# Gerbil

A podcast by The Hollywood Reporter. Everyone knows the story about Richard Gere. Few know how it started. For four decades, a salacious and unproven rumor has shadowed one of Hollywood’s biggest stars. Investigative reporter Allen Salkin spent six years chasing its origins — and uncovered a story about gossip, power, politics, the internet and the peculiar wiring of our own brains. New episodes every Thursday.

Feed: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/gerbil

## Latest episodes

- [7 - A Guide to Dating Gerbils](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/6812013769/186308248d34) (2026-10-22, 67 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/PMC4452206648.mp3
- [6 - Fear and Biting in Mesa](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/6812013769/dcb84e8cd3f2) (2026-10-15, 50 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/PMC6255462501.mp3
- [5 - Without a Base, Without a Trace](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/6812013769/064b17fbc16f) (2026-10-08, 46 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/PMC2693086699.mp3
- [4 - Tail Between His Legs](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/6812013769/6b7a68732a0b) (2026-10-01, 47 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/PMC4689660106.mp3
- [3 - Sex Object](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/6812013769/077bdf4640f8) (2026-09-24, 47 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/PMC2250078172.mp3
- [2 - The Philadelphia Gerbil Panic of 1985](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/6812013769/0892e59a9d25) (2026-09-17, 52 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/PMC6974349672.mp3
- [1 - The Word](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/6812013769/8d783aec2d0c) (2026-09-17, 41 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/PMC5714712318.mp3
- [Gerbil: Inside Hollywood’s Most Unkillable Rumor - Trailer](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/6812013769/a387dc426436) (2026-09-15, 2 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/PMC8834593775.mp3

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