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Épisodes 113
Just The Gist of... The Ashlee Simpson Lip Sync Scandal
October 23, 2004. Ashlee Simpson walks out to sing 'Autobiography' on 'Saturday Night Live', the band kicks in, and the wrong song comes out of the speakers: her own voice singing 'Pieces of Me', while her …
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October 23, 2004. Ashlee Simpson walks out to sing 'Autobiography' on 'Saturday Night Live', the band kicks in, and the wrong song comes out of the speakers: her own voice singing 'Pieces of Me', while her microphone is down by her side and her mouth is shut. She freezes, does a little jig, and runs off stage. Apparently the first musical guest in SNL history to not finish a set.
Her explanation was acid reflux and doctor's orders. But SNL doesn't let anyone mime, '60 Minutes' happened to have cameras backstage that week, and Lorne Michaels was not thrilled. So what actually happened?
This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of the Ashlee Simpson SNL lip sync scandal: the 'Newlyweds' little sister marketed as the authentic one, dad-manager Joe Simpson selling her as the punk alternative to Jessica Simpson, the episode of 'The Ashlee Simpson Show' built to spin the whole thing, and the Masked Singer win 22 years later.
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Ashlee Simpson Reflects on 'SNL' Lip-Syncing Incident: 'It Was a Humbling Moment for Me' (Rolling Stone, 2024)
Ashlee Simpson's New Reality (The New York Times, 2018)
Ashlee Simpson: You Asked, We Answered (The New York Times Popcast, 2018)
Was Ashlee Simpson Underappreciated? Discuss (The New York Times Popcast, 2018)
Ashlee Simpson - La La (Live Orange Bowl 2005) (Booed) [HD] (Fuzzy Legends Archives on YouTube, 2005)
SNL Ashlee Simpson - Clean SDTV Video Capture (John Wong on YouTube, 2004)
Ashlee Simpson | Lip Sync Incident (2004) (60 Minutes backstage footage, The Josh and Friends Podcast on YouTube, 2004)
Michaels: Lip-Sync An SNL No-No (60 Minutes on CBS News, 2004)
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JTG TOP TEN: Celebrity Business Flops
Blake Lively's racially offensive attempt at a Goop website. The Kardashian Kard. Pharrell's drink FOR LADIES. An iconic list to be on. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
JTG MINI: The OTHER time Kelly Clarkson got mad she couldn’t buy something
At this point we’ve all heard that Kelly Clarkson got really mad this week when (she says) she was denied the chance to buy a $15,000 wooden bird automaton. But this isn’t actually the first time Kelly Clarkson …
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At this point we’ve all heard that Kelly Clarkson got really mad this week when (she says) she was denied the chance to buy a $15,000 wooden bird automaton. But this isn’t actually the first time Kelly Clarkson made headlines for being really, really mad that she wasn’t allowed to buy something.
In 2012, Kelly Clarkson outbid the Jane Austen House Museum at auction, paying £150,000 to buy the only existing ring ever to belong to Jane Austen. There are less than 50 existing Jane Austen-owned artifacts total, only three pieces of jewellery, and only ONE ring. The museum wanted the ring so they could preserve it as part of Jane Austen’s legacy and share it with Jane Austen fans for generations to come. Kelly Clarkson wanted it so she could wear it. As her engagement ring. There was a public outcry at the time, but Kelly wouldn’t budge.
NOBODY TELLS KELLY CLARKSON SHE CAN’T BUY A THING.
This is Just The Gist (MINI) of the time Kelly Clarkson was not allowed to buy Jane Austen’s ring: the 2012 Sotheby’s bidding war against Jane Austen’s House Museum, the export ban that declared the ring a national treasure, the scramble to raise enough money to match Kelly’s bid, Kelly’s very salty comments after she was forced to hand the ring back, and one LEGENDARY TikTok video that refused to tell the ‘diplomatic’ version of the story (hat tip to you @VainAusten).
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Cat (@bittergirlsclub) on Britain, museums and the Jane Austen ring (TikTok, 2026)
Kelly Clarkson: 'I've had to cry in record label offices to get my singles released' (The Guardian, 2015)
Clarkson: Austen Ring Is 'where It Needs to Be' (Associated Press on YouTube, 2015)
Kelly Clarkson: How I snubbed Simon Cowell and became a Grammy-winning superstar (The Independent, 2015)
Kelly Clarkson: My Jane Austen Ring (TIME, 2013)
Kelly Clarkson gives up Jane Austen's ring (The Guardian, 2013)
Lot 59: Jane Austen's turquoise ring (Sotheby's, 2012)
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Just The Gist of… Christa Pike's failed execution
If you’ve seen Christa Pike’s name in the headlines this week next to the words “botched execution” and have no idea what actually happened, this is the episode for you. Last week, on the 30th of September …
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If you’ve seen Christa Pike’s name in the headlines this week next to the words “botched execution” and have no idea what actually happened, this is the episode for you. Last week, on the 30th of September 2026, Tennessee tried to execute Christa Pike, who had spent 30 years as the only woman on the state’s death row for a murder she committed at 18. The first lethal dose of pentobarbital didn’t kill her. Neither did the second. After two hours behind a closed curtain she left the death chamber in an ambulance, and five days later she woke up in hospital and asked where she was. Her lawyers say she’s the only person known to have survived a completed execution in US history, and nobody, including the Governor of Tennessee, seems to know what happens now.
But in all of this, the victim has been forgotten. Her name was Colleen Slemmer. She was 19, a Florida kid in a ‘Computer Geek’ T-shirt who had left home for the first time to study computers at a Job Corps centre in Knoxville, and who phoned her mum on the night she died to say some girls were bothering her. A few hours later, Christa Pike killed her. Colleen’s mother, May Martinez, put it this way: ‘The criminals get so much attention. Why? Colleen has been lost in this.’
This is Just The Gist of Christa Pike: the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer, the Satanic Panic trial, the ‘Death by Gossip with Wendy Williams’ episode, the Governor Bill Lee clemency fight, the pentobarbital her lawyers say went into her arms instead of her veins, and the mother who drove ten hours from Florida to watch it end and is still waiting to bury her daughter whole.
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Christa Pike is awake and speaking after failed execution, lawyers say (NBC News, 2026)
What happened during Christa Pike’s failed execution (NPR, 2026)
I Know Christa Pike’s Medical History. What Tennessee Did Is Unforgivable. (The New York Times, 2026)
‘Being in prison was not justice’: Family of Colleen Slemmer speaks out on botched execution attempt (WSMV, 2026)
Christa Pike: what we know so far about Tennessee woman’s failed execution (The Guardian, 2026)
Remembering Colleen Slemmer, the teenager killed by Christa Pike (The Tennessean, 2026)
Tennessee says child rapists deserve to die. Now it prepares to execute one of their victims (The Guardian, 2026)
Death by Gossip with Wendy Williams: ‘Thrill Kill’, Season 1 Episode 2 (Investigation Discovery, 2015)
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JTG TOP TEN: Crazy 'Shark Tank' Success Stories
Most people think of 'Shark Tank' as the show where hopeful entrepreneurs try to get rich people to invest in their ridiculous inventions (wine for cats, anyone?). And while that's a big part of it, Shark Tank …
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Most people think of 'Shark Tank' as the show where hopeful entrepreneurs try to get rich people to invest in their ridiculous inventions (wine for cats, anyone?). And while that's a big part of it, Shark Tank has (surprisingly) also been the launch of some BILLION dollar companies. Scrub Daddy was discovered on Shark Tank, and it's not even close to being the most successful company that got its start on the show. One shark put $50,000 into a product that had not sold a single unit, and it has made her tens of millions. Another turned a $400,000 investment into an estimated $300 million.
This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of the top ten Shark Tank success stories: the billion dollar brands, the best deals Lori Greiner, Mark Cuban, Barbara Corcoran, Daymond John and Robert Herjavec ever made, and the no-deal pitch Kevin O'Leary now calls probably the biggest miss in the show's history.
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8 Most Successful Products From "Shark Tank" (Investopedia, 2026)
Kevin O'Leary Is Lying (A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein, 2026)
List of Shark Tank investments (Wikipedia, 2026)
10 Successful Shark Tank Businesses and Their Marketing Strategies (Brand Vision, 2025)
Top 15 Shark Tank Businesses (Shark Tank Blog, 2023)
The 15 biggest 'Shark Tank' success stories of all time (Business Insider, 2015)
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Just The Gist of… The Murder of Selena Quintanilla
In 1995, Selena Quintanilla was about to become one of the biggest pop stars in the world. Just 23 years old, she was already considered the Queen of Tejano music and was easily the most famous singer on the …
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In 1995, Selena Quintanilla was about to become one of the biggest pop stars in the world. Just 23 years old, she was already considered the Queen of Tejano music and was easily the most famous singer on the Latin-American charts. .People often said it wasn’t that she was ‘the Latin Madonna’ but that Madonna was ‘the English Selena’. She'd just played to a record 61,000 people at the Houston Astrodome in her home state of Texas, she'd won a Grammy, she was the face of Coca-Cola, and she was halfway through recording her first English-language pop album that was going to make her a household name everywhere, not just Texas. Until, one morning in March 1995, Selena was suddenly and shockingly murdered by the president of her fan club.
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Selena y Los Dinos: A Family's Legacy (Netflix, 2025)
Selena's killer Yolanda Saldívar shows no remorse after 30 years, says DA (KATV, 2025)
Selena and Yolanda: The Secrets Between Them (Oxygen, 2024)
Selena: A Star Dies in Texas (VAULT Studios podcast, 2020)
Murder Made Me Famous Podcast: Yolanda Saldivar (Reelz, 2018)
From the Archives: 20/20 sits down with Selena's killer (KXXV, 2016)
Murder of Selena (Wikipedia, 2026)
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JTG MINI: Last Ditch - the covid conscious lesbian bar
"I hope your venue gets firebombed." That was a real comment on a real Instagram post from a small lesbian bar in Greenfield, Massachusetts, announcing that one night a week, masks would be optional.The Last …
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"I hope your venue gets firebombed." That was a real comment on a real Instagram post from a small lesbian bar in Greenfield, Massachusetts, announcing that one night a week, masks would be optional.
The Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue opened in 2025 as a COVID-conscious, anti-capitalist bar where no one could be turned away, and it's now the subject of what has reportedly become the Boston Globe's most clicked story in a decade. This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of the Last Ditch lesbian bar: the $50,000 loan, the 400-comment Instagram post, the 3½ hour community meeting that fell apart on Zoom, and the co-founder who left to go to clown school.
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Saturday Night at the Massachusetts Lesbian Bar Everyone Is Talking About (The New York Times, 2026)
Mask-free Saturday nearly cancelled at Massachusetts lesbian bar at center of controversy (New York Post, 2026)
How to Destroy a Lesbian Bar (The Atlantic, 2026)
#NotAllLesbians - we can't let the Massachusetts bar drama turn us all into a punchline (The Guardian, 2026)
A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose. (The Boston Globe, 2026)
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Just The Gist of… The Falling Man - 9/11's most haunting photo
This month marks 25 years since 9/11, and of all the images to come out of that day, possibly the most haunting is one that was published the next morning and then quietly disappeared. Richard Drew's photo of a …
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This month marks 25 years since 9/11, and of all the images to come out of that day, possibly the most haunting is one that was published the next morning and then quietly disappeared. Richard Drew's photo of a man falling headfirst beside the North Tower of the World Trade Center caused so much outrage when it ran on 12 September 2001 that newspapers stopped printing it almost overnight. Around 200 people fell from the Twin Towers that morning, but only one became a symbol, and journalists spent years trying to put a name to him. Should they have? This is Just The Gist of The Falling Man: the Associated Press photographer who captured every person he saw fall, the Windows on the World staff trapped above the fire, Tom Junod's 2003 Esquire story that became one of the magazine's most read ever, the search for his identity that reached the families of Norberto Hernandez and Jonathan Briley, and the widow who begged a reporter to clear her husband's name.
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Truth about the Falling Man (Daily Mail, 2026)
Why this photographer's 9/11 'Falling Man' photo remains controversial (USA Today, 2026)
'It Became Spiritual': The Making of Esquire's 'The Falling Man' (Esquire, 2021)
9/11: The Falling Man (YouTube, 2006)
The Falling Man (Esquire, 2003)
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UNLOCKED BREAKIN' NOOZ: Lindsay Clancy Case Update
We published our 'Just The Gist of The Lindsay Clancy Case' episode (you can listen to it here) a few weeks ago, and it very quickly became one of our most listened to eps ever. Now that the case has ended in a …
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We published our 'Just The Gist of The Lindsay Clancy Case' episode (you can listen to it here) a few weeks ago, and it very quickly became one of our most listened to eps ever. Now that the case has ended in a mistrial, we had a chat about it all on Just The Gist's weekly paid bonus show Breakin' Nooz - about where the case stands now, and the (mostly) respectful and thoughtful discussion the episode caused amongst our listeners, who both agreed and disagreed with each other, and our approach.
Since this is a topic that resonated so significantly with so many gisteners, we decided to take the chat from this week's Breakin' Nooz and put it outside the paywall so anyone can listen. But please remember - this is JUST a chat! Breakin' Nooz is very conversational and casual in nature. If you're after the usual, comprehensive JTG-style coverage of the Lindsay Clancy case, definitely listen to the episode first.
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Just The Gist of… Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton died last week at 80, and she may literally be the last universally loved person we’ll ever see. This is the whole story: the girl born in a one-room shack in the Smoky Mountains with no …
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Dolly Parton died last week at 80, and she may literally be the last universally loved person we’ll ever see. This is the whole story: the girl born in a one-room shack in the Smoky Mountains with no electricity and 11 siblings, who wrote her first song at five, played the Grand Ole Opry at 13, and moved to Nashville the day after she graduated high school (where she met her husband of 60 years at a laundromat, on her first ever go at a washing machine). The Porter Wagoner years, 'Jolene', the resignation letter that became 'I Will Always Love You', '9 to 5', Dollywood, and the quietly enormous philanthropy: the Imagination Library that has given away over 330 million books, the Moderna vaccine money, the children's hospital that now carries her name, and the fact she was secretly a producer on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'. Musical genius, business brain, and possibly the most generous person in American entertainment history. Also a great flirt.
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Of Course Dolly Parton Produced Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TIME, 2026)
A Timeline of Dolly Parton's Good Deeds (Billboard, 2026)
Dolly Parton (Wikipedia, 2026)
A complete timeline of Dolly Parton's inspiring life and career (Business Insider, 2020)
Dolly Parton's America (WNYC Studios podcast, 2019)
Dolly Parton: Here I Am (Netflix, 2019)
E! True Hollywood Story: Dolly Parton (E! on YouTube, 2019)
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JTG MINI: Why is Selena Gomez being sued over her company 'Wondermind'?
Selena Gomez is being sued for fraud. Investors say the mental health startup she founded with her mum, Mandy Teefey, took their millions based on promises that never came true. Based on Selena's massive star …
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Selena Gomez is being sued for fraud. Investors say the mental health startup she founded with her mum, Mandy Teefey, took their millions based on promises that never came true. Based on Selena's massive star power, the company valued at $200 million before it had made a single dollar. But besides a website, what did Wondermind actually DO? (not much, apparently.)
This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of Wondermind: the Selena Gomez fraud lawsuit, co-founder Daniella Pierson who Anna Delvey'd her way onto the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, and the co-CEO mum who allegedly spent her days in the office sleeping and watching TV.
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What Happened at Wondermind? (The Cut, 2025)
Selena Gomez's Lawyers Blast 'Absurd' Wondermind Fraud Lawsuit, Threaten Sanctions (Forbes, 2026)
'Only Scammers in the Building' (Corporate Gossip Podcast, 2026)
Wondermind's 'Our Story' page (Wondermind website)
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Just The Gist of... The Billionaire Boys Club
"Tape mouth. Handcuff. Explain situation." When police finally searched missing conman Ron Levin's Beverly Hills mansion in 1984, they found a seven-page murder to-do list, left behind on the killer's own …
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"Tape mouth. Handcuff. Explain situation." When police finally searched missing conman Ron Levin's Beverly Hills mansion in 1984, they found a seven-page murder to-do list, left behind on the killer's own personalised letterhead, signature doodled all over it.
The killer was Joe Hunt, the 24-year-old leader of the Billionaire Boys Club, an LA investment group made up of the rich, bored, freshly graduated sons of men they could never hope to impress. Hunt promised them a genius trading formula that couldn't fail. What he actually built was a Ponzi scheme, a pseudo-intellectual bro cult, and eventually two murders in which almost nobody involved had any actual money. This is the story of the scammer who got scammed, and possibly the only murderer in history to bring a to-do list. This is Just The Gist of the Billionaire Boys Club: Joe Hunt, the murder of Ron Levin, the fake $5 million trading account, the 1987 Judd Nelson miniseries, and the Kevin Spacey movie that made $618 on its opening weekend.
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The True Story of the Billionaire Boys Club (Esquire, 1986, republished 2021)
Founder of Billionaire Boys Club makes case for parole (Los Angeles Times, 2018)
Billionaire Boys Club, Marcia Clark Investigates The First 48 podcast (Apple Podcasts, 2018)
Billionaire Boys Club, Murder Made Me Famous (2016)
Dirty Rotten Kids (The Washington Post, 1990)
Billionaire Boys Club 1987 miniseries starring Judd Nelson (YouTube, 1987)
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JTG MINI: The luxury bag made of T-Rex leather
“Move over Birkin. Watch out Chanel. There’s a new apex predator.” OF LUXURY GOODS. A luxury bag made of T-rex leather was unveiled earlier this year at Amsterdam Art Zoo Museum. The leather was made by taking …
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“Move over Birkin. Watch out Chanel. There’s a new apex predator.” OF LUXURY GOODS. A luxury bag made of T-rex leather was unveiled earlier this year at Amsterdam Art Zoo Museum. The leather was made by taking some collagen remnants found in a 68-million-year-old T-Rex femur bone, and smooshing them with some cells to grow T-Rex skin. That skin was then turned into leather, dyed a bluish-grey and ‘crafted’ into a luxury handbag. Experts are predicting it will sell for the amount of ‘ten Birkin Bags’. But complex science had to be part of making this happen, so was any of this (at all… even a little) for scientific benefit? Or medical research and development?
Lol no. IT’S ALL ABOUT CAPITALISM BÉBÉ.
The luxury industry is apparently freaking out that billionaires aren’t as interested in the usual ‘luxury goods’ anymore, because they hate that the normies (AKA the poors AKA you and me) can access the same stuff. (See last week’s JTG MINI on the Hermes Birkin.) And what’s the point of buying a thing if all the plebs can buy it too? That kind of consumption is not special enough for billionaires. Enter: Dinosaur Leather. We have officially reached the kind of dystopian future where rich ladies are sick of Birkin and are looking for the kind of exclusivity that can only come from buying the resurrected skin of a dinosaur. Try and buy a fake version of THAT in Bali you bogans!
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T-Rex Leather case study (VML, 2026)
The next killer fashion item? A handbag made from T-rex leather (The Times, 2025)
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JTG MINI: The weird process of buying a Birkin Bag (AKA 'The Hermès Game')
You can walk into an Hermès store with 20 grand in cash, ask for a Birkin bag, and they will say no. Because Hermès doesn't sell you the world's most coveted handbag, Hermès decides if you DESERVE one. Hopeful …
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You can walk into an Hermès store with 20 grand in cash, ask for a Birkin bag, and they will say no. Because Hermès doesn't sell you the world's most coveted handbag, Hermès decides if you DESERVE one. Hopeful customers spend years (and tens of thousands of dollars) buying scarves, blankets and homewares first, stuff Hermès clients literally call 'garbage', all in the hope of one day being invited to spend another 15 grand on a bag. It's called The Hermès Game, and thousands of people are playing it right now.
This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of The Hermès Game: Jane Birkin and the sketch on an Air France sick bag, quota bags and the pre-spend, the 10.1 million dollar original Birkin, and the sales associates who insist there are no bags in the back (there are bags in the back).
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Hermès and the success of the coveted Birkin bag (60 Minutes, 2024)
The Birkin Is Losing Value. Owners Refuse to Believe It. (Back Row, 2026)
Birkin Buyer Confessions, Part I (Back Row, 2025)
Birkin Buyer Confessions, Part II (Back Row, 2025)
Inside the Hermès Game: Who Actually Gets a Birkin? (The Backrow Podcast, 2026)
The Weight of a Handbag (Edie Lou Studio, 2025)
How customers 'play the Hermès game' to secure a coveted luxury handbag (ABC News, 2025)
How The Hermes Game Started (From A Former Hermes SA) (YouTube, 2024)
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Just The Gist of... The Lindsay Clancy Case
The Lindsay Clancy case is the story everyone seems to be talking about right now. But if you haven’t been following Lindsay Clancy’s story from the start, it’s a hard one to catch up on, so this episode breaks …
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The Lindsay Clancy case is the story everyone seems to be talking about right now. But if you haven’t been following Lindsay Clancy’s story from the start, it’s a hard one to catch up on, so this episode breaks it all down and gives you just the gist of what you need to know.
In January 2023, after months of desperately trying to get help for her declining mental health, Lindsay Clancy took the lives of her three young children, and ended up paralysed in an attempt to take her own. She was charged with murder, and has been in custody in a psychiatric facility ever since. Her trial began in July 2026, with Lindsay’s legal team arguing she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and is not criminally responsible. The prosecution is arguing the killings were planned. Her husband (who was tragically the one to find Lindsay and their children Cora, Dawson and Callan back in 2023) has since divorced her and remarried, but has made it very clear that he forgives her, saying: “I wasn’t married to a monster. I was married to someone who got sick.”
Lindsay Clancy’s story has triggered a long overdue and much needed conversation about the inadequacy of not just women's healthcare, but maternal and postpartum healthcare in particular. But thanks to the trial being televised live, this case has also triggered a major conspiracy rabbit hole online, with increasingly bizarre theories being thrown around as each day passes.
Content warning: this episode discusses the deaths of children, mental illness, suicide and postpartum psychosis. If this story brings anything up for you, please reach out for support:
Lifeline: 13 11 14 or lifeline.org.au (24/7 crisis support)
PANDA National Helpline: 1300 726 306 or panda.org.au (7 days a week, support for new parents and families)
Gidget Foundation Australia: 1300 851 450 or gidgetfoundation.org.au (specialist perinatal mental health support and telehealth and clinic services)
Pregnancy, Birth and Baby Helpline: 1800 882 436 or pregnancybirthbaby.org.au (free national video and phone counselling)
ForWhen: 1300 24 23 22 or forwhenhelpline.org.au (mental health navigation service for expectant and new parents)
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A Husband in the Aftermath of His Wife's Unfathomable Act (The New Yorker, 2024)
Lindsay Clancy's trial highlights gaps in understanding, treating postpartum psychosis (NPR, 2026)
Broken Brains by Jamila Rizvi and Rosie Waterland (2025)
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BONUS BREAKIN' NOOZ: Logies and AI Gae Guys and psychotic Harry Potter fans oh my!
Surprise! Free for everyone this week!It's not news, it's NOOZ! In these JTG BONUS eps, Rosie Waterland gives just the gist of the week's most important nonsense. Episodes drop every Tuesday (along with a bunch …
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Surprise! Free for everyone this week!
It's not news, it's NOOZ! In these JTG BONUS eps, Rosie Waterland gives just the gist of the week's most important nonsense. Episodes drop every Tuesday (along with a bunch of other bonus stuff!) for members of The Gistener Club, which you can access via the Just The Gist Patreon right here or through Apple Premium Subscriptions.
This week!
- What do you get when you mix just the right amount of bogan nostalgia and sequinned glam? THE LOGIES. Australia's night of nights, hosted this year by national treasure Robert Irwin, who is never not smiling or reading an autocue. Protect him at all costs.
- The Jake Schroeder (@frostedjake) and Sam Altman saga has finally come to an end, and Rosie refuses to accept that it was fake. THIS GOES ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP.
- There are updates in the whole Phia scandal (gisten to our recent episode JTG MINI: What is going on with Phia? here) and things don't look good for billionaire offspring Phoebe Gates, with messages seeming to prove she and co-founder Sophia Kianni knew they're little app was doing dodgy stuff. Looks like that, 'Don't ask me, I'm just a girl!' isn't gonna cut it.
- A journalist for WIRED requested the data McDonalds had collected on him and they sent him over 500 PAGES specifically about him. And if you've ever eaten at Maccas, they probably have a similar file on you.
- A multi-million dollar powerline connecting the UK to Ireland came dangerously close to some Bronze Age remains, because (psychotic, insufferable, get it together you freaks) Harry Potter fans demanded its original planned location be moved because it 'desecrated the grave' of Dobby. A fictional character. From a fictional book.
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ENCORE: The Woman Who Fell in Love with a Dolphin
In the 1960s, Margaret Howe Lovatt became part of a NASA-funded experiment to teach a dolphin named Peter to speak English. What started as groundbreaking interspecies communication research quickly turned into …
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In the 1960s, Margaret Howe Lovatt became part of a NASA-funded experiment to teach a dolphin named Peter to speak English. What started as groundbreaking interspecies communication research quickly turned into something much more controversial when Margaret moved into a flooded house to live with Peter 24/7 for six months. As Peter reached sexual maturity, their relationship crossed boundaries in ways that would overshadow the entire experiment and become one of the most shocking animal research scandals in scientific history.
We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's this:
The Guardian's comprehensive investigation - "The dolphin who loved me: the Nasa-funded project that went wrong" (2014)
The Atlantic's detailed report - "How A Science Experiment Led to Sexual Encounters Between a Woman and a Dolphin" (2014)
BBC documentary - "The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins" (2014)
BBC documentary clip - "Teaching a dolphin to speak English" footage
Margaret Howe Lovatt Wikipedia page - Complete biography and experiment details
John C. Lilly's book - "Man and Dolphin" - The original research that started it all (1961)
Medium article analysis - "The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins: Watch this documentary if you are into space" (2021)
News18 retrospective - "When The Love Story Of A Dolphin And Woman Made News In The 60s" (2023)
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JTG MINI: The eBay Stalking Scandal story just had a major update.
(ENCORE!) We spoke on JTG’s bonus Breakin’ Nooz this week about eBay agreeing to pay $56 million to Ina and David Steiner - the unassuming, nerdy married couple that eBay executives terrorised with live …
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(ENCORE!) We spoke on JTG’s bonus Breakin’ Nooz this week about eBay agreeing to pay $56 million to Ina and David Steiner - the unassuming, nerdy married couple that eBay executives terrorised with live cockroaches and spiders, a bloody pig mask and a funeral wreath - all because Ina wrote about negatively about eBay on her nerdy industry blog ‘ECommerceBytes’. When we first released this episode, eBay had been found guilty, the CEO had lost his job and the Steiners had sued the company for compensation, but not yet agreed on an amount. It turns out Ina and David kept turning eBay’s offers down, until eBay agreed to give them every last thing they wanted - and they had some very specific demands. (BECAUSE THEY DESERVE IT! The CEO literally had spiders sent to their home!)
Listen to this crazy story again, or hear it for the first time and marvel that the company whose motto is 'People are basically good' did any of this. This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of the eBay stalking scandal: former CEO Devin Wenig, the 'take her down' email, Jim's Angels, the pig mask from 'Saw', and David and Ina Steiner, who to this day are still cheerfully writing about eBay's seller fees (but, you know, a whole lot richer).
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eBay Saved Search Feature Disappoints Savvy Seller (EcommerceBytes, 2026)
eBay agrees $56m settlement with bloggers over harassment case (BBC News, 2026)
Whatever It Takes: Inside the eBay Scandal (ABC iview, 2024)
EcommerceBytes, Ina and David Steiner's e-commerce news website
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Just The Gist of… The Murder of Maurizio Gucci - the man who lost the Gucci family their fashion company
"My eyesight is not so good darling, I didn't want to miss." The line that finally convinced her own daughters she'd done it, after 17 years of prison visits.In 1995, Maurizio Gucci walked into his office …
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"My eyesight is not so good darling, I didn't want to miss." The line that finally convinced her own daughters she'd done it, after 17 years of prison visits.
In 1995, Maurizio Gucci walked into his office building in Milan and was shot four times. His ex-wife Patrizia Reggiani was convicted of arranging the hit, and their two daughters - Alessandra and Allegra Gucci - spent nearly two decades visiting her in prison, certain she was innocent. Because the list of people who may have wanted Maurizio dead was long: he had ousted every other Gucci from the family company, cut off the licensing deals making his cousins rich, and sent his own 81-year-old uncle to prison for tax evasion. Then he lost Gucci anyway.
This is Just The Gist of the murder of Maurizio Gucci: the true story behind the 2021 Ridley Scott film 'House of Gucci' starring Lady Gaga, the family feud that cost the Guccis their own brand, and Patrizia Reggiani, the ex-wife who now spends her days luxury shopping with a parrot on her shoulder.
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Allegra Gucci breaks lifelong silence on father's murder (New York Post, 2022)
Killing Gucci: People Magazine Investigates (Investigation Discovery, 2021)
The Outrageous True Story Behind the 'House of Gucci' Movie (Time, 2021)
The Gucci wife and the hitman: fashion's darkest tale (The Guardian, 2016)
Crime of Fashion (Power, Privilege and Justice on YouTube, 2005)
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JTG MINI: John Jones and the Nutty Putty Cave.
"There’s a reason being hung upside down was once used as a form of torture."It’s the horror story cavers tell each other as a warning. In 2009, 26-year-old medical student John Jones went spelunking with his …
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"There’s a reason being hung upside down was once used as a form of torture."
It’s the horror story cavers tell each other as a warning. In 2009, 26-year-old medical student John Jones went spelunking with his brother and nine friends in Utah’s Nutty Putty Cave - a system of tunnels so tight you literally have to breathe out to fit through them. John was aiming to squeeze through the famous tunnel called ‘The Birth Canal’. But... he picked the wrong tunnel. This is Just The Gist (MINI) of the Nutty Putty Cave: John Edward Jones, the dead-end tunnel called ‘Ed’s Push’, the 137 rescuers who spent 27 hours trying to reach him, and the reason the cave has been sealed shut with concrete ever since.
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Nutty Putty: ‘I really, really want to get out’ (The Salt Lake Tribune, 2018)
Nutty Putty: ‘We’re going to get you out’ (The Salt Lake Tribune, 2018)
Man trapped in Utah County’s Nutty Putty cave dies (Deseret News, 2009)
Nutty Putty Cave accident victim’s widow: ‘I know there is life after death’ (Deseret News, 2016)
Nutty Putty Cave Accident (Cave Haven, 2023)
The Last Descent Official Trailer (Rotten Tomatoes Indie on YouTube, 2016)
Buried Alive: the Nutty Putty Cave Incident (ABSTRACT on YouTube, 2021)
John Jones, Caver Dies While Exploring Cave with Family in Utah (Horror Stories on YouTube, 2023)
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Just The Gist of... The Execution of The Romanovs (and the search for Anastasia)
One day they were the most powerful and wealthy royal family in the world, their ancestors having been in charge of Russia for more than 300 years. NEK MINIT... Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alix and their …
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One day they were the most powerful and wealthy royal family in the world, their ancestors having been in charge of Russia for more than 300 years. NEK MINIT... Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alix and their five children (including the legendary Anastasia) are taken down to a basement in the middle of the night and killed, in a VERY botched and violent execution. For years, Russia refused to acknowledge what really happened that night, which led to much speculation about their fate. Thanks to DNA testing, the bodies of Nicholas, Alix and four of their children were finally identified and given a royal burial in 1998.
But the skeletal remains of the other two Romanov children are still, to this day, sitting in a Russian archive, because the Russian Orthodox Church refuses to acknowledge them as authentic Romanovs, despite DNA proof. So... does the church know something we don’t know? Did all of the Romanovs actually die that night? Or did 16-year-old Anastasia escape and move to Florida, eventually retire and become one of the Golden Girls?
This is Just The Gist of the execution of the Romanov Family (and the ongoing speculation about Anastasia).
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The Last Czars (Netflix, 2019)
Russia’s Lost Princesses (BBC, 2014)
Why the Romanov Family’s Fate Was a Secret Until the Fall of the Soviet Union (History, 2018)
DNA Analysis Confirms Authenticity of Romanovs’ Remains (Smithsonian Magazine, 2018)
Putting the Romanovs to rest (Meduza, 2025)
Episode 310: Rasputin Part I (Last Podcast on the Left, 2018)
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Just The Gist of... Tania Head, The Fake 9/11 Survivor
Her story was one of triumph over trauma. When the planes flew into the World Trade Center twin towers on September 11, 2001, Tania Head was on the floor where the plane hit the south tower. With her arm almost …
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Her story was one of triumph over trauma. When the planes flew into the World Trade Center twin towers on September 11, 2001, Tania Head was on the floor where the plane hit the south tower. With her arm almost completely severed, she somehow made it out, only to still be at ground zero when the tower collapsed. One of the few survivors pulled from the rubble, Tania woke up in hospital with horrific injuries, only to be told that her fiancé, who was in the other tower, has died. She goes on to become president of the World Trade Center Survivors' Network, and is the public face of those who made it out. One little problem - Tania had never even been to the World Trade Center. Not only was she not in New York City on 9/11, she wasn't even in the United States. Her name wasn't even Tania.
This is Just The Gist of Alicia Esteve Head: the fake 9/11 survivor, the 2007 New York Times investigation that exposed her, and the 2012 documentary' The Woman Who Wasn't There' that asked the question everybody wanted the answer to... WHY?
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The Woman Who Wasn't There documentary (YouTube, 2012)
The Woman Who Wasn't There by Robin Gaby Fisher and Angelo J. Guglielmo Jr. (2012)
In a 9/11 Survival Tale, the Pieces Just Don't Fit (The New York Times, 2007)
Robin Gaby Fisher and Angelo Guglielmo interviewed on All Things Considered (NPR, 2012)
Excerpt from The Woman Who Wasn't There (NPR, 2012)
The 9/11 Faker documentary summary (Watch Documentaries, 2008)
Angelo Guglielmo essay on Tania Head (HuffPost, 2012)
Madrid newspaper details on Alicia Esteve Head (Survivor Guidelines, 2007)
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JTG MINI: Phia, Phoebe Gates and the 'cookie stuffing' scandal
Phoebe Gates, the 23-year-old daughter of billionaires Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, has spent the last year insisting her shopping app Phia would succeed with, quote, 'no ties to my privilege or my last …
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Phoebe Gates, the 23-year-old daughter of billionaires Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, has spent the last year insisting her shopping app Phia would succeed with, quote, 'no ties to my privilege or my last name'. And it seemed to be working: Phia raised $43.5 million from investors including Khloe Kardashian, Paris Hilton and Sydney Sweeney, and hit a $185 million valuation in less than two years. Then on the 9th of July 2026, a Bloomberg investigation alleged the app had been faking how well it was doing with a sneaky trick called 'cookie stuffing', possibly defrauding investors and affiliate partners out of tens of millions of dollars. It's so serious that the last people caught doing it were prosecuted by the FBI and went to federal prison. This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of Phia, Phoebe Gates and the fake clicks scandal: the Bloomberg cookie stuffing investigation, the celebrity investors, and the self-made girlboss story that may be unravelling in real time.
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Gates Heir's Shopping App Took Credit for Sales It Didn't Drive (Bloomberg, 2026)
Forced Clicks and Stand-Down Violations by Shopping Plugin Phia (BenEdelman.org, 2026)
Affiliate Fraud Litigation Index (BenEdelman.org, 2026)
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Just The Gist of... Bernie Madoff
His $68 billion fraud literally came down to fake statements printed on a secret floor of the office - so how did he get away with it for long? Bernie Madoff ran the biggest Ponzi scheme in history, and it was …
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His $68 billion fraud literally came down to fake statements printed on a secret floor of the office - so how did he get away with it for long? Bernie Madoff ran the biggest Ponzi scheme in history, and it was shockingly simple. And yeah - he took billions from billionaires, but he also took the life savings and superannuation of everyday people. Homes were foreclosed on and lives were ruined. Bernie insisted only he was to blame, and his wife Ruth and sons Mark and Andrew Madoff denied any knowledge of the fraud. But a 2023 book (Madoff: The Final Word by Richard Behar (2024)) revealed that all three of them may have been far more involved than they insisted. Bernie died alone in prison in 2021, knowing that both Andrew and Mark had died and Ruth was alone in an aged care facility. Did he even care?
This is Just The Gist of Bernie Madoff and the biggest Ponzi scheme in history.
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Madoff: The Final Word by Richard Behar (2024)
Where Is Bernie Madoff's Wife Ruth Madoff Now? (People, 2025)
Madoff's Final Word: The Sins of Ruth Madoff (Forbes, 2024)
Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street official trailer (YouTube, 2023)
The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust by Diana Henriques (2011)
Bernie Madoff case file (FBI, 2021)
Bernie Madoff (Wikipedia, 2026)
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JTG MINI: How Pop Mart lost billions on the rise and fall of Labubus.
At the peak of the Labubu craze in 2025, Pop Mart, the company behind the viral blind box toys, was worth more than Mattel and Hasbro combined. That's Barbie AND Nerf, beaten by a snaggle-toothed elf from …
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At the peak of the Labubu craze in 2025, Pop Mart, the company behind the viral blind box toys, was worth more than Mattel and Hasbro combined. That's Barbie AND Nerf, beaten by a snaggle-toothed elf from artist Kasing Lung's 'The Monsters' universe, dangling off the designer handbags of Lisa from BLACKPINK, Rihanna and Cher. Then the bubble burst: resale prices cratered, counterfeit 'Lafufus' flooded the market, Pop Mart's stock plunged more than 22 percent in a single day, and founder Wang Ning personally lost 2.7 billion dollars before lunch. This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of the rise and fall of Labubu: the blind box craze, the celebrity bag charm frenzy, and the toy bubble that burst almost overnight.
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Why Labubu Maker Pop Mart's Shares Are Plunging (Bloomberg Television on YouTube, 2026)
Meet The Teacher Who Wakes Up At 3:30 AM For His Labubu Business (Business Insider on YouTube, 2025)
'Labubu' is a plush toy that is causing a frenzy. Here's its origin story (NPR, 2025)
The Downfall of Labubus (YouTube, 2025)
Fever to fatigue? Pop Mart welcomes the fall in Labubu resale prices (CNBC, 2025)
What comes after Labubu? Inside Pop Mart's next growth play (CNBC, 2026)
Pop Mart Founder Wang Ning's Net Worth Drops $6 Billion As Labubu Demand Cools (Forbes, 2025)
Why Are People Lining Up for Labubus? (UC San Diego Today, 2025)
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JTG MINI: Why Michael J. Fox replaced Eric Stoltz in Back to the Future
EDIT: YES I ACCIDENTALLY SAY 'MATTHEW' INSTEAD OF 'MICHAEL' IN THE FIRST 30 SECONDS I CANNOT FREAKING BELIEVE I DID THAT 🫠😂🫠 (And yes we could go in and change it but I actually think it's extremely funny.)It's …
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EDIT: YES I ACCIDENTALLY SAY 'MATTHEW' INSTEAD OF 'MICHAEL' IN THE FIRST 30 SECONDS I CANNOT FREAKING BELIEVE I DID THAT 🫠😂🫠 (And yes we could go in and change it but I actually think it's extremely funny.)
It's hard to imagine anyone but Michael J. Fox playing the iconic role of Marty McFly in 1985's Back To The Future. But another actor was originally cast, and even spent a month filming almost half the movie's scenes before he was informed he was being replaced.
That actor was Eric Stoltz - a 23-year-old who had been auditioning for years when he landed the life-changing role of Marty McFly. Produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Robert Zemeckis, Back to the Future was all but guaranteed to launch Stoltz's career into the stratosphere. But just one month into filming, Eric Stoltz was fired and the role was recast with young sitcom actor Michael J. Fox.
The Back to the Future trilogy went on to become one of the most successful and iconic franchises in cinematic history. Fox himself became one of the world's most famous and beloved actors. He and Eric Stoltz didn't speak for almost 40 years.
So what happened to Eric Stoltz? Why was he fired? And how does it work when an actor needs to be recast after filming is already well underway? This is Just The Gist (MINI) of what is considered one of the most brutal recasting stories in Hollywood history: Michael J. Fox replacing Eric Stoltz in Back to the Future.
(Sorry we're a day behind - James was away for a couple of days and of course I broke something in the studio while he was gone 🫠😂 Rosie x)
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We Don't Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy by Caseen Gaines (2015)
Michael J. Fox Met Eric Stoltz, 40 Years After 'Back to the Future' Recasting (Variety, 2025)
How We Made ‘Back to the Future’ (The Guardian, 2014)
Eric Stoltz interview clip about being fired from ‘Back to the Future’ (Instagram)
No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of ‘A League of Their Own’ by Erin Carlson (2023)
Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of ‘The View’ by Ramin Setoodeh (2019)
Just The Gist podcast episode: ‘The 1989 Oscars (aka the worst Oscars ceremony of all time)’ 2025
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JTG MINI: Guy Goma - the man BBC accidentally interviewed on LIVE TV
In 2006, a man named Guy Goma turned up at the BBC for a job interview in IT support. Ten minutes later, he found himself live on BBC News 24, being introduced to millions as a leading technology journalist …
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In 2006, a man named Guy Goma turned up at the BBC for a job interview in IT support. Ten minutes later, he found himself live on BBC News 24, being introduced to millions as a leading technology journalist. But it's what happens next that made it one of the most viral videos of all time: A look of panic flashes across Guy's face when he realises they've got the wrong person, and rather than point it out, he composes himself, takes a breath and… just goes ahead with the interview. This year, to mark the legendary moment's 20th anniversary, Guy Goma and the producer who put him on air published a book called 'The Wrong Guy: The Inside Story of TV's Greatest Cock-Up'.
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A Mistaken Guy: The 20-Year Legacy of a Live TV Blunder (The New York Times, 2026)
Twenty years since wrong Guy resulted in greatest mix-up on live TV (ABC News, 2026)
20 years since BBC's iconic accidental TV interview (LBC / James O’Brien, YouTube, 2026)
Accidental Celebrities podcast (2023)
Man in viral 2006 BBC interview mixup says he will sue for royalties (The Guardian, 2023)
I was interviewed on live TV by accident (BBC World Service Outlook, 2022)
Ten Years On: A Lesson In Thinking On Your Feet By Guy Goma (VICE, 2016)
BBC Apologizes For Interview Mishap (CBS News / Associated Press, 2006)
Guy Goma BBC interview (Wikipedia, 2026)
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Just The Gist of... De Beers and the Diamond Marketing Scam
Why is a diamond supposed to cost you two months' salary? Why is it THE rock we’re supposed to propose with? Turns out none of it is real. Diamonds aren't rare and they're almost definitely not worth what you …
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Why is a diamond supposed to cost you two months' salary? Why is it THE rock we’re supposed to propose with? Turns out none of it is real. Diamonds aren't rare and they're almost definitely not worth what you paid. All of that was made up by an advertising agency paid by De Beers - the world’s biggest diamond company. Because De Beers knew if people found out that diamonds weren’t actually rare or special, they’d stop buying them.
This is Just The Gist of what was arguably one of the best marketing campaigns in history (and the reason that diamond ring on your finger isn’t nearly as valuable as you think): De Beers and the Diamond Marketing Scam.
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Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (The Atlantic, 1982)
Diamonds Aren't Rare. Why Are They So in Demand? (The Atlantic, 2023)
Diamonds Aren't Forever: The Story of De Beers (Sahil Bloom, 2022)
The Diamond Empire: How De Beers Created a Market Out of Nothing (Business Leader, 2024)
Diamond Crash Delivers a Third Strike for De Beers (Forbes, 2026)
How De Beers Changed the Diamond Market With One Simple Tagline (Sotheby’s)
Diamonds from Coal? (Geology.com)
Diamonds Unearthed (Smithsonian Magazine)
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