Just The Gist
Episodes
Just The Gist of… The Death of Mary Jo Kopechne, otherwise known as 'The Chappaquiddick Incident'
03 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 P...
ENCORE: The Dave Matthews Band Bus Poop Incident
02 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In what eventually became known as ‘THE CRAPPENING’, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of toilet waste while driving across the Kinz...
Just The Gist of… The Tonight Show battle between Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno
27 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
JTG MINI: A day in the life of a bee
26 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 b...
RE-POST | Just The Gist of… Amelia Earhart
23 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
***OOOPS - AMELIA EARHART HAS GONE MISSING AGAIN.... THIS TIME FROM OUR PODCAST FEED! So in case you missed it, here is a re-posting of the episode wi...
Just The Gist of… Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
20 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Two decades on, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is still remembered as the wholesome reality TV outlier of the early 2000s, the show even Michelle Obam...
JTG MINI: Should I Marry A Murderer?
19 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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Just The Gist of... Amelia Earhart
13 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
JTG MINI: What the hell is going on with the Hantavirus outbreak?
12 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Three people are dead, more passengers have been diagnosed, and British paratroopers had to parachute medical supplies onto the most remote inhabited ...
ENCORE: Just The Gist of... Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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JTG MINI: The Lorde, Jack Antonoff, Lena Dunham PowerPoint
05 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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Just The Gist of… JonBenét Ramsey
29 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 uns...
JTG MINI: "When I say bodies, I mean the slush that was left." The woman who lost her family in the Titan sub disaster.
28 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Just The Gist of... The Triplets Seperated At Birth
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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JTG MINI: The Alex Cooper vs. Alix Earle feud EXPLAINED
21 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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-follo...
Just The Gist of... The O.J. Simpson Trial
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Domestic violence that nobody took seriously, a racist police force with no accountability, a car chase watched by the entire world and… Kim Kardash...
JTG MINI: Charlie Javice
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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Just The Gist of.... D.B Cooper: The Only Person to Successfully Hijack a Plane
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
JTG MINI - KONY 2012
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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Just The Gist of… Wallis Simpson and the royal abdication.
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 si...
JTG MINI: The Man Who Lived In An Airport For 18 Years | Mehran Karimi Nasseri
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Just The Gist of… the McDonald’s Monopoly Fraud
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 co...
JTG MINI: We need to talk about where Gypsy Rose Blanchard is in 2026
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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JTG MINI — The La La Land / Moonlight Oscars Mix-Up
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Just The Gist of… The 1989 Oscars, aka The Worst Oscars in History
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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....
JTG MINI: "Take Her DOWN" - The eBay CEO Stalking Scandal
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 2019, the CEO of eBay was caught up in a scandal that involved harassing a random married couple — they had live cockroaches, spiders and even a ...
Just The Gist of... JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 Peopl...
Just The Gist of... Baby Jessica
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
JTG MINI: The Luckiest Unluckiest Man in the World
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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Just The Gist of... The Jonestown Massacre
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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Just The Gist of... Alysa Liu
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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Just The Gist of... The battle between the two versions of 'How Do I Live'
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
JTG MINI: Steven Bradbury
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 r...
Just The Gist of… Tyra Banks (and her history of bizarre business failures).
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Newsnight Interview
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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Just The Gist of.... Biosphere 2
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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Just The Gist of... John Allen Chau
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Just The Gist of… Nellie Bly
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 1887, Nellie Bly was just 21-years-old when she completely changed the way investigative journalism was done by basically inventing going ‘underc...
JTG MINI: How one interview may have ruined Timothée Chalamet’s chance at an Oscar.
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 m...
Just The Gist of… The 2019 College Admissions Scandal
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 s...
JTG MINI: Feuding in the House of Beckham
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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, officia...
Just The Gist of… The King Who Had a 3-Hour Surgery Without Anesthesia
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
[UNLOCKED BONUS] The Devil Works Hard But Kris Jenner Works Harder
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was originally bonus content for Gistener Club members - to access more episodes like this, join via the JTG Patreon or Apple Premium Sub...
Welcome to 2026! Let’s talk about 2025.
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Awar...
Just The Gist of... Kris Jenner
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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UNLOCKED BONUS: Just The Gist of… Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While chatting this week in Breakin’ Nooz about 50 Cent’s new Diddy documentary ‘Sean Combs: The Reckoning’, Rosie mentioned the episode we di...
Just The Gist of... The Chowchilla Bus Kidnapping
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
JTG MINI: That time Oprah gave everybody a car
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Just The Gist of... The Six Wives of Henry VIII
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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JTG MINI - Cocaine Bear
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Just The Gist of.... The Icepick Lobotomy
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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JTG MINI: The epic (and fleeting) love story Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 int...
Just The Gist of... Return To OZ
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
JTG MINI: The Man With a Penis on His Arm
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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…...
JTG EXPERT: Osher Günsberg gives us just the gist of The Bachelor
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 g...
Just The Gist of... The Challenger Disaster
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On January 28 1986, 'America's Favourite Teacher', 37-year-old Christa McAuliffe, boarded the Space Shuttle Challenger, after beating out 11,000 appli...
JTG MINI: Meet MaryBeth Lewis - the 68-year-old woman who tricked an IVF clinic so she could have her ~15TH~ baby.
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Fe...
Just The Gist of... Andrew & Fergie
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
JTG MINI: What exactly is '6 7' (aka 6-7/67/six seven)? JTG's official KidZ Correspondents explain.
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Yea...
Just The Gist of… Theodore Rex
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 winne...
JTG MINI: The Louvre Heist
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Just The Gist of Harrison Okene (the man found ALIVE in a sunken ship on the ocean floor)
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 co...
JTG MINI: Winona Ryder's Shoplifting Scandal
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 b...
Just The Gist of The Blair Witch Project
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1999, The Blair Witch Project became a cultural phenomenon when audiences believed they were watching real found footage of three film students who...
JTG MINI: The Dave Matthews Band Bus Incident
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In what eventually became known as ‘THE CRAPPENING’, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of toilet waste while driving across the Kinz...
Just The Gist of Elizabeth Holmes (Rosie's Version)
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2014, Elizabeth Holmes was hailed as the youngest female billionaire in America, promising to revolutionize healthcare with her blood-testing compa...
JTG MINI: The Disappearance of Bobby Dunbar (Rosie's Version)
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 aut...
Just The Gist of Charles Manson
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
JTG MINI: The (embarrassingly fast) rise and fall of Quibi
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It was supposed to be the biggest streaming service the world had ever seen. Launched in 2020 by industry heavyweights Jeffrey Katzenberg (the former ...
Just The Gist of Whatever Happened To Here Comes Honey Boo Boo?
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
JTG MINI: Balloon Boy
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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-...
Just The Gist of The Woman Who Fell In Love With A Dolphin
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 groundbrea...
JTG MINI: The OceanGate Titan Disaster
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On June 18th, 2023, the OceanGate Titan submersible imploded during a dive to the Titanic wreck, instantly killing all five people on board including ...
Just The Gist of The 'Disappearance' of Sherri Papini
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In November 2016, California mother Sherri Papini vanished while jogging, sparking a massive search effort and national media frenzy. When she was fou...
Just The Gist of Titanic
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Just The Gist of Gypsy-Rose Blanchard
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For years, Gypsy Rose Blanchard was the poster child for childhood illness - confined to a wheelchair, battling leukemia, muscular dystrophy, and coun...
Just The Gist of Fyre Festival
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2017, Billy McFarland promised the world's most exclusive music festival on a private island once owned by Pablo Escobar. Supermodels, private jets...
The Trashman Yacht Sinking (Rosie's Version)
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 mem...
The Mushroom Lady (aka Erin Patterson duh)
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Sim...
Belle Gibson (Rosie's Version)
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Back in 2015, she was the ‘wellness influencer’ who had ‘healed’ her terminal brain cancer by ‘eating clean’ and sticking coffee enemas up...
Why Taylor Swift Had To Re-Record Her Entire Back Catalogue
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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… ...
Just The Gist of… Just The Gist.
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 firs...
TRAILER: Just The Gist coming (back!) soon...
27 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 so...