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Nobody knows who buys most of the world's glitter. And whoever it is REALLY doesn't want you to find out. Back in 2018, a New York Times journalist rang one of the biggest glitter companies on the planet and asked a simple question: who is buying all the glitter? They refused to say. Seven years later, the internet still hasn't worked it out. This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of the glitter conspiracy: the weirdly secretive industry, the interview with 'Glitterex' that kicked it all off, the theories from boat paint to the US military, and the one question nobody will answer.
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What Is Glitter? (The New York Times, 2018)
The Glitter Conspiracy Theory: Who Is Taking All Of The Glitter? (IFLScience, 2022)
The End of the Glitter Conspiracy (CHUPPL, YouTube, 2023)
The Great Glitter Mystery (Endless Thread, WBUR, 2019)
Glittery Curiosity (Call Your Girlfriend, 2021)
The Discovery, Development of Glitter (Paper, Film & Foil Converter, 2021)
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It was highly requested so here it is: just the gist of the Kennedy family! A basic breakdown of how they came to the US from Ireland, how they became one the wealthiest and most powerful political families in America, and who a bunch of the notable family members (and connections) have been, and are, today.
Since I've told a couple of 'Kennedy Family' themed episodes of Just The Gist, (gisten to The Chappaquiddick Incident here and JFK Jr. & Carolyn Bessette Kennedy here), quite a few Gistners asked me to strip it back even further and give just the gist of the general family history. And that's on me! My weird hyperfixation meant I assumed people knew more about this than they do, and one of the major rules at Just The Gist is no assumed knowledge!
So consider this Kennedys 101. The basics of what you need to know about them to understand any of our Kennedy-themed episodes. And ooft there's a lot of them - John F. Kennedy and Jackie O, Bobby Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Maria Shriver, Chris Pratt, Big Edie and Little Edie from Grey Gardens, Patrick Schwarzenegger, RFK Jr., Jack SchlossbergâŠWe go from an Irish farmer in 1845 to The White Lotus in 2025 and Trump's White House in 2026 - it's all in there bĂ©bĂ©. Well, just the gist of it.
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The Kennedy Curse (James Patterson, 2020)
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed (Maureen Callahan, 2024)
Just The Gist of The Chappaquiddick Incident (Just The Gist, 2026)
Just The Gist of JFK Jr. & Carolyn Bessette Kennedy (Just The Gist, 2026)
American Experience: The Kennedys (PBS, 1992)
American Dynasties: The Kennedys (CNN, 2018)
A Battle With My Blood (The New Yorker, 2025)
Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder (NBC News Studios, 2025)
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Once both Senator Ted Kennedy's older brothers had been assassinated, he was widely expected to finish what JFK and Bobby had started by running for President in the next US election. Until, late one Friday night in 1969, Ted Kennedy got drunk at a party, crashed his car off a bridge, where it flipped mid-air and landed upside down in the pond below. Ted managed to swim free, but rather than calling for help or alerting authorities, he left his car submerged in the water and went back to his hotel to sleep it off.
Still inside the car though, was Ted Kennedy's passenger: 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne. Mary Jo was alive for more than an hour, trapped in a tiny air pocket until she suffocated to death, waiting for help that never came. Ted Kennedy wasn't punished, and while he didn't end up President, he did go on to spend the next 40 years as one of the most respected and longest serving members of the US Senate.
This is Just The Gist of The Death of Mary Jo Kopechne, otherwise known as 'The Chappaquiddick Incident'.
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Just The Gist episode: JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy (Just The Gist, 2025)
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan (Hachette, 2024)
'Chappaquiddick' Official Trailer (YouTube, 2018)
'Chappaquiddick' Unblinkingly Revisits Most Shameful Moment in Kennedy History (Sydney Morning Herald, 2018)
The Crash That Launched 'Chappaquiddick' (Martha's Vineyard Times, 2019)
Ted Kennedy's televised address to the nation on Chappaquiddick (YouTube, 1969)
Roger Mudd asks Ted Kennedy 'Why do you want to be president?' (YouTube, 1979)
Transcript of Ted Kennedy's answer to 'Why do you want to be president?' (Medium, 2020)
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In what eventually became known as âTHE CRAPPENINGâ, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of toilet waste while driving across the Kinzie Street Bridge in Chicago in 2004. And in an example of what might be the most perfect - yet unfortunate - timing ever, there just happened to be an open-air sightseeing tour boat passing directly under the bridge at the exact same timeâŠ
Dave Matthews Band tried to deny being involved, but after being soaked in what was described as a "rust-coloured waterfallâ the 120 passengers who were aboard âChicagoâs Little Ladyâ, and soon the entire city of Chicago, were demanding answers.
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Dave Matthews Band bus incident Wikipedia page - Complete incident details and aftermath
WBEZ 20-year anniversary coverage - "20 years after that disgusting Dave Matthews Band incident, victims now can laugh about it" (2024)
CBS Chicago retrospective - "Remembering the disgusting Dave Matthews Band bus incident 20 years later" (2024)
Chicago Tribune vintage coverage - "Vintage Chicago Tribune: Remembering the Dave Matthews Band bus incident, 20 years later" (2024)
The Crappening documentary - Filmmaker seeking witnesses for documentary about the incident (2024)
CBS Chicago vault footage - Original 2004 news coverage
Chicago mascots tribute video - Benny the Bull, Staley Da Bear, and Tommy Hawk pay respects on anniversary (2024)
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In 2010, NBC tried to hand The Tonight Show, the 60-year-old crown jewel of American late night, to two different comedians. The five-year succession plan they spent years building collapsed in seven months, took down the entire network's primetime line-up with it, and ended with $45 million in severance, one million people in "I'm With Coco" t-shirts, and one of the great public-image collapses in TV history. Sixteen years later, Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno have still never spoken. This is Just The Gist of the Tonight Show battle between Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno.
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Resources:
The War for Late Night by Bill Carter (Goodreads, 2010)
The Late Shift by Bill Carter (Goodreads, 1994)
2010 Tonight Show conflict (Wikipedia)
Conan O'Brien's 2011 Dartmouth Commencement Speech (YouTube, 2011)
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop documentary (YouTube, 2011)
O'Donnell to Leno: Hand over Tonight (CBS News, 2010)
Jay Leno and the Tonight Show Controversy (Oprah.com, 2010)
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Inside an average bee hive, 80,000 bees are running a 99% female matriarchy. The queen is the only one allowed to have sex, baby queens are made not born, and male drones get kicked out to starve in winter when they stop being useful. Throw in a mid-air sex club, royal jelly, and a waggle dance, and it might just be the most ruthlessly efficient society on earth. This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of a day in the life of a bee.
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A Day in the Life of a Worker Bee (Nate's Hives, 2022)Tasks and Duties Throughout the Life Cycle of a Worker Honey Bee (University of Florida IFAS, 2022)A Day in the Life of a Honey Bee (Save the Bee, 2023)Queen bee (Wikipedia, 2025)Honey bee life cycle (Wikipedia, 2025)A Day in the Life of Honey Bees (Harvest Lane Honey Australia, 2023)Who's Who in the Bee Colony Fact Sheet (Australian Honey Bee Industry Council, 2022)Bee Information (Mid-Bucks Beekeepers Association, n.d.)Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Two decades on, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is still remembered as the wholesome reality TV outlier of the early 2000s, the show even Michelle Obama showed up for. Each week, Ty Pennington and his TV crew would demolish a deserving family's falling-down house, build them a 7-bedroom mansion in 7 days complete with movie theatres and heated pools, and reduce an entire town to tears. So why did so many of those families end up bankrupt, and in some cases, homeless? This is Just The Gist of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: the 2004 reality juggernaut that pulled 12 million viewers a week, the 7-day mansion builds, and the families who lost everything when the cameras left.
Thanks to our VERY SPECIAL VIG GUEST, The Podfather himself, Simon McDermott!
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Ruining People's Lives⊠By Giving Them a House (VICE TV, 2024)
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (Wikipedia)
ABC's Extreme Exploitation (The Smoking Gun, 2006)
Things About Extreme Makeover: Home Edition That Don't Add Up (Ranker, 2024)
Extreme Makeover Home Edition Producers Defend Show Against Families' Horror Stories (Entertainment Weekly, 2024)
The Untold Truth Of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (The List, 2017)
IAmA Request: Someone Who Had Their House Redone By Extreme Makeover (Reddit, 2011)
What Happened To Ty Pennington From Extreme Makeover (Yahoo, 2026)
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She was the most famous female pilot in history, a feminist icon, and arguably the world's first influencer, all carefully built by her book publisher husband George Putnam. But when Amelia Earhart vanished over the Pacific in 1937, the conspiracy theories went wild: Japanese spies, government cover-ups, secret island lives. Eighty-nine years on, the most likely explanation for what happened to her might also be the most disturbing of all. This is Just The Gist of Amelia Earhart: the brilliant PR campaign, the doomed 1937 round-the-world flight, and the theory that has haunted Howland Island ever since.
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Amelia Earhart Official Website (Amelia Earhart Official Site, 2025)
Inside the Many Conspiracy Theories Surrounding Amelia Earhart's Disappearance (TIME, 2019)
Bulletin 46: The Crab Experiment (TIGHAR, 2007)
The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR, 2025)
Coconut crabs: bird-eating giants on tropical islands (Natural History Museum, 2021)
Review: The Aviator and the Showman by Laurie Gwen Shapiro (The New York Times, 2025)
The Aviator and the Showman by Laurie Gwen Shapiro (Goodreads, 2025)
The Truth About Amelia Earhart (The Atlantic, 2025)
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Three people are dead, more passengers have been diagnosed, and British paratroopers had to parachute medical supplies onto the most remote inhabited island on earth. The Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius is finally on its way home to be disinfected, but the hantavirus outbreak on board has scattered suspected cases across more than a dozen countries. So is this the next covid? And how is it the same virus that killed Gene Hackman's wife last year? This is Just The Gist (MINI) of the hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius.
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Resources:
CDC Provides Update on Hantavirus Outbreak Linked to M/V Hondius Cruise Ship (CDC, 2026)
Passengers leave hantavirus-hit cruise ship in Tenerife as WHO says outbreak 'not another COVID' (UN News, 2026)
MV Hondius docks in Tenerife, Canary Islands; passengers disembark ship hit by hantavirus (CNN, 2026)
Military conducts daring parachute drop to deliver critical medical support to Tristan da Cunha (GOV.UK, 2026)
'He was deceased on the ship for several days': Irishwoman describes hantavirus outbreak (The Irish Times, 2026)
YouTuber Catches Heat After Attending Wedding Amid Hantavirus Outbreak (TMZ, 2026)
What doctors know about how the Andes hantavirus spreads (CNN, 2026)
"Super-Spreaders" and Person-to-Person Transmission of Andes Virus in Argentina (New England Journal of Medicine, 2020)
Gene Hackman's cause of death was heart disease, wife died of hantavirus days earlier, officials say (CBS News, 2025)
Australia's isolation plan 'one of the stronger responses' to hantavirus globally, Butler says (SBS News, 2026)
MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak (Wikipedia, 2026)
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In 2018, a Twitter user called @buzzkillary posted a 30-page PowerPoint titled 'Lorde and Jack Antonoff: An Emotionally Broken Journey', presenting their case that Jack had been cheating on his then-girlfriend Lena Dunham with Lorde while recording Melodrama. âThe PowerPointâ, as it became known, has long been considered a cult classic internet text by the chronically online, but mostly forgotten by everyone else.
UNTIL TWO WEEKS AGO, when Lena published her new memoir Famesick, in which she wrote about her break-up with Jack, and a suspiciously affectionate 'young pop star'. The internet is now declaring âThe PowerPointâ vindicated. This is Just The Gist (MINI) of the Lorde/Jack Antonoff PowerPoint.
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The original Lorde and Jack Antonoff PowerPoint by @Buzzkillery (Twitter, 2018)
Lena Dunham's Famesick Memoir and the Lorde/Jack Antonoff PowerPoint (The Cut, 2026)
Someone Update The Lena Dunham/Jack Antonoff/Lorde PowerPoint (Good Soup Substack, 2026)
Throwback To The Lorde and Jack Antonoff PowerPoint (r/Fauxmoi Reddit, 2026)
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She would have been 36-years-old this year. Instead, JonBenĂ©t Ramsey remains frozen in time as a child beauty queen, and possibly the most famous unsolved child murder in American history. This year marks the 30th anniversary of JonBenetâs death, yet the case remains an open investigation - and is still obsessed over by armchair detectives across the globe. This is Just The Gist of JonBenĂ©t Ramsey: the 1996 Boulder, Colorado murder, Patsy and John Ramsey, the 911 call that has been studied for decades, and the 2016 Burke Ramsey interview with Dr. Phil interview that brought renewed interest in the case.
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Why America Will Never Stop Trying To Solve JonBenét Ramsey's Murder (BuzzFeed News, 2016)
JonBenét Ramsey's Murder: 20 Years Later (TIME, 2016)
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town by Lawrence Schiller (HarperCollins, 1999)
Foreign Faction: Who Really Kidnapped JonBenét? by A. James Kolar (Ventus Publishing, 2012)
JonBenét Ramsey Ransom Note Analysis (Statement Analysis)
CBS Can't Dodge $750M Defamation Suit From JonBenét Ramsey's Brother (The Hollywood Reporter, 2017)
The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey, documentary trailer (CBS / YouTube, 2016)
Burke Ramsey's Dr. Phil Interview (YouTube, 2016)
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Christine Dawood gave up her seat on the OceanGate Titan sub, so her 19-year-old son Suleman could see the Titanic. Just hours later, Suleman and his father Shahzada were dead. Three years on from the disaster that killed both of them, along with OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, Christine has published a book called 'Ninety-Six Hours - A Mother's Search For The Lost Titan Sub', and given a heartbreaking interview to The Guardian about what really happened in the hours after the Titan imploded. This is Just The Gist (MINI) of Christine Dawood: the OceanGate Titan disaster, Shahzada and Suleman Dawood, Stockton Rush, the seat she gave up, and the four days she waited at sea for news she didn't want to hear.
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Christine Dawood on the Titan Submersible Disaster (The Guardian, April 2026)
'Ninety-Six Hours - A Mother's Search For The Lost Titan Sub' by Christine Dawood (Whitefox, 2026)
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Imagine walking down the street and bumping into someone who looks exactly - EXACTLY - like you? You each talk to your adoptive parents and find out you were adopted from the same agency, on the same day. Then you find out not only are you twins, but TRIPLETS. Three of you have been walking around, your entire lives, looking exactly like each other, and you only grew up a few miles apart. That's what happened to Bobby Shafran, David Kellman and Eddie Galland, the triplets who later became the subjects of incredible 2018 documentary Three Identical Strangers. But as the doco reveals, there was actually a very dark reason Bobby, David and Eddie had been separated. In a secret collaboration between Dr. Neubauer and the Louise Wise Adoption Agency, the boys were unknowingly part of a psychological experiment designed to answer the ultimate question of 'nature vs. nurture' - an experiment that would end up having horrific consequences. And they weren't the only kids involved. This is just the gist of Bobby, David and Eddie - the triplets separated at birth, and the amazing documentary about them: Three Identical Strangers.
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Three Identical Strangers Official Trailer (Neon, 2018)
Three Identical Strangers (Wikipedia)
Three Identical Strangers doc tells a tale that goes beyond the incredible (Los Angeles Times, 2018)
Three Identical Strangers: the bizarre tale of triplets separated at birth (The Guardian, 2018)
Three Identical Strangers: Where The Triplets Are Now (Screen Rant, 2018)
Interview with Bobby Shafran, David Kellman and Lawrence Wright (YouTube)
Double Mystery (The New Yorker, 1995)
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Get in losers - two identical blonde ladies with the same name are fighting online. But WHY are the Call Her Daddy mogul and TikTok's 12-million-follower It Girl beefing with each other? Alex Cooper signed Alix Earle and her new podcast âHot Messâ to the Unwell Network in 2023. Two years later, Alix Earle skipped an Unwell Super Bowl party (GASP!) and got dropped from the Unwell network. Last week, she reposted a Tiktok calling Alex Cooper the grim reaper. Alex Cooper replied with a video telling Alix Earle to cut the passive-aggressive reposting nonsense and just say what she wants to say. None of this matters, but everyone seems to be talking about it, so Rosie sacrificed herself at the altar of the internet to figure out what the hell is going on (and damn it, itâs juicy - even James ended up invested). This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of the Alex Cooper vs Alix Earle feud.
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The Alex Cooper vs Alix Earle Feud, Explained (Teen Vogue, 2026)
Alix Earle Shuts Down Rumors Surrounding Alex Cooper Feud (Us Weekly, 2026)
Alix Earle Responds to Alex Cooper (AOL, 2026)
Alix Earle Supported by Carl's Jr Amid Alex Cooper Drama (TMZ, 2026)
Alex Cooper Profile (Vogue, 2025)
Alix Earle TikTok Interview (Elle, 2023)
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Domestic violence that nobody took seriously, a racist police force with no accountability, a car chase watched by the entire world and⊠Kim Kardashianâs childhood bedroom. After the brutal murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, the trial of O.J. Simpson turned into a media circus - and was the perfect storm of events and timing that O.J. needed to be found not guilty. This is Just The Gist of the O.J. Simpson trial: âif it doesnât fit, you must acquitâ, Marcia Clark, the bloody glove, a jury locked up for eight months and an 85-year-old Fred Goldman refusing to stop hounding O.J. - even after his death.
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O.J.: Made in America Trailer (ESPN 30 for 30, YouTube, 2016)
Youâre Wrong About: OJ Simpson Episodes (Spotify)
The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin (Random House, 1996)
O. J. Simpson (Wikipedia)
OJ Simpsonâs Estate Accepts $58M Claim From Father of Ron Goldman (The Guardian, 2025)
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How does a 29-year-old with big blue eyes and a killer pitch deck walk into one of the biggest banks in the world and walk out with $175 million? Pretty easily, it turns out.
Charlie Javice was a millennial wunderkind, Forbes 30 Under 30 darling, and the founder of FRANK - a student finance start-up helping underprivileged kids get into college (and apparently making millions doing it). After just one meeting with Charlie, JPMorgan Chase wanted in, and they offered her $175 million to buy FRANK. One tiny problem though - Charlie Javice was way better at optics and PR than she was at actually running a business⊠but she wasnât going to let that be a reason to turn down $175 mil.
What Charlie did next involved a bunch of fake emails and crossing her fingers that JPMorgan Chase wouldnât bother to check (hint: the dudn't). This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of Charlie Javice, FRANK, a major bank ignoring basic due diligence and the court battle that has already cost more in legal fees than the whole deal did to begin with.
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How Charlie Javice Went From Forbes 30 Under 30 to Federal Fraud Charges (Business Insider, 2023)
Charlie Javice Sentenced to 7 Years for JPMorgan Frank Fraud (Fortune, 2025)
The Charlie Javice Verdict: A Wake-Up Call for Fintechs and Banking (Forbes, 2025)
JPMorgan Is Paying Charlie Javiceâs Enormous Legal Bills (The New York Times, 2025)
Charlie Javice and the Rise and Fall of FRANK (Mary Betsy / Guzzle Blog, 2024)
Charlie Javice: Fake It âTil You Make It (Apple Podcasts, 2025)
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In 1971, a man in a business suit and a beige raincoat bought a one-way ticket to Seattle, ordered a bourbon and soda, and handed a flight attendant a note. It said he had a bomb. By the time the plane landed in Reno, he was gone â along with $200,000 in cash and, apparently, any trace of his existence. No body. No parachute. No fingerprints. Nothing. The FBI investigated for decades and officially closed the case in 2016 â never solving it. It remains the only unsolved plane hijacking in US history. This is Just The Gist of DB Cooper: the 1971 Northwest Orient hijacking, the $200,000 ransom, the parachute jump, and the mystery that has never been solved.
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DB Cooper and Tina Mucklow: The Untold Story (Rolling Stone, 2019)
DB Cooper Case Files (FBI Vault)
DB Cooper Confessions and Evidence (Popular Mechanics, 2025)
DB Cooper: New FBI Files and Suspects (ABC News, July 2025)
The Disappearance of DB Cooper (YouTube, 2024)
D.B. Cooper Wikipedia
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On March 5th, 2012, a 27-minute YouTube video dropped and within six days, 100 million people had watched it. Every celebrity shared it. Oprah. Beyonce. Everyone. The premise was simple: make a Ugandan warlord named Joseph Kony so famous that the world would have to stop him. It became the fastest viral video in history. But in less than two weeks, the whole thing completely collapsed, ending with the man behind it, Invisible Children founder Jason Russell, having a very public naked breakdown on a street in San Diego.
This is Just The Gist (MINI) of KONY 2012: the viral video, Jason Russell and Invisible Children, the slacktivism scandal, the Lord's Resistance Army, and the spectacular public meltdown that ended it all.
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Kony 2012 Full Video (YouTube, Invisible Children, 2012)
Kony 2012, Ten Years On (The Guardian, April 2022)
Why I Couldn't Stop Thinking About Kony (Narratively, 2022)
'We're in Bad Times' Invisible Children super cool music video (YouTube, 2012)
Kony 2012 and Interventionism (Jacobin, March 2025)
Jason Russell on His Public Breakdown (Oprah.com, 2012)
Kony 2012 (Wikipedia)
Invisible Children Website
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Did you know King Charles was never actually supposed to be King? Charles and Diana, William and Harry - they all would have just been random side-royals if one of their far more important relatives hadnât quit the royal family. Less than 12 months into his reign, King Edward VIII abdicated the throne so he could marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson. Even though she never wanted to marry Edward, Wallis was publicly blamed for the royal crisis, which resulted in the newly named âDuke and Duchess of Windsorâ being exiled from England for the rest of their lives. And Edward - so used to being treated like a King - found the downgrade to âregular citizenâ so difficult, that he and Wallis befriended Hitler and the Nazis, hoping to find a way back onto the world stage.
This is just the gist of Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII.
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Traitor King â Andrew Lownie
King Edward VIII Abdication Speech (1936)
Edward & Wallis: The Full Story
The Abdication Crisis Documentary
People: Wallis Simpson, Convenient Scapegoat for King Edward VIII's Abdication
The National Archives: Abdication of Edward VIII
BBC Culture: The Shocking Moment King Edward VIII Announced His Abdication
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