Episode 1: The Splat

2025-03-26

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It was the splat heard around the world. Two young people enter London’s National Gallery… and throw tomato soup all over a beloved painting: Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers. It shocked onlookers. It made global news. Most of all, it kicked off a radical movement to combat the climate crisis, led by one group: Just Stop Oil. But two years later, most people still don’t know the real story. Who, exactly, was behind it – and why did they do it?As most of their media peers dismiss the soup throwers as crazy, two journalists in California...

It was the splat heard around the world. Two young people enter London’s National Gallery… and throw tomato soup all over a beloved painting: Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers.

It shocked onlookers. It made global news. Most of all, it kicked off a radical movement to combat the climate crisis, led by one group: Just Stop Oil. But two years later, most people still don’t know the real story. Who, exactly, was behind it – and why did they do it?

As most of their media peers dismiss the soup throwers as crazy, two journalists in California know there’s way more to uncover. So they quit their jobs to dig deeper – only to find an astonishing story about money, power and what it really takes to save the planet.

Episode credits:

Hosted, reported and executive produced by Alessandra Ram and Samantha Oltman of Good Luck Media
With executive producers Adam McKay and Staci Roberts-Steele of Yellow Dot Studios
Producer: Hannah Chinn
Consulting Senior Producer: Rebecca Sananes
Field Producer: Andy Fallon
Audio Engineer: Erick Gomez
Original music: Daniel G. Harmann

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