As the Commonwealth Games draw to a close, The Spin looks at the phenomenon of John So, and asks just why is it so?

We look at the events that have largely gone unnoticed, such as the race to present medals, where Victoria got one up on the tiny Island nation of St Kitts - and their senior sports official Alphonse Bridgewater is not a happy man... or should that read 'mun'.

Want more excitement? We've got the latest manufactured PR for the Australian Tourism ad; Mel & Kochie take an early lead in the Cyclone Larry Stakes; and Boydy with more on the IR Laws and the AWB. Well two out of three ain't bad.

Little Boy raises the lid of London Mayor Ken Livingston's gaffe to Jewish planners and recounts the trouble he received when he made a joke about Buddha - 100s of people outside The Spin studio clapping one hand... scary.

The Commonwealth Games media circus, with its medals, catfights, and crazy cleaning incidents, has hit Melbourne.

That means all companies and Governments can madly "spin-dry" their dirty laundry.

They just put out all their bad news, and no matter how naughty they've been, the worst coverage it's going to get is page 104 in The Hun and a single line on ABC.

This week the Spin team tallies the laundry loads: who's doing it and why. Also - who is exploiting the Games for their own weird and wonderful PR ends?

We save Channel 9, Catters gets hit with puff spam and we dig into a court case which could tarnish the gloss for glitzy spin-sters forever.

There's all that and much more.

So check out this week's Spin, going for Gold at 1pm, Sundays, on RRR, Melbourne's 102.7fm

Decipher this sentence:

"I was mackin with my posse of cougars and beeatches at a pimpin' scene. The dealio was butter. Hot."

If you understand this then you'll enjoy Bling! the new name for water being touted by Jamie Foxx. What is wrong with the word water? What does it all mean? Find out by listening to the podcast.

Plus we head off to the trough and report back from the Victorian Quill awards (journalists winning prizes for stories in newspapers that no-one reads) and Melbourne Fashion Week (clothes nobody buys).

Yep, to paraphrase the PM on his 10th anniversary - it's a perpetual dialogue between he Spin and the Australian people. Hot!

Housekeeping note: The Spin will celebrate the Labor Day long weekend by not showing up to the studio. We'll be back on March 19.