More Talk About Lab Grown Diamonds | CarterCast Ep15 – Revisiting LGD’s in 2024

Today, we're revisiting a topic from a previous show, because a sequel is always better than the original. Wait, right? It’s been about 2.5 years since we last talked about…*gasp*… lab grown diamonds. Given the ever-changing landscape of that controversial, salacious, contentious, quarrelsome topic, we decided to check back in and see how things are going in the land of LGD’s. We bring out charts, and we play clips of Carter’s predictions from the previous episode right to his face, forcing him to respond. Was he right? Was he wrong? It’s Lab Grown Diamonds 2. Too Vast, Too Spurious. Let’s charge headfirst into controversy, on the pre-proposal show for dating couples designed to make engagement ring shopping easy, understandable, and fun. This is the CarterCast, filmed on location at JoshuaOneNine in Downtown Bloomington, IL.

Timestamps:
01:40 – Episode Context & Setup
02:56 – Why Carter Wanted to Revisit LGDs
05:00 – Clip #1 from Previous Show
05:52 – The Chart & Current LGD Pricing
07:36 – Does Carter Say ‘I Told You So?’
10:30 – The Natural Diamond Market
11:54 – Is the Pace of Decline Surprising?
12:40 – Doesn’t This Just Mean LGDs are a Great Deal?
16:13 – Tangent on Diamond History
19:07 – Carter’s Magic Price Target
20:03 – Clip #2 from Previous Show
20:59 – Does Carter Have Regrets?
23:33 – Giving Away Lab Grown Diamonds for Free
28:10 – The Increase in Fraud Caused by LGDs
32:45 – How are Stores Keeping Naturals & LGDs Separate?
34:25 – Clip #3 from Previous Show
35:40 – Where Do LGDs Stand Today?
39:06 – Good Uses of LGDs for the Future
45:04 – Summary & Conclusions
48:57 – The Final Facet

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MUSIC
"Get Tough" by Nu Alkemist (Licensed via SoundStripe)

CREDITS:
Star & Executive Producer - John Carter (Owner & CEO, Jack Lewis Jewelers)
Host & Executive Producer - Joshua Shull (Owner, JoshuaOneNine)
Producer & Editor - Nick Fetty (Multimedia Ad Producer, JoshuaOneNine)
Set Design - Bob Shull, Meltdown Creative Works, and JoshuaOneNine