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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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Just The Gist of... 'How Do I Live'. One song, two versions and a huge public battle.
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…
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JTG MINI: Steven Bradbury
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 -…
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Just The Gist of… Tyra Banks (and her history of bizarre business failures).
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…
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JTG MINI: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s Newsnight Interview
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…
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Just The Gist of: Biosphere 2
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…
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JTG MIN-EDIUM... John Allen Chau
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…
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Just The Gist of… Nellie Bly
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…
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JTG MINI: How one interview may have ruined Timothée Chalamet’s chance at an Oscar.
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…
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Just The Gist of… The 2019 College Admissions Scandal
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…
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JTG MINI: Feuding in the House of Beckham
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…
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Just The Gist of… The King Who Had a 3-Hour Surgery Without Anesthesia
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…
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Just The Gist of... How Kris Jenner Tricked Forbes Into Thinking Kylie Jenner Was A Billionaire
[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…
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Welcome to 2026! Let’s talk about 2025.
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…
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Just The Gist of... Kris Jenner
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[UNLOCKED BONUS] Just The Gist of… Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
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…
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Just The Gist of... The Chowchilla Bus Kidnapping
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…
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JTG MINI: That time Oprah gave everybody a car
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…
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Just The Gist of... The Six Wives of Henry VIII
DIVORCED, BEHEADED, DIED, DIVORCED, BEHEADED, SURVIVED. Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr…
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JTG MINI - Cocaine Bear
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…
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Just The Gist of… The Disturbing History of the Lobotomy
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…
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JTG MINI: The epic (and fleeting) love story Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson
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…
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Just The Gist of... Return To OZ
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…
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JTG MINI: The Man With a Penis on His Arm
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…
Just The GistJTG EXPERT: Osher Günsberg gives us just the gist of The Bachelor
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…
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Just The Gist of... The Challenger Disaster
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…
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JTG MINI: Meet MaryBeth Lewis - the 68-year-old woman who tricked an IVF clinic so she could have her ~15TH~ baby.
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’…
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Just The Gist of... Andrew & Fergie
The trash fire human formally known as ‘Prince’ Andrew is now just a regular person, only worse. Same as his former wife Sarah Ferguson, who until recently was…
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JTG MINI: What exactly is '6 7' (aka 6-7/67/six seven)? JTG's official KidZ Correspondents explain.
All the kids are saying it. Teachers are banning it. South Park did an episode about it. And it was just named Dictionary.com’s 2025 Word Of The Year. So where…
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Just The Gist of… Theodore Rex
There is a movie that exists that is SO bad, the lead actress who signed on had to be legally forced to finish filming it. In 1996, recent Oscar winner Whoopi…
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JTG MINI: The Louvre Heist
IT’S THE DELIGHTFUL CAPER WE ALL NEEDED. On October 19 2025, four thieves (in disguise!) stole $102million worth of jewels from the Louvre Museum in Paris…
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Just The Gist of Harrison Okene (the man found ALIVE in a sunken ship on the ocean floor)
In May 2013, Nigerian cook Harrison Okene was sitting on the toilet when his tugboat capsized in a freak wave, trapping him 30 meters underwater in complete…
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JTG MINI: Winona Ryder's Shoplifting Scandal
In December 2001, Winona Ryder was arrested for shoplifting nearly $6,000 worth of designer clothes from Saks Fifth Avenue, sparking one of the most bizarre…
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Just The Gist of The Blair Witch Project
In 1999, The Blair Witch Project became a cultural phenomenon when audiences believed they were watching real found footage of three film students who…
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JTG MINI: The Dave Matthews Band Bus 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 Elizabeth Holmes (Rosie's Version)
In 2014, Elizabeth Holmes was hailed as the youngest female billionaire in America, promising to revolutionize healthcare with her blood-testing company…
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JTG MINI: The Disappearance of Bobby Dunbar (Rosie's Version)
In 1912, four-year-old Bobby Dunbar vanished during a family fishing trip to Swayze Lake in Louisiana, sparking a massive eight-month search. When authorities…
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Just The Gist of Charles Manson
Remembered for being one of the most famous murderers of the 20th century, there's not many people who don't know about Charles Manson and the Sharon…
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JTG MINI: The (embarrassingly fast) rise and fall of Quibi
It was supposed to be the biggest streaming service the world had ever seen. Launched in 2020 by industry heavyweights Jeffrey Katzenberg (the former head of…
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Just The Gist of Whatever Happened To Here Comes Honey Boo Boo?
In 2012, a six-year-old beauty pageant contestant named Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson became America's most controversial reality TV star, thanks to her…
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JTG MINI: Balloon Boy
On October 15, 2009, the world watched in horror as a homemade helium balloon shaped like a flying saucer drifted across Colorado skies with six-year-old…
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Just The Gist of 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 OceanGate Titan Disaster
On June 18th, 2023, the OceanGate Titan submersible imploded during a dive to the Titanic wreck, instantly killing all five people on board including CEO…
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Just The Gist of The 'Disappearance' of Sherri Papini
In November 2016, California mother Sherri Papini vanished while jogging, sparking a massive search effort and national media frenzy. When she was found 22…
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Just The Gist of Titanic
On April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic - the largest, most luxurious ship ever built - struck an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage. Over 1,500 people died in…
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Just The Gist of Gypsy-Rose Blanchard
For years, Gypsy Rose Blanchard was the poster child for childhood illness - confined to a wheelchair, battling leukemia, muscular dystrophy, and countless…
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Just The Gist of Fyre Festival
In 2017, Billy McFarland promised the world's most exclusive music festival on a private island once owned by Pablo Escobar. Supermodels, private jets, gourmet…
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The Trashman Yacht Sinking (Rosie's Version)
This has been called one the ‘worst shark attack stories of all time’. After their yacht, ‘The Trashman’, sank in a major storm, five crew members were…
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The Mushroom Lady (aka Erin Patterson duh)
Possibly one of JTG’s most requested topics EVER, the show had to come back just to do this episode. In 2023, Erin Patterson invited her husband Simon and his…
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Belle Gibson (Rosie's Version)
Back in 2015, she was the ‘wellness influencer’ who had ‘healed’ her terminal brain cancer by ‘eating clean’ and sticking coffee enemas up her butt. Belle…
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Why Taylor Swift Had To Re-Record Her Entire Back Catalogue
Taylor Swift made headlines in 2025 when news broke that she had finally succeeded in purchasing the master recordings of all her past albums. But… Why didn’t…
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Just The Gist of… Just The Gist.
IT’S FINALLY TIME! TOMORROW - Thursday Aug 14 - IS THE DAY! Just The Gist is BACK and will be dropping episodes every Thursday from now on! But first, here’s a…
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TRAILER: Just The Gist coming (back!) soon...
BREAKIN' NOOZ! Just The Gist is BACK BÉBÉ!!!! Make sure you follow/subscribe/tell every Gistener you ever met that your fave podcast is returning soon - with a…