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- Just The Gist of... The Ashlee Simpson Lip Sync Scandal · 49 min · Episodio 108October 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: her own voice…
- JTG TOP TEN: Celebrity Business Flops · 1 h 6 min · Episodio 107Blake 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 acast.com/privacy for…
- JTG MINI: The OTHER time Kelly Clarkson got mad she couldn’t buy something · 1 h 8 min · Episodio 106At 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. But this isn’t…
- Just The Gist of… Christa Pike's failed execution · 1 h 55 min · Episodio 105If 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 episode for you. Last…
- A quick chat about Christa Pike · 12 minHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- JTG TOP TEN: Crazy 'Shark Tank' Success Stories · 1 h 2 min · Episodio 104Most 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, anyone?). And while…
- Just The Gist of… The Murder of Selena Quintanilla · 1 h 2 min · Episodio 103In 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 music and was easily…
- JTG MINI: Last Ditch - the covid conscious lesbian bar · 1 h 1 min · Episodio 102"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 one night a week…
- Just The Gist of… The Falling Man - 9/11's most haunting photo · 1 h 1 min · Episodio 101This 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 then quietly…
- UNLOCKED BREAKIN' NOOZ: Lindsay Clancy Case Update · 31 min · Episodio 100We 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 listened to eps ever…
- Just The Gist of… Dolly Parton · 1 h 25 min · Episodio 99Dolly 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 one-room shack in the…
- JTG MINI: Why is Selena Gomez being sued over her company 'Wondermind'? · 1 h 22 min · Episodio 98Selena 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 that never came true…
- Just The Gist of... The Billionaire Boys Club · 1 h 9 min · Episodio 97"Tape mouth. Handcuff. Explain situation." When police finally searched missing conman Ron Levin's Beverly Hills mansion in 1984, they found a seven-page murder to-do list, left…
- JTG MINI: The luxury bag made of T-Rex leather · 28 min · Episodio 96“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 Amsterdam Art Zoo Museum…
- JTG MINI: The weird process of buying a Birkin Bag (AKA 'The Hermès Game') · 53 min · Episodio 95You 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 handbag, Hermès…
- Just The Gist of... The Lindsay Clancy Case · 1 h 39 min · Episodio 94The 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, it’s a hard one to…
- BONUS BREAKIN' NOOZ: Logies and AI Gae Guys and psychotic Harry Potter fans oh my! · 1 h 26 minSurprise! 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 nonsense. Episodes drop…
- ENCORE: The Woman Who Fell in Love with a Dolphin · 32 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 93In 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 interspecies…
- JTG MINI: The eBay Stalking Scandal story just had a major update. · 49 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 92(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 couple that eBay…
- Just The Gist of… The Murder of Maurizio Gucci - the man who lost the Gucci family their fashion company · 57 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 91"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. In 1995, Maurizio…
- JTG MINI: John Jones and the Nutty Putty Cave. · 42 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 90"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 medical student…
- Just The Gist of... The Execution of The Romanovs (and the search for Anastasia) · 1 h 0 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 89One 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 MINIT... Tsar Nicholas II…
- Just The Gist of... Tania Head, The Fake 9/11 Survivor · 1 h 5 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 88Her 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 the plane hit the…
- JTG MINI: Phia, Phoebe Gates and the 'cookie stuffing' scandal · 57 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 87Phoebe 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 succeed with, quote, 'no…
- Just The Gist of... Bernie Madoff · 1 h 16 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 86His $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 ran the biggest…
- JTG MINI: How Pop Mart lost billions on the rise and fall of Labubus. · 54 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 85At 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 AND Nerf, beaten by…
- JTG MINI: Why Michael J. Fox replaced Eric Stoltz in Back to the Future · 60 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 84EDIT: 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 it but I actually…
- JTG MINI: Guy Goma - the man BBC accidentally interviewed on LIVE TV · 51 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 83In 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 to millions as a…
- Just The Gist of... De Beers and the Diamond Marketing Scam · 1 h 3 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 82Why 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 and they're almost…
- JTG MINI: The Glitter Conspiracy · 41 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 81Nobody 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 the biggest…
- Just The Gist of...The Kennedy Family (AKA Kennedys 101) · 1 h 4 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 80It 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 wealthiest and most…
- Just The Gist of… The Death of Mary Jo Kopechne, otherwise known as 'The Chappaquiddick Incident' · 1 h 10 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 79Once 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 in the next US…
- ENCORE: The Dave Matthews Band Bus Poop Incident · 33 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 78In 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 Bridge in Chicago in…
- Just The Gist of… The Tonight Show battle between Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno · 1 h 22 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 77In 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 spent years…
- JTG MINI: A day in the life of a bee · 40 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 76Inside 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 male drones get…
- Just The Gist of… Extreme Makeover: Home Edition · 55 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 75Two 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 up for. Each week…
- Just The Gist of… Amelia Earhart · 1 h 5 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 74She 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…
- JTG MINI: What the hell is going on with the Hantavirus outbreak? · 41 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 73Three 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…
- ENCORE: Just The Gist of... Here Comes Honey Boo Boo · 1 h 24 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 72Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- JTG MINI: The Lorde/Jack Antonoff PowerPoint · 59 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 71In 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…
- Just The Gist of… JonBenét Ramsey · 1 h 23 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 70She 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…
- JTG MINI: "When I say bodies, I mean the slush that was left." The woman who lost her family in the Titan sub disaster. · 37 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 69Christine 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…
- Just The Gist of… The triplets separated at birth (who found each other BY CHANCE as adults). · 1 h 11 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 68Imagine 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…
- JTG MINI: The Alex Cooper vs. Alix Earle feud EXPLAINED · 1 h 2 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 67Get 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…
- Just The Gist of... The O.J. Simpson Trial · 1 h 14 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 66Domestic 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…
- JTG MINI: Charlie Javice, the Girl Boss Scammer Who Tricked JPMorgan Into Buying $175 Million Worth of Fake Emails · 59 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 65How 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…
- Just The Gist of.... D.B Cooper: The Only Person to Successfully Hijack a Plane · 48 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 64In 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…
- JTG MINI: KONY 2012 · 53 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 63On 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…
- Just The Gist of… Wallis Simpson and the royal abdication. · 52 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 62Did 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…
