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She was the most famous female pilot in history, a feminist icon, and arguably the world's first influencer, all carefully built by her book publisher husband George Putnam. But when Amelia Earhart vanished over the Pacific in 1937, the conspiracy theories went wild: Japanese spies, government cover-ups, secret island lives. Eighty-nine years on, the most likely explanation for what happened to her might also be the most disturbing of all. This is Just The Gist of Amelia Earhart: the brilliant PR campaign, the doomed 1937 round-the-world flight, and the theory that has haunted Howland Island ever since.........We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party.........Amelia Earhart Official Website (Amelia Earhart Official Site, 2025)Inside the Many Conspiracy Theories Surrounding Amelia Earhart's Disappearance (TIME, 2019)Bulletin 46: The Crab Experiment (TIGHAR, 2007)The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR, 2025)Coconut crabs: bird-eating giants on tropical islands (Natural History Museum, 2021)Review: The Aviator and the Showman by Laurie Gwen Shapiro (The New York Times, 2025)The Aviator and the Showman by Laurie Gwen Shapiro (Goodreads, 2025)The Truth About Amelia Earhart (The Atlantic, 2025) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Three people are dead, more passengers have been diagnosed, and British paratroopers had to parachute medical supplies onto the most remote inhabited island on earth. The Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius is finally on its way home to be disinfected, but the hantavirus outbreak on board has scattered suspected cases across more than a dozen countries. So is this the next covid? And how is it the same virus that killed Gene Hackman's wife last year? This is Just The Gist (MINI) of the hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius..We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party..Resources:CDC Provides Update on Hantavirus Outbreak Linked to M/V Hondius Cruise Ship (CDC, 2026)Passengers leave hantavirus-hit cruise ship in Tenerife as WHO says outbreak 'not another COVID' (UN News, 2026)MV Hondius docks in Tenerife, Canary Islands; passengers disembark ship hit by hantavirus (CNN, 2026)Military conducts daring parachute drop to deliver critical medical support to Tristan da Cunha (GOV.UK, 2026)'He was deceased on the ship for several days': Irishwoman describes hantavirus outbreak (The Irish Times, 2026)YouTuber Catches Heat After Attending Wedding Amid Hantavirus Outbreak (TMZ, 2026)What doctors know about how the Andes hantavirus spreads (CNN, 2026)"Super-Spreaders" and Person-to-Person Transmission of Andes Virus in Argentina (New England Journal of Medicine, 2020)Gene Hackman's cause of death was heart disease, wife died of hantavirus days earlier, officials say (CBS News, 2025)Australia's isolation plan 'one of the stronger responses' to hantavirus globally, Butler says (SBS News, 2026)MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak (Wikipedia, 2026) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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In 2018, a Twitter user called @buzzkillary posted a 30-page PowerPoint titled 'Lorde and Jack Antonoff: An Emotionally Broken Journey', presenting their case that Jack had been cheating on his then-girlfriend Lena Dunham with Lorde while recording Melodrama. ‘The PowerPoint’, as it became known, has long been considered a cult classic internet text by the chronically online, but mostly forgotten by everyone else. UNTIL TWO WEEKS AGO, when Lena published her new memoir Famesick, in which she wrote about her break-up with Jack, and a suspiciously affectionate 'young pop star'. The internet is now declaring ‘The PowerPoint’ vindicated. This is Just The Gist (MINI) of the Lorde/Jack Antonoff PowerPoint.We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcast Follow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcast Follow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterland Want to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently! Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party..The original Lorde and Jack Antonoff PowerPoint by @Buzzkillery (Twitter, 2018) Lena Dunham's Famesick Memoir and the Lorde/Jack Antonoff PowerPoint (The Cut, 2026)Someone Update The Lena Dunham/Jack Antonoff/Lorde PowerPoint (Good Soup Substack, 2026)Throwback To The Lorde and Jack Antonoff PowerPoint (r/Fauxmoi Reddit, 2026) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

She would have been 36-years-old this year. Instead, JonBenét Ramsey remains frozen in time as a child beauty queen, and possibly the most famous unsolved child murder in American history. This year marks the 30th anniversary of JonBenet’s death, yet the case remains an open investigation - and is still obsessed over by armchair detectives across the globe. This is Just The Gist of JonBenét Ramsey: the 1996 Boulder, Colorado murder, Patsy and John Ramsey, the 911 call that has been studied for decades, and the 2016 Burke Ramsey interview with Dr. Phil interview that brought renewed interest in the case.We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party..Why America Will Never Stop Trying To Solve JonBenét Ramsey's Murder (BuzzFeed News, 2016)JonBenét Ramsey's Murder: 20 Years Later (TIME, 2016)Perfect Murder, Perfect Town by Lawrence Schiller (HarperCollins, 1999)Foreign Faction: Who Really Kidnapped JonBenét? by A. James Kolar (Ventus Publishing, 2012)JonBenét Ramsey Ransom Note Analysis (Statement Analysis)CBS Can't Dodge $750M Defamation Suit From JonBenét Ramsey's Brother (The Hollywood Reporter, 2017)The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey, documentary trailer (CBS / YouTube, 2016)Burke Ramsey's Dr. Phil Interview (YouTube, 2016) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Christine Dawood gave up her seat on the OceanGate Titan sub, so her 19-year-old son Suleman could see the Titanic. Just hours later, Suleman and his father Shahzada were dead. Three years on from the disaster that killed both of them, along with OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, Christine has published a book called 'Ninety-Six Hours - A Mother's Search For The Lost Titan Sub', and given a heartbreaking interview to The Guardian about what really happened in the hours after the Titan imploded. This is Just The Gist (MINI) of Christine Dawood: the OceanGate Titan disaster, Shahzada and Suleman Dawood, Stockton Rush, the seat she gave up, and the four days she waited at sea for news she didn't want to hear..We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party..Christine Dawood on the Titan Submersible Disaster (The Guardian, April 2026)'Ninety-Six Hours - A Mother's Search For The Lost Titan Sub' by Christine Dawood (Whitefox, 2026) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Imagine walking down the street and bumping into someone who looks exactly - EXACTLY - like you? You each talk to your adoptive parents and find out you were adopted from the same agency, on the same day. Then you find out not only are you twins, but TRIPLETS. Three of you have been walking around, your entire lives, looking exactly like each other, and you only grew up a few miles apart. That's what happened to Bobby Shafran, David Kellman and Eddie Galland, the triplets who later became the subjects of incredible 2018 documentary Three Identical Strangers. But as the doco reveals, there was actually a very dark reason Bobby, David and Eddie had been separated. In a secret collaboration between Dr. Neubauer and the Louise Wise Adoption Agency, the boys were unknowingly part of a psychological experiment designed to answer the ultimate question of 'nature vs. nurture' - an experiment that would end up having horrific consequences. And they weren't the only kids involved. This is just the gist of Bobby, David and Eddie - the triplets separated at birth, and the amazing documentary about them: Three Identical Strangers..We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party..Three Identical Strangers Official Trailer (Neon, 2018)Three Identical Strangers (Wikipedia)Three Identical Strangers doc tells a tale that goes beyond the incredible (Los Angeles Times, 2018)Three Identical Strangers: the bizarre tale of triplets separated at birth (The Guardian, 2018)Three Identical Strangers: Where The Triplets Are Now (Screen Rant, 2018)Interview with Bobby Shafran, David Kellman and Lawrence Wright (YouTube)Double Mystery (The New Yorker, 1995) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Get in losers - two identical blonde ladies with the same name are fighting online. But WHY are the Call Her Daddy mogul and TikTok's 12-million-follower It Girl beefing with each other? Alex Cooper signed Alix Earle and her new podcast ‘Hot Mess’ to the Unwell Network in 2023. Two years later, Alix Earle skipped an Unwell Super Bowl party (GASP!) and got dropped from the Unwell network. Last week, she reposted a Tiktok calling Alex Cooper the grim reaper. Alex Cooper replied with a video telling Alix Earle to cut the passive-aggressive reposting nonsense and just say what she wants to say. None of this matters, but everyone seems to be talking about it, so Rosie sacrificed herself at the altar of the internet to figure out what the hell is going on (and damn it, it’s juicy - even James ended up invested). This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of the Alex Cooper vs Alix Earle feud..We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party..The Alex Cooper vs Alix Earle Feud, Explained (Teen Vogue, 2026)Alix Earle Shuts Down Rumors Surrounding Alex Cooper Feud (Us Weekly, 2026)Alix Earle Responds to Alex Cooper (AOL, 2026)Alix Earle Supported by Carl's Jr Amid Alex Cooper Drama (TMZ, 2026)Alex Cooper Profile (Vogue, 2025)Alix Earle TikTok Interview (Elle, 2023) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Domestic violence that nobody took seriously, a racist police force with no accountability, a car chase watched by the entire world and… Kim Kardashian’s childhood bedroom. After the brutal murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, the trial of O.J. Simpson turned into a media circus - and was the perfect storm of events and timing that O.J. needed to be found not guilty. This is Just The Gist of the O.J. Simpson trial: ‘if it doesn’t fit, you must acquit’, Marcia Clark, the bloody glove, a jury locked up for eight months and an 85-year-old Fred Goldman refusing to stop hounding O.J. - even after his death..We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party..O.J.: Made in America Trailer (ESPN 30 for 30, YouTube, 2016)You’re Wrong About: OJ Simpson Episodes (Spotify)The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin (Random House, 1996)O. J. Simpson (Wikipedia)OJ Simpson’s Estate Accepts $58M Claim From Father of Ron Goldman (The Guardian, 2025) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How does a 29-year-old with big blue eyes and a killer pitch deck walk into one of the biggest banks in the world and walk out with $175 million? Pretty easily, it turns out. Charlie Javice was a millennial wunderkind, Forbes 30 Under 30 darling, and the founder of FRANK - a student finance start-up helping underprivileged kids get into college (and apparently making millions doing it). After just one meeting with Charlie, JPMorgan Chase wanted in, and they offered her $175 million to buy FRANK. One tiny problem though - Charlie Javice was way better at optics and PR than she was at actually running a business… but she wasn’t going to let that be a reason to turn down $175 mil.What Charlie did next involved a bunch of fake emails and crossing her fingers that JPMorgan Chase wouldn’t bother to check (hint: the dudn't). This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of Charlie Javice, FRANK, a major bank ignoring basic due diligence and the court battle that has already cost more in legal fees than the whole deal did to begin with. .We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party..How Charlie Javice Went From Forbes 30 Under 30 to Federal Fraud Charges (Business Insider, 2023)Charlie Javice Sentenced to 7 Years for JPMorgan Frank Fraud (Fortune, 2025)The Charlie Javice Verdict: A Wake-Up Call for Fintechs and Banking (Forbes, 2025)JPMorgan Is Paying Charlie Javice’s Enormous Legal Bills (The New York Times, 2025)Charlie Javice and the Rise and Fall of FRANK (Mary Betsy / Guzzle Blog, 2024)Charlie Javice: Fake It ’Til You Make It (Apple Podcasts, 2025) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1971, a man in a business suit and a beige raincoat bought a one-way ticket to Seattle, ordered a bourbon and soda, and handed a flight attendant a note. It said he had a bomb. By the time the plane landed in Reno, he was gone — along with $200,000 in cash and, apparently, any trace of his existence. No body. No parachute. No fingerprints. Nothing. The FBI investigated for decades and officially closed the case in 2016 — never solving it. It remains the only unsolved plane hijacking in US history. This is Just The Gist of DB Cooper: the 1971 Northwest Orient hijacking, the $200,000 ransom, the parachute jump, and the mystery that has never been solved..We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party..DB Cooper and Tina Mucklow: The Untold Story (Rolling Stone, 2019)DB Cooper Case Files (FBI Vault)DB Cooper Confessions and Evidence (Popular Mechanics, 2025)DB Cooper: New FBI Files and Suspects (ABC News, July 2025)The Disappearance of DB Cooper (YouTube, 2024)D.B. Cooper Wikipedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On March 5th, 2012, a 27-minute YouTube video dropped and within six days, 100 million people had watched it. Every celebrity shared it. Oprah. Beyonce. Everyone. The premise was simple: make a Ugandan warlord named Joseph Kony so famous that the world would have to stop him. It became the fastest viral video in history. But in less than two weeks, the whole thing completely collapsed, ending with the man behind it, Invisible Children founder Jason Russell, having a very public naked breakdown on a street in San Diego. This is Just The Gist (MINI) of KONY 2012: the viral video, Jason Russell and Invisible Children, the slacktivism scandal, the Lord's Resistance Army, and the spectacular public meltdown that ended it all..We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party..Kony 2012 Full Video (YouTube, Invisible Children, 2012)Kony 2012, Ten Years On (The Guardian, April 2022)Why I Couldn't Stop Thinking About Kony (Narratively, 2022)'We're in Bad Times' Invisible Children super cool music video (YouTube, 2012)Kony 2012 and Interventionism (Jacobin, March 2025)Jason Russell on His Public Breakdown (Oprah.com, 2012)Kony 2012 (Wikipedia)Invisible Children Website Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Did you know King Charles was never actually supposed to be King? Charles and Diana, William and Harry -  they all would have just been random side-royals if one of their far more important relatives hadn’t quit the royal family. Less than 12 months into his reign, King Edward VIII abdicated the throne so he could marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson. Even though she never wanted to marry Edward, Wallis was publicly blamed for the royal crisis, which resulted in the newly named ‘Duke and Duchess of Windsor’ being exiled from England for the rest of their lives. And Edward - so used to being treated like a King - found the downgrade to ‘regular citizen’ so difficult, that he and Wallis befriended Hitler and the Nazis, hoping to find a way back onto the world stage.This is just the gist of Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII.We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party.Traitor King — Andrew LownieKing Edward VIII Abdication Speech (1936)Edward & Wallis: The Full StoryThe Abdication Crisis DocumentaryPeople: Wallis Simpson, Convenient Scapegoat for King Edward VIII's AbdicationThe National Archives: Abdication of Edward VIIIBBC Culture: The Shocking Moment King Edward VIII Announced His Abdication Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the movie The Terminal, Tom Hanks plays a man who is forced to live in an airport for 9 months after his passport is declared invalid. Most people know that The Terminal was based on a true story, but they don't know that in real life, Mehran Karimi Nasseri wasn't stuck at the airport for 9 months. He ended up living there for 18 YEARS. He entered the international terminal of Charles de Gaulle Airport in 1988, and didn't leave until 2006, all because he didn't have a valid passport.Getting by with gifts from airline staff and travellers, 'Sir Alfred' used two benches as a bed, washed in the airport toilets and ate McDonalds for every meal. This is Just The Gist (MINI) of Mehran Karimi Nasseri; the stateless man who lived in Terminal One at Charles de Gaulle Airport for almost 20 years, the bureaucratic nightmare that put him there, and the far sadder truth about why he stayed.We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party.The 15-Year Layover — Michael Paterniti, GQ (via Longform)AP News: Mehran Karimi Nasseri, 'The Terminal' man, dies in Paris airportThe Guardian: 'Terminal Man' lived in Paris airport for 18 years — I'll never forget my weeks with himAll That's Interesting: Mehran Karimi NasseriNew York Times Magazine: Waiting For SpielbergThe Guardian: The man The Terminal left behindHere To Where (2002 film, available on Vimeo) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For more than a decade, the entire McDonalds Monopoly game in the US was completely rigged. From 1989 to 2001, anybody who won a major prize in the competition had actually cheated, with help from someone on the inside. That someone was Jerome ‘Jerry’ Jacobson, Head of Security for the company in charge of making and distributing the McDonald’s Monopoly pieces. But when McDonalds found out that nobody was legitimately winning the major prizes, they still let the public spend their money trying to win in one last competition, because the FBI needed to go undercover to catch the Monopoly cheaters in a massive McSting. And when Jerry Jacobson finally revealed how he had pulled the whole thing off, it literally came down to one accidental fluke. This is Just The Gist of the McDonald’s Monopoly Fraud. We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party.......McMillion$ — Official Trailer (HBO)The Daily Beast "How An Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald's Monopoly Game and Stole Millions" by Jeff MayshThe Guardian "McMillion$: the bizarre story of how one man stole $24m from McDonald's"Vanity Fair "The True Crime Story Behind McMillion$"The New York Times "McMillion$ on HBO, Explained"CNBC "How the McMillions Scammers Rigged the McDonald's Monopoly Game and Stole $24 Million"NPR "How the Ex-Cop Who Scammed McDonald's Monopoly Got Caught"Adweek "McDonald's Revives Monopoly With a Wink at Its Scandalous Past"Wikipedia: McDonald's Monopoly (the promotion) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you go to prison for having your mother murdered, it’s probably best not to joke about it in an effort to grow your TikTok following, no? That’s exactly what Gypsy-Rose Blanchard did this week, and since her story is part of JTG lore, we thought it was time to check in: two years after being released from prison, what exactly is going on with Gypsy-Rose Blanchard? Gisten to our original episode on Gypsy-Rose and Dee Dee Blanchard right here.Gisten to our bonus book club episodes on Gypsy-Rose’s memoir My Time To Stand:Part 1Part 2 .We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party..Watch the ‘We listen and we don’t judge’ video with Gypsy-Rose and Natalie ReynoldsWatch Gypsy’s apology on TMZGypsy-Rose Blanchard Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

At the 2017 Oscars, La La Land was announced as Best Picture. The producers rushed the stage. The speeches started. And then a panicked staffer ran on, confusion spread through the Dolby Theatre, and La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz grabbed the microphone and said: "There's a mistake. Moonlight, you guys won Best Picture. This is not a joke."It was the most chaotic two minutes and twenty-three seconds in Oscars history — and it all happened because one accountant couldn't put his phone down.This is Just The Gist Mini of the La La Land/Moonlight Oscars mix-up: the story of Brian Cullinan, the PricewaterhouseCoopers partner who was so busy tweeting celebrity selfies backstage that he handed Warren Beatty the wrong envelope — and then stood in the corner mouthing "shit" while someone else cleaned up his mess...........We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party..........."They Got the Wrong Envelope": An Oral History of Oscar's Epic Best Picture Fiasco — The Hollywood Reporter, 2018How the Wrong Envelope Triggered a Best Picture Fiasco — The Hollywood Reporter, 2017PwC Takes Full Responsibility for Oscars Best Picture Error — CNN, 2017PricewaterhouseCoopers' Brian Cullinan Wanted to Perform at Oscars — Variety, 2017Oscars Stage Manager Details PwC Accountants' Incompetence — The Wrap, 2017New Photos Show PwC Accountant Tweeting, Mixing Envelopes Backstage — Variety, 2017 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1989, the Oscars opened with Snow White going on a date with Rob Lowe, giant cardboard stars with human legs, and (for some reason) dancing tables. The ceremony was so bad that Disney sued, seventeen of Hollywood's biggest stars penned an open letter saying they were ashamed, and producer Allan Carr never worked again. Today Rosie breaks down the 61st Academy Awards — widely considered the worst Oscars in history. This is Just The Gist of the 1989 Oscars disaster.......We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party.......'I Was Rob Lowe's Snow White': The Untold Story of Oscar's Nightmare Opening (The Hollywood Reporter, 2014)The Worst Oscars Ever — the behind-the-scenes story of Allan Carr (Los Angeles Magazine, 2010)The Oscars' 1989 Snow White Opening Was a Disaster — director Jeff Margolis reflects (IndieWire, 2024)Let's Revisit the Train Wreck That Was the 1989 Academy Awards (AV Club, 2020)61st Academy Awards (Wikipedia) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 2019, the CEO of eBay was caught up in a bizarre scandal that involved harassing a random married couple called David and Ina Steiner. David and Ina had live cockroaches, spiders and even a pig carcass mailed to their home, explicit magazine subscriptions addressed to them but delivered to their neighbours, their house posted online as the location of a swingers party, trackers placed on their cars and a funeral wreath couriered to their front door. But why did the CEO of a Fortune 500 company care so much about a nerdy couple living in the suburbs? David and Ina Steiner are journalists who ran a niche website called EcommerceBytes, writing about issues affecting people who sell things online. And when Ina wrote some stories about Ebay that CEO Devin Wenig didn't like, he gave his team the orders: "TAKE HER DOWN." . This is Just The Gist (MINI) of the eBay stalking scandal — the true story of the eBay harassment campaign that sent seven people to prison..We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcast Follow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party..Whatever It Takes: Inside the eBay Scandal (2024), dir. Jenny Carchman — available on ABC iview and Prime VideoTwo newsletter publishers say eBay executives orchestrated a years-long harassment campaign against them — New York Times, 2020DOJ Press Release: Six Former eBay Employees Charged with Aggressive Cyberstalking Campaign Targeting Newsletter Editors, 2020eBay's Bizarre Stalking Scandal — 60 Minutes, CBS, 2023EcommerceBytes — Ina and David Steiner's newsletter, still publishing Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1996, John F. Kennedy Jr. was the closest thing America had ever had to a prince. The only son of assassinated President JFK, he'd been named People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive, dated half of Hollywood, and was widely expected to follow his father into the White House. When he married Calvin Klein PR powerhouse Carolyn Bessette in a secret ceremony on a remote Georgia island, they became without question the most famous couple in the world. But less than three years later, John and Carolyn were dead - with their bodies, and the body of Carolyn’s sister Lauren, found strapped to their seats in JFK Jr.'s private plane on the ocean floor off Martha's Vineyard. This is Just The Gist of JFK Jr., Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, the Kennedy Curse, and the plane crash that ended Camelot.........We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party...........Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Public and Private Life of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy by Elizabeth BellerAsk Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen CallahanThe Kennedy Curse by Edward KleinJFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy wedding footageJFK Jr. Newsnight interview footageThe West Wing S04E04 'The Red Mass' — graveyard spiral scene (39:45)JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy paparazzi footageCandace Bushnell's 'Spoiled in the City' column featuring CBK (1998)'Settlement reported in JFK Jr. crash lawsuit' — Cape Cod Times (2001)'A mother grieves in private' — Cape Cod Times (2000) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1987, there was a news event that brought the entire world together. People did not stop watching their TVs for days - the First Lady of the United States even postponed surgery until she knew the outcome. Eighteen-month-old Jessica McClure had fallen down an old well and was wedged almost ten metres underground for 60 hours. Every news channel that existed had cameras in that tiny backyard in Texas, while the world watched - live - and waited in suspense to see if she’d come out alive. .CW: This episode contains a brief mention of suicide. If you need, please contact (Australia):Lifeline (24 hours: 13 11 14)13YARN - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Crisis Support (24 hours: 13 92 76)Blue Knot Helpline (1300 657 380).We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party..‘Baby Jessica on the 30-year anniversary of her rescue from a well: Her life as a wife and mom’ (People Magazine 2017):  https://people.com/human-interest/baby-jessica-on-the-30-year-anniversary-of-her-rescue-from-a-well-her-life-as-a-wife-and-mom/ ‘Baby Jessica’s Rescue From a Well Capped Off a Terrifying Week in US History’ (Time Magazine 2017): https://time.com/4980689/baby-jessica-30th-anniversary/?amp=true 1987 archive footage of Jessica McClure being rescued (Film Archives NYC 2012):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afSChsWNcbQ ‘Baby Jessica rescued from a well as the world watches’ (History 2011, updated 2025): https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/October-16/baby-jessica-rescued-from-a-well-as-the-world-watches ‘Helping to pull little Jessica McClure from a Texas well made firefighter Robert O’Donnell a star. But the limelight soon turned to darkness.’ (Los Angeles Times 1995): https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-05-24-mn-5474-story.html ‘Death on the CNN Curve’ (The New York Times Magazine 1995): https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/23/magazine/death-on-the-cnn-curve.html Baby Jessica (Jessica McClure) wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_of_Jessica_McClure Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Being sucked out of a plane mid-air. Swimming away after his train crashed into a river. Being hit by a bus and walking away from a (different!) bus crash. His car swerving off the road and plummeting off the side of a cliff.Two separate car explosions. Over the course of his life, Frane Selak survived every single one of these accidents. "You could look at it two ways," Selak said in an interview. "I was either the unluckiest man in the world, or the luckiest. I preferred to believe the latter." This is Just The Gist (MINI) of the unluckiest, luckiest man to ever live (so he says...) Frano 'Frane' Selak..We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party..'The Seven Unbelievable Survival Stories of Frane Selak' (All That's Interesting 2024): https://allthatsinteresting.com/frane-selak 'Luckiest or Unluckiest Man in the World?' (Ripley's 2018): https://web.archive.org/web/20211205143729/https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/unluckiest-man/ '#BBCtrending: Is the 'world's luckiest man' being exploited?' (BBC News 2014): https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-27414609'Frano Selak, world's luckiest man' gives away his lottery fortune' (The Telegraph 2010): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7721985/Frano-Selak-worlds-luckiest-man-gives-away-his-lottery-fortune.html 'Doritos googles up unlikely spokesperson' (Ad Age 2004) https://adage.com/article/the-world-ad-age-global-news-data/doritos-googles-spokesman/99131/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1978, 909 people lined up, drank poison, and died. More than 300 of them were children.For decades, it was described as the largest mass suicide in modern history, and it remained the greatest single loss of American civilian life in a deliberate act until 9/11.But was it really a mass suicide, or mass murder?Jonestown was founded by Jim Jones, leader of the Peoples Temple, a racially integrated American church that preached equality, socialism, and community care. By the time the world learned its name, 909 men, women, and children had consumed a cyanide-laced drink in a remote settlement in Guyana — while armed guards stood watch.Some believed. Some resisted. Many were too young to choose. But all became part of what the world now shorthand calls “drinking the Kool-Aid.”This is just the gist of The Jonestown Massacre..We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on YouTube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram @JustTheGistPodcast and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party..Doco: ‘Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown’ (2025)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYIUjavwqVoDoco: ‘Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple’ (2006)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S_d1eVv0E8TV Movie: ‘Jonestown: Paradise Lost’ (2007)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLh7W5r4zS8Book: ‘Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown’ (1982) by David Chidesterhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/835279.Salvation_and_SuicideBook: ‘The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple’ (2018) by Jeff Guinnhttps://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/The-Road-to-Jonestown/Jeff-Guinn/9781476763835Casefile Podcast: ‘Jonestown’ (Three-Part Series)https://casefilepodcast.com/case-60-jonestown-part-1/Wikipedia: Jim Joneshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alysa Liu just won Olympic gold for a figure skating routine that has already gone down in history. People are saying she changed the stuffy world of competitive skating forever. But just four years earlier, she had quit the sport entirely - and was thrilled at the thought of never skating again. So how does someone go from Olympic retirement at 16… to gold at the Milan Winter Olympics? Alysa Liu started skating at five, was a prodigy by ten, and was winning national titles before she was tall enough to climb onto the podium. Then, at 16, she shocked the figure skating world by saying: I’m done. She didn’t want her whole life to be medals, pressure and expectations anymore. Two years later though, she decided to make a comeback - but only on her terms. No chasing quadruple jumps for points. No extreme dieting. No giving up college or friends. She picked her own music, her own choreography, her own identity on the ice. She wasn’t chasing gold. She was chasing joy. And she skated better than ever. This is a story about Olympic pressure, burnout, retirement and comeback, mental health, and what it means to insist on being yourself in a sport built on control. It’s also about how a 20-year-old seems to understand life, boundaries and happiness better than most of us. This is Just The Gist of US figure skater Alysa Liu..We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party..https://www.nbcsports.com/olympics/news/alysa-liu-figure-skating-comeback https://www.nbcsports.com/olympics/news/alysa-liu-retires-figure-skating https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/alysa-liu-hair-style-medal-olympics?_sp=faec963a-590f-48a4-9136-550d5ff5111e.1771905534964 https://www.nbcolympics.com/news/alysa-liu-champion-who-cant-stop-smiling Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1997, a little film starring Nicholas Cage premiered in theatres called CON AIR. It was a huge blockbuster, helped massively by having a hit song to go along with it, called ‘How Do I Live’. But there were actually TWO versions of ‘How Do I Live’ released at the same time. Singers Trisha Yearwood and LeAnn Rimes both released their own version of exactly the same song, on exactly the same day, but only one was officially part of the movie Con Air, and most people, to this day, don’t realise which version they were listening to back in 1997. In fact, most people don’t realise that both versions of the song were nominated for a Grammy, but only one took out the prize. And only one went down in history as a record-breaking phenomenon..We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party..https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/diane-warren-leann-rimes-how-do-i-live-billboard-moment-8528199/ https://medium.com/@cherriebalictar/how-do-i-live-leann-rimes-vs-trisha-yearwood-what-really-happened-64550eed6508 https://americansongwriter.com/on-this-day-in-1997-leann-rimes-and-trisha-yearwood-simultaneously-release-different-versions-of-the-same-song/ https://americansongwriter.com/leann-rimes-reflects-on-having-her-song-rejected-by-hollywood-at-15-years-old-and-how-it-still-made-history/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbwuRKpfmCA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Do_I_Live https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/flashback-leann-rimes-trisha-yearwood-make-awkward-grammy-history-167853/ https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.chicagotribune.com/1997/09/05/yearwoods-on-the-rise-after-winning-song-war-with-leann-rimes/ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dFeYsl8Dsr0 https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/live-long-and-prosper-1044103/ https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/90s/1997/Billboard-1997-06-07.pdf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 2002, five men were racing in the 1000 metre short-track speed-skating final at the winter olympics in Salt Lake City. The only Australian in the race - Steven Bradbury - was not considered a medal-contender. He spent most of the race in last place - far behind the four other skaters duking it out for the gold, silver and bronze. But then, with just 50 metres of the race to go, the four skaters in the lead all crashed out on the very last bend, and Steven Bradbury was so far behind them that he was able to avoid the pile-up and sail past them and across the finish line, to be awarded Australia’s first ever gold medal at a Winter Olympic Games, and bringing the term ‘doing a Bradbury’ - meaning being extremely lucky to unexpectedly come from behind and win because of someone else’s mistake - into everyday vernacular. BUT, what a lot of people don’t know, is that Steven Bradbury’s race wasn’t just about luck - he actually had a strategy that paid off in the end. This is Just The Gist MINI of Steven Bradbury. .....We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party...........https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIEtSAwKIkw https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/jan/22/australia-greatest-sporting-moments-steven-bradbury-salt-lake-city-winter-olympics-2002-1000m-speed-skating https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Bradbury https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX2BlOlRzG0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEIny4zg81c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jagh3l5lMvY Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With this week’s premiere of Netflix’s ‘Reality Check: America’s Next Top Model’, it seemed like a good time to take a look into the history of the Smize Queen herself: Tyra Banks. You know her as the creator and host of America’s Next Top Model. You know her as a Victoria’s Secret Model. You know her as the woman who yelled, “WE WERE ROOTING FOR YOU. WE WERE ALL ROOTING FOR YOU!”But do you know Tyra Banks as the boss of several (failed) businesses? A Twilight-style Young Adult novel/movie/product empire called ‘Modelland’ that was cancelled after one book. A beauty line called ‘Tyra Beauty’ that was actually an MLM and folded in less than two years. A theme park based on… ‘models’ that she said was too hard to describe but was essentially just a place to get $1500 glamour shots (also no longer in business). And now, of course, we have Tyra’s ‘Hot Ice Cream’ at her ‘Smize and Dream’ ice cream store (which has already had some food regulation dramas). .We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party..Podcast: ‘Curse of America’s Next Top Model’‘You Wanna Be On Top? A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation and Not Becoming America’s Next Top Model’ by Sarah HartshorneEpisode of ‘The Big Flop’ podcast: ‘Tyra Banks - America’s Next Top Business Woman?’Netflix doco ‘Reality Check: America’s Next Top Model’ trailerABC article by Casey Briggs: Tyra Banks' 'Hot Ice Cream' went viral. Don't expect to see it called that anymore (2026)‘Shake Ya Body’ music video ModelLand ‘sizzle reel’ from an ANTM episodeThe Cut article ‘I made a whopping $27.75 selling Tyra Banks beauty products’ by Kathleen Schaefer (2016)Tyra Banks Wikipedia  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On November 17, 2019, the world watched as Prince Andrew (since downgraded to regular person BUT WORSE), scored one of the biggest PR own-goals in history during a Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis. Convinced the interview would be his chance to get rid of those pesky Jeffrey Epstein rumours once and for all, it became clear within minutes - to everyone but him - that things were not going to end up the way he planned. By the time the 49-minute interview was over, all Andrew had proven to the world was that the only thing he lacked more than self-awareness was empathy, and the only thing he seemed to have in abundance was an astonishing sense of entitlement, that gave him an uncanny ability to prove that the Dunning Kruger effect very much exists.Today I am giving you Just The Gist of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s Newsnight Interview with Emily Maitlis.GISTEN to our episode ‘Just The Gist of… Andrew and Fergie’ right here. (Apple)GISTEN to our episode ‘Just The Gist of… Andrew and Fergie’ right here. (Spotify)(CW: While this episode focuses more on Andrew Mounbatten-Windsor’s Newsnight Interview rather than any specifics of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and Andrew’s alleged involvement in them, those crimes are obviously part of this story so they are mentioned, without detail, at some points. Take care when listening.)…Breakin’ Nooz eps are bonus content for Gistener Club members - join via the JTG Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions! Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketWatch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected]’t forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently! Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party.…Newsnight interview between Emily Maitlis and Andrew Mountbatten-WindsorWatch the trailer for Netflix movie 'Scoop'Watch the trailer for Prime TV series 'A Very Royal Scandal'BBC article 'Maitlis says Andrew lost respect after interview' (2024) - where she mentions King Charles being 'not unhappy' with the interview…If this episode was difficult for you, please contact (Australia):Lifeline (24 hours: 13 11 14)1800RESPECT (24 hours: 1800 737 732)13YARN - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Crisis Support (24 hours: 13 92 76)Blue Knot Helpline (1300 657 380)Bravehearts (1800 272 831) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1991, a billion-dollar experiment took place, designed to see if humans could survive in an artificial earth inside a giant glass dome that would eventually be built on other planets. Years was spent building Biosphere 2 in the USA, and inside was an ocean with actual tides and waves, a rainforest, a desert, vast wetlands, a farm with crops, animals, housing and laboratories. ‘Rain’ could even be switched on and off. Eight Humans lived inside it for TWO YEARS. So why has hardly anybody heard of it? Because it was a disaster, none of it worked, and they nearly died. Turns out, despite sounding impressive, this experiment wasn’t run by NASA or even scientists, it was run by a bunch of hippies from a cult-like experimental theatre group who had no clue what they were doing, but had duped a billionaire into giving them a lot of money..We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party..The documentary Spaceship Earth (in Aus you can rent or buy it on YouTube or Amazon Prime): https://youtu.be/ySQU8kzmZBo The current Biosphere 2 website (run by the University of Arizona): https://biosphere2.org/NY Times article - ‘The Lost History of One of the World’s Strangest Science Experiments’ (2019):https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/sunday-review/biosphere-2-climate-change.html Guardian article: ‘Eight Go Mad In Arizona: How a lockdown experiment went horribly wrong’ (2020)https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jul/13/spaceship-earth-arizona-biosphere-2-lockdownhttps://www.history.com/.amp/news/biosphere-2-spaceship-earthAwesome footage from inside: https://www.pbs.org/video/good-stuff-nature-biosphere/https://youtu.be/eZcLeF4XM1IYou can visit! https://news.arizona.edu/biosphere-2   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Sentinelese people are one of the last remaining isolated Indigenous tribes on earth, continuing to live today as they have for thousands of years. Since 1956 they have been protected by laws that prohibit anyone approaching their home on North Sentinel Island. But the laws are also in place to protect any outsiders who try to go there, as the Sentinelese tribe have pretty much tried to to kill anyone who goes near them. Despite this, in 2018, a 26-year-old evangelical Christian missionary named John Allen Chau decided that the Sentinelese people, who had been living peacefully on North Sentinel Island for thousands of years, were actually part of Satan’s Last Stronghold on earth, because they had not yet accepted Jesus into their hearts by being converted to Christianity. John Allen Chau decided to change that. John Allen Chau is now dead. This is just the gist of John Allen Chau..We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party..National Geographic doco ‘The Mission To Contact’ (2023): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F0KU_A1Xn0 Guardian article ‘The Life and Death of John Allen Chau, the Man Who Tried to Convert His Killers (2019):https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/03/john-chau-christian-missionary-death-sentinelese Forbes article ‘Everything we know about the isolated people of North Sentinel Island’ (2018): https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2018/11/30/everything-we-know-about-the-isolated-sentinelese-people-of-north-sentinel-island/ John Allen Chau’s wiki:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Allen_Chau North Sentinel Island wiki:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island All Nations website:https://allnations.international/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1887, Nellie Bly was just 21-years-old when she completely changed the way investigative journalism was done by basically inventing going ‘undercover’. She pretended to be insane, got committed to an insane asylum and then wrote about the horrific treatment she endured and as a patient. Bly’s reporting on her time at the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island was turned into a bestselling book called ‘Ten Days In A Madhouse’, launching her career and opening the door for other women to do serious journalism..We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party..‘Ten Days in a Mad House’ by Nellie Bly: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1642216.Ten_Days_in_a_Mad_House ‘Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist’ by Brooke Kroeger: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/311625.Nellie_Bly Medium Article: ‘What Nellie Bly Exposed At Blackwell’s Asylum, And Why It’s Still Important’ (2016):https://medium.com/legendary-women/what-nellie-bly-exposed-at-blackwells-asylum-and-why-it-s-still-important-4591203b9dc7 TimeOut article: ‘A New Monument Honoring Journalist Nellie Bly Is Now On Roosevelt Island (2021)https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/a-new-monument-honoring-journalist-nellie-bly-is-now-on-roosevelt-island-121621Nellie Bly’s Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_BlySome info on the Women’s Lunatic Asylum at Blackwell’s Island (now Roosevelt Island): https://www.nps.gov/places/blackwell-s-island-new-york-city.htm Trailer for the Lifetime movie starring Christina Ricci ‘Escaping The Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story’ (2019):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFjttOo4FLo  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Timothée Chalamet has made no secret of the fact he is campaigning HARD for this year’s Best Actor Oscar for his role in ‘Marty Supreme’. But many are saying he made a major misstep in a recent interview, in which he declared that audiences shouldn’t take his work for granted, as he’s been delivering ‘some top level shit’ for years. Cut to an industry-wide eyeroll and the line ‘some top level shit’ immediately becoming an embarrassing meme. So did he ruin his Oscar chances? Timothée’s team has always marketed him as an earnestly ambitious wunderkind - his brand is taking himself and his art REALLY SERIOUSLY, but in a charming way. When he won a SAG award in 2025 and said in his speech that he wanted to be ‘one of the greats’, people called it ‘refreshing’. But when some people in the room looked visibly annoyed when he recently won at the Golden Globes, whispers started that he may have tipped the scales from ‘refreshingly ambitious’ into, well, thinking he’s ‘some top level shit’. We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party..The ‘some top level shit’ interview (2025):https://variety.com/2025/film/news/timothee-chalamet-defends-marty-supreme-press-tour-backlash-1236613045/ Variety article: ‘Timothee Chalamet defends Marty Supreme press tour backlash’ (2025):https://variety.com/2025/film/news/timothee-chalamet-defends-marty-supreme-press-tour-backlash-1236613045/ Humble Pie Golden Globes speech (2026):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Por5AWQB9_M Screen Actors Guild ‘I wanna be one of the greats’ speech (2025):http://youtube.com/watch?v=wdPKn4ZwxxA  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We didn’t plan this but 2026 is starting with a NEPO BABY themed week! Remember when famous actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin were sent to prison for literally taking spoilt Nepo Babies? Over $25million in bribes exchanged hands. Almost every major elite university in the USA was involved. And at the end of the day, the whole thing came down to dodgy photoshop and old-school cheating on tests.. Rick Singer made a fortune when he realised that rich, entitled parents would do anything to get their kids into the best US colleges. But when Rick Singer was busted by the FBI, he quickly flipped and told authorities everything about his 'side door' entry system, leading to a worldwide news frenzy when a lot of very privileged, high profile parents were arrested AND ACTUALLY SENT TO PRISON. The craziest part of this story? What Rick Singer is doing now. ----------We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party.…Watch 'Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal' (on Netflix): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFHj8e7mU_IListen to the 'Gangster Capitalism' podcast episodes on the scandal:https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/introducing-…Good rundown of the 'side door' admission scheme:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/12/co…The Wiki gives a good summary on what each parent paid for and what punishment they received: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_college_admissi…One of the only pieces about what happened to the kids involved: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/us/college-admi…A breakdown of the Full House episode where aka Lori Loughlin’s villain origin story: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jenniferabidor/i-rewatched-the-full-house-episode-where-becky-and-jesse https://www.idfuturestars.com/about  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

AN EMERGENCY MINI (which very quickly turned into a medium and then a large)!Brooklyn Beckham just went NUCLEAR on his parents Posh and Becks, officially announcing that he is OUT of the Beckham family and going all in with his in-laws - the billionaire Peltz dynasty. So is Brooklyn just a spoilt Nepo baby who found a richer family, or are the Beckhams actually as toxic as he says? Is his wife Nicola Peltz a real-life Veruca Salt, or is Victoria Beckham a nightmare ‘Boy Mum’? Or is it all true? Gisten in as Rosie gives Just The Gist of the Beckham family DRAMAAAAH.----------We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Totally awake. No pain relief. Just straight up raw-dogging surgery. In 1686, King Louis XIV's anal fistula got so bad that he needed to go under the knife. But surgery for an anal fistula didn't actually exist yet. In fact, surgery in general didn’t really exist at all. Enter Charles-François Felix, a 'Barber Surgeon' willing to take on the task. King Louis let Felix spend 6 months ‘practicing’ on inmates from the city’s prison, until he had perfected the procedure (or at least managed to perform it once without killing the guy). Once Charles-François Felix was ready to go, all ‘The Sun King’ had to do next was close his eyes, clench his fists, and stay completely still through a three hour anal surgery, the results of which changed the entire course of modern medicine. We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party..A quick, visual (don't worry - animated!) explanation of how anal fistulas work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAOwqcoel_g  Some articles:https://tidsskriftet.no/2016/08/sun-kings-anal-fistula  https://medium.com/omgfacts/when-anal-fistulas-were-all-the-rage-281aclfd2d52 https://www.iflscience.com/that-time-the-kings-anus-changed-surgery-forever-65310 https://hekint.org/2019/10/31/it-is-good-to-be-the-king-the-french-surgical-revolution/ https://historycollection.com/seven-worst-surgeries-modern-times/4/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

[UNLOCKED BONUS] In 2018, momager Kris Jenner pulled off one of her biggest moves yet: she got youngest daughter Kylie Jenner on the COVER of very serious and respected Forbes magazine. Why? Thanks to her cosmetics company, Kylie was (apparently, according to financial 'proof' provided by the Jenners) about to become the world's 'youngest self-made billionaire'. The cover was a massive coup not just for Kylie, but for Kris Jenner herself and the entire Kardashian/Jenner empire she'd created. Kylie wore a POWER SUIT. Her arms were CROSSED. She was a SERIOUS BUSINESS LADY. And printed next to her (never quite smiling) face were the words: 'Welcome to the era of extreme fame leverage' - legitimising the Kardashian/Jenner business model once and for all. At least... until a year later, when Forbes retracted the Kylie billionaire story and published another article: 'INSIDE KYLIE JENNER'S WEB OF LIES'. We've said it before and we'll say it again: the devil works hard but Kris Jenner works harder. .Thanks for gistening to our JTG summer programming while the Just The Network takes a break over Christmas: regular episodes every Thursday, before we're back to regular programming on Jan 20 with Tuesday Breakin' Nooz (for Gistener Club members), Wednesday JTG MINIs and Thursday JTG Regulars!.This episode was originally bonus content for Gistener Club members - to access more episodes like this, join via the JTG Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketWatch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected]’t forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently! Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’re kickin’ it old school - FROM THE VAN (from Tasmania!). A mixed bag of 2025 JTG highlights, reccos, and the first ever year of The Gisty Awards! GET GISTED. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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While chatting this week in Breakin’ Nooz about 50 Cent’s new Diddy documentary ‘Sean Combs: The Reckoning’, Rosie mentioned the episode we did about ‘The Diddy Situation’ back in 2024 for Patreon members. We were travelling around the country and still calling Breakin’ Nooz ‘From The Van’! There’s obviously been a couple of updates in the case since then, but it’s a good breakdown of Sean ‘Puff Daddy’ Combs and the history that ended with him as such an awful criminal. NOTE: We literally recorded this in the Aussie Outback, so the sound isn’t the best! .CW: While we don’t go into any detail, this episode obviously does deal with the crimes of abuse that Sean Combs has been convicted of. Please take care listening, and reach out if you need (Australia):Lifeline (24 hours: 13 11 14)1800RESPECT (24 hours: 1800 737 732)13YARN - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Crisis Support (24 hours: 13 92 76)Blue Knot Helpline (1300 657 380)Bravehearts (1800 272 831).This episode was originally bonus content for Gistener Club members - to access more episodes like this, join via the JTG Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketWatch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected]’t forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently! Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1976 in Chowchilla, California, an entire school bus filled with children disappeared without a trace. Less than a day later, all 26 of them, along with bus driver Ed, escaped from a hole underground with a terrifying story about being taken by three masked men. Soon, three very wealthy young men, from some of the most well-off families in town, were found with a piece of paper with the word ‘PLAN’ written at the top, followed by a list of the children's names. This is Just The Gist of the Chowchilla Bus Kidnapping - an eyerolling example of ‘Why Are Men’, but also an event that forever changed the way we look at the ongoing effects of childhood trauma. .We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party..Watch CBS 2023 doco ‘48 Hours: Remembering the Chowchilla Kidnapping’: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chowchilla-bus-kidnapping-survivor-never-before-seen-interview/ Watch CNN 2024 doco ‘Chowchilla’: (On HBO Max): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O5c-qATo-I ‘How a 1976 mass kidnapping changed how the world sees childhood trauma’ (CNN 2023): https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/02/health/chowchilla-childhood-trauma Notorious Chowchilla bus kidnapper ran a goldmine from prison (CBS 2022): https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chowchilla-bus-kidnapping-frederick-woods-ran-a-gold-mine-and-christmas-tree-farm-from-prison/ ‘Little Heroes of Medicine Teach Experts How To Treat Childhood Trauma’ (CBS 2002): https://www.cbsnews.com/news/little-heroes-of-medicine-teach-experts-to-treat-childhood-trauma/  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There was screaming. There was crying. It was one of the most iconic TV moments of all time - on September 13, 2004, Oprah gave all 300 members of her talk show audience a brand new Ponitac G6 Sedan. But, while the rest of us ended up with possibly the greatest meme in internet history, the audience members each ended up with a bill for thousands of dollars, because their brand new ‘free’ car wasn’t actually free at all..We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party..Making Oprah (now part of WBEZ’s ‘Making’ podcast series): https://www.npr.org/podcasts/500692140/making https://time.com/collections/100-best-podcasts/7303092/making-oprah/ THE MOMENT: https://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/oprahs-entire-audience-are-surprised-with-new-cars-video Forbes:https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2016/09/13/a-look-back-at-oprahs-ultimate-car-giveaway/?sh=5a3c326d60ff Gayle King interview: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/gayle-king-oprah-winfrey-show-car-giveaway-1235083395/ Business Insider:https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktoker-recaps-oprah-car-giveaway-taxes-advice-2023-5 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DIVORCED, BEHEADED, DIED, DIVORCED, BEHEADED, SURVIVED. Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr (yes - there were that many Catherines). It’s Henry VIII’s wives bébé! But the way you wish it had been told in history class.…We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party....Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wives_of_Henry_VIII Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-VIII-king-of-England ‘SIX THE MUSICAL: Live!’ coming to Aussie cinemas (hahaha again I promise this isn’t sponsored I just really love SIX): https://www.universalpictures.com.au/micro/six-the-musical Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1985, a man called Andrew Thornton II crash-landed in a random driveway in Kentucky after his parachute didn’t open. He was wearing a bullet-proof vest, night vision goggles and a pair of Gucci Loafers. He also had a duffel bag filled with 35kg of cocaine. But Thornton originally had 75kg of cocaine, and it wasn’t until two months later, when a North American Black Bear was found to have had a very, VERY fun time in the nearby woods, that the police were able to figure out what happened to the rest of Andrew’s stash. Cocaine Bear became a Kentucky legend, and its taxidermied body went on a decades-long journey that was almost as eventful as his two-week bender. This is Just The Gist of Cocaine Bear.We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party.…https://kyforky.com/blogs/journal/cocaine-bear?srsltid=AfmBOoo_lKrITvRqcxZsrFutkvoDw2uf22Hse9i-kd_Gu7rDqaco3YFQ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Beginning in the 1950s, you could take any patient into a local doctor’s office, pay $200, have an ice pick inserted through their eye socket and then hammered into their brain. The whole thing took less than five minutes and was considered as unremarkable as getting a flu shot. Called the ‘lobotomy’, Dr Walter Freeman had invented the procedure as a ‘miracle cure’ for any and all mental illness - he figured by cutting up the part of the brain that controlled emotion, he could stop people being so… emotional. Men would bring in their wives with post-natal depression. Parents would bring in children who occasionally misbehaved. America was officially dazzled by Dr Freeman’s lobotomy technique. But most patients who received lobotomies ended up severely brain damaged (because, you know, they had an ICE PICK shoved into their brain), with many needing 24-hour care for the rest of their lives, if they survived at all.…We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Want to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: Pocket…BBC: ‘The strange and curious history of the Lobotomy’ (2011) - https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15629160 PBS documentary: ‘The Lobotomist’ (2008) - https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/lobotomist/ Howard Dully’s story on NPR (2005) - https://storycorps.org/podcast/special-remembering-howard-dully-of-my-lobotomy/ PBS interview with Howard Dully (2005) - https://www.pbs.org/video/american-experience-original-interview-howard-dully/ The Guardian: ‘He was so bad, they put an ice pick in his brain’ (2008) - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/jan/13/neuroscience.medicalscienceHoward Dully wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dully#cite_note-8 Dr. Walter Freeman wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Jackson_Freeman_II  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Right now Ariana Grande is getting Oscar buzz for her turn as Glinda in Wicked: For Good, but back in 2018 she was mostly making headlines for her intense romance with the guy who made ‘BDE’ a thing: comedian Pete Davidson. Within two months, they met, got matching tattoos, moved in together, got more matching tattoos, got a pet piglet, got more matching tattoos, got engaged and… got more matching tattoos. We were inundated with paparazzi pics of the two of them holding hands, Ariana looking up at Pete like she wished the lollipop she was sucking on was… something else. And then, barely 6 months later, it all ended as quickly as it began. Pete Davidson was soon branding himself with Kim Kardashian’s name, and Ariana Grande was marrying a dude who looked just like her brother (and don’t even get us started on Wicked co-star Ethan Slater).…We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party.…E News (2025): https://www.eonline.com/news/1413523/pete-davidson-ariana-grande-where-they-stand-after-breakup People Magazine (2022):https://people.com/music/pete-davidson-ariana-grande-relationship-timeline/ Business Insider (2018):https://www.businessinsider.com/ariana-grande-pete-davidson-relationship-timeline-2018-6  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1985, Disney released a sequel to 1939’s The Wizard of Oz, with production involvement from legends of cinema George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola. It was directed by Oscar winner Walter Murch and starred a 9-year-old Fairuza Balk (who later went on to star in The Craft) as Dorothy. With that pedigree, you’d think an ‘Oz’ sequel would be a slam dunk, but this film did not have the celebrated reaction we later saw with ‘Wicked’. When the movie was released, parents stormed out of cinemas with their kids, saying it was more like a horror movie than something for children. It bombed at the time, but has since become a cult classic, this is just the gist of the 1985 sequel to The Wizard of Oz that Disney considers a complete disaster they would rather forget - Return To Oz. We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Want to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: Pocket…Return To Oz trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBPKgAXA-28 Guardian article ‘Hear Me Out: Why Return To Oz Isn’t A Bad Movie’ (2021): https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/feb/11/hear-me-out-why-return-to-oz-isnt-a-bad-movieThe Hollywood Reporter article: How George Lucas Saved Return To Oz (2024): https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/how-george-lucas-saved-return-to-oz-1235866485/ BBB article ‘How Return To Oz became one of the darkest children’s films ever made’ (2025)https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250616-the-darkest-childrens-film-ever-madeInterview with Walter Murch on the ‘It Happened In Hollywood’ podcast (2024): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/walter-murch-return-to-oz/id1437795866?i=1000651291941 ‘Remembering Return To Oz’ documentary (2021): https://www.rememberingreturntooz.com/ The Siskel and Ebert review (1985):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24kiDP1WRr4Return To Oz wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_Oz Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

British man Malcolm MacDonald spent SIX YEARS with a penis grafted to his arm after complications during surgery meant it couldn’t be attached to… the regular spot. He thought he might spend the rest of his life with it just swinging there, but in 2022, Britain’s Channel 4 made a documentary about Malcolm called ‘The Man With a Penis on His Arm’. It detailed the infection that led to the loss of his penis in the first place, and the struggles he had endured waiting for the surgery to finally put his new appendage in the right place. A (Rosie’s Version) of a JTG classic.We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party.…Channel 4 documentary ‘The Man With The Penis On His Arm’:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLqb-FNxh4MGuardian article (2022): https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/may/03/the-man-with-a-penis-on-his-arm-review-tv-that-makes-you-proud-to-be-british Daily Mail article (2022): http://dailymail.co.uk/lifestyle/article-10779775/The-Man-Penis-Arm-Man-47-lived-six-years-penis-attached-ARM.html  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You know who doesn’t know much about much unless she hyperfixates on it because she’s researching for an episode? Rosie. So occasionally we’re gonna get some experts in to give us Just The Gist on what they happen to be experts in. This week: Oshie’s Hair (and the man beneath it - iconic TV host Osher Günsberg) tells us all the things about The Bachelor Universe! From what goes on behind the scenes - like what happened when the Honey Badger picked nobody - to his thoughts on The Golden Bachelor.Listen to Osher’s podcast Better Than Yesterday right here:https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/better-than-yesterday-with-osher-g%C3%BCnsberg/id711028488Get his memoir ‘Back, After The Break’: https://www.harpercollins.com.au/9781460759028/back-after-the-break-a-memoir-from-one-of-australias-most-loved-celebrities-about-life-love-and-living-with-mental-illness-powerful-dark-f/ Get his new book ‘So What, Now What’:https://www.penguin.com.au/books/so-what-now-what-9781761352300 …We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On January 28 1986, 'America's Favourite Teacher', 37-year-old Christa McAuliffe, boarded the Space Shuttle Challenger, after beating out 11,000 applicants to become the first regular civilian NASA would ever take to space. Satellites had been sent to schools around the country so children could watch the shuttle launch live from their classrooms. But just 73 seconds after launch, the Challenger exploded mid-air, resulting in millions of children witnessing the moment that Christa McAuliffe and 6 other Challenger crew members were tragically killed. The Challenger disaster turned what was supposed to be NASA's triumphant return to relevance through the "Teacher in Space" program into one of the most traumatic moments in US history, broadcast live into classrooms across the country.…We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party.…Netflix doco series 'Challenger: The Final Flight' trailer (2020):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILAeVAgqFV4National Geographic doco 'Space Shuttle Challenger - 30 Years On' (2016):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DMmkp_F25YYou're Wrong About 'Challenger Disaster' podcast episode (2019):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qUAhcBKu8Trusty old wikipedia page:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disasterBritannica page: https://www.britannica.com/event/Challenger-disaster  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This story in The New York Times Magazine went ridiculously viral last week because… ooft. ‘She Was Ready To Have Her 15th Child, Then Came The Felony Charges’ was brilliantly written by David Gauvey Herbert, and tells the story of MaryBeth Lewis; a woman who has been having babies via IVF since her mid-forties and doesn’t want to stop - no matter what she has to do to make it happen. This episode started out as a segment in Breakin’ Nooz, then it turned into a JTG MINI, then it turned into a Medium, then it pretty much turned into a regular-length episode BECAUSE THIS STORY IS NUTS. Rosie gives Just The Gist of one of the most gripping and ridiculously good articles she’s read in a long time. Read it right here in The New York Times Magazine.…We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: PocketDon't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.