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The closest I think I ever came to exploiting the system was in high school when I was on the chess team. I wasn't the best chess player but we played with timers (you only got about 45 minutes of total time), so when we would play other schools' teams I would make my first dozen or so moves really quickly, only using up about a minute or so of time, with a look of supreme confidence on my face. My opponents would then spend most of their allowed time trying to figure out what it was they were "missing," since it seemed obvious to them that they were falling into my trap and they just couldn't "see" it. Then they would start running into time trouble, and begin making mistakes. On the other hand, I had plenty of time to analyze the board and figure out where they had messed up, and would capitalize on this, generally either beating them outright or else letting them run out of time. Cheap, I know, but it worked. (I'm still only a fair chess player, by the way. Though I did "letter" in chess my senior year of high school.)
Sadly that wont work with anyone that knows anything about the game as first 10 moves or so are autopilot most of the time, and as a general rule, if you take the center and develop your horses and bishops while oponent is messing around youre very likely to win.
@@Faradeth1111 I take it that by "anyone that knows anything about the game," you mean someone who is highly skilled. I could take your comment very literally and assume you mean even just someone who knows the rules. The kids on the chess teams know the rules. It could mean are decent enough to out-qualify all of the other potential chess team players (since there are a limited number of team positions, usually 5 plus an alternate or two), and there is a constant battle during the year between those who hold the seats on the team and those who are competing for them. You can lose you seat anytime during the year, anytime you lose a challenge to another player, you lose position in the ranking. You could also have meant they are already masters of the game. I don't think you did, but you would have been wrong anyway. A master playing a novice doesn't make fast moves. S/he takes his/her time, because losing to someone with a very low rating hurts a master's own rating more than losing to another master. But regardless of what you meant, or what level a player is, s/he can still be affected by psychological warfare. Some are, some aren't. The player's skill level is a factor, but not the only factor. There is also the perceived skill level of his/her opponent. If my opponents hadn't been so flustered, they might have realized that I was just making fast moves and just played normally from then on. But that was the point, to fluster them. As for "all those who know anything making the first 10 moves on autopilot," I did not observe that happening during most of the games. And I attended a science and engineering high school (just saying that the kids were generally bright, one of my former teammates currently works for NASA... I didn't do that well for myself).
A few years ago in NH around the '70s or 80's, a man "bought" a Toyota pickup USING ONLY THE COUPONS FROM A LOCAL NEWSPAPER!!! The local dealer ran ads with a coupon for a specified amount of money off the price of a truck. unfortunately the dealrt did not put in the "one coupon per customer" disclaimer that usually accompanies such an ad. An enterprising reader ran around buying up all the papers that he could find, clipped the coupons, and presented them to the local dealer, who refused to honor the deal. The buyer eventually sued the dealer and won, and took possession of the truck, Can't consider it a scam, but he did pull it off!
thats nice you could actually get paid for buying stuff in supermarkets untill recently if you were to coupon right theres this short documentary where this woman would coupon hardcore to the point she would get paid 29 cents for every pain killer box she bought or something like that she would stockpile stuff she needed or wouldnt go bad and donate the rest to homeless shelters, in the documentary you see her walk away with 5k worth of shopping for like 5 dollars.
here in the netherlands someone bought a tv paying with apple and an egg, because the ad used that as a figure of speech. (buy it for an apple and an egg is a saying similar to dirt cheap) the shop had to accept it after being sued. i think there were multiple people that did it, but i'm not sure.
American skier, Elizabeth Swaney. She represented Hungary in the women’s free ski halfpipe at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Yes...Hungary. First, knowing that there was no chance for her to make it onto the USA team, she used her grandparents' heritage to claim Hungarian lineage and became the first person to represent Hungary in skiing. She then earned a spot in Hungary's Olympic delegation by technically fitting a requirement of minimum number of top 30 finishes. This is important. She traveled the world to participate in international championships where there were *rarely even* 30 entrants, guaranteeing her a top 30 placement!
Paul Michael Larson - I'm surprised you didn't include this guy. The guy who destroyed "Don't Press You'r Luck" in 1984 by memorizing the patterns that the randomizer used to land on spaces and prizes. Won $109,450 in cash. CBS aired the episodes once (they had to break up the normally one episode long show into two) and then banned them from airing for 19 years.
It may not seem like much, but I really appreciate the fact that you actually named the person that wrote the article on your site that the video is based off of. They usually get shafted to credits/the video description on other channels. Huge props, guys!
Great video guys! We had a case in the U.K. where one of the major Zoos over here contacted their local council to say that the Car park attendant who they knew and loved who collects the money hasn’t shown up after 20+ years service. Only to be informed that they didn’t employ anyone there and had no knowledge of the Car park. The man who the zoo knew for all those years just dressed in a council uniform erected a little shed and collected estimated millions over that period of time! 😂 Legend!
This is one of only 3 channels I will stop whatever I'm doing and click to watch, I've seen quite a few episodes while laying under my truck fixing something lol
my school had punchcards for rewards every other week. I bought three different shaped hole punches and would sell one hole card at 25 cents. i made like 70 dollars by the end of the year
The Chicken Tax is still around and one of the reasons there still aren't many small, imported pickup trucks in the US. It's actually a fairly big inconvenience for a decently large segment of vehicles. All sorts of different schemes have been used to avoid the tariff and are still used to this day as work vans also fall under the tariff.
Some interesting trivia: The modern picket line was invented by union organizers as a way of getting around anti-union and anti-loitering laws by having people "just happen" to be strolling together in a big circle outside the target business.
When I was in High School (late 90s) our receivers would use Tuff-Skin on their gloves. Tuff-Skin was made by Kramer and was designed to help hold bandages onto sweaty skin, it was super sticky. They usually had one clean pair of gloves and one modified pair. Worked wonderfully.
I bought different color wrist bands on Amazon... the same wrist bands, a lot of clubs in LA use to differentiate the GA patrons, and the VIP. All I did was, buy a GA ticket and brought several colors in with me. Once I saw what color they were using that night, I just put it on. VIP was I think about $120 and GA was $45 or $55.
Over thirty years ago, I remember reading about a person who took advantage of a credit card company's offer, of a free airline ticket, if they charged $10,000.00 to their card. What the person did was take out a cash advance of $10,000.00 and sat on it. When the bill arrived, they paid the bill with the money they kept. A few weeks later the airline ticket was delivered to them. I don't know if it's true or not, but what a thing to do if it was...
At our local McDonalds, if you went into the drive through when it was crowded and ordered a small water, they didnt punch it in, they just told you to pull forward to the second window, so we figured out by accident that if you did that at busy times, youd get the person behind you's food for free. We used that for a couple years till they started charging $.25 for a water.
Was hoping you would mention NHL coach Roger Neilson who added 3 rules including that a goalie can not leave a snowman in his place if he is pulled to add another attacker.
In my freshmen year of college I had a math professor who could count cards super accurately, she told us stories about how she’d been kicked out of 4 separate casinos for counting cards, and once helped a guy win 10,000 dollars play roulette, she walked away to get a drink and by the time she had come back he had lost all of it
Okay, so in my old elementary school they used these blue tickets as reward systems that you would use for a Rafael or as a currency at the school shop so I bought a bunch and basically was able to buy a bunch of school supply's
Who is the one that chooses the background music for the show. I've found myself really enjoying the mix of you guys talking while the music plays. Really appreciate what you guys do and can't wait for the next episode.
'Make game of that which makes as much of thee.' -- from The Rubiyat by Omar Khayaam. It's hundreds of years old, but just as true today as ever. When you're treated as a component in a system, the only moral and appropriate response is to treat the system as a game. Those who reduce people to factors in a system earn fully their exploitation and those who exploit systems are absolutely heroes.
I actually leverage the advertising system to do my shopping for myself. I learned that the cache data is how advertising tracks what you want and then target those items to you. Instead of letting it nudge me I gained the upper hand by looking something up when I couldn't find it. Making a form of passive searching.
A couple times my friends and I contacted Coca cola and said that their vending machines ate our money. They'd always mail us coupons for free coke but one time they did that AND the machine stocker guy called me in class and told me to come to the office. It scared the crap out of me but when I did he was just there smiling and handed me $5 in singles saying he never could find the $5 bill I "lost in one of the machines in the cafeteria." I wonder why. Lol
Did you guys hear about the female halfpipe skier that got into the 2018 Winter Olympics without ever having to do a trick?!? she attended events where there were injuries and other spots available, so all she literally had to do was place 30th or so in her field, and she would automatically qualify for the games. WINNING BY NOT WINNING
Ohhhh......Lester Hayes! A+++ He gamed the system.....not against the rules......even you guys pointed out the rules had to be CHANGED because of Hayes. Plus the opposing team didn't want Hayes to even touch them as they got stickum on them and it drove them nuts! Lester's "exploit" was brilliant.
Stick 'Em! First of all before we start anything, the Raiders were always known for cheating/bending the rules in the NFL. So when people noticed it, it wasn't seen as "cheating per se", but "it's not in the rules to _not_ do it." And stick em wasn't gimmicky at all, it was literal glue that snared the football in air. Al Davis, former raiders owner had a legendary quote that says, "there are two rules: 1) Cheating is encouraging 2) See rule #1
Rudy kurniawan became a infamous wine conoseur by buying expensive wine, serving it to other wine enthusiasts, and then selling them cheap wine in expensive bottles
Darlene Lesmana, I saw the documentary about that guy, dude was a forgery mastermind, he made millions selling counterfeit vintage wines to collectors. However what he did was criminal, not exactly harmless...
I still enjoy the guy from PriceIsRight getting the final showcase exactly right. Because they kept using the same products over and over, he knew their price to the nearest 100 or something, then added some numbers from his SS# and got it.
I'd *love* to see some proof of Tim winning the 1999 USAWKF San Shou championship. When I was reading 4HWW, I did some extensive research on this because it smelled very fishy to me. I did not find a single piece of evidence that Tim actually did what he claims to have done. Not a single one. I also noticed that the article published on your website doesn't cite any proof whatsoever either. So if you've got some proof available, I'd be very grateful if you could provide it.
VERY Fishy. There's the (made up) story of the con artist who posed as a Prince, a foreign Diplomat, a CEO for a large corp, a Diamond Broker, a Modern Artist and so on, and in doing so he bilked many people out of money, free meals, free 5-star hotel stays, free cars, access to heads of state, etc. The hitch was that he didn't pose as any of those high profile people and he didn't reap all those benefits. He just claimed that he did. In other words, the only person he actually impersonated was an impersonator. Again, it's just a story, but that's how I feel about Tim Ferris. He gamed the system by *claiming* he gamed the system, without actually doing much of anything. In other words, I think he "won" by lying about winning, rather than actually cheating. For example, in his 4 Hour Body he has his before and after photos. First tip-off is that in his After photos, he is shown shaved: an age-old trick to make the muscles look more pronounced, whereas in his Before photos, he is hairy. In his After photos, his shorts' legs are pulled up, showing more of the thigh. And lastly, in his Before photos he doesn't appear to be "flexing", but rather just posing without exerting much (or any) strain on his muscles. In short, he went out of his way to look less cut in his Before pictures, and used photographic cheats in his After pictures. Clever in a way, but also total bullshit. There is also some controversy which I could not 100% confirm, about his claims on the 4 hour body, wherein he states that all of his measurements (body fat, weight etc.) were conducted under the close supervision of a doctor. And it is claimed that the Doctor named in the book denied making most (or perhaps any) of those measurements. The list goes on. He claims he sold his supplement company BrainQUICKEN because he was "bored". But according to him, the company shouldn't take more than 4 hours of his week. So why sell off a company you believe in when it takes so little of your time? Unless the product sucks (like many, if not most supplements) or there is something funny going on. His Wikipedia page is purged of any controversies, and there is no mention that he was essentially born upper-middle to lower-upper class in the first place. No shame in how someone is born, but to claim an "up from nothing" rags-to-riches story is ridiculous. And there were an astonishing number of 5 star reviews for his books, left on the day of release (fast readers!) by people who did not have a verified purchase, and who had never left any other review before or afterward. The problem got so bad (not just with Ferriss) that Amazon had to clamp down on phony reviews and deleted a ton of them. In my view Tim Ferriss is certainly a successful "system hacker" and a self promoter par excellence, but it's based on complete, but carefully orchestrated bullshit. I'm always wary of self-help gurus, but especially those that peddle easy answers. Be as healthy as a 3 year old colt, fuck like a porn star, enjoy food, wine, travel, beaches, learn any language quickly, and be rich Rich RICH! All for the low low cost of a few hours per week. That's basically what he is selling, and I don't buy it.
Brian: Is there a time where you felt like you got away with something special? I expected Jason to say "Yes, and I'm still getting away with it to this very day!"
I remember when I was in daycare, we had one of those "Help a Cancer Foundation" coin operated candy machines. It operated on quarters, and I had a nickel on me at a time. I put it in, turned it, and it didn't take my nickel, but it dispensed the candy. Oh, I was the hero of that daycare.
With the stick'em thing, check out the movie Replacements. This must have been where the bit from the movie came from. Also the kick boxing one with the water weight drop, they have "made that "illegal" in amature wrestling, by using the skin pinch test moments after weighing and proving through urine that you are hydrated. That is for safety reasons, but that doesn't mean weight loss is done 100% safely.
The first time they put up those touch screen systems in Taco Bell in my town I found out a combination of items that would mix in with a sale that would give me my food for free.
Someone else did that at McD's with simple burgers minus the meat, so you just get a bun with a smear of ketchup. You end up -0.10 per burger, order 10, you have a -1.00, then add a $1 menu item and it comes to zero. The problem was that they valued the burger patty at 1.10 when the simple burger itself cost 1.00. My numbers might be slightly off but that's the gist of it.
As a man, I never got to be a girl scout, but my brother used to be a diesel mechanic for a local trucking company, and he would occasionally get to bring home cases of the products the driver was delivering. On one of these occasions, he brought to us a case of BBQ Corn Nuts, and my eyes saw profit. The very next day I had brought to school a box full of Corn Nuts, to sell to whomever would buy. I did fairly well, the stoners being my best customers, that is until the man (Dean of Students) brought down my whole organization. Apparently I can't sell anything at school unless it's for one of the sports teams. Bogus.
My proudest system hack was in high school, the school board's file system used the path ":///" . Clicking "my documents" took you to the file path ending in your username. You couldn't access ::/" or ":/student/" but if you knew another school's site code, somebody's username and a folder in their documents you could type it in to the file explorer and you had read/write access to their files. Some teachers liked to keep their mark files in a folder labelled "marks", and their test templates in a folder labelled "test questions". The best part was that the "site code" wasn't limited to schools, but included board offices etc. AND if you could get a staff member's name and work email, you could decode their site code and username from it. Just a bit of guesswork to find a folder name (again, Marks and Tests were common) and you didn't even need to change your grades, you could just read the test questions
Don't know if anyone said it but the sticky hands reminds me of "Little Giants" movie with Rick Moranis. It had the kid in the movie where they stuck tar or something of the like to his hands and couldn't get them back apart.
I was wrestler in high school too and I had to cut around like 5 or 6 pounds but my god some of my friends had to cut almost 20 pounds for every match. I’m not even sure how me and my friends’ kidneys still work. So I have a newfound respect for Tim Ferriss
Anyone ever heard of Eddie Gaedel? Pro Base Ball player for exactly 1 day. He was 3'7" and had a strike zone smaller than the diameter of the ball! He took the plate never, never swung, got 4 balls, got on base and the coach called in a pinch runner. The MLB immediately banned dwarves forever.
He was actually a publicity stunt by the Browns owner Bill Veeck in order to sell more tickets in the 1950s. After his one plate appearance, he was hired by Veeck to do more stunts and performances, including dressing as a spaceman in 1959 and giving Nellie Fox and Luis Aparicio ray guns prior to a game.
So when I was just a young diver there was a mask I wanted and local store didnt have it. So I got my friends together and I was like go in the store and ask for this mask so they did it. Well it friggin worked the store started selling them and it still does
Brat’s may have not been good but they were really important. If it weren’t for the success of the Brat and the Subaru Loyale, Subaru of North America wouldn’t exist as it does today. The Brat and the Loyale gave Subaru a foothold in the American import tactic.
It's not just Hayes - exploits like that (and ones that cross the line into cheating) are a tradition in American football since before there was an NFL. After one team put pockets on their jerseys they could carry balls in hands-free, that got banned, so somebody tried making their jerseys the same color as a football for camouflage, and there were also applique football shapes on jerseys for the opposite effect. There's the time a team hired a really tall guy who could jump well to try to swat field goals out of the air. There's decoding and even stealing of the secret code signals teams use to communicate, wiretapping their radios, deflategate, and more. But Hayes' glue shenanigans are probably the funniest.
There was this one professor in my country that spent 3 hours watching the screen tryna crack the code. When he finally got it, he gave the numbers and hit the jackpot. Then he got banned from entering the gambling place.
There's a similar story to the Subaru with X-Men toys I believe. If I remember correctly, human toys at one point or another were taxed higher than non-human toys on import of product, so when it came time for HAsbro or whoever to pay the import tax on X-Men figures they referred to them as mutants to avoid a higher tax bracket.
Lester Hayes was a 5th round pick by the Raiders and became known as "The Judge" and "Lester the Molester" during his playing days due to his physical play. He was not the only player using stick-um during the 1970s and 80s, but he was one of the more blatant users (see Fred Biletnikoff for another blatant user). This allowed him to intercept 13 passes one season and 25 passes in his first 4 seasons. He still shares the Raiders record for career interceptions with 39.
So one time... As a part of tech at my school, and good friends with the adults at my school who run the tech (being a small school its not unusual being friends with the teachers, or coaches, or what not). So as a joke, one of the administrators at my school that i spend the most time following around and managing all the tech with at my school, set my name as a password on a computer in the back of the auditorium, which i had special permission to visit during my free time throughout the school year. So one period before lunch i took my daily trip down there just to relax and unwind after the four relentless classes i had prior. And during my trip down there i was watching videos, and netflix on the computer as i usually do when i had a bright idea. Mind you, before this idea i had been trying to get the school wifi password for quite a while, and was told if i could get it, it was rightfully mine. So being very familiarized with computers and what not, it came to me that i could go into the Keychain Access on the computer and type in the password, which was my name due to the joke, and unlock the wifi password... Let me tell you, oh my lord did i feel smart as hell xD
I once followed an energy drink promotional mini cooper into the VIP lot at a concert I had to take my sister to. Got free VIP parking just because I told the attendant I was with the car ahead of me.
I struck up a conversation with the guy carding people at an event at my school once, and lifted about 200 of the booze bracelets that my college always used for the free drinks at events. Got drunk for free at every school event in my first three years, never carded. And they actually had quality booze, unlike the frats.
Well, boys and girls ( ok, I'm sure no girls watch this channel - but I wanna be inclusive ok?) many , many years ago before the internet. I wrote to a paint company that sells a special thermal paint for wood stoves. I had a stove that I wanted to paint but didn't want to spend 30 bucks on the paint. I did the only reasonable thing. I wrote a letter that looked very official , with letter head and everything, and told the company that I was in charge of research and development for a chain of stores ( I made up a name) and I wanted to test a quart of their paint as I thought it would be perfect to carry in our stores. The paint arrived by mail within a week. Free of charge. I still recommend that company to people.
Have you told a friend about the show?
This week on our sister show Scam School, we featured a hilarious card reveal using an Alex Rangel original pin. See it in action here: th-cam.com/video/ubLRMKqkAr0/w-d-xo.html
We’ve bundle that pin with our Outlaws Crimson playing cards and an exclusive Extra Credit video on comedy in routines to create the Full Circle Bundle-and were giving that bundle away to four lucky winners of this week’s free giveaway at gimme.scamstuff.com (no purchase necessary, giveaway ends 8/16/2018)
And congrats to the winner of PYRO Mini: Jan Ostendorf (we will contact you via email within the next two weeks)
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I don't get the pun on Brian's t-shirt can someone help me
This was p shitty episode that forces you to read article before watching. Briany briany don't do that please keep your line.
Keep rocking and we'll keep spreading your word with our translations and voiceovers!
The closest I think I ever came to exploiting the system was in high school when I was on the chess team. I wasn't the best chess player but we played with timers (you only got about 45 minutes of total time), so when we would play other schools' teams I would make my first dozen or so moves really quickly, only using up about a minute or so of time, with a look of supreme confidence on my face. My opponents would then spend most of their allowed time trying to figure out what it was they were "missing," since it seemed obvious to them that they were falling into my trap and they just couldn't "see" it. Then they would start running into time trouble, and begin making mistakes. On the other hand, I had plenty of time to analyze the board and figure out where they had messed up, and would capitalize on this, generally either beating them outright or else letting them run out of time. Cheap, I know, but it worked. (I'm still only a fair chess player, by the way. Though I did "letter" in chess my senior year of high school.)
you get an A because chess is all about outwitting the opponent
A++ Chess is about destroying your opponents brain.
Sadly that wont work with anyone that knows anything about the game as first 10 moves or so are autopilot most of the time, and as a general rule, if you take the center and develop your horses and bishops while oponent is messing around youre very likely to win.
@@Faradeth1111 I take it that by "anyone that knows anything about the game," you mean someone who is highly skilled. I could take your comment very literally and assume you mean even just someone who knows the rules. The kids on the chess teams know the rules.
It could mean are decent enough to out-qualify all of the other potential chess team players (since there are a limited number of team positions, usually 5 plus an alternate or two), and there is a constant battle during the year between those who hold the seats on the team and those who are competing for them. You can lose you seat anytime during the year, anytime you lose a challenge to another player, you lose position in the ranking.
You could also have meant they are already masters of the game. I don't think you did, but you would have been wrong anyway. A master playing a novice doesn't make fast moves. S/he takes his/her time, because losing to someone with a very low rating hurts a master's own rating more than losing to another master.
But regardless of what you meant, or what level a player is, s/he can still be affected by psychological warfare. Some are, some aren't. The player's skill level is a factor, but not the only factor. There is also the perceived skill level of his/her opponent.
If my opponents hadn't been so flustered, they might have realized that I was just making fast moves and just played normally from then on. But that was the point, to fluster them.
As for "all those who know anything making the first 10 moves on autopilot," I did not observe that happening during most of the games. And I attended a science and engineering high school (just saying that the kids were generally bright, one of my former teammates currently works for NASA... I didn't do that well for myself).
@@nymalous3428 Oddly enough that strat is pretty common in 1 minute blitz and even 3|2 chess
A few years ago in NH around the '70s or 80's, a man "bought" a Toyota pickup USING ONLY THE COUPONS FROM A LOCAL NEWSPAPER!!! The local dealer ran ads with a coupon for a specified amount of money off the price of a truck. unfortunately the dealrt did not put in the "one coupon per customer" disclaimer that usually accompanies such an ad. An enterprising reader ran around buying up all the papers that he could find, clipped the coupons, and presented them to the local dealer, who refused to honor the deal. The buyer eventually sued the dealer and won, and took possession of the truck, Can't consider it a scam, but he did pull it off!
thats nice you could actually get paid for buying stuff in supermarkets untill recently if you were to coupon right theres this short documentary where this woman would coupon hardcore to the point she would get paid 29 cents for every pain killer box she bought or something like that she would stockpile stuff she needed or wouldnt go bad and donate the rest to homeless shelters, in the documentary you see her walk away with 5k worth of shopping for like 5 dollars.
here in the netherlands someone bought a tv paying with apple and an egg, because the ad used that as a figure of speech. (buy it for an apple and an egg is a saying similar to dirt cheap) the shop had to accept it after being sued. i think there were multiple people that did it, but i'm not sure.
"A few years ago...around the '70s or '80s".....?
I just now learned the modern rogue had articles and immediately went over to the website when the video was done and read three articles.
The articles are very interesting.
"It's cheating-adjacent."
"They are heroes!"
"It's in the neighborhood of cheating..."
"They are wizards!!!"
It really is all about perspective.
They are ghosts
They're Battlecats!
@@qtulhoo They're bounty hunters!
American skier, Elizabeth Swaney.
She represented Hungary in the women’s free ski halfpipe at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Yes...Hungary. First, knowing that there was no chance for her to make it onto the USA team, she used her grandparents' heritage to claim Hungarian lineage and became the first person to represent Hungary in skiing. She then earned a spot in Hungary's Olympic delegation by technically fitting a requirement of minimum number of top 30 finishes. This is important.
She traveled the world to participate in international championships where there were *rarely even* 30 entrants, guaranteeing her a top 30 placement!
I was expecting to see this one on here.
good pick. i just googled her name to mention her
I totally thought they'd conver this one! Would have been nice to see this wiley lady in the top 5.
I think it didn't get mentioned since those are common practices used by both athletes and countries.
How did she take a place from a "qualified" person? She was the only woman in Hungary that did halfpipe, there was no one to take a place from.
Paul Michael Larson - I'm surprised you didn't include this guy. The guy who destroyed "Don't Press You'r Luck" in 1984 by memorizing the patterns that the randomizer used to land on spaces and prizes. Won $109,450 in cash. CBS aired the episodes once (they had to break up the normally one episode long show into two) and then banned them from airing for 19 years.
GREAT example
It may not seem like much, but I really appreciate the fact that you actually named the person that wrote the article on your site that the video is based off of.
They usually get shafted to credits/the video description on other channels.
Huge props, guys!
Great video guys!
We had a case in the U.K. where one of the major Zoos over here contacted their local council to say that the Car park attendant who they knew and loved who collects the money hasn’t shown up after 20+ years service.
Only to be informed that they didn’t employ anyone there and had no knowledge of the Car park.
The man who the zoo knew for all those years just dressed in a council uniform erected a little shed and collected estimated millions over that period of time! 😂
Legend!
The God-Emperor Of Mankind ah that’s really shit to find out, I was really rooting for the old guy on a beach somewhere sipping cocktails 😂
Ah man, now I'm disappointed!
That was Bristol Zoo but it aint true (as a Bristolian, i heard that all the time and was also disappointed to learn it wasnt real)
I’ve heard of that
Didn’t they throw him a birthday party
Someone I know actually pulled a similar scam when he was a kid.
This is one of only 3 channels I will stop whatever I'm doing and click to watch, I've seen quite a few episodes while laying under my truck fixing something lol
Thanks for the heart boys!
What are the other 2?
I agree. TH-cam has been pretty shit over the past few months and this is one of the few channels I am actually enjoying.
Yosief Rezene always watch AvE and this old Tony but those are very specific channels for people into tools and machining
David Lynch it's incredible I stumbled upon it last year and have watched every episode within an hour of release ever since
This channel is A++!!
So if an A+ is an 100... what would an A++ be?
EvanAndKatelyn over 100
If it works anything like GPA at my university, still 100 xD
It would be over 9000!
A new coding language
103?
my school had punchcards for rewards every other week. I bought three different shaped hole punches and would sell one hole card at 25 cents. i made like 70 dollars by the end of the year
Eylook Vul Heimiik Nice!!!
The Chicken Tax is still around and one of the reasons there still aren't many small, imported pickup trucks in the US. It's actually a fairly big inconvenience for a decently large segment of vehicles. All sorts of different schemes have been used to avoid the tariff and are still used to this day as work vans also fall under the tariff.
Thanks for using metric units also
Loved hacking the system. Just found this channel a week ago and it’s low key my new favorite channel
My daughter is a girl scout and I think I just figured out how to clean up in this years cookie sales this year. Thanks modern rogue!
How did it go?
Some interesting trivia: The modern picket line was invented by union organizers as a way of getting around anti-union and anti-loitering laws by having people "just happen" to be strolling together in a big circle outside the target business.
5:45 "There's awkward pauses..." *awkward pause*
When I was in High School (late 90s) our receivers would use Tuff-Skin on their gloves. Tuff-Skin was made by Kramer and was designed to help hold bandages onto sweaty skin, it was super sticky. They usually had one clean pair of gloves and one modified pair. Worked wonderfully.
I bought different color wrist bands on Amazon... the same wrist bands, a lot of clubs in LA use to differentiate the GA patrons, and the VIP. All I did was, buy a GA ticket and brought several colors in with me. Once I saw what color they were using that night, I just put it on. VIP was I think about $120 and GA was $45 or $55.
Those Defcon badges look cool this year!
Not the actual badges, a hack that only works in close proximity to your mobile phone..
Over thirty years ago, I remember reading about a person who took advantage of a credit card company's offer, of a free airline ticket, if they charged $10,000.00 to their card. What the person did was take out a cash advance of $10,000.00 and sat on it. When the bill arrived, they paid the bill with the money they kept. A few weeks later the airline ticket was delivered to them.
I don't know if it's true or not, but what a thing to do if it was...
A cash advance on a card carries a pretty hefty fee but still, it probably worked out pretty good.
@@kirkjohnson9353 If the fee is less than the price of the airfare you're getting for free, the system works!
At our local McDonalds, if you went into the drive through when it was crowded and ordered a small water, they didnt punch it in, they just told you to pull forward to the second window, so we figured out by accident that if you did that at busy times, youd get the person behind you's food for free. We used that for a couple years till they started charging $.25 for a water.
Was hoping you would mention NHL coach Roger Neilson who added 3 rules including that a goalie can not leave a snowman in his place if he is pulled to add another attacker.
Please do more episodes like these guys, I love these kind of videos. The Prison one was my favorite lol.
In my freshmen year of college I had a math professor who could count cards super accurately, she told us stories about how she’d been kicked out of 4 separate casinos for counting cards, and once helped a guy win 10,000 dollars play roulette, she walked away to get a drink and by the time she had come back he had lost all of it
I think that Tim Ferriss realized that they were playing by SUMO rules. Sumo fights end regularly with a "push-out". Great episode!!!
Okay, so in my old elementary school they used these blue tickets as reward systems that you would use for a Rafael or as a currency at the school shop so I bought a bunch and basically was able to buy a bunch of school supply's
Relics Well done, my friend.
They tricked you into having fun with school supplies. Been played, son. Teachers laughing all the way to the lounge.
The content I like: taking great articles and having the Rogues' hilarious commentary on it.
As usual You guys always post amazing content all the time!
Who is the one that chooses the background music for the show. I've found myself really enjoying the mix of you guys talking while the music plays. Really appreciate what you guys do and can't wait for the next episode.
That's all Brandt Hughes. He's the best.
one of the guys i used to work for collected subaru brats he had 7 of those things the last time i spoke to him
Justin Wilson Holy hell!!
'Make game of that which makes as much of thee.' -- from The Rubiyat by Omar Khayaam. It's hundreds of years old, but just as true today as ever. When you're treated as a component in a system, the only moral and appropriate response is to treat the system as a game. Those who reduce people to factors in a system earn fully their exploitation and those who exploit systems are absolutely heroes.
14:43-14:58 That lady taking photos using three mobile phones at ones is just astonishing!
Dare we say that these manipulators were successful in, "Hacking the System"????
Johnathan Koller, I mis that show
Alpha 150 I miss it as well.
I actually leverage the advertising system to do my shopping for myself. I learned that the cache data is how advertising tracks what you want and then target those items to you. Instead of letting it nudge me I gained the upper hand by looking something up when I couldn't find it. Making a form of passive searching.
Don't forget about the family that got millions of airline miles from a healthy choice promotion that was structured wrong.
Bryan Minney dont forget hoover's failed marketing stunt where millions of people got free airline tickets for buying a vacuum.
"You can call me an a**hole all you want, I... don't what you're saying." This is definitely my favorite Jason quote, from now on.
You guys are the best! Thank you so much for making my birthday of the most memorable!
the last guy got a S rank
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"exactly two stones," which (and I'm assuming) is exactly how many "stones" that he has.
A couple times my friends and I contacted Coca cola and said that their vending machines ate our money. They'd always mail us coupons for free coke but one time they did that AND the machine stocker guy called me in class and told me to come to the office. It scared the crap out of me but when I did he was just there smiling and handed me $5 in singles saying he never could find the $5 bill I "lost in one of the machines in the cafeteria." I wonder why. Lol
Did you guys hear about the female halfpipe skier that got into the 2018 Winter Olympics without ever having to do a trick?!? she attended events where there were injuries and other spots available, so all she literally had to do was place 30th or so in her field, and she would automatically qualify for the games. WINNING BY NOT WINNING
love the t-shirt Brian haven’t seen one in years from ireland
Thanks man
Ohhhh......Lester Hayes! A+++ He gamed the system.....not against the rules......even you guys pointed out the rules had to be CHANGED because of Hayes. Plus the opposing team didn't want Hayes to even touch them as they got stickum on them and it drove them nuts! Lester's "exploit" was brilliant.
Stick 'Em!
First of all before we start anything, the Raiders were always known for cheating/bending the rules in the NFL. So when people noticed it, it wasn't seen as "cheating per se", but "it's not in the rules to _not_ do it."
And stick em wasn't gimmicky at all, it was literal glue that snared the football in air.
Al Davis, former raiders owner had a legendary quote that says, "there are two rules: 1) Cheating is encouraging 2) See rule #1
I love everything about this channel the modern rogue is a bull eye
Rudy kurniawan became a infamous wine conoseur by buying expensive wine, serving it to other wine enthusiasts, and then selling them cheap wine in expensive bottles
Darlene Lesmana I love it!
Darlene Lesmana, I saw the documentary about that guy, dude was a forgery mastermind, he made millions selling counterfeit vintage wines to collectors. However what he did was criminal, not exactly harmless...
YESSSSS i love these types of videos, ive been asking. for a while. HELL YEA
love u guys, have been watching you for forever. keep it up (:
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I still enjoy the guy from PriceIsRight getting the final showcase exactly right. Because they kept using the same products over and over, he knew their price to the nearest 100 or something, then added some numbers from his SS# and got it.
At 7:55 for the background music they use lofi, hats off for the editor ;)
I'd *love* to see some proof of Tim winning the 1999 USAWKF San Shou championship. When I was reading 4HWW, I did some extensive research on this because it smelled very fishy to me. I did not find a single piece of evidence that Tim actually did what he claims to have done. Not a single one. I also noticed that the article published on your website doesn't cite any proof whatsoever either. So if you've got some proof available, I'd be very grateful if you could provide it.
VERY Fishy. There's the (made up) story of the con artist who posed as a Prince, a foreign Diplomat, a CEO for a large corp, a Diamond Broker, a Modern Artist and so on, and in doing so he bilked many people out of money, free meals, free 5-star hotel stays, free cars, access to heads of state, etc. The hitch was that he didn't pose as any of those high profile people and he didn't reap all those benefits. He just claimed that he did. In other words, the only person he actually impersonated was an impersonator. Again, it's just a story, but that's how I feel about Tim Ferris.
He gamed the system by *claiming* he gamed the system, without actually doing much of anything. In other words, I think he "won" by lying about winning, rather than actually cheating.
For example, in his 4 Hour Body he has his before and after photos. First tip-off is that in his After photos, he is shown shaved: an age-old trick to make the muscles look more pronounced, whereas in his Before photos, he is hairy. In his After photos, his shorts' legs are pulled up, showing more of the thigh. And lastly, in his Before photos he doesn't appear to be "flexing", but rather just posing without exerting much (or any) strain on his muscles.
In short, he went out of his way to look less cut in his Before pictures, and used photographic cheats in his After pictures. Clever in a way, but also total bullshit. There is also some controversy which I could not 100% confirm, about his claims on the 4 hour body, wherein he states that all of his measurements (body fat, weight etc.) were conducted under the close supervision of a doctor. And it is claimed that the Doctor named in the book denied making most (or perhaps any) of those measurements.
The list goes on. He claims he sold his supplement company BrainQUICKEN because he was "bored". But according to him, the company shouldn't take more than 4 hours of his week. So why sell off a company you believe in when it takes so little of your time? Unless the product sucks (like many, if not most supplements) or there is something funny going on.
His Wikipedia page is purged of any controversies, and there is no mention that he was essentially born upper-middle to lower-upper class in the first place. No shame in how someone is born, but to claim an "up from nothing" rags-to-riches story is ridiculous.
And there were an astonishing number of 5 star reviews for his books, left on the day of release (fast readers!) by people who did not have a verified purchase, and who had never left any other review before or afterward.
The problem got so bad (not just with Ferriss) that Amazon had to clamp down on phony reviews and deleted a ton of them.
In my view Tim Ferriss is certainly a successful "system hacker" and a self promoter par excellence, but it's based on complete, but carefully orchestrated bullshit. I'm always wary of self-help gurus, but especially those that peddle easy answers. Be as healthy as a 3 year old colt, fuck like a porn star, enjoy food, wine, travel, beaches, learn any language quickly, and be rich Rich RICH! All for the low low cost of a few hours per week. That's basically what he is selling, and I don't buy it.
th-cam.com/video/ODoVqXgblyw/w-d-xo.html he is a TH-camr they link his video talking about it on his channel in this video description.
Brian: Is there a time where you felt like you got away with something special?
I expected Jason to say "Yes, and I'm still getting away with it to this very day!"
One of the best channels on TH-cam. Someday the rest of the Philistines out there will recognize it and you'll hit 10 million subs
Help spread the word!
lol you got it, man. I'll proselytize to the world regarding the roguish virtues of you guys and your videos
I remember when I was in daycare, we had one of those "Help a Cancer Foundation" coin operated candy machines. It operated on quarters, and I had a nickel on me at a time. I put it in, turned it, and it didn't take my nickel, but it dispensed the candy. Oh, I was the hero of that daycare.
Brian it was awesome to meet you a defcon. Keep up the good work
thanks, man!
Yea! More Modern Rogue! Maybe do an episode on coding soon?
With the stick'em thing, check out the movie Replacements. This must have been where the bit from the movie came from. Also the kick boxing one with the water weight drop, they have "made that "illegal" in amature wrestling, by using the skin pinch test moments after weighing and proving through urine that you are hydrated. That is for safety reasons, but that doesn't mean weight loss is done 100% safely.
The first time they put up those touch screen systems in Taco Bell in my town I found out a combination of items that would mix in with a sale that would give me my food for free.
Someone else did that at McD's with simple burgers minus the meat, so you just get a bun with a smear of ketchup. You end up -0.10 per burger, order 10, you have a -1.00, then add a $1 menu item and it comes to zero. The problem was that they valued the burger patty at 1.10 when the simple burger itself cost 1.00. My numbers might be slightly off but that's the gist of it.
As a man, I never got to be a girl scout, but my brother used to be a diesel mechanic for a local trucking company, and he would occasionally get to bring home cases of the products the driver was delivering. On one of these occasions, he brought to us a case of BBQ Corn Nuts, and my eyes saw profit. The very next day I had brought to school a box full of Corn Nuts, to sell to whomever would buy. I did fairly well, the stoners being my best customers, that is until the man (Dean of Students) brought down my whole organization. Apparently I can't sell anything at school unless it's for one of the sports teams. Bogus.
You should have created a new sport team including only you or your friends. Bonus.
This week, Modern rogue, talks about fellow rogues
What about the guy who memorized the pattern on the old press your luck game and thus won 90k back when that was an absurd amount of money?
My favorite is Murphy's fist full of tickets for the carnie exploit. Beautiful man, beautiful. What a kid.
Then they get to the next level and they have to perform at the level which they have achieved through deceit. It does not go well.
These episodes are so awesome!
My proudest system hack was in high school, the school board's file system used the path ":///" . Clicking "my documents" took you to the file path ending in your username. You couldn't access ::/" or ":/student/" but if you knew another school's site code, somebody's username and a folder in their documents you could type it in to the file explorer and you had read/write access to their files. Some teachers liked to keep their mark files in a folder labelled "marks", and their test templates in a folder labelled "test questions". The best part was that the "site code" wasn't limited to schools, but included board offices etc. AND if you could get a staff member's name and work email, you could decode their site code and username from it. Just a bit of guesswork to find a folder name (again, Marks and Tests were common) and you didn't even need to change your grades, you could just read the test questions
Don't know if anyone said it but the sticky hands reminds me of "Little Giants" movie with Rick Moranis. It had the kid in the movie where they stuck tar or something of the like to his hands and couldn't get them back apart.
I was wrestler in high school too and I had to cut around like 5 or 6 pounds but my god some of my friends had to cut almost 20 pounds for every match. I’m not even sure how me and my friends’ kidneys still work. So I have a newfound respect for Tim Ferriss
Wish I could have made it to DEFCON this year. I don't think I got to see them there before, but I did see the guys from Hak5.
Yo nice vid but can u do one with the historical weapons guild
Anyone ever heard of Eddie Gaedel?
Pro Base Ball player for exactly 1 day.
He was 3'7" and had a strike zone smaller than the diameter of the ball!
He took the plate never, never swung, got 4 balls, got on base and the coach called in a pinch runner.
The MLB immediately banned dwarves forever.
He was actually a publicity stunt by the Browns owner Bill Veeck in order to sell more tickets in the 1950s. After his one plate appearance, he was hired by Veeck to do more stunts and performances, including dressing as a spaceman in 1959 and giving Nellie Fox and Luis Aparicio ray guns prior to a game.
The ticket idea by Jason is great!!
So when I was just a young diver there was a mask I wanted and local store didnt have it. So I got my friends together and I was like go in the store and ask for this mask so they did it. Well it friggin worked the store started selling them and it still does
You had me until Timothy Ferriss received an "A++".
I don't know how anyone likes that guy. I feel sad that I bought his book on a recommendation.
Best channel on TH-cam hands down
Frodo Plays Thanks!
Holy cow Jason! I did that same ticket thing when I was a kid!
Brat’s may have not been good but they were really important. If it weren’t for the success of the Brat and the Subaru Loyale, Subaru of North America wouldn’t exist as it does today. The Brat and the Loyale gave Subaru a foothold in the American import tactic.
It's not just Hayes - exploits like that (and ones that cross the line into cheating) are a tradition in American football since before there was an NFL. After one team put pockets on their jerseys they could carry balls in hands-free, that got banned, so somebody tried making their jerseys the same color as a football for camouflage, and there were also applique football shapes on jerseys for the opposite effect. There's the time a team hired a really tall guy who could jump well to try to swat field goals out of the air. There's decoding and even stealing of the secret code signals teams use to communicate, wiretapping their radios, deflategate, and more.
But Hayes' glue shenanigans are probably the funniest.
Wait a second, did Jason actually use a VPN on the free Wi-Fi in Def Con? Uh Oh...
hidenxd they said they turned off WiFi in the video, so I'd assume he did it on roaming data? If he even connected to the internet at all that is.
Who would even use a VPN on Roaming, Isn't it slow enough in big crowds lol?
A member of the Brat hive, reporting in. To think I was considering hitting the like button... My allegiance to the Brat comes first
5:46 "Awkward pauses"
Jason's face...😂
There was this one professor in my country that spent 3 hours watching the screen tryna crack the code.
When he finally got it, he gave the numbers and hit the jackpot.
Then he got banned from entering the gambling place.
There's a similar story to the Subaru with X-Men toys I believe. If I remember correctly, human toys at one point or another were taxed higher than non-human toys on import of product, so when it came time for HAsbro or whoever to pay the import tax on X-Men figures they referred to them as mutants to avoid a higher tax bracket.
The brat in australia never had the rearward facing seats :(
Aw. No Macaulay Culkin this week. Great video still
Lester Hayes was a 5th round pick by the Raiders and became known as "The Judge" and "Lester the Molester" during his playing days due to his physical play. He was not the only player using stick-um during the 1970s and 80s, but he was one of the more blatant users (see Fred Biletnikoff for another blatant user). This allowed him to intercept 13 passes one season and 25 passes in his first 4 seasons. He still shares the Raiders record for career interceptions with 39.
#60SecondClub - hope my fellow Rogues/ Magicians/ Mentalists/Hypnotists/ Etc have a pleasant [and safe] weekend 🙂
I like how math has turned into wizardry, I guess I’m good at being a wizard then
So one time...
As a part of tech at my school, and good friends with the adults at my school who run the tech (being a small school its not unusual being friends with the teachers, or coaches, or what not). So as a joke, one of the administrators at my school that i spend the most time following around and managing all the tech with at my school, set my name as a password on a computer in the back of the auditorium, which i had special permission to visit during my free time throughout the school year. So one period before lunch i took my daily trip down there just to relax and unwind after the four relentless classes i had prior. And during my trip down there i was watching videos, and netflix on the computer as i usually do when i had a bright idea. Mind you, before this idea i had been trying to get the school wifi password for quite a while, and was told if i could get it, it was rightfully mine. So being very familiarized with computers and what not, it came to me that i could go into the Keychain Access on the computer and type in the password, which was my name due to the joke, and unlock the wifi password...
Let me tell you, oh my lord did i feel smart as hell xD
For the cost of giving you the wifi password, he got you interested in educating yourself. Win for him as a teacher :)
I once followed an energy drink promotional mini cooper into the VIP lot at a concert I had to take my sister to. Got free VIP parking just because I told the attendant I was with the car ahead of me.
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Editor's game on point
Don't think I didn't notice that awkward pause....Brian.
You're at DEF CON? About time!
Hope you get inspiration from there for future videos.
get that join scheme of youtube you guys really deserve that
What's good with a modern rogue app that has all of these articles and videos and whatnot? That would be so tight
What about the "cards shotgun" from the Prison Builds episode ??
I struck up a conversation with the guy carding people at an event at my school once, and lifted about 200 of the booze bracelets that my college always used for the free drinks at events.
Got drunk for free at every school event in my first three years, never carded. And they actually had quality booze, unlike the frats.
Whoa!
The Brennan, Well done sir. 👍🏻
Well, boys and girls ( ok, I'm sure no girls watch this channel - but I wanna be inclusive ok?) many , many years ago before the internet. I wrote to a paint company that sells a special thermal paint for wood stoves. I had a stove that I wanted to paint but didn't want to spend 30 bucks on the paint. I did the only reasonable thing.
I wrote a letter that looked very official , with letter head and everything, and told the company that I was in charge of research and development for a chain of stores ( I made up a name) and I wanted to test a quart of their paint as I thought it would be perfect to carry in our stores.
The paint arrived by mail within a week. Free of charge. I still recommend that company to people.
I'm a girl and I watch these videos!
you gentlemen both have the most delightful laughs!!