Sixto Rodriguez thought his music career had failed.

After releasing two albums in the early 1970s, he walked away from the industry, took construction jobs in Detroit, and assumed nobody ever really heard his songs. What he didn’t know was that, halfway across the world, his music had become legendary.

In this episode of What We Just Heard, Emma tells Hamish the unbelievable true story of how Rodriguez became a cultural icon in South Africa and Australia — while living a quiet, anonymous life at home — and how fans searching for a ghost ended up changing his life forever.

It’s a story about timing, missed recognition, and what success really means.

What happens when a medical accident turns into a worldwide experiment — and no one stops it?

In this episode of What We Just Heard, Hamish tells Emma the full, devastating story of David Reimer: a boy who was raised as a girl after a routine procedure went horribly wrong, and whose life became the foundation for one of the most influential — and controversial — theories in modern psychology.

As the details unfold in real time, we talk about misplaced scientific certainty, the cost of treating people like data, and how one “successful” case shaped medical thinking for decades — even as the truth was being ignored.

It’s a story about identity, ethics, and the damage done when confidence replaces compassion.

Fair warning: this one stays with you.