing Ken Perenyi loved as much as art was swindling the art world. He relished t... more

11 Apr 2017

41 MINS

41:32

11 Apr 2017

#2

Fast Jack, the Card Shark

“Fast Jack” Farrell is one of the greatest card and dice manipulators of the twentieth cen... more

04 Apr 2017

36 MINS

36:18

04 Apr 2017

#1

Introducing: The Grift

Coming soon from Panoply and Maria Konnikova, The Grift: stories about con artists and the... more

30 Mar 2017

02 MINS

02:19

30 Mar 2017