Uncut Gems: The Great Diamond Hoax

Ridiculous Crime

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True Crime, Comedy, History

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Diamonds and gems scattered about the dry earth just waiting to be gathered and sold. Little to no work involved. Easy money. Sounds to good to be true, right? Not for the titans of industry, experts, and investors who fell for this ridiculous con.

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0:00.0	Your career is your most valuable asset.
0:03.2	Imagine powering it with the unvarnished advice of the most successful chief executives in the world.
0:08.5	I'm Mike Stybe, a three-time CEO, Fortune 500 board leader,
0:12.4	and author of the top-selling career guide, The Career Manifesto.
0:15.5	On my new show, Office Hours, I sit down with the leaders shaping our world
0:20.1	to help you be the CEO of your own career.
0:23.3	Listen to Office Hours with Mike Stybe, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
0:28.4	or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.2	The Last Archive is a show about the history of truth in America.
0:34.4	Each episode, we tell a story about people coming up with some new way of understanding the world.
0:39.3	Histories of science, technology, democracy.
0:42.8	This season, we've got stories on everything from mid-century songwriting machines to social network theory
0:48.2	and plenty of mad inventors.
0:50.1	Of course I go, oh my god.
0:52.0	Well, it's Dr. Frankenstein's Monsters, isn't it?
0:54.6	Listen to The Last Archive, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
0:59.1	or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:01.0	We're supposed to learn from our own mistakes that other people's errors can be instructive, too,
1:06.2	from efforts to control the weather that went disastrously awry
1:10.1	to the untimely death of the Segway boss.
1:12.7	History is a treasure trove, mishaps and meltdowns that can teach us all.
1:17.4	I'm Tim Halford, host of cautionary tales,
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