Good afternoon, Lunch Club. Today’s stories feel like dispatches from the strange edges of modern life. We start with a look inside the Hollywood crisis machine that manufactures the celebrity narratives we swallow without thinking. Then we plunge to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, where deep-sea divers risk their lives in the dark. From there, we head into the scam compounds of Southeast Asia, where workers are trapped in a digital underworld built on deceit. Finally, we end in a California crime lab, where a single speck of glitter helped solve a brutal murder.
Happy reading,
Brett
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