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Just The Gist
The brand new official Just The Gist podcast is right here (and we've had a glow up)!
Rosie Waterland tells amazing stories about anything and everything, but with just enough detail to make you sound impressive at a dinner party. Let's get Gistening....
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Episodes
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JTG MINI: The Ashlee Simpson Lip Sync Scandal
October 23, 2004. Ashlee Simpson walks out to sing 'Autobiography' on 'Saturday Night Live', the band kicks in, and the wrong song comes out of the speakers…
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JTG MINI: The Top Ten Celebrity Business Flops
Blake Lively's racially offensive attempt at a Goop website. The Kardashian Kard. Pharrell's drink FOR LADIES. An iconic list to be on. Hosted on Acast. See…
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JTG MINI: The OTHER time Kelly Clarkson got mad she couldn’t buy something
At this point we’ve all heard that Kelly Clarkson got really mad this week when (she says) she was denied the chance to buy a $15,000 wooden bird automaton…
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Just The Gist of… Christa Pike's failed execution
If you’ve seen Christa Pike’s name in the headlines this week next to the words “botched execution” and have no idea what actually happened, this is the…
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A quick chat about Christa Pike
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JTG MINI: The Top Ten Shark Tank Success Stories
Most people think of 'Shark Tank' as the show where hopeful entrepreneurs try to get rich people to invest in their ridiculous inventions (wine for cats…
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Just The Gist of… The Murder of Selena Quintanilla
In 1995, Selena Quintanilla was about to become one of the biggest pop stars in the world. Just 23 years old, she was already considered the Queen of Tejano…
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JTG MINI: Last Ditch - the covid conscious lesbian bar
"I hope your venue gets firebombed." That was a real comment on a real Instagram post from a small lesbian bar in Greenfield, Massachusetts, announcing that…
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Just The Gist of… The Falling Man - 9/11's most haunting photo
This month marks 25 years since 9/11, and of all the images to come out of that day, possibly the most haunting is one that was published the next morning and…
Just The GistUNLOCKED BREAKIN' NOOZ: Lindsay Clancy Case Update
We published our 'Just The Gist of The Lindsay Clancy Case' episode (you can listen to it here) a few weeks ago, and it very quickly became one of our most…
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Just The Gist of… Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton died last week at 80, and she may literally be the last universally loved person we’ll ever see. This is the whole story: the girl born in a…
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JTG MINI: Why is Selena Gomez being sued over her company 'Wondermind'?
Selena Gomez is being sued for fraud. Investors say the mental health startup she founded with her mum, Mandy Teefey, took their millions based on promises…
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Just The Gist of... The Billionaire Boys Club
"Tape mouth. Handcuff. Explain situation." When police finally searched missing conman Ron Levin's Beverly Hills mansion in 1984, they found a seven-page…
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JTG MINI: There’s a new ‘luxury’ bag on the market - made of T-Rex leather.
“Move over Birkin. Watch out Chanel. There’s a new apex predator.” OF LUXURY GOODS. A luxury bag made of T-rex leather was unveiled earlier this year at…
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JTG MINI: The weird process of buying a Birkin Bag (AKA 'The Hermès Game')
You can walk into an Hermès store with 20 grand in cash, ask for a Birkin bag, and they will say no. Because Hermès doesn't sell you the world's most coveted…
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Just The Gist of... The Lindsay Clancy Case
The Lindsay Clancy case is the story everyone seems to be talking about right now. But if you haven’t been following Lindsay Clancy’s story from the start…
Just The GistBONUS BREAKIN' NOOZ: Logies and AI Gae Guys and psychotic Harry Potter fans oh my!
Surprise! Free for everyone this week! It's not news, it's NOOZ! In these JTG BONUS eps, Rosie Waterland gives just the gist of the week's most important…
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ENCORE: The Woman Who Fell in Love with a Dolphin
In the 1960s, Margaret Howe Lovatt became part of a NASA-funded experiment to teach a dolphin named Peter to speak English. What started as groundbreaking…
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JTG MINI: The eBay Stalking Scandal story just had a major update.
(ENCORE!) We spoke on JTG’s bonus Breakin’ Nooz this week about eBay agreeing to pay $56 million to Ina and David Steiner - the unassuming, nerdy married…
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Just The Gist of… The Murder of Maurizio Gucci - the man who lost the Gucci family their fashion company
"My eyesight is not so good darling, I didn't want to miss." The line that finally convinced her own daughters she'd done it, after 17 years of prison visits…
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JTG MINI: John Jones and the Nutty Putty Cave.
"There’s a reason being hung upside down was once used as a form of torture." It’s the horror story cavers tell each other as a warning. In 2009, 26-year-old…
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Just The Gist of... The Execution of The Romanovs (and the search for Anastasia)
One day they were the most powerful and wealthy royal family in the world, their ancestors having been in charge of Russia for more than 300 years. NEK…
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Just The Gist of... Tania Head, The Fake 9/11 Survivor
Her story was one of triumph over trauma. When the planes flew into the World Trade Center twin towers on September 11, 2001, Tania Head was on the floor where…
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JTG MINI: Phia, Phoebe Gates and the 'cookie stuffing' scandal
Phoebe Gates, the 23-year-old daughter of billionaires Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, has spent the last year insisting her shopping app Phia would…
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Just The Gist of... Bernie Madoff
His $68 billion fraud literally came down to fake statements printed on a secret floor of the office - so how did he get away with it for long? Bernie Madoff…
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JTG MINI: How Pop Mart lost billions on the rise and fall of Labubus.
At the peak of the Labubu craze in 2025, Pop Mart, the company behind the viral blind box toys, was worth more than Mattel and Hasbro combined. That's Barbie…
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JTG MINI: Why Michael J. Fox replaced Eric Stoltz in Back to the Future
EDIT: YES I ACCIDENTALLY SAY 'MATTHEW' INSTEAD OF 'MICHAEL' IN THE FIRST 30 SECONDS I CANNOT FREAKING BELIEVE I DID THAT 🫠😂🫠 (And yes we could go in and change…
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JTG MINI: Guy Goma - the man BBC accidentally interviewed on LIVE TV
In 2006, a man named Guy Goma turned up at the BBC for a job interview in IT support. Ten minutes later, he found himself live on BBC News 24, being introduced…
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Just The Gist of... De Beers and the Diamond Marketing Scam
Why is a diamond supposed to cost you two months' salary? Why is it THE rock we’re supposed to propose with? Turns out none of it is real. Diamonds aren't rare…
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JTG MINI: The Glitter Conspiracy
Nobody knows who buys most of the world's glitter. And whoever it is REALLY doesn't want you to find out. Back in 2018, a New York Times journalist rang one of…
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Just The Gist of...The Kennedy Family (AKA Kennedys 101)
It was highly requested so here it is: just the gist of the Kennedy family! A basic breakdown of how they came to the US from Ireland, how they became one the…
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Just The Gist of… The Death of Mary Jo Kopechne, otherwise known as 'The Chappaquiddick Incident'
Once both Senator Ted Kennedy's older brothers had been assassinated, he was widely expected to finish what JFK and Bobby had started by running for President…
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ENCORE: The Dave Matthews Band Bus Poop Incident
In what eventually became known as ‘THE CRAPPENING’, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of toilet waste while driving across the Kinzie Street…
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Just The Gist of… The Tonight Show battle between Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno
In 2010, NBC tried to hand The Tonight Show, the 60-year-old crown jewel of American late night, to two different comedians. The five-year succession plan they…
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JTG MINI: A day in the life of a bee
Inside an average bee hive, 80,000 bees are running a 99% female matriarchy. The queen is the only one allowed to have sex, baby queens are made not born, and…
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Just The Gist of… Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Two decades on, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is still remembered as the wholesome reality TV outlier of the early 2000s, the show even Michelle Obama showed…
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Just The Gist of… Amelia Earhart
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…
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JTG MINI: What the hell is going on with the Hantavirus outbreak?
Three people are dead, more passengers have been diagnosed, and British paratroopers had to parachute medical supplies onto the most remote inhabited island on…
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ENCORE: Just The Gist of... Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
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JTG MINI: The Lorde/Jack Antonoff PowerPoint
In 2018, a Twitter user called @buzzkillary posted a 30-page PowerPoint titled 'Lorde and Jack Antonoff: An Emotionally Broken Journey', presenting their case…
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Just The Gist of… JonBenét Ramsey
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…
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JTG MINI: "When I say bodies, I mean the slush that was left." The woman who lost her family in the Titan sub disaster.
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…
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Just The Gist of… The triplets separated at birth (who found each other BY CHANCE as adults).
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…
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JTG MINI: The Alex Cooper vs. Alix Earle feud EXPLAINED
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…
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Just The Gist of... The O.J. Simpson Trial
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…
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JTG MINI: Charlie Javice, the Girl Boss Scammer Who Tricked JPMorgan Into Buying $175 Million Worth of Fake Emails
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…
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Just The Gist of.... D.B Cooper: The Only Person to Successfully Hijack a Plane
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…
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JTG MINI: KONY 2012
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…
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Just The Gist of… Wallis Simpson and the royal abdication.
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…
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JTG MINI: The Man Who Lived In An Airport For 18 Years | Mehran Karimi Nasseri
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…
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Just The Gist of… the McDonald’s Monopoly Fraud
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…
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JTG MINI: WTF is going on with Gypsy-Rose Blanchard?
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…
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JTG MINI — The La La Land / Moonlight Oscars Mix-Up
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…
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Just The Gist of… The 1989 Oscars, aka The Worst Oscars in History
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…
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JTG MINI: The eBay Stalking Scandal
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…
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Just The Gist of... JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy
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…
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Just The Gist of... Baby Jessica
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…
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JTG MINI: Frano Selak - The Unluckiest (or Luckiest?) Man in the World
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…
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Just The Gist of... The Jonestown Massacre
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…
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JTG MINI: Alysa Liu
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…