David Kwong not only designs puzzles for the New York Times crossword, he also designs heists and illusions for movies like Now You See Me. In this episode, David explains the art of the puzzle and Nicholas tries to stump him with a cryptic clue of his own.

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Stand up mathematician Simon Pampena specialises in explaining complex math to simple minds.

In this episode, Nicholas tries to wrap his simple mind around the Monty Hall dilemma, arbitrage and the gambler’s fallacy.

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Author Simon Caterson shares Nicholas’ love of film noir. In this episode Simon explores the great con artist film noir, Nightmare Alley and Nicholas drools over fifties silver screen heartthrob Tyrone Powers.

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Identity theft speaker James Munton has the unenviable task of teach high school students how to stay safe online. In this episode James explains exactly how he does it and Nicholas ambushes his guest with surprise meth addicts.

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Magician Pop Haydn is a time traveller, confidence man and snake oil huckster. In this episode Nicholas meets his idol, gets schooled in the shell game and almost loses his shirt.

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Erotica author Peter C Hayward writes under four different non de plumes. In this episode Peter explains why he uses fake names and Nicholas is forced to apologise for being Nicholas.

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