Just The Gist

Just The Gist

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Episodes 81
Avg. Duration 57m
Activity Moderate
Apple Rating 4.7 (46)
Since Jul 2025
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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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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S1E80 Just The Gist of… The Death of Mary Jo Kopechne, otherwise known as 'The Chappaquiddick Incident'

Jun 03, 2026 1h 10m

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 in the next US election. Until, late one…

S1E79 ENCORE: The Dave Matthews Band Bus Poop Incident

Jun 02, 2026 33m

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 Bridge in Chicago in 2004. And in an…

S1E78 Just The Gist of… The Tonight Show battle between Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno

May 27, 2026 1h 22m

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 spent years building collapsed in seven…

S1E77 JTG MINI: A day in the life of a bee

May 26, 2026 39m

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 male drones get kicked out to starve in…

S1E76 Just The Gist of… Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

May 20, 2026 54m

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 up for. Each week, Ty Pennington and his…

S1E74 Just The Gist of… Amelia Earhart

May 13, 2026 1h 5m

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…

S1E74 Just The Gist of... Amelia Earhart

May 13, 2026 1h 5m

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…

S1E73 JTG MINI: What the hell is going on with the Hantavirus outbreak?

May 12, 2026 41m

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…

S1E72 ENCORE: Just The Gist of... Here Comes Honey Boo Boo

May 06, 2026 1h 24m

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S1E71 JTG MINI: The Lorde/Jack Antonoff PowerPoint

May 05, 2026 59m

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…

S1E70 Just The Gist of… JonBenét Ramsey

Apr 29, 2026 1h 23m

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…

S1E69 JTG MINI: "When I say bodies, I mean the slush that was left." The woman who lost her family in the Titan sub disaster.

Apr 28, 2026 36m

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…

S1E68 Just The Gist of… The triplets separated at birth (who found each other BY CHANCE as adults).

Apr 22, 2026 1h 11m

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…

S1E67 JTG MINI: The Alex Cooper vs. Alix Earle feud EXPLAINED

Apr 21, 2026 1h 2m

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…

S1E66 Just The Gist of... The O.J. Simpson Trial

Apr 15, 2026 1h 14m

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…

S1E65 JTG MINI: Charlie Javice, the Girl Boss Scammer Who Tricked JPMorgan Into Buying $175 Million Worth of Fake Emails

Apr 14, 2026 59m

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…

S1E64 Just The Gist of.... D.B Cooper: The Only Person to Successfully Hijack a Plane

Apr 08, 2026 48m

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…

S1E63 JTG MINI: KONY 2012

Apr 07, 2026 53m

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…

S1E62 Just The Gist of… Wallis Simpson and the royal abdication.

Apr 01, 2026 52m

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…

S1E61 JTG MINI: The Man Who Lived In An Airport For 18 Years | Mehran Karimi Nasseri

Mar 31, 2026 42m

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,…

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