Fraud, greed, cult vibes, and murder. The billionaire boys club wasn't some exclusive social club for L.A.'s

It was a tangled mess of Ponzi schemes, manipulation, and two men who ended up dead.

Hey guys, and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself, Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa. Hi, Melissa. Hi, Mandy. How are you? I'm doing well. Can I tell you today's the joy of the day? Actually, this has been my joy for a while now. And I'm not sure if it's something that you

really have gotten into because you're not really a coffee drinker, but cold foam is all the rage right now.

And it has been for a little while. It's not like cold foam is a brand new concept, but I started

getting into cold foam recently. And the thing that I think is like so funny about it is that it's literally just whipped cream. And like I feel like this generation has like rebranded whipped cream and made it like a thing that you can just have any day of the week. Right. I'm like, this feels illegal. Like we should not be doing this. But now I'm I can't stop making cold foam at home at my house. I've bought all the

ingredients. I got my little mixer thing. And so, um, every day now around this time, I'm just

making myself an iced coffee with cold foam on top. And it's sort of just,

is it really? Is it really? I was going to say, is it like, because I found out not that long ago that you could make your own whipped cream and I've thought that's really cool. But I don't drink coffee. So easy. So easy. Why did I think it was such a complicated process? They're trying to keep us down, I swear. The people are trying to keep us down. The man. I mean, there's so many different flavors can do, like different ways you can flavor it. Oh. Yeah. So I didn't know you can flavor it. Yeah.

Oh, well, actually, I'm not telling my husband because then I'll be making it and I'm okay.

So today we are diving into a complex, layered, and absolutely banana story that combines fraud, greed, manipulation,

kind of some cultish vibes, and of course, murder. This is the story of Joe Hunt in the so-called

billionaire boys club, which might sound like the name of a 2000s boy band, but in reality,

it was just a group of young, wealthy guys led by a con man.

Joe Hunt was born Joseph Henry Gamsky on Halloween in 1959.

Even as a child, he was incredibly smart.

One of his teachers actually said that he was the brightest student she had ever taught

and that he was unusually mature for his age.

Joe's dad, Lawrence, was kind of a character.

He called himself a storefront psychologist, which basically meant that he ran a bunch of really

sketchy failed businesses in the San Fernando Valley and gave out unsolicited life advice to people.

Is that what we would call a life coach these days? I think so, yeah.

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