In 1995, daytime talk shows like Jerry Springer and Jenny Jones were at the height of their popularity thanks to using a tactic called ‘ambush television’ - getting guests on stage and shocking or embarrassing them for entertainment. There were episodes like ‘Mom, I’ve been sleeping with your boyfriend’ or ‘Remember our one night stand? WELL THIS IS YOUR BABY!’ 

One episode of Jenny Jones at the time was called ‘Guess your secret crush!’ and in it, a man called Scott Amedure admitted to his friend Jonathan Schmitz that he had a crush on him. Three days later, Scott was dead. Jonathan had murdered him, and he blamed The Jenny Jones Show.

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We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there’s this:

The doco episode of ‘Trial By Media’ that Rosie talked about, called ‘Talk Show Murder’ (on Netflix): https://www.netflix.com/title/80198329?s=i&trkid=13747225

Episode of ‘Criminal’ podcast about the ‘Gay Panic’ defence: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/criminal/id809264944?i=1000458839778

Some articles: https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/inside-the-jenny-jones-show-murder-25-years-later.html/

https://people.com/crime/netflix-trial-by-media-jenny-jones-murder/

This episode may have been triggering or upsetting for members of the LGBTQIA community, so please reach out if you need to. Here’s some links:

Lifeline: https://www.lifeline.org.au/
Q Life: https://qlife.org.au/
ACON: https://www.acon.org.au/
Beyond Blue: https://www.beyondblue.org.au/

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Imagine if Donald Trump and the dude who created Fyre Fest were allowed to run an Olympics - that’s the level of disaster that was going on at the 1904 St Louis Olympic Games. Nothing was organised, competitors almost died, and the US kept giving citizenship to foreign athletes who won so they could have the highest medal tally. Who cares if cars were literally driving through races? AMERICA WANTED TO WIN BIGLY.

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We give you just the gist, but if you want more, there’s this:

Some fun articles to read about the Marathon:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-1904-olympic-marathon-may-have-been-the-strangest-ever-14910747/ 

https://www.avclub.com/the-1904-olympic-marathon-was-the-worst-race-ever-run-1842740808 

This one in particular has some great photos: 

https://www.boredpanda.com/1904-olympic-marathon-st-louis/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic 

And some articles about the Olympics as a whole: 

https://www.history.com/news/8-unusual-facts-about-the-1904-st-louis-olympics 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB109218288511488239 

One of many videos on YouTube about the Games:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl6Onu-mhVs 

For scale, check out how big the St Louis World’s Fair was in comparison to the Olympics: 

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2019/09/the-1904-st-louis-worlds-fair-photos/597658/ 

The Conspirituality Podcast Jacob mentioned:

https://open.spotify.com/show/2imIsM2NZRPpQvI56TLdM5?si=vn2ttetbSC2T3PD0y9RTbA 

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Her story was one of triumph over trauma. When planes flew into the World Trade Centre twin towers on September 11, Tania Head was on the floor where the plane hit. She somehow made it out, only to still be at ground zero when the tower collapsed. Waking up in hospital with horrific injuries, she is told that her fiancé who was in the other tower, has died. She goes on to become president of the World Trade Centre Survivor’s Network, and is the public face of those who made it out. 

One little problem - she had never even been to the World Trade Centre. She wasn’t even in the country on 9/11. IT WAS ALL A LIE. 

So how does a woman who made up her entire story of survival end up president of the damn Survivor’s Network? And what happened when they found out she’d been faking it all along - that she was the woman who wasn’t there?

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We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there’s this:

Watch the documentary The Woman Who Wasn't There: https://tubitv.com/movies/319707/the-woman-who-wasn-t-there

Read the book of The Woman Who Wasn’t There: 
https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-woman-who-wasn-t-there-robin-gaby-fisher/book/9781451652093.html

Angelo Guglielmo explains how he came to make the film and write the book:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/9-11-survivor-book_b_1399852

David Dunlap’s 2007 article that revealed all of Tania’s lies: 
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/nyregion/27survivor.html?auth=login-email&login=email

Documentary about the hoax from 2008 called The 9/11 Faker:
https://watchdocumentaries.com/the-911-faker/

RECCOS!

The prison podcast by the FyreFest guy Billy McFarland called ‘Dumpster Fyre’: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/dumpster-fyre/id1535569915

A good article breaking down all the Quibi nonsense: www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/10/21/21527197/quibi-streaming-service-mobile-shutting-down-end-katzenberg

DISHMANTLED! https://youtu.be/f4fx6V7ura0

The AMAZING Coogee Bay Hotel poo article in Junkee by Rob Stott: https://junkee.com/coogee-bay-poo-mystery/179190

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In October of 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkettsville, Maryland while shooting a documentary... A year later their footage was found.

AND EVERYBODY LOST THEIR DAMN MINDS.

The Blair Witch Project was a horror film that gripped the world because everybody (Rosie included) was convinced it was a real 'documentary'. It was a mania that could only have happened at that one point in time - the internet was new, 'found footage' horror movies weren't around yet, and we were all JUST SO NAIVE. But how did the creators actually do it? How did they make millions of people believe they were watching actual footage of missing students being murdered? Rosie gives Jacob Just The Gist on exactly how The Blair Witch Project was pulled off - from auditioning the actors to (whose parents got condolence cards from friends who thought they had died) to faking entire newspaper articles to pull people in.

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We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's this:

Ben Rock's 8 detailed blog posts about working on the film: https://www.dreadcentral.com/author/ben-rock/

The 1999 Blair Witch website:https://www.blairwitch.com/main.html

Article about the marketing strategy of the film: https://web.archive.org/web/20170130094758/https://mwpdigitalmedia.com/blog/the-blair-witch-project-the-best-viral-marketing-campaign-of-all-time/

Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blair_Witch_Project

American Hysteria podcast mini-episode about The Blair Witch Project mania of 1999: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/13-believing-in-the-blair-witch/id1441348407?i=1000437303993

This week's RECCOS:

Watch Seduced (the other NXIVM documentary besides 'The Vow'): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmogBLEhbjY
(Available to watch in Australia on Stan)

Listen to the 'wellness debunking' podcast Rosie mentioned called 'Maintenance Phase':
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/maintenance-phase/id1535408667

Reply All episode about QAnon 'A Country of Liars': https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/llhe5nm/166-country-of-liars

Rabbit Hole podcast:https://www.nytimes.com/column/rabbit-hole

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In 1976 in the tiny town of Chowchilla, three men kidnapped 26 kids (aged 5-14) and their busdriver. They piled them into blacked-out vans, drove for 12 hours to the middle of nowhere, then forced them to climb down a ladder into a hole in the ground before locking them inside. As the older kids tried to comfort the younger ones, they suddenly heard the unmistakable sound of dirt being poured on top of them. They were being buried alive. BUT! As Rosie always says, arrogant male criminals are idiots, so things don't exactly go to plan for the kidnappers...  

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We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's this:

CBS 48 Hours documentary episode: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chowchilla-bus-kidnapping-frederick-woods-survivor-i-felt-like-i-was-an-animal-going-to-the-slaughterhouse/

A collection of the nutso photos Rosie mentioned: https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/chowchilla-bus-kidnapping-frederick-woods-rare-photos-from-one-of-the-largest-kidnappings-in-u-s-history/

Trusty old Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Chowchilla_kidnapping

My Favourite Murder podcast ep about it: https://podcasts.apple.com/gh/podcast/233-free-range-children/id1074507850?i=1000486606773

News article about Frederick Woods' 2019 parole hearing: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7550463/Chowchilla-kidnapper-67-parole-40-years-abducted-26-kids-buried-alive.html

RECCOS!
Class Action Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqg48h_uKYM 
(Watch in Australia on BINGE)

My Octopus Teacher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s0LTDhqe5A
(Watch in Australia on Netflix)

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JACOB'S COMPUTER POOPED ITSELF. And he's in the middle of nowhere working on that ridiculous tan, so we couldn't record together this week. Buuuut... we know how sad you get when we take a week off, so I forced Caleb to jump on the mic and do half an hour of Breakin' Nooz with me! Then we re-dropped the Anna Delvey episode, because a certain actress is going to play her in a TV show and was recently seen visiting her in prison...

This week's RECCOS:
Watch Love Fraud: https://play.stan.com.au/programs/55932/seasons/extras

Watch Get Orgnaised: The Home Edit: https://www.netflix.com/browse?jbv=81094723

Watch PEN15 Season 2: https://play.stan.com.au/programs/2758060/play

Listen to the American Hysteria podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/american-hysteria/id1441348407

Read 'The Diana Chronicles' by Tina Brown: https://www.amazon.com.au/Diana-Chronicles-Tina-Brown/dp/076792309X

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She turned up in New York and said she was an heiress to a Russian billionaire family. She stayed in the best hotels, ate at the best restaurants and hung out with the coolest high society people. BUT IT WAS ALL FAKE AND NOW SHE'S IN PRISON. For scamming, well, pretty much everyone. Genius or con artist? Or both?

We give you Just The Gist, but if you want to dive deeper, there's this:

The viral article from The Cut that first made Anna (in)famous: https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/how-anna-delvey-tricked-new-york.html

The Fake Heiress podcast from BBC: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fake-heiress/id1491349699

The book by Rachel DeLoache Williams: 'My Friend Anna': https://www.booktopia.com.au/my-friend-anna-rachel-deloache-williams/book/9781787478299.html

Anna Delvey's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theannadelvey/

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Before Tiger King, before Carole Baskin, before even Siegfried and Roy, there was husband and wife Ron and Joy - two gloriously tacky (but crazy talented) dancers, who decided to spice up their show by bringing in the ultimate back-up performers: tigers. And leopards. Oh, and the occasional jaguar. Add to the mix their shared boy toy Chuck Lizza, throw in some sequins and buckle down for a crazy story... that obviously ends in more than one person getting eaten.

Skip straight to the story: approx 21:03

We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's this:

Watch the Cat Dancers documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sYgkGqzjz0 

Watch 'Tiger Terror' - Season 3 Episode 6 of 'Fatal Attractions' for some glorious reenactments: https://www.amazon.com/Terror-at-Bear-Farm/dp/B079WKVQ7L/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=fatal+attractions&qid=1600920959&sr=8-5 

Interview with Ron Holiday: http://www.stevekorver.com/writing/profilesinterviews/strangerrrrr-than-fiction/

Some articles: https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1999/11/27/a-lasting-trust-in-tigers/

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-cat20jun20-story.html

https://www.popmatters.com/71962-cat-dancers-2496041273.html

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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 Romanov, his wife Alexandra 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. Did all of them die that night? Or did 16-year-old Anastasia Romanov escape and move to Florida, eventually retire and become one of the Golden Girls? 

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We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's this:

Watch docudrama 'The Last Czars': https://www.netflix.com/title/80211648

Watch BBC doco 'Russia's Lost Princesses': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHQWpcpJVM0

HIstory article about the remains of the Romanov family: https://www.history.com/news/romanov-family-bodies-discovery-coverup

Last Podcast On The Left 'Rasputin' series: https://www.lastpodcastontheleft.com/episodes/2018/4/7/episode-310-rasputin-part-i-greg-drunk

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We’ve had a makeover! And Jacob has finally been promoted from ‘And Friends’ to his whole name! And in true ‘ex drama school students who love nothing more than to talk about themselves’ style, this week we talked so much shit answering all your Ask Us Anything questions that we didn’t even get to an actual story! 

Lots of Breakin’ Nooz, lots of reminiscing, lots of surprises and lots of singing (badly). 

Thank you so much for listening so far - here’s to many more! 

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Shannon Whisnant bought an abandoned storage locker, and found a human foot inside. John Wood came forward and was like, "Um, hey, that's my foot, can I have it back please?" But Shannon liked the foot, and didn't want to give it back. He bought it fair and square, damn it! That's how the most bizarro (and hilarious) legal battle began - two men fighting over a LITERAL MUMMIFIED FOOT. Who is the rightful owner in the end?

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We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's this:

Make sure you watch the Finders Keepers documentary on Amazon Prime or Google Play - you will LOVE it! https://www.amazon.com/Finders-Keepers-John-Wood/dp/B079599877 

Rolling Stone article that came out around the time of the Finders Keepers documentary: https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/two-men-and-a-severed-foot-inside-the-most-bizarre-doc-of-the-year-72903/  

Hear Shannon talking about the movie and his plans for the future in an episode of the podcast “In the Mouth of Dorkness”: http://inthemouthofdorkness.podbean.com/e/the-foot-man-in-the-mouth-of-dorkness/

Or just read a summary of it here in an obituary for Shannon published shortly after his death in 2016: https://filmschoolrejects.com/win-win-winning-e5377c8b9f97/#.eltnvxb8e

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