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🗓️ 6 January 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Joe Francis created an empire of spring break smut with the “Girls Gone Wild” video series. But the story behind the alcohol-fueled antics is darker than you think. Scaachi interviews Jamila Wignot, director of the docuseries “Girls Gone Wild: The Untold Story” as they revisit Scaachi’s original reporting on Joe Francis, and the questionable filming practices, sloppy record-keeping, illegal tax write-offs, and assault allegations that brought Girls Gone Wild to its ignoble end.
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0:20.3 | A note to our listeners, the story includes mention of sexual assault, sexually explicit |
0:24.7 | content, physical assault, and a very bad word that Joe Francis called me in an email. |
0:30.4 | Listen with care. |
0:37.4 | Sarah, is there anything from the early 2000s that you think about a lot, but like everyone else has forgotten? |
0:43.9 | I mean, obviously, there are so many, but I'll keep it short, this fake American Idol style show called WB Superstar USA that was trying to find the worst singer in America. |
0:54.8 | I think about that a lot. |
0:56.0 | That's a good one. I remember that one too. |
0:57.9 | Okay, well, I obviously have one too. |
0:59.9 | And mine is Girls Gone Wild. |
1:02.2 | Do you remember that company? |
1:03.6 | I mean, everyone remembers Girls Gone Wilds, |
1:06.1 | because if you watch TV at night, |
1:08.2 | you would get the ads without fail. |
1:11.1 | It would be like those girls taking their tops off, blurry around the boobs. |
1:16.1 | Yeah, exactly right. |
1:18.4 | Well, Sarah, I actually went so deep on my early odds obsession that I reported on it for four years. |
1:24.3 | And now there's a three-part docu-series on Peacock based on some of my reporting. For years, |
1:29.2 | Girls Gone Wild was a direct-to-consumer video series featuring young women flashing while on |
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