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Brian Allen Brushwood (born January 17, 1975) is an American magician, podcaster, author, lecturer and comedian. Brushwood is known for the series ''Scam School'', a show where he teaches the audience entertaining tricks at bars so they can "scam" a free drink from their friends. In addition to ''Scam School'' Brushwood co-hosts the podcasts ''Weird Things'', ''Too Long Didn't Listen'', ''Cordkillers'' and ''Night Attack''. Brushwood was also a regular guest on the ''This Week in Tech'' podcast. Brushwood performs his ''Bizarre Magic'' stage show across the United States and is the author of six books. Brushwood has appeared on national television numerous times including on ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'', CNN and Food Network. ==Biography== Brushwood was born in Fountain Valley, California, later lived in Colorado, Norway, and as of 2014, Texas. As a child Brushwood got a magic kit on Christmas Day.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6HVXhCDMl8 )〕 During his time as a student at the University of Texas at Austin Brushwood rediscovered his interest in magic, performing his first paid shows by filling in for another magician whose schedule was too full.〔 This interest in magic led Brushwood to perform a 45-minute magic show as his senior thesis.〔 As an undergraduate Brushwood attended Dr. Rory Coker's Pseudoscience class which introduced him to scientific skepticism. Dr. Coker mentored Brushwood for his senior thesis and has invited Brushwood back as an alumnus to help demonstrate concepts in his class.〔 Brushwood graduated from the Plan II honors program at the University of Texas at Austin in 1997.〔 After graduation Brushwood married his wife, Bonnie, and began testing video games for Rockwell Semiconductors, followed by a career at Dell where he designed high end computer systems.〔 During his time at Dell, Brushwood moonlighted as a magician on Wednesday nights at The Electric Lounge in Austin, Texas while ''The Asylum Street Spankers'' took their break.〔 In 1999 Brushwood was offered a raise at Dell and realized he wasn't following his passion so he made the decision to quit working at Dell and to start performing his ''Bizarre Magic'' show full-time.〔 When a television deal fell through Brushwood decided to look into Internet broadcasting where he would be able to have more control over the product and process. After filming several episodes of ''Brian Brushwood: On The Road'' Brushwood got the idea for ''Scam School''. He originally intended to produce it independently but eventually sold the idea to Revision 3 and the first episode aired on April 6, 2008.〔 Revision 3's location in San Francisco required Brushwood to travel to California to shoot episodes of ''Scam School'', usually a dozen at a time due to travel expenses. In October 2008 one of Brushwood's childhood heroes, Richard Garriott, performed a magic trick he learned from ''Scam School'' while he was aboard the International Space Station.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0_f_RzqZ2Q )〕 When Discovery Digital Networks purchased Revision 3 Brushwood used it as an opportunity to move production of ''Scam School'' from the San Francisco Bay area to Austin, Texas where he currently lives with his wife and three children.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brian Brushwood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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