Meghan Markle’s Missing Ring, Jared Leto's Mounting Allegations, & Amy Griffin Blocks "The Nerve"

Summary

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The Nerve with Maureen Callahan – Episode Summary

Episode Title: Meghan Markle’s Missing Ring, Jared Leto's Mounting Allegations, & Amy Griffin Blocks "The Nerve"
Date: August 4, 2026
Host: Maureen Callahan
Producer: MK Media

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Episode Overview

This episode sees Maureen Callahan unfiltered as she tackles a dense web of pop culture scandals, true crime updates, and the cultural ripples caused by The Nerve itself. The main threads are:

• The latest rumblings about Meghan Markle’s missing engagement ring and hints of turmoil in Montecito
• An in-depth, excoriating look at the mounting sexual assault allegations against Jared Leto
• Sunny Hostin’s involvement in her son’s legal woes
• A behind-the-scenes drama as major “cultural offenders” begin blocking The Nerve, with Amy Griffin as the latest
• Listener feedback, TroubleMaker community highlights, and Maureen’s signature mix of wit, indignation, and skepticism

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Main Topics & Key Segments

1. Meghan Markle’s Missing Engagement Ring & Marriage Rumors (06:21 – 15:00)

• On-the-ground report: Teddy Van Halen, a recurring Nerve character, delivers a characteristically vague but “solid” scoop from Montecito. Maureen and Marlena joke about his rookie reporting style (06:32 – 06:58).

• “Duchess of Despair”: Maureen riffs on Meghan’s increasing absence from media interest and the symbolism of her ringless hand.

  • “Megan has not been wearing her engagement ring in public for at least five days now.” (07:47)
  • Yahoo reports it’s been four months, but major outlets just noticed. Maureen deems this proof Meghan’s market value is shrinking (07:59 – 08:10).

• Historical parallel: Maureen draws comparison to Princess Diana’s famous Taj Mahal moment as non-verbal crisis messaging (08:14 – 09:16).

  • “You don’t think Megan’s a student of this shit? …Her engagement ring is worth $140,000.” (09:16)

• Premiere breakdown: Meghan appears alone at the “Cookie Queens” documentary event, wearing ultra-luxury brands in front of Girl Scouts, which Maureen and Marlena skewer as “very nouveau riche”. They lambast Meghan for tone-deafness (09:44 – 13:47).

• Notable Quote:

  • “She loves to flaunt her largesse. She’s very nouveau riche.” – Maureen (09:16)
  • “Can you just fucking bring yourself down to earth from this estate?” – Marlena (13:21)

• Social media autopsy: Maureen highlights Meghan’s Instagram reel showing her sans the engagement ring (14:03 – 14:50).

  • “No engagement ring, just the threadbare wedding ring.” (14:39)

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2. Jared Leto’s Sexual Assault Allegations & Hollywood Enabling (15:00 – 32:27)

• WME Agency Stance: Despite BBC documentaries and growing allegations, Leto’s agency stands by him. Maureen decries the enabling, connecting industry complicity to greater criminality (15:10 – 16:01).

• On-Set Behavior:

  • Reports from Page Six highlight Leto’s bizarre demands (e.g., no eye contact, personal fisherman on set). Maureen notes that “rep for Leto did not respond to request for comment,” which she takes as a tacit admission (17:58).
  • Revisits Leto’s disturbing “prank” history (dead rats, used condoms) and the lack of consequences (18:33 – 19:02).

• BBC Investigation: Segment from the official BBC News on Leto’s “darkest open secret” (19:02 – 25:07).

  • Victim Testimony: “Etta” describes being groomed as a 16-year-old (20:17 – 21:59).
    • “He seemed very interested in squirting.” – Etta (20:33)
    • “If a middle-aged man is calling your teenage daughter…that alone is enough to make it very clear that if that doesn’t stop, there’s going to be a real fucking problem here.” – Maureen (21:59)
  • Discussion of why young women get ensnared (“Very heady stuff, and these guys fucking know it.”) (23:23)
  • “He’s got no business as a middle-aged man phoning a teenage girl that he doesn’t know, let alone talking about her sex life…” – Maureen (23:29)

• Social media receipts: Dylan Sprouse’s resurfaced tweet calling Leto’s history out (26:14 – 26:45).

• Hollywood distancing: Studios put projects with Leto on hold despite his Oscar past. “This is the beginning of the moving away from the problem that Hollywood helped create and is now going to pretend they had no idea about at all.” – Maureen (28:58 – 29:00)

• Industry analysis: Maureen compares Leto’s situation to Kevin Spacey, noting that industry insiders enable, then quietly exile when liabilities mount (29:49 – 30:23).

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3. Sunny Hostin’s Son Gabriel’s Legal Troubles & ‘Elite Lawyering’ (33:36 – 43:43)

• Incident summary: Gabriel Hostin’s trespass case (train tracks near porta potties – “rough trade or drugs, or both”) gets quietly adjourned (33:43 – 34:38).

• Celebrity privilege commentary:

  • Adjournments, delayed justice tactics dissected. “The Nerve’s mission is to make that absolutely not the case.” (35:57)
  • Case now set for September 15, potentially coinciding with The View’s return – Maureen promises to monitor Hostin’s absences (36:07 – 36:17).

• Lawyer deep dive: Snarky review of Gabriel’s new attorney, Tenny Garagos, daughter of famed defense attorney Mark Garagos, with a run-down of high-profile past clients (38:30 – 39:16).

• Satirical take on Hostin family’s legal escalation:

  • “Are you elevating Gabriel’s criminal activity…with the Menendez brothers and Scott Peterson? Is this the way you really want to play this?” – Marlena (39:18)
  • Running joke about Gabriel’s job applications (“Harvard grad…three months of the year…wide open” tutoring slots) (41:00 – 42:25)
  • Dig at clueless media coverage and parental string-pulling for TV spots (43:13 – 43:43)

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4. Amy Griffin Blocks "The Nerve" – Cultural Impact & Legal Battles (43:43 – 52:08)

• Podcast meta-moment: The Nerve celebrates being blocked by cultural figures—first Andy Cohen, now Amy Griffin.

  • “Amy Griffin blocked the Nerve. Not the first, not the last.” – Maureen (44:41)
  • “Amy, sister, I got news for you. We can still see what you’re up to on Instagram.” – Marlena (45:06)

• Background on Amy Griffin:

  • Recap of the lawsuit: Amy accused of stealing Jane Doe’s childhood rape story for her bestselling memoir.
  • “She’s beyond vile. Beyond vile.” – Maureen (46:57)
  • Details on court proceedings: 4 of 6 claims (including invasion of privacy, infliction of emotional distress) proceed against Griffin, with some counts thrown out (47:57 – 48:23).

• Power dynamics: Maureen points out the vast wealth gap between Griffin and Jane Doe (home health care worker) and questions why Griffin hasn’t sued the New York Times, if her case were so strong (50:09 – 51:48).

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5. Troublemaker Community, Listener Feedback, and Show Culture (54:16 – 64:33)

• Fan Art & Community: Highlights troublemaker Paul (Columbo-inspired art of Teddy Van Halen) and other listeners (54:20 – 55:33).
• Listener emails: Feedback on recent segments, especially the Tracy Ellis Ross “mini Nerve,” and commentary about cultural standards, nepotism, and the dumbing down of media (56:30 – 61:21).
• Biting humor: “I think Tracy is a drunk.” – TroubleMaker Rich (58:08)
• Heartfelt thanks: Maureen expresses gratitude for contributors, especially young Teddy’s voiceover artist, age 7, whom Maureen calls a genius (63:04 – 63:14).
• Programming note: Tease for an upcoming episode targeting a “Prime Cultural Offender” linked to Amy Griffin (64:33).

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Meghan Markle:

  • “She just can’t stop bragging.” – Maureen (13:47)
  • “No engagement ring, just the threadbare wedding ring.” – Marlena (14:39)

• On Jared Leto:

  • “He’s got the fucking gall. Why not? Nobody’s told him no. That’s what’s known as grooming.” – Maureen (22:01)
  • “There are far too many dark open secrets, far too many. But you know, shine a light on one.” – Maureen (19:39)

• On Amy Griffin:

  • “She’s beyond vile. Beyond vile.” – Maureen (46:57)
  • “We can still see what you’re up to…” – Marlena (45:06)

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Key Timestamps

| Time | Theme/Segment | |-------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 06:21 | Teddy’s Montecito report & Meghan Markle rumors | | 07:47 | Meghan not wearing engagement ring – significance | | 08:14 | Princess Diana “Taj Mahal moment” analogy | | 09:44 | “Cookie Queens” documentary event | | 13:47 | Meghan’s “bragging” and social media activity | | 15:00 | Transition to Jared Leto’s allegations | | 17:58 | Leto’s on-set demands and “pranks” | | 19:02 | BBC investigation – Etta's testimony | | 26:14 | Dylan Sprouse tweet about Leto | | 28:58 | Hollywood’s distancing from Leto | | 33:36 | Sunny Hostin’s son Gabriel’s legal saga begins | | 38:30 | Tenny (and Mark) Garagos connection; legal “overkill” | | 43:43 | Amy Griffin blocks The Nerve – podcast meta segment | | 47:57 | Lawsuit details: Claims against Griffin proceeding | | 54:16 | Listener feedback, fan art, and TroubleMaker community | | 64:33 | Teaser: Upcoming episode on “Prime Cultural Offender” in Griffin’s orbit |

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Tone, Style, & Overall Takeaway

• Tone: Sharp, biting, and darkly humorous. Maureen pulls no punches, alternating between mockery and serious cultural critique.
• Style: Witty, referential, occasionally expletive, and interactive with her TroubleMaker community.
• Takeaway:
  • The Nerve positions itself as outspoken, willing to scrutinize “cultural criminals” and hold both celebrities and institutions accountable where mainstream media fails.
  • This episode exemplifies the show’s hallmark: fearless, take-no-prisoners commentary peppered with listener voices and in-jokes—a space for listeners (“troublemakers”) to process pop culture’s most uncomfortable truths.

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Transcript

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Hello and welcome to your Tuesday edition of the Nerve. I am your host, Maureen Callahan. Forgive my throat, but we have got to deal with the surfeit of cultural criminal updates. We've got action is happening. Malfeasance is a foot. We are going to begin with the Duchess of despair and endless grievance and what her attendance at screening of a documentary that nobody cares about in Los Angeles last week really means. We've got more updates on the developing Jared Leto scandal.

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Plus we've got the latest on what

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Sunny Hostin is up to.

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Not enough that she showed up on scene to try to get her 24 year old son's misdemeanor not just knocked

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down from a citation.

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But just. Just forget. Just forget him. He teaches geometry to fourth grader.

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We've got more. You're not going to believe it. You're not going to believe it.

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And we've got another. Another Laurel. Another. Another indicator of how fast and how far the Nerve has begun moving the culture.

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In our very young tenure, we've been blocked by yet another major cultural offender and we cannot wait to tell you all about it.

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That's right. Number two blocks the Nerve. And me and Marlena and our two producers on Instagram. We are loving it. We're loving it.

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That was a little bit too Oprah inflected. I'm sorry. You know, just like so much darkness, it finds its way in it's always a struggle.

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Stay in the light. Stay in the light.

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Just like in Poltergeist. Stay in the light. Carol Ann. Okay.

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We are going to also then get to troublemaker art and feedback.

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And then when I tell you that we are going to cover a scandal that is hiding in plain sight that involves one of the most a list celebrities of the last 100 years.

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I mean, you know this person well,

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but I promise you, you have encountered

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a news item about this that's sort

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of like, oh, this thing is happening. That's nice. We at the nerve think major scandal, like important investigative work needs to be done. And, and for the first time, Teddy Van Halen joins us on camera with a very.

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He's been on camera before, this is

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true, but he's never spoken before on camera. And I know some of you may have thought it was kind of a joke, you know, when I said I sent him to Montecito to try to sniff out Harry's alleged reported other woman and if he had the extra time to walk by Oprah's estate and see if he could sniff out Stedman's remains, he's really there and he's got a report for all troublemakers. And we all need to show up for Teddy. He's a little nervous. But you know, he loves, he loves

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what he does and we love him for it. And so we ask, are you ready? Are you ready? Let's go.

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Troublemakers join me in welcoming

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my favorite troublemaker of all for the

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very first time, Teddy Van Halen reporting to us live from the enclave of Montecito.

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Teddy, tell us what you know.

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Maureen, I'm reporting live from California. Sources close to the situation tell me there may be trouble in paradise. I can't reveal everything just yet, but let's just say my leads are extremely solid. And I'll report back with any major development. Back to you in the studio.

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Teddy, thank you for that report. I lovingly say you're a little light on specifics. You know, we're working with you on

[D]

your burgeoning journalism career. I understand it's quite a step up from homicide.

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Is it?

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I don't know.

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Great work, however, in the field.

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Okay.

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Further evidence that what Lady C told

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all of us exclusively on the Nerve at night two weeks ago. Further evidence to the reports that Harry may allegedly reportedly have another woman who

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Harry is, quote, unquote, in love with

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and who is, quote, unquote, in love with Harry.

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And that Meghan knows. Reportedly, allegedly. Because Megan reportedly, allegedly discovered incriminating texts on Harry's cell phone.

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Megan has not been wearing her engagement ring in public for at least five days now.

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Yahoo is actually reporting she hasn't been

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wearing it in public for four months.

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But most news outlets only realized this

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about five days ago. Which tells us a lot about the waning interest in Meghan Markle in the marketplace. Right.

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Imagine. Remember, we're going to talk about this

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with Rob Shooter tomorrow on the Nerve at night. But do you remember, for those troublemakers who were alive back then, when Princess Diana sat in front of the Taj Mahal surrounded by the world's media, alone, and she was sending a message, seated alone, one of the most beautiful women in the world, in front of the globe's most famous monument to romantic love. She was saying, non verbally, the rumors are true. The palace may be denying them, but the rumors are true. My marriage is in deep, deep trouble. You don't think Megan's a student of this shit? Her engagement ring is worth $140,000. And as we will see when we go through what she was wearing at this premiere, this bullshit premiere she showed up at last Wednesday.

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She loves to flaunt her largesse. She loves. She's very nouveau riche.

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She loves to flaunt her riches. This engagement ring is a 3 carat cushion cut center diamond from Botswana, which has significance because Botswana figured very prominently in Harry and Meghan's origin story as a couple. It is surrounded. That three carat diamond is surrounded by two side diamonds once belonging to Princess Diana. Normally that thing would come off with like a crowbar, like the jaws of life would have to remove it. So we're not wearing our engagement ring. Interesting. Okay. Now, last Wednesday, July 29, Megan attends

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alone

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a special screening of the documentary Cookie Queens. This was the doc that premiered at Sundance. Harry and Meghan are listed as executive producers. I believe Netflix just slung their names on there to fulfill the contract that Netflix would, you know, was looking to just exit as quickly as possible.

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The high stakes. This documentary concerns the very high stakes

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enterprise of girl Scouts selling their girl Scout cookies. So this was worth Megan driving down from Montecito, a two hour plus drive to attend this premiere. And she sat on stage, I think with the director and she spoke about. Did she speak about the girls that we know of? No. Did she speak about the documentary itself that we know of? No. The sound bite that has been zooming around social media and the dying entertainment shows, the accesses, the Entertainment Tonights, what have you, is this. Here we go.

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Something my husband told me ages ago

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because we all go through

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experiences and life is full of surprises. But you know, he was a helicopter pilot in the British army for 10 years and sometimes on really hard days, once he said, my love, you know, even if there's a storm happening above the storm, the sun's always shining. And that's a perspective that only comes when you think about zooming out a little bit. So I think when you really zoom out and think, my gosh, how many things have we gone through that have felt hard? And then you still get, okay, that's

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enough, that's enough of Megan.

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And oh my God, I. My favorite is when she relays conversations

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in which Harry says to her, my love, my love.

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And the way she said it there,

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you know, my husband said to me one day, you know, hey, my love, you know, you know, like she zoomed through it.

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Like she.

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It doesn't sound right in her mouth

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because nobody in the year 2026 talks like that. Nobody does. Plus, we know Harry's occupied elsewhere, allegedly, reportedly.

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Anyway, of course she turned a night that was about otherwise anonymous Girl Scouts into the Meghan Markle show and the

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ongoing trials and tribulations of what it

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is to be the Duchess of Sussex. For how much longer we shall see. Wearing on stage a pair of Hermes sandals that retail for eleven hundred dollars. She's wearing a Cartier love bracelet, base retail price over $9,000. Like, have a sense of proportion, you

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know, you're in front of girl scouts and their families and they're all, most

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of them I'm going to guess are modest means.

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Can you just fucking bring yourself down to earth from this estate? Like she's so.

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It's, it's not even like you could say as with Harry. Well, you know, she doesn't know any better. She grew up in a bubble.

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She grew up middle class, upper middle

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class in la, but you know, she

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wasn't rolling around in eleven hundred dollar sandals.

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She knows better. She just can't stop bragging. Now we are going to also see

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her engagement free hands in a close up on said hands in a reel

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that she posted to her as her failing as ever enterprise, the official Instagram account, which I will give Megan credit for this. She has not blocked me, Marlena, our producers, or the Nerve from either her personal Instagram account. Whoops, sorry. Her personal Instagram account or the Nerve from her personal Instagram account or her as ever accounts. I will tip my hat to her for that. I will. Anyway, let's take a look at this reel. She's showing us all how to make an ice cream sundae.

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Look, you're gonna notice, look, look, look. There's the left hand. No engagement ring, just the thread bear wedding ring. Oh, and of course, what's.

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We're done. That's it. What's a Megan reel without like a jaunty little laugh. Like we're just, oh, we're so, so. Everybody's having the ball.

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Everybody's having a ball. Okay, on to Jared Leto. Page Six Hollywood published July 30 Power

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Hollywood agency WME William Morris Endeavor stands by Jared Leto despite disturbing sexual assault accusations. I quote from this report. WME, which has represented the Oscar winning actor since 2018, told Page Six Hollywood that he remains a client. And that doesn't appear to be changing anytime soon. The Nerve would like to move this along. I continue from the report. When asked if the agency's client advisory committee was reviewing the very serious sexual assault allegations made in a documentary by premier broadcaster the BBC, an agency spokesperson said no.

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Now, before we get to more of

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what the BBC has to report regarding Jared Leto, I'm just going to read from this page six item that ran on Saturday, August 1st. And it may sound slightly frivolous in light of the very serious sexual assault allegations that we're discussing now. But I mention it because it's all intertwined. It's the allowing for enabling of and servicing of this kind of bad behavior that gets someone to legitimately commit criminal offenses. And again, where Leto's concerned, These are alleged. These are alleged. This page 6 report from August 1st titled Scaly Antics on set. Jared Leto had bizarre demands while working on the film Tron Aries, a production source claimed to page6.com's the source alleged that Leto did not want, quote, eye contact of any kind. How often do we hear about that continuing on?

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And that he was allegedly on a

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diet that quote, consisted of eating only fish. Continuing from the page six report, the source said that Leto demanded a fisherman

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be brought on to the set in

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Vancouver, Canada to quote, catch and prepare fresh fish every day, end quote. A rep for Leto did not respond to a request for comment.

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I take that to mean that's true and that's. That's to say nothing of the reports

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of what Leto was doing on the set of that film with Margot Robbie. God, I forget what it was called. I think he was playing an antagonist of Batman or a version of the Joker. I forget. But he was leaving things like dead rats in his co stars trailers. Allegedly, reportedly, allegedly, reportedly. Condoms filled with semen. Allegedly, reportedly his, you know, these were

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covered at the time by like the

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entertainment media as his pranks.

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Pranks. Apparently nobody at the studio intervened and said, hey man, knock it off or we're gonna fire you. I'd probably you could file criminal complaints over that. Is it any wonder we're here that we are where we are?

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We're going to take a look and a listen to a further report from BBC Deepwatch and BBC News. This is Jessica Sartner, journalist and producer. This was posted to YouTube on July 29, 2026. Again, this is the official BBC News YouTube channel. The title, Hollywood's darkest open Secret. I take umbrage only with this being Hollywood's darkest open secret. There are far too many dark open secrets, far too many. But you know, shine a light on one.

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Lights on, rats out.

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Here's Jessica on just one of the women she found who speaks here. And this will sound familiar to you. Here we go.

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One of the women I found was Etta. She met Leto in 2014 when he approached her outside a modeling agency in LA. He asked for her email so he could invite her to his Oscar party.

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The first email he just sent an image of the invitation. I said I thank you for the invite, but I couldn't make it even though I'm sure it would have been fun. And he responded text me and gave me his number.

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Did he know you were 16?

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I know for sure. If not, then I did tell him a couple days later when we were

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texting the texts quickly turned into phone calls with Leto always calling from a private number.

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Like, at first it was like, you know, who did you sign with? Oh, how did it go? But it quickly moved into, oh, well, you're a virgin. Do you have any kinks? Like, what are you interested in? Oh, can you squirt like? He seemed very interested in squirting.

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If you haven't seen our Friday nerve with Billy Bush. We were talking about Jared Leto and what an open secret. I will put it mildly. His perversions have been in Hollywood for decades. And Billy said, oh, I know this personally because I have a very close friend whose daughter was approached by Jared Leto when she was a teenager. And Billy said Jared was very interested to know if this young woman, this girl, this adolescent, was proficient in a sexual act that rhymes with. And he said something like squirming. This is a middle aged man. If a middle aged man is calling your teenage daughter, your teenage sister or niece or godchild,

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the act of phoning

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them alone is enough to make it very clear that if that doesn't stop, there's going to be a real fucking problem here. He's got the gall. He's got the fucking ball. Why not? Nobody's told him no. That's what's known as grooming. She says, oh, first he would call. He invited me. She shows the invitation on her cell phone.

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Jared's official formally done invitation to his

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Oscar party at a private residence.

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Then he starts calling her, oh, how'd your day go?

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Did you get casted for this job? Like, what's going on? And then it goes into this stuff, this sexual stuff.

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What?

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A lot of these girls and women who allege this stuff often don't say. And I think it's because it might be a source of embarrassment for them and it shouldn't be, because it's exactly what creeps like Jared Leto leverage is that they're very flattered. This is just my interpretation.

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They're very flattered that this older, famous, wealthy guy who's been a heartthrob from a very young age, you know, he

[D]

got famous as Jordan Catalano in my so called life.

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All these girls and women throwing themselves at him.

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He's a rock star. He dated Cameron Diaz, Scarlett Johansson. He's interested in me. He said, I'm nobody. He's interested in me. That is very heady stuff and these guys fucking know it. He's got no business as a middle aged man phoning a teenage girl that he doesn't know, let alone talking to. Her about her sex life? Is she a virgin? Does she have kinks?

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Does she engage in something known known as squirting? Like what the is this with the actual this is the coverage we should be seeing on Access and E and People magazine. What the actual here's Etta on feeling nervous and uncomfortable while talking to Jared. But keep in mind, again, this is heady. This movie star, this Oscar winner, now is interested in her. Here we go.

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I did at least once mention him and I having sex at some point. I remember feeling like nervous a little, like anxious, a little uncomfortable. But like at the time, I remember I had a really hard time like saying like no to things or like putting boundaries up. But obviously I was 16, so I shouldn't have to.

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Etta is one of five women I spoke to who received strange calls from Leto. Four of them were teenagers at the time and they say the calls were often very sexual in nature.

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I'm gonna guess there are hundreds if not thousands of girls out there. This is a guy who tours the world with his fucking mediocre bands, who by all accounts was running weekends on remote islands in which his fans paid thousands of dollars to attend and worship him as a cult leader. He would dress all in white in these like half tanny kind of things. Entertainment Weekly Published July 31 hey ew. Wonder why you're dying. You should have been on this a long time ago, back when everybody knew Dylan Sprouse, the former Disney star. Dylan Sprouse's shady tweet about Jared Leto resurfaces amid sex assault allegations as Jared Leto faces new accusations of sexual assault by 10 women. This tweet sent by Dylan Sprouse nearly a decade ago, has come to light. I read from the quote, yo Jared,

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Jared Leto, now that you've slid into

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the DMs of every female model aged 18 to 25, what would you say your success rate is? That was the then 25 year old Sprouse writing on Twitter, which is Now X on May 18. Sorry, May 15, 2018. At the time, Sprouse was newly dating his now wife, Victoria's Secret model Barbara Palvin.

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The implication being that Barbara Palvin told Dylan Sprouse that Jared Leto had tried it with her when she was a very tender age. Just my interpretation. Despite WME standing by Jared Leto again for now. For now, NBC News reports that Hollywood

[D]

has begun distancing itself. This report published July 31st by Rebecca Keegan. The headline as Jared Leto Allegations, Mount Hollywood keeps its Distance. NBC News has learned that one upcoming film set to co star Leto has stalled and another potential role for the actor never materialized.

[E]

This despite being an acclaimed actor, he's

[D]

an Oscar winner no less, and a global music star represented by two of Hollywood's top agencies.

[E]

The 54 year old Leto has not

[D]

appeared in a hit film in years. Recent studio bets on him, including Amazon, MGM's Masters of the Universe 2026 Disney's 2025 release Tron Heiress as discussed get me fresh fish with a fisherman who goes out to the ocean every day to catch it and bring it to me. Are you kidding me? Hollywood and Sony's Morbius from 2022 all dramatically underperformed at the box office. That is a polite way of saying they were bombs. Leto was set to co star with

[E]

Lupito Nyong' o Harvey Weinstein accuser the

[D]

More Things Change right In the Cold

[E]

War thriller Lunic Heist who came up

[D]

with that title, which remains listed as in Pre production on IMDb but Searchlight Pictures has not moved forward in more than a year, according to a source with knowledge of the production who was not authorized to speak on the record about it.

[E]

A spokesperson for the Disney owned studio declined to comment on the film status

[D]

this is the beginning.

[E]

This is the beginning of the moving

[D]

away from the problem that Hollywood helped create and is now going to pretend they had no idea about at all. None. Continuing from the NBC report, the producers of Assassination, a movie about President John F. Kennedy, had been eyeing Leto for

[E]

a lead role but backed away after

[D]

the 2025 airmail expose on Leto, according

[E]

to a source with knowledge of that production who was also not authorized to speak publicly.

[D]

Eleanor McManus, who works in crisis PR, said the new accusations surrounding Leto will be hard to recover from professionally, particularly given that multiple accusers say they were under 18 at the the time.

[E]

McManus says this isn't just one allegation,

[D]

this is a lot, end quote. Adding that if those who accused Leto initiate civil suits, he could have, quote, a legal liability. We've seen this before. This is reminiscent to me of no one as much as Kevin Spacy who cannot get work. And the reason Kevin Spacey can't get work is because everyone in Hollywood knew and he's a liability to them.

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Hey there. It's Steven Dubner, host of Freakonomics Radio. And we have just made a new show, a TV talk show. It's called Better in Person. We have the kind of guests you don't see on every other show and we have the kind of conversations you don't hear anywhere.

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I'm like, yes chef.

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Be one with the pork.

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You have the opportunity to make this little corner of the world into your ideal world, your dream world.

[J]

You can watch Better in Person on the Freakonomics YouTube channel. You'll find a new episode there every week.

[K]

This is how a conversation works.

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Now onto another kind of monster. Gabriel Hostin and his mother, TV's Sunny

[D]

Hostin of ABC's the View. This is a story that has lit you guys up as it has all of us here at Nerve hq. I think we might fly Teddy back to cover this one in person as well. Now, Gabriel was due to appear in court having been issued a citation for trespassing down by the train tracks near the porta potties. He and his mother said he was just working out. We here at the Nerve and many of you troublemakers theorize that Gabriel was looking for one of two things down by the train tracks near the porta potties. We surmised just our supposition. Either rough trade or drugs.

[E]

Third option, both.

[D]

Just our opinion.

[E]

Now, it's a citation, which means he can't get any jail time.

[D]

He won't be like, at most, maybe

[E]

he'll get a fine. I don't know. Like, that's it. It doesn't go on his record. He doesn't get points on his license. Is Sunny happy with this? No. It was knocked down from a misdemeanor.

[D]

She got this case adjourned.

[E]

Or his current lawyer.

[D]

And we're going to get to his current lawyer and you're going to die. His case was due to be heard at 9:30am last Friday. And we had moles at the courthouse who got in touch with Nerve HQ down on Long island and said, guess what? This case was suddenly adjourned. And our understanding is that adjournments don't happen. Morning of adjournments are issued after a letter is sent to the court asking for an adjournment, which is, if you're not in the U.S. it's just like, can we postpone this to a later date? The thinking and the strategy being the further we kick this can down the road, the less it remains a pressing matter. And it feels minor, it feels minute, it feels like too tiny for the court to deal with.

[E]

The Nerve's mission is to make that

[D]

the absolute absolutely not the case.

[E]

Okay, we're going to stay on this. We're going to stay on this.

[D]

Now, Gabriel's case has been adjourned until September 15th.

[E]

Now, the view should be back on

[D]

the air on September 15, and that is a weekday, and the View airs live.

[E]

So if Sunny Hostin is off that day, the Nerve's going to be all over it.

[D]

Okay,

[E]

remember, Sunny works for.

[D]

She's a legal analyst for ABC News, and she attempted to intervene in the. In. In law enforcement, you know, issuing a citation to her. Her son. I wonder if ABC News. I wonder if those execs had something to say to Sunny about this, because Sunny is No longer his legal representative.

[E]

And we got this update. By the way, you're not going to read this update in. On. On ABC News or on. In People magazine or TMZ or Radar, even the New York Post, any major mainstream media outlet. No. Do you know where we got this from? We found this at the Nerve, courtesy of a hyper local news outlet that we believe is digital only called Talk of the Sound.

[D]

You see, Sonny, there's nowhere to run and there's nowhere to hide from the nerve.

[E]

Updated July 31, 2026 Gabriel Hostin's appearance postponed.

[D]

The Westchester County DA's Office Director of Communications and Public Affairs, Anna Young, according to this report, said on Thursday that Gabriel Hostin is now being represented by defense attorney Tenney Garagos, not his mother. I'll get to Tenney in one second.

[E]

Court records, however, still list Asuncion Cummings Hostin.

[D]

That's Sunny Asuncion Cummings Hostin as the retained defense attorney. But Tanny Garagos is going to represent Gabe in corporate court. Who is Tenny Garagos. Tenney is the daughter of famed criminal defense lawyer Mark Garagos. Tenney.

[E]

Okay.

[D]

Again, this is a citation for trespass.

[E]

Tenney is a founding partner at Agniphilo Intrader LLP and was a member of Sean Diddy Combs defense team in his federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial in which the team secured not guilty verdicts on the most serious charges that carried potential life sentences. Her father, Mark Garagos, gained fame representing clients including Michael Jackson, Winona Ryder, Scott Peterson, who killed his wife pregnant with their child. She was nine months pregnant. And dump the body in water. Serving life. Hunter Biden, Colin Kaepernick.

[D]

I don't think he belongs in that cohort.

[E]

Mike Tyson, Jussie Smollett, who Dave Chappelle calls Jesse Smollett, and the Menendez brother, Sonny. Are you elevating Gabriel's criminal activity? I don't even know if we could call it criminal because it's just a citation. Knocked down from a misdemeanor with the Menendez brothers and Scott Peterson. Is this the way you really want to play this? Are you for fucking real? Okay, you want to play? Let's play. The Nerve is going to play. Sunny Hostin and her husband, Dr. Emmanuel

[D]

Hostin, otherwise known as Manny Hostin, retained

[E]

Mark Garagos to fight a major federal

[D]

RICO and insurance fraud lawsuit filed against her husband by the American Transit Insurance Company. The lawsuit was subsequently dropped with an apology from the insurance company. So Sunny and her husband have a Good record with Garagos Inc. I mean, you know. But I gotta. We gotta find out what. What her hourlies are.

[E]

Nerve hq.

[D]

I'm just gonna put in a question.

[E]

Now that Teddy is still in Montecito,

[D]

can we call over to Teddy's office and by the end of today's episode,

[E]

find out what her hourly rate is?

[D]

I'm going to guess it's $800 per hour.

[E]

Marlena says okay. It's a go.

[D]

Okay.

[E]

Following up. Okay. News. Sunny Hostin son offers essay tutoring sessions after she tried to get his trespassing citation. Dismissed by boasting about his Harvard Education.

[D]

Published July 31st by Stephanie Kaplan.

[E]

The 24 year olds revealed.

[D]

What kind of writing is this?

[E]

He didn't reveal it. He's trolling for customers. The guy's trying to get some work. You reveal something that is heretofore been a secret.

[D]

Reveal is the improper word here, Stephanie.

[E]

Sharpen up.

[D]

Sharpen up.

[E]

Via his Instagram story that he's continuing

[D]

to offer tutoring sessions for high school students. I'm going to read from said post.

[E]

Have a few tutoring slots left for the summer.

[D]

A few.

[E]

I'll bet he's got it wide open.

[D]

Wide open. There's many jokes we can make here, but we will refrain. Continuing on from Gabriel's job posting.

[E]

Harvard grad. We know. Gabriel. We know.

[D]

Your mother said it 800 times to those cops on that body cam footage. We know. Offering SAT ACT prep, academic tutoring and college essay help. Gabe went on to list his accomplishments, writing quote, I've spent this year teaching in NYC classrooms. Three months. Three months.

[E]

The year is now eight months old. Three months of the year.

[D]

Six months of the year not teaching.

[E]

So Gabriel is elastic with the facts. Just our opinion.

[D]

And co founded an award winning mentoring

[E]

org that aired on Good Morning America

[D]

like three years ago. And let's not pretend that his mother did not pull strings. Good Morning America is also an ABC production. Now, we went through Gabriel's LinkedIn. It's extremely unimpressive. The average length of his job tenure is one month. Hey, if I had a rising senior and the kind of money that could get private tutoring all summer long, I don't think Gabriel Hostin would be my first call. I don't.

[E]

I also don't want a distracted tutor, you know, who's got the white red spotlight of the nerve on him as his mother hires fucking Danny Garagos, who got Diddy off of the worst charges

[D]

to get him out of this thing.

[E]

He's preoccupied. Let him.

[D]

Just deal with this shit over here. Get someone a little less notorious, if you know what I am saying. Again, notorious being just my opinion.

[E]

Now on to the second cultural criminal offender, who may in fact be a criminal offender, to block the Nerve.

[D]

Monday afternoon, I'm going to say an hour before sitting to tape today's edition of the Nerve, Marlena texted me. And I'm going to read her text. I'm going to read it exactly.

[E]

Maureen.

[D]

The text just said Maureen. Second text, Check Amy Griffin, Instagram. Third text, tell me if you're blocked.

[E]

Fourth text. Looks like I am.

[D]

Same with Alyssa Morgan. My text, back emoji. Laughing, laughing, crying, laughing, crying, laughing, crying. Response. I am.

[E]

No, I'll call shortly.

[D]

That's my response.

[E]

Amy Griffin blocked the nerve. Not the first, not the last. Andy Cohen was the first to do it. Amy Griffin followed suit, apparently having Billy Bush on the Nerve on Friday, in which we whipped her around like the pinata. She is this trick. She blocked the nerve. Amy, sister, I got news for you. We can still see what you're up to on Instagram.

[D]

It's not that hard.

[E]

But, you know, it's this kind of elevated thinking that leads one to pen and publish a memoir that alleges violent, repeated, brutal childhood sexual abuse by a man who may have been given a

[D]

pseudonym, but he was known to everyone in her hometown. That doesn't seem to pass the smell test, just my opinion. And who is now being sued by a Jane Doe in court.

[E]

Now, Amy Griffin countersued.

[D]

Jane Doe. Jane Doe, as we have discussed here on the Nerve, discussed with Billy Bush, is the woman who is suing Amy Griffin, claiming that Amy Griffin stole her account of being raped as a child at a school dance by a teacher wearing a dress that Amy had loaned her. So Amy has immediate adjacency to this story. Jane Doe says that the story that Amy told in the tell of that rape at the dance, that's Jane's Jane. She stole the rape. I'm not even going to say stole the rape story. I think I do worry for the culture because it seems as though there's nothing that can cause shame anymore, including if Amy not only fabricated her story, her stories of violent childhood sexual rape, but then stole at least one story from Jane Doe. She's beyond vile. Beyond vile. And by the way, one of the major, major figures in the culture, one of the major celebrities who has propped Amy up from the very beginning.

[E]

She's getting it. She's getting it. In our final segment on today's show, you See what I mean with the nerves? Venn diagram. All of these offenders, they're all in cahoots. They all prop each other up. Billy posted on his Instagram on July 31 that Jane does court case against Amy is going forward. The judge was ruling as Billy and

[D]

I were talking on the Friday show

[E]

as to whether this case could proceed or whether the judge was going to knock out all of Jane Doe's complaints and say this doesn't hold merit. We will not bring this to trial. 4 of 6 of Jane Doe's causes will proceed. Among the counts, invasion of privacy. Jane Dovey, Amy Griffin will proceed.

[D]

Publication of private facts will not proceed.

[E]

False light. Jane Doe v. Amy Griffin will proceed. Intentional infliction of emotional distress will proceed. Negligent infliction, Emotional distress will proceed. Unfair competition will not proceed. Do you know how I read this?

[D]

I read this as akin to the ruling the judge in the Blake Lively B v. Justin Baldoni case handed down,

[E]

knocked out like 97% of Blake Lively's claims. The most important ones, the most serious ones, the spine of her complaints.

[D]

The judge said, get the out of here.

[E]

No, Amy's in a world of now it's not going to get any better.

[D]

Just my opinion.

[E]

Washington Post Published June 16, 2026

[D]

so

[E]

about a month and a half before this judge's ruling, Amy Griffin sues woman who alleged she stole.

[D]

Amy stole her stories of sexual abuse. Amy sued the former classmate known as Jane Doe for defamation. On Monday, I'm reading from the WaPo report saying the woman's statements in a New York Times story and a subsequent lawsuit alleging Griffin appropriated her stories of sexual abuse for Griffin's best selling 2012, 2025 memoir, the Tell are false in quote, every element.

[E]

Well, the judge disagrees. Amy. The judge disagrees. And as Billy and I discussed, it's very telling that Amy Griffin is suing this woman who does not have. Amy's married to a billionaire named John

[D]

Griffin who is otherwise known as the man who owns New York.

[E]

And if you're wondering why you're not seeing this story in very many places, look no further than that.

[D]

Just my supposition. Just my supposition.

[E]

Jane Doe works as a home health

[D]

care aide for a senior citizen who has Alzheimer's. She makes like 26 bucks an hour. And then in the rest of her time, she works at a halfway house. I believe it's a halfway house or it's a refuge for survivors, children, teenagers, adult survivors of sexual assaults, abuse, rape. Usually people who get into that field of work have regrettably, some personal experience of their own. Jane Doe doesn't have the deep pockets of an Amy Griffin, which is what Amy Griffin's banking on is Amy Griffin suing Jane Doe. Do you know who Amy Griffin hasn't launched a defamation lawsuit against the New York Times. I don't see how one does not follow the other. Again, this is just me. If I'm Amy Griffin and I'm saying that this woman is defaming me and saying that I lied about being raped violently and repeatedly as a child and my husband was a billionaire who knew everybody, you can best believe I'd be launching a defamation lawsuit against the New York Times. But she's not. I wonder why. But Amy thinks, I suppose, that by blocking the nerve, that's going to solve one of her problems here.

[E]

Amy, we think not. And if you thought this was gonna stop, stop us from continuing to report, it's only strengthened our already strong resolve. We love it. The nerve is moving. The culture.

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hey there, it's Stephen Dubner, host of Freakonomics Radio, and we have just made a new show, a TV talk show. It's called Better in Person. We have the kind of guests you don't see on every other show, and we have the kind of conversations you don't hear anywhere.

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I'm like, yes, chef.

[K]

Be one with the pork.

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You have the opportunity to make this little corner of the world into your ideal world, your dream world.

[J]

You can watch Better in Person on the Freakonomics YouTube channel. You'll find a new episode there every week.

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This is how a conversation works.

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We are back now onto troublemaker art and feedback.

[D]

And we're going to begin with two

[E]

regular contributors in the troublemaker community.

[D]

First, Paul from New Zealand as depicted detective Teddy as none other than Columbo. I said in the substack that I think Teddy has been picking up some tips and tricks from watching. From having lazy Saturday morning viewings of Columbo reruns with me, I find nothing more comforting. And the little the thing that Paul wrote on the. On the right hand side of that just one more thing that was Columbo's. One of Columbo's big tricks, they call

[E]

it a door knock moment.

[D]

A doorknob moment rather. They say this in psychotherapy too. The doorknob moment is like when you're

[E]

on your way out the door. It's like, oh, like I just remembered

[D]

the most important thing. But in detective work, as Teddy can explain, you do that as a way to disarm your the. The subject of your interrogation. It's like, oh, I got the important stuff out of the way. I'm on my way out the door.

[E]

Oh yeah, just one more thing.

[D]

It doesn't mean anything. Just one more thing. And Paul says this was inspired by

[E]

troublemaker Rebecca on substack.

[D]

I would also like to address an email sent to me by Andy Kiwi, who emails regularly and is very active in the live chats when we drop our lives on YouTube. Andy, you sent me an email in which you were sort of hazarding a guess as to who among former Nerve contributors may have been a disappointment in not being the friend that they claimed to be to me and to the show. And you were right about it. Your theory that this may be a binary mind at work where something is either all good or all bad or all transactionally helpful for said person or transactionally a loss leader for said person.

[E]

You were right.

[D]

The troublemakers, you know. You know, I don't need to say okay from troublemaker Rebecca.

[E]

We got a lot of feedback to

[D]

the Tracy Ellis Ross mini nerve in which she traveled to Melbourne and spent a lot of time behaving like a dummy and a creep, to put it crudely. Thanks for highlighting that one should consider giving one's children feedback about tics and habits. In my observation, it typically involves the mouth because Tracy was doing this thing on camera where she was like. And I was like, that's creepy. She's 53 years old and clearly nobody when she was a young age or as a child took her aside and said, listen, you need to stop doing that because it's going to mark you as as someone who is weird and not in a good way. Like at a certain point you do need to integrate

[E]

Becca Troublemaker Becca says,

[D]

my husband and I had to do this with our daughter at age 7 and exactly in the way you relayed and she listened. Fast forward to my son at 23. At his age I said, you need to stop doing X.

[E]

You're in the workforce now.

[D]

It is off putting. And he listened. From Troublemaker Rich it is merely a subject line. No email in the body. I think Tracy is a drunk. Just Rich's opinion.

[E]

Hi Maureen.

[D]

Tracy Ellis Ross, doppelganger from Troublemaker C. As I was watching your take on

[E]

Tracy's riveting travel show, I could not

[D]

shake the nagging feeling I've seen another person of this ilk. I finally landed on it Kristen Wiggs

[E]

Target lady from snl. They are so alike. Unfortunately, one of them is a real person.

[D]

Maureen, thanks for another entertaining Mini before

[E]

the Nerve, I only knew who this

[D]

woman was because she had done commercials and watched what happened live. I couldn't tell you what movies or TV shows she has acted in.

[E]

But now, thanks to the Nerve, Troublemaker

[D]

J knows Tracy as the public dry brusher, as someone who lived in New York City and took the subways for 15 years. That behavior only compares to the time a homeless man was clipping his toenails on the D train. This is so disgusting to me that I even took the time to submit a question about this to Andrew Koh in last week. See attached but back to your Mini. This week, Troublemaker J says, I think there is a bigger problem today and I agree in Troublemaker J. This is exactly why we did that Mini, she writes, we really need to look at who is running things in our culture. The people at Roku who are paying this person to do a travel show

[E]

are probably cut from the same cloth as those who are telling Tom Brady

[D]

to do ads for candy companies and get into bitch slapping fights with YouTubers. Agreed? Agreed. Troublemaker J writes, last week I stumbled upon a rerun of no Reservations Venice, the Anthony Bourdain show. The late, great Anthony Bourdain, who she writes and agreed was a truly curious person who traveled the world and I suspect inspired a generation of creators. He met with locals, experienced what was great and unique to any given area, and was often thoughtful and genuinely witty in both the narrated segments and the conversations he had with others. Is this elevation of a Nepo baby like Tracy Ellis Ross, this nitwit troublemaker Jay writes, a reflection of how these channels and outlets are so desperate for content that standards have declined? Or is this some long game to get to her famous mother, akin to Andrew Cohen hiring Mercy James, daughter of Madonna, to get to Madonna to be discussed. Troublemaker J with Rob Shooter on tomorrow's Nerve at night. Our final email from a troublemaker Paul,

[E]

a frequent writer, a 72 year old troublemaker in KC

[D]

we we surmised at the Nerve that Tracee Ellis Ross, working herself into hysterics of joy and disbelief that she had found some hair care products at this retail store in Melbourne and was so overcome by the innovation and uniqueness of said products that she had to FaceTime a known associate. I won't go so far as to call this person a friend, a voluntary friend, and say, look what I'm getting. Do you want one? Oh my God. And collapse into hysterics. Our supposition was that these were items that could be obtained on any given global website, but most specifically in America.

[E]

Troublemaker Paul, you did us proud. Also available at your local Target and we're showing them here, the kitsch hair care products online@Target USA.

[D]

Troublemaker Paul writes, I admire her courage to speak in the absence of knowledge. I mean, you know, it's very, it's very kind of you, Paul. I would also like to issue a very special thank you from me, Marlena

[E]

and all of us here at Nerve

[D]

HQ to troublemaker Jessica Cardoza, who has

[E]

not only been sending us Teddy running through the streets of Manhattan trying to

[D]

make it to my desk and beat me to my chair to take over, which is not happening anytime soon, hence the reports from the field.

[E]

But Jessica also is responsible for Teddy's report, his inaugural report from the field

[D]

in Montecito that we all watched and enjoyed at the very beginning of today's Nerve. We thank you, Jessica. You are a true artist and a genius. Your contributions will be enshrined when the Nerve gets its wing at the Smithsonian. We have another huge thank you to Teddy's voiceover artist translator. He is 7 and he is a genius. I will call you Troublemaker S. We love you, Troublemaker S. Thank you for your contributions to the Nerve. Troublemaker S is only seven years old and remarked to me very recently that one of the favorite observations of his that I've made on the Nerve thus far is nominative determinism. Again, he's seven. Do you think Tracee Ellis Ross could speak, let alone define nominative?

[E]

Excuse me, this cold has really got me. Nominative determinism? We think not. Let's call it quits while we're ahead. One other programming note, we ran out

[D]

of time and I am running out of vocal energy to get to the segment on the Prime Cultural Offender, one of many prime cultural offenders who has been propping up Amy Griffin, who has since gone silent and who is now in for a potential world of hurt regarding something that the mainstream media is ignoring completely. Again, this is why the Nerve exists. We are going to get to that on a very imminent future episode of the Nerve.

[E]

Keep your feedback coming.

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Come back and see us tomorrow for the Nerve at night. You'll never guess what we're about to say next.

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