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Adam Savage's Favorite Books on Pool Hustlers, Card Sharps, and Con Artists!
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- čas přidán 16. 08. 2024
- Amoralman: amzn.to/3bKkWaz
The Hustler: amzn.to/2ORVLtk
Billy Phelan's Greatest Game: amzn.to/38As6Mg
McGoorty: A Billiard Hustler's Life: amzn.to/3qJmSEj
The Bank Shot, and Other Great Robberies: amzn.to/3rLoGOD
The Big Con: amzn.to/3qKtBhl
Adam reviews the new book from his friend Derek DelGaudio--Amoralman. Derek's book, along with his show and movie In and Of Itself, feed right into Adam's lifelong fascination with the stories of famous pool hustlers and card sharps. Adam also gives some recommendations for some of his favorite books about the world of professional grifters and how they operate.
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what happened to all the raptor suit build videos ? i don't see any of them .
chaching ;)
clickyclicky chaching native advertising video lol
Please give us some information about the vanished raptor videos!
"I never hustled, I was never good enough to hustle..."
Spoken like a true hustler.
I played pool against my mother once. She let me break. And that was my last shot that game.
As a scam artist myself, I really appreciate this video.
It's nice to see that our work doesn't come unnoticed.
This is it. This is The Nerdiest Tangent Adam has ever gone on. And I fucking love it
I saw "In and Of Itself" live in NYC and was chosen as "Mr. Tomorrow". It was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. The movie on Hulu is also incredible. Now I'm reading the book and it's also amazing. We are lucky and fortunate Derek tells us his story.
As a magician and a maker I absolutely love seeing worlds collide when Adam nerds out on confidence schemes and subterfuge!
Oh man, I remember that episode of Fresh Prince of Bel Air where Uncle Phil hustles a hustler. It was such a badass scene!
"Break out Lucille"
This level of passion is fantastic and feels like me with the psychology of choice making. I have a good collection of books on making choices and how the human body goes through the stresses of critical split second thinking.
I submit for discussion, Adam himself is a type of hustler. Watch any of his videos, especially some of the more recent ones, where he makes comments like "I don't have to be that precise with this cut/hole/alignment because this is just a rough build." At which point he proceeds to make something that would make a manufacturer's quality control manager weep at the beauty.
I'm not sure if he's hustling us or himself, but it's a classic demonstration of the hustle: "well, I like doing this, but I'm not always that great" and then shows to be one of the maestros.
I didn't hang out with hustlers as a kid, I hanged out with old men playing golf on an 8 legged snooker table on Sunday mornings. I didn't get to play but I could watch or warm up anyone who showed up late, waiting for the next game.
Edit: Location was Grand Central Bowl in Portland OR during the late '80s.
Hey Adam, just wanted to say thanks for all the great content you've been positively pumping out! Loving it all and it always brightens up my day! :)
Adam's reasoning for why he watches gymnastics or is interested in pool hustlers is exactly the reason I watch his videos (and the rest of Tested). It amazes that there are people like Adam out there who can understand how to turn a pile of raw materials into an object they have coveted with such precision.
What is resonating with Adam's voice? Is he talking into a piano? I can't be the only one hearing this.
I heard that too, thought something was going on with my speakers at first but realised it was after just about every sentence Adam said..
Listening on my phone, I don't hear it. In some previous videos, there would be something humming in the background, and the noise cancelling would get rid of it unless Adam was speaking. The result was this weird buzzing\humming whenever he spoke.
@@ReverendTed I don't think that'd what it was in this case. Give it a listen with headphones. I'm thinking maybe the mic was on a spring loaded arm or something and the vibration of the spring was being picked up on he mic. The harmonics change based on the volume of his last word.
something is really close to feedback. Maybe he has a monitor running?
That’s multiband noise gating/reduction used in post production. Adam had commented that his workshop has noisy neighbors.
Such an interesting video about an interesting topic. Shame it has so little views, just because it's about books.
are we just gonna ignore the disappearance of the raptor build?
Give it up, it is what it is.
That'd do. Any explanation would do. However apart from live streams it's seems they record things a good month or so before they go up so it'll take a while before they even see the comments wondering and then reply if they want to.
Think its pretty poor to not even get a 'sorry, we had to take them down', years ive being supporting this channel, and feel pretty let down by the lack of anything about it, nothings stopping them from apologizing.
Seems like everything Animax was removed. Could be due to a "recommendation" from their legal department.
Also, he posted another Samaritan video yesterday and it's gone too.
It is true. The journey to your true self or craft is a series of finer and finer filters. The epiphany moment is humbling and represents enormous responsibility
A great quote I first heard in Mass Effect.
"Con men leave their marks angry, con artists leave them smiling."
Card sharp is preferred in British English, while card shark is more common in American, Canadian, and Australian English. They share their main definitions-namely, (1) a professional card player, (2) a person who is skilled in card games, and (3) a person who is skilled in cheating at card games.
We need a full library tour
Thank you for the book recommendations. I'd totally love a whole series of book recommendations from Tested: craft books, art books, fiction, all kinds of books. :)
Billiards is a sport, a puzzle (geometry, physics, psychological, etc...), and just a great game for one to many, regardless of prowess. I'd love to know more about the history of the pool table in "Adam's Cave" (I think it's a Brunswick "Gold Crown"...not sure of the year) but it is a beautiful table. My table is an 8 foot with a single piece slate and I really enjoy it. I am still looking for a complete solution to lift the 1/24 scale slot car track (8 foot by 16 foot) (off from the pool table) so that 'with the flick of switch', people can play pool or race slot cars. I know space is always a concern (and a valuable commodity for makers). Has Adam ever thought about vertical storage above the pool table?
Great content as always. Thank you :)
I miss the Bay Area so much...there used to be a great German restaurant called "Speckman's", Italian place called "Trattoria Contadina" (Union and Mason), and I really enjoyed the Carnelian Room (top of the B of A building)...oh what I would give for a piece of 'real' fresh toasted sourdough...
Be safe and have fun!
Cheers,
Jeff (Garage Maker Guy)
I grew up with a beat up pool table in too tight a basement. I learned to unscrew sections of a portable cue so I could make shots in tight corners. Never disciplined enough to be good. My mother shot pool between loads of laundry.
Grew up playing on a Minnesota Fats table. So much to say. Irresponsibly enough, I want to say, some of the greatest years of my life, and best pool playing, was spent rolling on the drug Molly and hanging out at the local pool hall every night.
It is INSANE how much an upper (Methylone to be specific) can up your pool game. I mean, me and my brother would be up all night blasting dub/trapstep running rack after rack to the point where we would literally dance around the table nailing 'air-massè' shots (all shots done without touching the table) with ease. And also at some point I became able to tell if someone was a hair off on their aim for a shot without even being in line with it visually, I could be off to the side across the room even and still at least 90% of the time tell if they were going to make it or not (the other 10%, they probably adjusted slightly at the last second ;P)
With that said, and as much as it would seem like pool would be a perfect contender for something that could be mastered by a book or mathematics, I think there are just far too many variables involved. My brother and I at one point had the clearest realization that being good at pool (i hate that phrase but how else do you say it? Haha) is almost entirely based on this: past shots experienced + mentally visualizing your shot going in (confident you can do it). Those are the 2 most essential components by far to be really great at it.
11:07 This sounds like every story about serial killers as well. Some people become obsessed with death. It's almost like there's a point in every person's life where several internal factors become influenced by outside stimuli in a race toward the "obsession" check box
I loved Harry Anderson's book "Games You Can't Lose: Guide for Suckers". It is done in his Harry the Hat persona and covers a wide range of topics, from bar bets, to three card monte to carnival games.
I swear there was a second book called 'Games You Can't Win' but the internet disagrees with me and I'm old enough that I'm willing to trust it over my memory.
There are many aspects of being a conman. Adam touched on the main one and that is them getting us to gain trust in them or confidence in them. The other aspect is that a conman will also create a scenario in which they will get their target person to gain confidence in their own abilities. With this type of con, the con artist will do whatever they need to in order to make their target person gain confidence that they are better than they really are, or better than the con artist. Once they have created that scenario they will slowly play the con out, to a point where a large sum of money is wagered and the target person is beat.
Back in the old days of 'Still Untitled' my favorite episodes where the book discussions, like for instance when The Martian first dropped and you guys said they should make a movie out of this and low, a few years later, they did. I would love to see more episodes like this and generally more book recommendations from the whole crew.
I sure miss that podcast/video series.
Miss seeing new episodes of Mythbusters my favorite show when It was on
My brother, played several racks to Minnesota Fats when he "retired" to Dowel, IL.
My favorite con man autobiography is ‘“Yellow Kid” Weil’ by J.R. Weil and W. T. Brannon
I love it when you get philosophical. Have you seen the movie Revolver? It examines the concept of the con and the hustle in relation to the meaning of being. Very worth watching.
I love that movie!! Need to watch it again soon. When I first saw it, I went in blind... no idea what it was about. Just, "Oh, Jason Statham in another Guy Ritchie movie? Cue it up!" What a ride!
To the word use/spelling police - I meant that as a billiards/pool pun. I'm also aware "Revolver" had nothing to do with billiards/pool.
Really, you can't go wrong with anything written by Ricky Jay.
Finished it a couple of days ago... soooo good, I’m writing this from inside a cave, whilst puppeteering.
If you paid me $5000 I couldn't tell you how to find professional gymnastics on TV.
I love Snooker, I used to be kind of obsessed with all of the nuances of the game, namely English and Leave.
I love this kind of stuff too! I'll have to pick this up. Glad you mentioned "The Big Con". If you are interested in this, you'll probably like "Whiz Mob" also by David Maurer. You'd also like School For Scoundrels with the likes of Pop Haydn, Chef Anton (a pool hustler of his own), and Bob Sheets.
I had the luck to know an older player who lent me his copy of McGoorty and I have been looking for my own copy since
Find a copy of "The Expert at the Card Table" by S.W. Erdnase. Subtitle of "Artifice, Ruse and Subterfuge" First published in 1902. My copy is a huge 2 3/4 X 4 1/2 inches!
Card sharp.... ? just had to google that as I thought it was a typo. Who knew Sharp and Shark are interchangable :) And Card Sharp predates the use of Shark
They don't call them shark shooters, though that would make an interesting mashup of jaws and mad max...
Amoralman is a wonderful wonderful book that cannot help hustling the reader ... but just a little.
I just went on "Libby", a library app where u can rent podcasts from libraries for free. I put amoral man on hold and it has a 19 week waiting line! I’m excited to listen to it when it’s available and I feel fun being in a library podcast waiting line hehe!
Thanks for the recommendations. I recommend you check out “playing off the rail” by David McCumber for an fun road trip and con world adventure
Never found the right place to recommend a book to Adam so if we are talking about books "Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World" is a great read or a book to listen to. It charts how Precision change the world with each chapter title being a fraction of an inch.
We'll pass it along!
Damnit! If only you had told me earlier, I could have included that in the same order I just placed for all the other recommended books. 🤣
Now I’m going to have to go back and buy another one. Oh, well.... 👍
Joe Rogan also had a period that he spent all of his time in Pool Halls in New York - at around the same time.
Could there have been a Adam Savage Vs. Joe Rogan game sometime in the early '90s?
Just wanted to say I recently finished "Every tool's a hummer" on audio book. Loved it and the fact that you red it yourself made it even better. Love the channel and your stories from movie sets and from mythbusters, the tool tips are nice too ! Thank you and keep it up :)
Adam did not just read it, he wrote it!
@@peterkelley6344 I know, after all it's about his life and lessons he learned from his experience. But going the extra step to also read it is something special, not many writers do it.
I also recommend The Death and Resurrection Show by Rogan P. Taylor about the history of shamans and its impact on modern society. It’s quite hard to find but definitely worth it. It’s one of the treasures in my library
Knowledge is the greatest tool there is!
I will watch anyone who is good at the thing that they do, doing the thing that they're good at. I don't care what the thing is, my interest is in watching the truly skillful.
Reading this book now and it's a great read! Make sure you run your finger over the cover - cool design
Adam you should meet the guys at The Modern Rogue
YESSSS!!!
Stuff made here: automatic pool shots yt vid
Best vid iv seen in a while.im only 3 min into your vid adam, and i dont know if u mention it, but if u dnt, or if u haven't seen it already, you would appreciate that vid.
Okay Adam I'll bite, what are your favorite woodworking and craft books?
As for the card sharps I'd have thought Ricky Jay or Dad Vernon would have made the list.
Hi Adam can you please make the movable puzzle box from the hellraiser movies please. Love what you do from Cornwall England 😀
Adam, if you haven’t seen the film yet, look up Shooting Gallery (2005)
If you haven't read "how to cheat at everything" by Simon Lovell, please consider reading it, it's amazing :)
So, is it just blank pages (to get your book money, lol).
@@melainewhite6409 No, that’s the “everything men know about woman” book, already read that one, didn’t understand it :)
@@stensgaard_youtube Who's the author, lol? Reminds me of the "History of Prosperous Socialist Countries" book.
Where is the raptor?
Have you ever seen Poolhall Junkies? That’s one of my all time favorites!!!!!
What happened to the velociraptor builds though?
IT is unclear where they are. The Raptor series (5 episodes at this point) have vanished from this channel.
We know that the Raptor made it back to CA as Adam videoed him besides the finished work. From viewers standpoint there may have been two other episodes that have not been seen. Something happened between episode 5 and now. Some of us wonder if there is/was a legal glitch that cropped up. Personally I hope no-one snatched Lucile away from Adam. That would be truly sad.
6:32 Describes politics perfectly. It's about building trust and slowly manipulating that trust.
Please check out Playing Off The Rail by David Mccumber.
I love films about any kind of hustle or con.
How common is hustling nowadays in bars in the US? Here in Ireland (and I assume in the UK), I wouldn't say there would be any culture of it like there is in the States. I've never played for money against an opponent who appeared to be worse a player than he was, and I've never seen it happen to others.
I'm an avid English pool player, but in recent years, I've heard of terms used in pool like "shark", "sneaky pete", "mark" or "sandbagging", and was pretty surprised that a lot of pool jargon in the US stems from hustling. I'd never heard of these terms before in any blackball game.
how do you have so much energy to keep doing this? amazing.
“Obsessive? What do you mean, obsessive?” He asks himself upon, having taken the day of to do yard work, finds himself instead obsessively binging Tested videos...after staying up until midnight the night before deciding whether to buy a resin Tomenosuki PKD (he did)...and planning to drive a couple of hours this weekend to look at a Charter Arms Bulldog for sale...Obsessive, hmmm? Adam, help me understand what do you mean by that phrase exactly?
A lovely review and testimonial, on several levels. Thank you, Adam.
After covid is over..... a night of billiards with Adam Savage in the cave,
8ball 9ball, what rules do you like to play?
Favorite players?
What's your favorite pool movies?
The hustler or color of money?
Particular type cue?
Oh such a fun game/rabbit hole to jump in
What happened to the book club?
I have been wondering the same thing!?
Nutshell take away; the path to perfection leads to introspection, before enlightenment.
Anyone who is interested should watch the film pool hall junkies. It is not an excellent film by any means but it is pretty enjoyable and has some good Christopher Walken.
Is that a giraffe over your right shoulder? (I see a single wheel showing below the yellow and black striped banner)
Can't wait to give it a read!
Where is your dinosaur?
Hi can I know Chris the space adventure is he alived? Because I love that guy
Where is the raptor?🦖
is it not in Tennessee getting its skin put on?
@@joedesalvo3316 IT is unclear where it is. The Raptor series (5 episodes at this point) have vanished from this channel.
We know that the Raptor made it back to CA as Adam videoed him besides the finished work. From viewers standpoint there may have been two other episodes that have not been seen. Something happened between episode 5 and now. Some of us wonder if there is/was a legal glitch that cropped up. Personally I hope no-one snatched Lucile away from Adam. That would be truly sad.
@@peterkelley6344 U sound like Shakespeare if he commented on youtube lmao
I hope we will see the finished raptor because it's literally my childhood dream come true.
@@MikeOxolong I will take that as a compliment.
Never heard Card "Sharp" before - always "Shark". TIL.
Never heard Card Shark before, always Sharp. I think the 'shark' usage is predominantly American.
They're interchangeable.
pool shark, card sharp
Is that a carrot island diorama in the t-rex/pool table lights mouth? Do tell wiiliam!
Amarillo Slim...in a world of.. " is a classic poker/pool bio
Psychology is the key
What happened to the velociraptor though?
Hustlers need a speculator, assumer or big head as an opponent.
Did you ever play any pros when you used to play at society billiards?
Robert Byrnes... excellent teacher RIP. Best Pool player ever is Efren Reyes.
This channel is awesome
I'm a bit curious about the morality of pool hustling. I also love movies about con-men, but I think there's some difference between a straight-up con-man, and at least what I know about pool hustling. Con-men are straight-up liars, and try to trick you into believing in a game that doesn't even exist. Pool hustlers merely try to deceive you about the difference in skill level between the two of you, and manipulate your emotions and concentration to make you play worse than normal. (Or at least so goes my limited understanding of hustling). The pool hustler doesn't exactly cheat you... there's no trick, other than not being completely honest about how skillful they are. Honestly, who reveals the full truth about themselves to everyone? We all hide aspects of ourselves for our own protection. I'd not be surprised if deliberately trying to distract another player isn't part of just about any game.
Pool hustlers are likely more akin to the marketing departments of large corporations, or people who create political ads. None of these people really completely honest people, but a very sophisticated and more subtle form of deception than a straight-up con man.
It reminds me of a few years ago when I went with my mother, to advise her on leasing a car (ignore the fact that leasing a car is generally a bad financial decision). She wanted to put down as much as possible for a down payment, believing that this would save her money. I pulled out a calculator, and figured out that she actually paid MORE money with a high down payment over 3 years, not less! The sales guy said something about how it lowered your payments. They were sort of quiet when I mentioned that this didn't make any sense that you wound up paying more money with the high down payment, a sure sign they already knew it was a bad deal. Now, what I'd say is this scheme was concocted by less than honest marketing/sales departments who study human psychology. They realize that the lure of "lower payments" was so much that people were willing to pay more for that than they should. Likely very few people pull out calculators and determine that it's a bad financial deal, and you wind up paying more when you make a down payment. It made me mad at the time that they were doing this, and honestly it still does.
Was this dishonest? Probably.... but it's a very sophisticated form of dishonesty that plays on your prior conceived ideas. It's not unlike what I imagine pool hustling to be. I wouldn't go to a car dealership for the same reasons I wouldn't play pool for money. As Richard Feynman put it "I"m smart enough to know I'm dumb". That is, even smart people can be fooled by others who know your weaknesses and frailties better than you know your own.
I think there's a lot of gray areas in any game about what constitutes cheating. For instance, in some sports it's officially against the rules to try to lose. It comes about because sometimes it's actually in your best interests to lose (like if you're playing in a tournament, and winning means going up against a competitor that you're poorly suited against). It's sort of a strange rule that you have to play at the best of your ability. It could even be in your interests to lose, and the other parties interest to win, but it's still "against the rules" for you to not play at your highest level. IIRC some tennis players have been fined for doing exactly this, which is a bit strange if you ask me.
When are you going to build a cue? I'd be surprised if you haven't.
Pool is so fun that even Brits will commonly admit that they like it more than snooker
The book “McGoorty: A Billiard Hustler's Life” is not available on Amazon, despite the link given.
I ended up buying a collectible “Very Good” copy of the book by Minnesota Fats, because I don’t like to buy copies that are not in good condition. I couldn’t find anything in a condition better than “Very Good”, but I did find one collectible copy that was inscribed and signed for $150 which I did not buy.
I just watched the color of money a few weeks ago for like the 10th time. :)
Brilliant
Hello from Germany,
when will you continue with the MythBusters series, Germany can not accept a no please continue the people on the whole well miss you
Greetings Markus
Where is the raptor suit build?
Tools of knowledge. LOL
I like this, I am a stop motion animation creator, this channel is very helpful to me
Huh, I've never heard of a card shark being referred to as a card sharp but apparently the two terms have been used interchangeably over the years and varying with region.
pool is truth
Where is the raptor???
you got hussled, kid. no raptor here.
The only reference of it i can find is on twitter, where Tested reference that the video they shot is an oculus VR exclusive. I wonder if there is something in that exclusivity that is stopping Tested releasing their own videos?
@@Charok1 IT is unclear where it is. The Raptor series (5 episodes at this point) have vanished from this channel.
We know that the Raptor made it back to CA as Adam videoed him besides the finished work. From viewers standpoint there may have been two other episodes that have not been seen. Something happened between episode 5 and now. Some of us wonder if there is/was a legal glitch that cropped up. Personally I hope no-one snatched Lucile away from Adam. That would be truly sad.
Hey whats up with your dogs tail? I saw it for a split second in the mini chop saw video its tail looked like it was broken in half lol
Were is the second part to the big deadly disks episode