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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. But this isn’t actually the first time Kelly Clarkson made headlines for being really, really mad that she wasn’t allowed to buy something.

In 2012, Kelly Clarkson outbid the Jane Austen House Museum at auction, paying £150,000 to buy the only existing ring ever to belong to Jane Austen. There are less than 50 existing Jane Austen-owned artifacts total, only three pieces of jewellery, and only ONE ring. The museum wanted the ring so they could preserve it as part of Jane Austen’s legacy and share it with Jane Austen fans for generations to come. Kelly Clarkson wanted it so she could wear it. As her engagement ring. There was a public outcry at the time, but Kelly wouldn’t budge.

NOBODY TELLS KELLY CLARKSON SHE CAN’T BUY A THING.

This is Just The Gist (MINI) of the time Kelly Clarkson was not allowed to buy Jane Austen’s ring: the 2012 Sotheby’s bidding war against Jane Austen’s House Museum, the export ban that declared the ring a national treasure, the scramble to raise enough money to match Kelly’s bid, Kelly’s very salty comments after she was forced to hand the ring back, and one LEGENDARY TikTok video that refused to tell the ‘diplomatic’ version of the story (hat tip to you @VainAusten).

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The TikTok legend@vainausten

Cat (@bittergirlsclub) on Britain, museums and the Jane Austen ring (TikTok, 2026)

Kelly Clarkson: 'I've had to cry in record label offices to get my singles released'(The Guardian, 2015)

Clarkson: Austen Ring Is 'where It Needs to Be'(Associated Press on YouTube, 2015)

Kelly Clarkson: How I snubbed Simon Cowell and became a Grammy-winning superstar(The Independent, 2015)

Kelly Clarkson: My Jane Austen Ring(TIME, 2013)

Kelly Clarkson gives up Jane Austen's ring(The Guardian, 2013)

Lot 59: Jane Austen's turquoise ring (Sotheby's, 2012)

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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 episode for you. Last week, on the 30th of September 2026, Tennessee tried to execute Christa Pike, who had spent 30 years as the only woman on the state’s death row for a murder she committed at 18. The first lethal dose of pentobarbital didn’t kill her. Neither did the second. After two hours behind a closed curtain she left the death chamber in an ambulance, and five days later she woke up in hospital and asked where she was. Her lawyers say she’s the only person known to have survived a completed execution in US history, and nobody, including the Governor of Tennessee, seems to know what happens now.

But in all of this, the victim has been forgotten. Her name was Colleen Slemmer. She was 19, a Florida kid in a ‘Computer Geek’ T-shirt who had left home for the first time to study computers at a Job Corps centre in Knoxville, and who phoned her mum on the night she died to say some girls were bothering her. A few hours later, Christa Pike killed her. Colleen’s mother, May Martinez, put it this way: ‘The criminals get so much attention. Why? Colleen has been lost in this.’

This is Just The Gist of Christa Pike: the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer, the Satanic Panic trial, the ‘Death by Gossip with Wendy Williams’ episode, the Governor Bill Lee clemency fight, the pentobarbital her lawyers say went into her arms instead of her veins, and the mother who drove ten hours from Florida to watch it end and is still waiting to bury her daughter whole.

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Christa Pike is awake and speaking after failed execution, lawyers say(NBC News, 2026)

What happened during Christa Pike’s failed execution(NPR, 2026)

I Know Christa Pike’s Medical History. What Tennessee Did Is Unforgivable.(The New York Times, 2026)

‘Being in prison was not justice’: Family of Colleen Slemmer speaks out on botched execution attempt(WSMV, 2026)

Christa Pike: what we know so far about Tennessee woman’s failed execution(The Guardian, 2026)

Remembering Colleen Slemmer, the teenager killed by Christa Pike(The Tennessean, 2026)

Tennessee says child rapists deserve to die. Now it prepares to execute one of their victims(The Guardian, 2026)

Death by Gossip with Wendy Williams: ‘Thrill Kill’, Season 1 Episode 2 (Investigation Discovery, 2015)

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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, anyone?). And while that's a big part of it, Shark Tank has (surprisingly) also been the launch of some BILLION dollar companies. Scrub Daddy was discovered on Shark Tank, and it's not even close to being the most successful company that got its start on the show. One shark put $50,000 into a product that had not sold a single unit, and it has made her tens of millions. Another turned a $400,000 investment into an estimated $300 million.

This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of the top ten Shark Tank success stories: the billion dollar brands, the best deals Lori Greiner, Mark Cuban, Barbara Corcoran, Daymond John and Robert Herjavec ever made, and the no-deal pitch Kevin O'Leary now calls probably the biggest miss in the show's history.

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8 Most Successful Products From "Shark Tank"(Investopedia, 2026)

Kevin O'Leary Is Lying(A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein, 2026)

List of Shark Tank investments(Wikipedia, 2026)

10 Successful Shark Tank Businesses and Their Marketing Strategies(Brand Vision, 2025)

Top 15 Shark Tank Businesses(Shark Tank Blog, 2023)

The 15 biggest 'Shark Tank' success stories of all time(Business Insider, 2015)

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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 music and was easily the most famous singer on the Latin-American charts. .People often said it wasn’t that she was ‘the Latin Madonna’ but that Madonna was ‘the English Selena’. She'd just played to a record 61,000 people at the Houston Astrodome in her home state of Texas, she'd won a Grammy, she was the face of Coca-Cola, and she was halfway through recording her first English-language pop album that was going to make her a household name everywhere, not just Texas. Until, one morning in March 1995, Selena was suddenly and shockingly murdered by the president of her fan club.

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Selena y Los Dinos: A Family's Legacy(Netflix, 2025)

Selena's killer Yolanda Saldívar shows no remorse after 30 years, says DA(KATV, 2025)

Selena and Yolanda: The Secrets Between Them(Oxygen, 2024)

Selena: A Star Dies in Texas(VAULT Studios podcast, 2020)

Murder Made Me Famous Podcast: Yolanda Saldivar(Reelz, 2018)

From the Archives: 20/20 sits down with Selena's killer(KXXV, 2016)

Murder of Selena(Wikipedia, 2026)

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"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, masks would be optional.

The Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue opened in 2025 as a COVID-conscious, anti-capitalist bar where no one could be turned away, and it's now the subject of what has reportedly become the Boston Globe's most clicked story in a decade. This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of the Last Ditch lesbian bar: the $50,000 loan, the 400-comment Instagram post, the 3½ hour community meeting that fell apart on Zoom, and the co-founder who left to go to clown school.

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Saturday Night at the Massachusetts Lesbian Bar Everyone Is Talking About(The New York Times, 2026)

Mask-free Saturday nearly cancelled at Massachusetts lesbian bar at center of controversy(New York Post, 2026)

How to Destroy a Lesbian Bar(The Atlantic, 2026)

#NotAllLesbians - we can't let the Massachusetts bar drama turn us all into a punchline(The Guardian, 2026)

A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose.(The Boston Globe, 2026)

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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 then quietly disappeared. Richard Drew's photo of a man falling headfirst beside the North Tower of the World Trade Center caused so much outrage when it ran on 12 September 2001 that newspapers stopped printing it almost overnight. Around 200 people fell from the Twin Towers that morning, but only one became a symbol, and journalists spent years trying to put a name to him. Should they have? This is Just The Gist of The Falling Man: the Associated Press photographer who captured every person he saw fall, the Windows on the World staff trapped above the fire, Tom Junod's 2003 Esquire story that became one of the magazine's most read ever, the search for his identity that reached the families of Norberto Hernandez and Jonathan Briley, and the widow who begged a reporter to clear her husband's name.

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Truth about the Falling Man (Daily Mail, 2026)

Why this photographer's 9/11 'Falling Man' photo remains controversial (USA Today, 2026)

'It Became Spiritual': The Making of Esquire's 'The Falling Man' (Esquire, 2021)

9/11: The Falling Man (YouTube, 2006)

The Falling Man (Esquire, 2003)

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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 listened to eps ever. Now that the case has ended in a mistrial, we had a chat about it all on Just The Gist's weekly paid bonus show Breakin' Nooz - about where the case stands now, and the (mostly) respectful and thoughtful discussion the episode caused amongst our listeners, who both agreed and disagreed with each other, and our approach.

Since this is a topic that resonated so significantly with so many gisteners, we decided to take the chat from this week's Breakin' Nooz and put it outside the paywall so anyone can listen. But please remember - this is JUST a chat! Breakin' Nooz is very conversational and casual in nature. If you're after the usual, comprehensive JTG-style coverage of the Lindsay Clancy case, definitely listen to the episode first.

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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 one-room shack in the Smoky Mountains with no electricity and 11 siblings, who wrote her first song at five, played the Grand Ole Opry at 13, and moved to Nashville the day after she graduated high school (where she met her husband of 60 years at a laundromat, on her first ever go at a washing machine). The Porter Wagoner years, 'Jolene', the resignation letter that became 'I Will Always Love You', '9 to 5', Dollywood, and the quietly enormous philanthropy: the Imagination Library that has given away over 330 million books, the Moderna vaccine money, the children's hospital that now carries her name, and the fact she was secretly a producer on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'. Musical genius, business brain, and possibly the most generous person in American entertainment history. Also a great flirt.

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Of Course Dolly Parton Produced Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TIME, 2026)

A Timeline of Dolly Parton's Good Deeds (Billboard, 2026)

Dolly Parton (Wikipedia, 2026)

A complete timeline of Dolly Parton's inspiring life and career (Business Insider, 2020)

Dolly Parton's America (WNYC Studios podcast, 2019)

Dolly Parton: Here I Am (Netflix, 2019)

E! True Hollywood Story: Dolly Parton (E! on YouTube, 2019)

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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 that never came true. Based on Selena's massive star power, the company valued at $200 million before it had made a single dollar. But besides a website, what did Wondermind actually DO? (not much, apparently.)

This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of Wondermind: the Selena Gomez fraud lawsuit, co-founder Daniella Pierson who Anna Delvey'd her way onto the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, and the co-CEO mum who allegedly spent her days in the office sleeping and watching TV.

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What Happened at Wondermind? (The Cut, 2025)

Selena Gomez's Lawyers Blast 'Absurd' Wondermind Fraud Lawsuit, Threaten Sanctions (Forbes, 2026)

'Only Scammers in the Building' (Corporate Gossip Podcast, 2026)

Selena Gomez asks judge to dismiss 'absurd' fraud lawsuit over Wondermind mental health startup (NBC News, 2026)

Wondermind's 'Our Story' page (Wondermind website)

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"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 behind on the killer's own personalised letterhead, signature doodled all over it.

The killer was Joe Hunt, the 24-year-old leader of the Billionaire Boys Club, an LA investment group made up of the rich, bored, freshly graduated sons of men they could never hope to impress. Hunt promised them a genius trading formula that couldn't fail. What he actually built was a Ponzi scheme, a pseudo-intellectual bro cult, and eventually two murders in which almost nobody involved had any actual money. This is the story of the scammer who got scammed, and possibly the only murderer in history to bring a to-do list. This is Just The Gist of the Billionaire Boys Club: Joe Hunt, the murder of Ron Levin, the fake $5 million trading account, the 1987 Judd Nelson miniseries, and the Kevin Spacey movie that made $618 on its opening weekend.

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The True Story of the Billionaire Boys Club (Esquire, 1986, republished 2021)

Founder of Billionaire Boys Club makes case for parole (Los Angeles Times, 2018)

Billionaire Boys Club, Marcia Clark Investigates The First 48 podcast (Apple Podcasts, 2018)

Billionaire Boys Club, Murder Made Me Famous (2016)

Dirty Rotten Kids (The Washington Post, 1990)

Billionaire Boys Club 1987 miniseries starring Judd Nelson (YouTube, 1987)

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“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. The leather was made by taking some collagen remnants found in a 68-million-year-old T-Rex femur bone, and smooshing them with some cells to grow T-Rex skin. That skin was then turned into leather, dyed a bluish-grey and ‘crafted’ into a luxury handbag. Experts are predicting it will sell for the amount of ‘ten Birkin Bags’. But complex science had to be part of making this happen, so was any of this (at all… even a little) for scientific benefit? Or medical research and development? 

Lol no. IT’S ALL ABOUT CAPITALISM BÉBÉ.

The luxury industry is apparently freaking out that billionaires aren’t as interested in the usual ‘luxury goods’ anymore, because they hate that the normies (AKA the poors AKA you and me) can access the same stuff. (See last week’s JTG MINI on the Hermes Birkin.) And what’s the point of buying a thing if all the plebs can buy it too? That kind of consumption is not special enough for billionaires. Enter: Dinosaur Leather. We have officially reached the kind of dystopian future where rich ladies are sick of Birkin and are looking for the kind of exclusivity that can only come from buying the resurrected skin of a dinosaur. Try and buy a fake version of THAT in Bali you bogans!

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World's first lab-grown T-Rex leather handbag unveiled in Amsterdam could fetch €575,000 (NL Times, 2026)

T-Rex Leather case study (VML, 2026)

The next killer fashion item? A handbag made from T-rex leather (The Times, 2025)

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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 handbag, Hermès decides if you DESERVE one. Hopeful customers spend years (and tens of thousands of dollars) buying scarves, blankets and homewares first, stuff Hermès clients literally call 'garbage', all in the hope of one day being invited to spend another 15 grand on a bag. It's called The Hermès Game, and thousands of people are playing it right now.

This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of The Hermès Game: Jane Birkin and the sketch on an Air France sick bag, quota bags and the pre-spend, the 10.1 million dollar original Birkin, and the sales associates who insist there are no bags in the back (there are bags in the back).

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Hermès and the success of the coveted Birkin bag (60 Minutes, 2024)

The Birkin Is Losing Value. Owners Refuse to Believe It. (Back Row, 2026)

Birkin Buyer Confessions, Part I (Back Row, 2025)

Birkin Buyer Confessions, Part II (Back Row, 2025)

Inside the Hermès Game: Who Actually Gets a Birkin? (The Backrow Podcast, 2026)

The Weight of a Handbag (Edie Lou Studio, 2025)

How customers 'play the Hermès game' to secure a coveted luxury handbag (ABC News, 2025)

How The Hermes Game Started (From A Former Hermes SA) (YouTube, 2024)

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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, it’s a hard one to catch up on, so this episode breaks it all down and gives you just the gist of what you need to know. 

In January 2023, after months of desperately trying to get help for her declining mental health, Lindsay Clancy took the lives of her three young children, and ended up paralysed in an attempt to take her own. She was charged with murder, and has been in custody in a psychiatric facility ever since. Her trial began in July 2026, with Lindsay’s legal team arguing she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and is not criminally responsible. The prosecution is arguing the killings were planned. Her husband (who was tragically the one to find Lindsay and their children Cora, Dawson and Callan back in 2023) has since divorced her and remarried, but has made it very clear that he forgives her, saying: “I wasn’t married to a monster. I was married to someone who got sick.” 

Lindsay Clancy’s story has triggered a long overdue and much needed conversation about the inadequacy of not just women's healthcare, but maternal and postpartum healthcare in particular. But thanks to the trial being televised live, this case has also triggered a major conspiracy rabbit hole online, with increasingly bizarre theories being thrown around as each day passes.

Content warning: this episode discusses the deaths of children, mental illness, suicide and postpartum psychosis. If this story brings anything up for you, please reach out for support:

Lifeline: 13 11 14 or lifeline.org.au (24/7 crisis support)

PANDA National Helpline: 1300 726 306 or panda.org.au(7 days a week, support for new parents and families) 

Gidget Foundation Australia: 1300 851 450 or gidgetfoundation.org.au (specialist perinatal mental health support and telehealth and clinic services)

Pregnancy, Birth and Baby Helpline: 1800 882 436 or pregnancybirthbaby.org.au (free national video and phone counselling)

ForWhen: 1300 24 23 22 or forwhenhelpline.org.au (mental health navigation service for expectant and new parents)

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A Husband in the Aftermath of His Wife's Unfathomable Act (The New Yorker, 2024)

Lindsay Clancy's trial highlights gaps in understanding, treating postpartum psychosis (NPR, 2026)

US mother Lindsay Clancy on trial for murder of three children as court debates postpartum psychosis (ABC News, 2026)

Lindsay Clancy trial turns focus to medications prescribed before she killed her children (PBS NewsHour, 2026)

What to know about the trial of Lindsay Clancy, woman accused of killing her 3 children (CBC News, 2026)

Patrick Clancy Married Fertility Doctor After Divorcing Lindsay Clancy, Who's on Trial for Murdering Their 3 Children (People, 2026)

Broken Brains by Jamila Rizvi and Rosie Waterland (2025)

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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 nonsense. Episodes drop every Tuesday (along with a bunch of other bonus stuff!) for members of The Gistener Club, which you can access via the Just The Gist Patreon right here or through Apple Premium Subscriptions.

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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 interspecies communication research quickly turned into something much more controversial when Margaret moved into a flooded house to live with Peter 24/7 for six months. As Peter reached sexual maturity, their relationship crossed boundaries in ways that would overshadow the entire experiment and become one of the most shocking animal research scandals in scientific history.

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The Guardian's comprehensive investigation - "The dolphin who loved me: the Nasa-funded project that went wrong" (2014)

The Atlantic's detailed report - "How A Science Experiment Led to Sexual Encounters Between a Woman and a Dolphin" (2014)

BBC documentary - "The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins" (2014)

BBC documentary clip - "Teaching a dolphin to speak English" footage

Margaret Howe Lovatt Wikipedia page - Complete biography and experiment details

John C. Lilly's book - "Man and Dolphin" - The original research that started it all (1961)

Medium article analysis - "The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins: Watch this documentary if you are into space" (2021)

News18 retrospective - "When The Love Story Of A Dolphin And Woman Made News In The 60s" (2023)

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(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 executives terrorised with live cockroaches and spiders, a bloody pig mask and a funeral wreath - all because Ina wrote about negatively about eBay on her nerdy industry blog ‘ECommerceBytes’. When we first released this episode, eBay had been found guilty, the CEO had lost his job and the Steiners had sued the company for compensation, but not yet agreed on an amount. It turns out Ina and David kept turning eBay’s offers down, until eBay agreed to give them every last thing they wanted - and they had some very specific demands. (BECAUSE THEY DESERVE IT! The CEO literally had spiders sent to their home!)

Listen to this crazy story again, or hear it for the first time and marvel that the company whose motto is 'People are basically good' did any of this. This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of the eBay stalking scandal: former CEO Devin Wenig, the 'take her down' email, Jim's Angels, the pig mask from 'Saw', and David and Ina Steiner, who to this day are still cheerfully writing about eBay's seller fees (but, you know, a whole lot richer).

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eBay Saved Search Feature Disappoints Savvy Seller (EcommerceBytes, 2026)

eBay agrees $56m settlement with bloggers over harassment case (BBC News, 2026)

Whatever It Takes: Inside the eBay Scandal (ABC iview, 2024)

Inside the eBay stalking scandal: How a couple became the target of harassment (60 Minutes on YouTube, 2023)

Six Former eBay Employees Charged with Aggressive Cyberstalking Campaign Targeting Natick Couple (US Department of Justice, 2020)

EcommerceBytes, Ina and David Steiner's e-commerce news website 

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"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 Gucci walked into his office building in Milan and was shot four times. His ex-wife Patrizia Reggiani was convicted of arranging the hit, and their two daughters - Alessandra and Allegra Gucci - spent nearly two decades visiting her in prison, certain she was innocent. Because the list of people who may have wanted Maurizio dead was long: he had ousted every other Gucci from the family company, cut off the licensing deals making his cousins rich, and sent his own 81-year-old uncle to prison for tax evasion. Then he lost Gucci anyway.

This is Just The Gist of the murder of Maurizio Gucci: the true story behind the 2021 Ridley Scott film 'House of Gucci' starring Lady Gaga, the family feud that cost the Guccis their own brand, and Patrizia Reggiani, the ex-wife who now spends her days luxury shopping with a parrot on her shoulder.

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The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed by Sara Gay Forden (2000)

Allegra Gucci Speaks to Vanity Fair About Her Mother, Her New Book, and What She Thinks of 'House of Gucci' (Vanity Fair, 2022)

Allegra Gucci breaks lifelong silence on father's murder (New York Post, 2022)

Killing Gucci: People Magazine Investigates (Investigation Discovery, 2021)

The Outrageous True Story Behind the 'House of Gucci' Movie (Time, 2021)

Trailer for Assassination of Maurizio Gucci, People Magazine Investigates: Crimes of Fashion (Facebook, 2018)

The Gucci wife and the hitman: fashion's darkest tale (The Guardian, 2016)

Crime of Fashion (Power, Privilege and Justice on YouTube, 2005)

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"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 John Jones went spelunking with his brother and nine friends in Utah’s Nutty Putty Cave - a system of tunnels so tight you literally have to breathe out to fit through them. John was aiming to squeeze through the famous tunnel called ‘The Birth Canal’. But... he picked the wrong tunnel. This is Just The Gist (MINI) of the Nutty Putty Cave: John Edward Jones, the dead-end tunnel called ‘Ed’s Push’, the 137 rescuers who spent 27 hours trying to reach him, and the reason the cave has been sealed shut with concrete ever since.

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Nutty Putty: ‘I really, really want to get out’ (The Salt Lake Tribune, 2018)

Nutty Putty: ‘We’re going to get you out’ (The Salt Lake Tribune, 2018)

Man trapped in Utah County’s Nutty Putty cave dies (Deseret News, 2009)

Nutty Putty Cave accident victim’s widow: ‘I know there is life after death’ (Deseret News, 2016)

Nutty Putty Cave Was A Hotspot For Underground Explorers, Until One Spelunker Got Trapped Inside (All That’s Interesting, 2023)

Nutty Putty Cave Accident (Cave Haven, 2023)

The Last Descent Official Trailer (Rotten Tomatoes Indie on YouTube, 2016)

Buried Alive: the Nutty Putty Cave Incident (ABSTRACT on YouTube, 2021)

John Jones, Caver Dies While Exploring Cave with Family in Utah (Horror Stories on YouTube, 2023)

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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 MINIT... Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alix and their five children (including the legendary Anastasia) are taken down to a basement in the middle of the night and killed, in a VERY botched and violent execution. For years, Russia refused to acknowledge what really happened that night, which led to much speculation about their fate. Thanks to DNA testing, the bodies of Nicholas, Alix and four of their children were finally identified and given a royal burial in 1998.

But the skeletal remains of the other two Romanov children are still, to this day, sitting in a Russian archive, because the Russian Orthodox Church refuses to acknowledge them as authentic Romanovs, despite DNA proof. So... does the church know something we don’t know? Did all of the Romanovs actually die that night? Or did 16-year-old Anastasia escape and move to Florida, eventually retire and become one of the Golden Girls?

This is Just The Gist of the execution of the Romanov Family (and the ongoing speculation about Anastasia).

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The Last Czars (Netflix, 2019)

Russia’s Lost Princesses (BBC, 2014)

Why the Romanov Family’s Fate Was a Secret Until the Fall of the Soviet Union (History, 2018)

DNA Analysis Confirms Authenticity of Romanovs’ Remains (Smithsonian Magazine, 2018)

Anna Anderson (TIME, 2009)

Putting the Romanovs to rest (Meduza, 2025)

Episode 310: Rasputin Part I (Last Podcast on the Left, 2018)

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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 the plane hit the south tower. With her arm almost completely severed, she somehow made it out, only to still be at ground zero when the tower collapsed. One of the few survivors pulled from the rubble, Tania woke up in hospital with horrific injuries, only to be told that her fiancé, who was in the other tower, has died. She goes on to become president of the World Trade Center Survivors' Network, and is the public face of those who made it out. One little problem - Tania had never even been to the World Trade Center. Not only was she not in New York City on 9/11, she wasn't even in the United States. Her name wasn't even Tania.

This is Just The Gist of Alicia Esteve Head: the fake 9/11 survivor, the 2007 New York Times investigation that exposed her, and the 2012 documentary' The Woman Who Wasn't There' that asked the question everybody wanted the answer to... WHY?

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The Woman Who Wasn't There documentary (YouTube, 2012)

The Woman Who Wasn't There by Robin Gaby Fisher and Angelo J. Guglielmo Jr. (2012)

In a 9/11 Survival Tale, the Pieces Just Don't Fit (The New York Times, 2007)

Robin Gaby Fisher and Angelo Guglielmo interviewed on All Things Considered (NPR, 2012)

Excerpt from The Woman Who Wasn't There (NPR, 2012)

The 9/11 Faker documentary summary (Watch Documentaries, 2008)

Angelo Guglielmo essay on Tania Head (HuffPost, 2012)

Alicia Esteve Head Wikipedia

Madrid newspaper details on Alicia Esteve Head (Survivor Guidelines, 2007)

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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 succeed with, quote, 'no ties to my privilege or my last name'. And it seemed to be working: Phia raised $43.5 million from investors including Khloe Kardashian, Paris Hilton and Sydney Sweeney, and hit a $185 million valuation in less than two years. Then on the 9th of July 2026, a Bloomberg investigation alleged the app had been faking how well it was doing with a sneaky trick called 'cookie stuffing', possibly defrauding investors and affiliate partners out of tens of millions of dollars. It's so serious that the last people caught doing it were prosecuted by the FBI and went to federal prison. This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of Phia, Phoebe Gates and the fake clicks scandal: the Bloomberg cookie stuffing investigation, the celebrity investors, and the self-made girlboss story that may be unravelling in real time.

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Gates Heir's Shopping App Took Credit for Sales It Didn't Drive (Bloomberg, 2026)

Forced Clicks and Stand-Down Violations by Shopping Plugin Phia (BenEdelman.org, 2026)

Affiliate Fraud Litigation Index (BenEdelman.org, 2026)

The Phia Controversy Explained: How Phoebe Gates Can Recover From a Major PR Crisis (Your PR BFF on Substack, 2026)

Phia Accused of Cookie Stuffing, Taking Affiliate Credit on Purchases It Didn't Earn (TechCrunch, 2026)

Q&A: Sophia Kianni and Phoebe Gates Reflect on Their Time at Stanford and Co-Founding Phia (The Stanford Daily, 2025)

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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 ran the biggest Ponzi scheme in history, and it was shockingly simple. And yeah - he took billions from billionaires, but he also took the life savings and superannuation of everyday people. Homes were foreclosed on and lives were ruined. Bernie insisted only he was to blame, and his wife Ruth and sons Mark and Andrew Madoff denied any knowledge of the fraud. But a 2023 book (Madoff: The Final Word by Richard Behar (2024)) revealed that all three of them may have been far more involved than they insisted. Bernie died alone in prison in 2021, knowing that both Andrew and Mark had died and Ruth was alone in an aged care facility. Did he even care?

This is Just The Gist of Bernie Madoff and the biggest Ponzi scheme in history.

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Madoff: The Final Word by Richard Behar (2024)

Where Is Bernie Madoff's Wife Ruth Madoff Now? (People, 2025)

Madoff's Final Word: The Sins of Ruth Madoff (Forbes, 2024)

Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street official trailer (YouTube, 2023)

The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust by Diana Henriques (2011)

Bernie Madoff case file (FBI, 2021)

Bernie Madoff (Wikipedia, 2026)

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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 AND Nerf, beaten by a snaggle-toothed elf from artist Kasing Lung's 'The Monsters' universe, dangling off the designer handbags of Lisa from BLACKPINK, Rihanna and Cher. Then the bubble burst: resale prices cratered, counterfeit 'Lafufus' flooded the market, Pop Mart's stock plunged more than 22 percent in a single day, and founder Wang Ning personally lost 2.7 billion dollars before lunch. This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of the rise and fall of Labubu: the blind box craze, the celebrity bag charm frenzy, and the toy bubble that burst almost overnight.

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Bryan Yambao in conversation with Kasing Lung, the creative force behind Labubu (Perfect Magazine, 2025)

Toy Mogul Wang Ning Loses Almost $3 Billion As Shares Of Labubu Maker Pop Mart Drop On Overseas Slowdown (Forbes, 2026)

Why Labubu Maker Pop Mart's Shares Are Plunging (Bloomberg Television on YouTube, 2026)

Meet The Teacher Who Wakes Up At 3:30 AM For His Labubu Business (Business Insider on YouTube, 2025)

'Labubu' is a plush toy that is causing a frenzy. Here's its origin story (NPR, 2025)

The Downfall of Labubus (YouTube, 2025)

Fever to fatigue? Pop Mart welcomes the fall in Labubu resale prices (CNBC, 2025)

Pop Mart shares plunge over 22% as concerns over sustainability of Labubu sales dwarf stellar results (CNBC, 2026)

What comes after Labubu? Inside Pop Mart's next growth play (CNBC, 2026)

Kasing Lung (Wikipedia)

Pop Mart Founder Wang Ning's Net Worth Drops $6 Billion As Labubu Demand Cools (Forbes, 2025)

Once richer than Peter Thiel, Pop Mart's Wang Ning sees $6 billion vanish with Labubu hype (Fortune, 2025)

Why Are People Lining Up for Labubus? (UC San Diego Today, 2025)

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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 it but I actually think it's extremely funny.)

It's hard to imagine anyone but Michael J. Fox playing the iconic role of Marty McFly in 1985's Back To The Future. But another actor was originally cast, and even spent a month filming almost half the movie's scenes before he was informed he was being replaced.

That actor was Eric Stoltz - a 23-year-old who had been auditioning for years when he landed the life-changing role of Marty McFly. Produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Robert Zemeckis, Back to the Future was all but guaranteed to launch Stoltz's career into the stratosphere. But just one month into filming, Eric Stoltz was fired and the role was recast with young sitcom actor Michael J. Fox. 

The Back to the Future trilogy went on to become one of the most successful and iconic franchises in cinematic history. Fox himself became one of the world's most famous and beloved actors. He and Eric Stoltz didn't speak for almost 40 years.

So what happened to Eric Stoltz? Why was he fired? And how does it work when an actor needs to be recast after filming is already well underway? This is Just The Gist (MINI) of what is considered one of the most brutal recasting stories in Hollywood history: Michael J. Fox replacing Eric Stoltz in Back to the Future.

(Sorry we're a day behind - James was away for a couple of days and of course I broke something in the studio while he was gone 🫠😂 Rosie x)

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We Don't Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy by Caseen Gaines (2015)

Michael J. Fox Met Eric Stoltz, 40 Years After 'Back to the Future' Recasting (Variety, 2025)

How Back to the Future tried to hide Michael J. Fox replacing Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly: 'Just a hot mess' (Entertainment Weekly, 2025)

Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum by Michael J. Fox (2025)

How We Made ‘Back to the Future’ (The Guardian, 2014)

Eric Stoltz interview clip about being fired from ‘Back to the Future’ (Instagram)

No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of ‘A League of Their Own’ by Erin Carlson (2023)

Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of ‘The View’ by Ramin Setoodeh (2019)

Just The Gist podcast episode: ‘The 1989 Oscars (aka the worst Oscars ceremony of all time)’ 2025

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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 to millions as a leading technology journalist. But it's what happens next that made it one of the most viral videos of all time: A look of panic flashes across Guy's face when he realises they've got the wrong person, and rather than point it out, he composes himself, takes a breath and… just goes ahead with the interview. This year, to mark the legendary moment's 20th anniversary, Guy Goma and the producer who put him on air published a book called 'The Wrong Guy: The Inside Story of TV's Greatest Cock-Up'.

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The Wrong Guy: The Inside Story of TV’s Greatest Cock-Up by Elliott Gotkine and Guy Goma (Liberalis Books / Collective Ink, 2026)

A Mistaken Guy: The 20-Year Legacy of a Live TV Blunder (The New York Times, 2026)

Twenty years since wrong Guy resulted in greatest mix-up on live TV (ABC News, 2026)

20 years since BBC's iconic accidental TV interview (LBC / James O’Brien, YouTube, 2026)

Accidental Celebrities podcast (2023)

Man in viral 2006 BBC interview mixup says he will sue for royalties (The Guardian, 2023)

I was interviewed on live TV by accident (BBC World Service Outlook, 2022)

Ten Years On: A Lesson In Thinking On Your Feet By Guy Goma (VICE, 2016)

BBC Apologizes For Interview Mishap (CBS News / Associated Press, 2006)

Guy Goma BBC interview (Wikipedia, 2026)

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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 and they're almost definitely not worth what you paid. All of that was made up by an advertising agency paid by De Beers - the world’s biggest diamond company. Because De Beers knew if people found out that diamonds weren’t actually rare or special, they’d stop buying them. 

This is Just The Gist of what was arguably one of the best marketing campaigns in history (and the reason that diamond ring on your finger isn’t nearly as valuable as you think): De Beers and the Diamond Marketing Scam.

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Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (The Atlantic, 1982)

Diamonds Aren't Rare. Why Are They So in Demand? (The Atlantic, 2023)

Diamonds Aren't Forever: The Story of De Beers (Sahil Bloom, 2022)

The Diamond Empire: How De Beers Created a Market Out of Nothing (Business Leader, 2024)

Diamond Crash Delivers a Third Strike for De Beers (Forbes, 2026)

How De Beers Changed the Diamond Market With One Simple Tagline (Sotheby’s)

Diamonds from Coal? (Geology.com)

Diamonds Unearthed (Smithsonian Magazine)

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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 the biggest glitter companies on the planet and asked a simple question: who is buying all the glitter? They refused to say. Seven years later, the internet still hasn't worked it out. This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of the glitter conspiracy: the weirdly secretive industry, the interview with 'Glitterex' that kicked it all off, the theories from boat paint to the US military, and the one question nobody will answer.

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What Is Glitter? (The New York Times, 2018)

The Glitter Conspiracy Theory: Who Is Taking All Of The Glitter? (IFLScience, 2022)

The End of the Glitter Conspiracy (CHUPPL, YouTube, 2023)

The Great Glitter Mystery (Endless Thread, WBUR, 2019)

Glittery Curiosity (Call Your Girlfriend, 2021)

The Discovery, Development of Glitter (Paper, Film & Foil Converter, 2021)

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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 wealthiest and most powerful political families in America, and who a bunch of the notable family members (and connections) have been, and are, today.

Since I've told a couple of 'Kennedy Family' themed episodes of Just The Gist, (gisten toThe Chappaquiddick Incident here andJFK Jr. & Carolyn Bessette Kennedy here), quite a few Gistners asked me to strip it back even further and give just the gist of the general family history. And that's on me! My weird hyperfixation meant I assumed people knew more about this than they do, and one of the major rules at Just The Gist is no assumed knowledge!

So consider this Kennedys 101. The basics of what you need to know about them to understand any of our Kennedy-themed episodes. And ooft there's a lot of them - John F. Kennedy and Jackie O, Bobby Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Maria Shriver, Chris Pratt, Big Edie and Little Edie from Grey Gardens, Patrick Schwarzenegger, RFK Jr., Jack Schlossberg…We go from an Irish farmer in 1845 to The White Lotus in 2025 and Trump's White House in 2026 - it's all in there bébé. Well, just the gist of it.

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The Kennedy Curse (James Patterson, 2020)

Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed (Maureen Callahan, 2024)

Just The Gist of The Chappaquiddick Incident (Just The Gist, 2026)

Just The Gist of JFK Jr. & Carolyn Bessette Kennedy (Just The Gist, 2026)

American Experience: The Kennedys (PBS, 1992)

American Dynasties: The Kennedys (CNN, 2018)

A Battle With My Blood (The New Yorker, 2025)

Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder (NBC News Studios, 2025)

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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 Friday night in 1969, Ted Kennedy got drunk at a party, crashed his car off a bridge, where it flipped mid-air and landed upside down in the pond below. Ted managed to swim free, but rather than calling for help or alerting authorities, he left his car submerged in the water and went back to his hotel to sleep it off.

Still inside the car though, was Ted Kennedy's passenger: 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne. Mary Jo was alive for more than an hour, trapped in a tiny air pocket until she suffocated to death, waiting for help that never came. Ted Kennedy wasn't punished, and while he didn't end up President, he did go on to spend the next 40 years as one of the most respected and longest serving members of the US Senate.

This is Just The Gist of The Death of Mary Jo Kopechne, otherwise known as 'The Chappaquiddick Incident'.

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Just The Gist episode:JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy (Just The Gist, 2025)

Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan (Hachette, 2024)

'Chappaquiddick' Official Trailer (YouTube, 2018)

'Chappaquiddick' Unblinkingly Revisits Most Shameful Moment in Kennedy History (Sydney Morning Herald, 2018)

The Crash That Launched 'Chappaquiddick' (Martha's Vineyard Times, 2019)

Ted Kennedy's televised address to the nation on Chappaquiddick (YouTube, 1969)

Roger Mudd asks Ted Kennedy 'Why do you want to be president?' (YouTube, 1979)

Transcript of Ted Kennedy's answer to 'Why do you want to be president?' (Medium, 2020)

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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 example of what might be the most perfect - yet unfortunate - timing ever, there just happened to be an open-air sightseeing tour boat passing directly under the bridge at the exact same time… 

Dave Matthews Band tried to deny being involved, but after being soaked in what was described as a "rust-coloured waterfall” the 120 passengers who were aboard ‘Chicago’s Little Lady’, and soon the entire city of Chicago, were demanding answers. 

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Dave Matthews Band bus incident Wikipedia page - Complete incident details and aftermath

WBEZ 20-year anniversary coverage - "20 years after that disgusting Dave Matthews Band incident, victims now can laugh about it" (2024)

CBS Chicago retrospective - "Remembering the disgusting Dave Matthews Band bus incident 20 years later" (2024)

Chicago Tribune vintage coverage - "Vintage Chicago Tribune: Remembering the Dave Matthews Band bus incident, 20 years later" (2024)

The Crappening documentary - Filmmaker seeking witnesses for documentary about the incident (2024)

CBS Chicago vault footage - Original 2004 news coverage

Chicago mascots tribute video - Benny the Bull, Staley Da Bear, and Tommy Hawk pay respects on anniversary (2024)

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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 months, took down the entire network's primetime line-up with it, and ended with $45 million in severance, one million people in "I'm With Coco" t-shirts, and one of the great public-image collapses in TV history. Sixteen years later, Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno have still never spoken. This is Just The Gist of the Tonight Show battle between Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno.

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Resources:

The War for Late Night by Bill Carter (Goodreads, 2010)

The Late Shift by Bill Carter (Goodreads, 1994)

2010 Tonight Show conflict (Wikipedia)

Conan O'Brien's 2011 Dartmouth Commencement Speech (YouTube, 2011)

Conan O'Brien Can't Stop documentary (YouTube, 2011)

O'Donnell to Leno: Hand over Tonight (CBS News, 2010)

Jay Leno and the Tonight Show Controversy (Oprah.com, 2010)

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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 winter when they stop being useful. Throw in a mid-air sex club, royal jelly, and a waggle dance, and it might just be the most ruthlessly efficient society on earth. This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of a day in the life of a bee.

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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 vanished over the Pacific in 1937, the conspiracy theories went wild: Japanese spies, government cover-ups, secret island lives. Eighty-nine years on, the most likely explanation for what happened to her might also be the most disturbing of all. This is Just The Gist of Amelia Earhart: the brilliant PR campaign, the doomed 1937 round-the-world flight, and the theory that has haunted Howland Island ever since.

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Amelia Earhart Official Website (Amelia Earhart Official Site, 2025)

Inside the Many Conspiracy Theories Surrounding Amelia Earhart's Disappearance (TIME, 2019)

Bulletin 46: The Crab Experiment (TIGHAR, 2007)

The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR, 2025)

Coconut crabs: bird-eating giants on tropical islands (Natural History Museum, 2021)

Review: The Aviator and the Showman by Laurie Gwen Shapiro (The New York Times, 2025)

The Aviator and the Showman by Laurie Gwen Shapiro (Goodreads, 2025)

The Truth About Amelia Earhart (The Atlantic, 2025)

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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 TV crew would demolish a deserving family's falling-down house, build them a 7-bedroom mansion in 7 days complete with movie theatres and heated pools, and reduce an entire town to tears. So why did so many of those families end up bankrupt, and in some cases, homeless? This is Just The Gist of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: the 2004 reality juggernaut that pulled 12 million viewers a week, the 7-day mansion builds, and the families who lost everything when the cameras left.

Thanks to our VERY SPECIAL VIG GUEST, The Podfather himself, Simon McDermott! 

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Ruining People's Lives… By Giving Them a House (VICE TV, 2024)

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (Wikipedia)

ABC's Extreme Exploitation (The Smoking Gun, 2006)

Things About Extreme Makeover: Home Edition That Don't Add Up (Ranker, 2024)

Extreme Makeover Home Edition Producers Defend Show Against Families' Horror Stories (Entertainment Weekly, 2024)

The Untold Truth Of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (The List, 2017)

IAmA Request: Someone Who Had Their House Redone By Extreme Makeover (Reddit, 2011)

What Happened To Ty Pennington From Extreme Makeover (Yahoo, 2026)

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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 is finally on its way home to be disinfected, but the hantavirus outbreak on board has scattered suspected cases across more than a dozen countries. So is this the next covid? And how is it the same virus that killed Gene Hackman's wife last year? This is Just The Gist (MINI) of the hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius.

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Resources:

CDC Provides Update on Hantavirus Outbreak Linked to M/V Hondius Cruise Ship (CDC, 2026)

Passengers leave hantavirus-hit cruise ship in Tenerife as WHO says outbreak 'not another COVID' (UN News, 2026)

MV Hondius docks in Tenerife, Canary Islands; passengers disembark ship hit by hantavirus (CNN, 2026)

Military conducts daring parachute drop to deliver critical medical support to Tristan da Cunha (GOV.UK, 2026)

'He was deceased on the ship for several days': Irishwoman describes hantavirus outbreak (The Irish Times, 2026)

YouTuber Catches Heat After Attending Wedding Amid Hantavirus Outbreak (TMZ, 2026)

What doctors know about how the Andes hantavirus spreads (CNN, 2026)

"Super-Spreaders" and Person-to-Person Transmission of Andes Virus in Argentina (New England Journal of Medicine, 2020)

Gene Hackman's cause of death was heart disease, wife died of hantavirus days earlier, officials say (CBS News, 2025)

Australia's isolation plan 'one of the stronger responses' to hantavirus globally, Butler says (SBS News, 2026)

MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak (Wikipedia, 2026)

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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 then-girlfriend Lena Dunham with Lorde while recording Melodrama. ‘The PowerPoint’, as it became known, has long been considered a cult classic internet text by the chronically online, but mostly forgotten by everyone else. 

UNTIL TWO WEEKS AGO, when Lena published her new memoir Famesick, in which she wrote about her break-up with Jack, and a suspiciously affectionate 'young pop star'. The internet is now declaring ‘The PowerPoint’ vindicated. This is Just The Gist (MINI) of the Lorde/Jack Antonoff PowerPoint.

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The original Lorde and Jack Antonoff PowerPoint by @Buzzkillery (Twitter, 2018)

Lena Dunham's Famesick Memoir and the Lorde/Jack Antonoff PowerPoint (The Cut, 2026)

Someone Update The Lena Dunham/Jack Antonoff/Lorde PowerPoint (Good Soup Substack, 2026)

Throwback To The Lorde and Jack Antonoff PowerPoint (r/Fauxmoi Reddit, 2026)

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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 marks the 30th anniversary of JonBenet’s death, yet the case remains an open investigation - and is still obsessed over by armchair detectives across the globe. This is Just The Gist of JonBenét Ramsey: the 1996 Boulder, Colorado murder, Patsy and John Ramsey, the 911 call that has been studied for decades, and the 2016 Burke Ramsey interview with Dr. Phil interview that brought renewed interest in the case.

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Why America Will Never Stop Trying To Solve JonBenét Ramsey's Murder (BuzzFeed News, 2016)

JonBenét Ramsey's Murder: 20 Years Later (TIME, 2016)

Perfect Murder, Perfect Town by Lawrence Schiller (HarperCollins, 1999)

Foreign Faction: Who Really Kidnapped JonBenét? by A. James Kolar (Ventus Publishing, 2012)

JonBenét Ramsey Ransom Note Analysis (Statement Analysis)

CBS Can't Dodge $750M Defamation Suit From JonBenét Ramsey's Brother (The Hollywood Reporter, 2017)

The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey, documentary trailer (CBS / YouTube, 2016)

Burke Ramsey's Dr. Phil Interview (YouTube, 2016)

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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 the disaster that killed both of them, along with OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, Christine has published a book called 'Ninety-Six Hours - A Mother's Search For The Lost Titan Sub', and given a heartbreaking interview to The Guardian about what really happened in the hours after the Titan imploded. This is Just The Gist (MINI) of Christine Dawood: the OceanGate Titan disaster, Shahzada and Suleman Dawood, Stockton Rush, the seat she gave up, and the four days she waited at sea for news she didn't want to hear.

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Christine Dawood on the Titan Submersible Disaster (The Guardian, April 2026)

'Ninety-Six Hours - A Mother's Search For The Lost Titan Sub' by Christine Dawood (Whitefox, 2026)

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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 day. Then you find out not only are you twins, but TRIPLETS. Three of you have been walking around, your entire lives, looking exactly like each other, and you only grew up a few miles apart. That's what happened to Bobby Shafran, David Kellman and Eddie Galland, the triplets who later became the subjects of incredible 2018 documentary Three Identical Strangers. But as the doco reveals, there was actually a very dark reason Bobby, David and Eddie had been separated. In a secret collaboration between Dr. Neubauer and the Louise Wise Adoption Agency, the boys were unknowingly part of a psychological experiment designed to answer the ultimate question of 'nature vs. nurture' - an experiment that would end up having horrific consequences. And they weren't the only kids involved. This is just the gist of Bobby, David and Eddie - the triplets separated at birth, and the amazing documentary about them: Three Identical Strangers.

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Three Identical Strangers Official Trailer (Neon, 2018)

Three Identical Strangers (Wikipedia)

Three Identical Strangers doc tells a tale that goes beyond the incredible (Los Angeles Times, 2018)

Three Identical Strangers: the bizarre tale of triplets separated at birth (The Guardian, 2018)

Three Identical Strangers: Where The Triplets Are Now (Screen Rant, 2018)

Interview with Bobby Shafran, David Kellman and Lawrence Wright (YouTube)

Double Mystery (The New Yorker, 1995)

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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 signed Alix Earle and her new podcast ‘Hot Mess’ to the Unwell Network in 2023. Two years later, Alix Earle skipped an Unwell Super Bowl party (GASP!) and got dropped from the Unwell network. Last week, she reposted a Tiktok calling Alex Cooper the grim reaper. Alex Cooper replied with a video telling Alix Earle to cut the passive-aggressive reposting nonsense and just say what she wants to say. None of this matters, but everyone seems to be talking about it, so Rosie sacrificed herself at the altar of the internet to figure out what the hell is going on (and damn it, it’s juicy - even James ended up invested). This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of the Alex Cooper vs Alix Earle feud.

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The Alex Cooper vs Alix Earle Feud, Explained (Teen Vogue, 2026)

Alix Earle Shuts Down Rumors Surrounding Alex Cooper Feud (Us Weekly, 2026)

Alix Earle Responds to Alex Cooper (AOL, 2026)

Alix Earle Supported by Carl's Jr Amid Alex Cooper Drama (TMZ, 2026)

Alex Cooper Profile (Vogue, 2025)

Alix Earle TikTok Interview (Elle, 2023)

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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 of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, the trial of O.J. Simpson turned into a media circus - and was the perfect storm of events and timing that O.J. needed to be found not guilty. This is Just The Gist of the O.J. Simpson trial: ‘if it doesn’t fit, you must acquit’, Marcia Clark, the bloody glove, a jury locked up for eight months and an 85-year-old Fred Goldman refusing to stop hounding O.J. - even after his death.

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O.J.: Made in America Trailer (ESPN 30 for 30, YouTube, 2016)

You’re Wrong About: OJ Simpson Episodes (Spotify)

The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin (Random House, 1996)

O. J. Simpson (Wikipedia)

OJ Simpson’s Estate Accepts $58M Claim From Father of Ron Goldman (The Guardian, 2025)

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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 millennial wunderkind, Forbes 30 Under 30 darling, and the founder of FRANK - a student finance start-up helping underprivileged kids get into college (and apparently making millions doing it). After just one meeting with Charlie, JPMorgan Chase wanted in, and they offered her $175 million to buy FRANK. One tiny problem though - Charlie Javice was way better at optics and PR than she was at actually running a business… but she wasn’t going to let that be a reason to turn down $175 mil.

What Charlie did next involved a bunch of fake emails and crossing her fingers that JPMorgan Chase wouldn’t bother to check (hint: the dudn't). This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of Charlie Javice, FRANK, a major bank ignoring basic due diligence and the court battle that has already cost more in legal fees than the whole deal did to begin with. 

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How Charlie Javice Went From Forbes 30 Under 30 to Federal Fraud Charges (Business Insider, 2023)

Charlie Javice Sentenced to 7 Years for JPMorgan Frank Fraud (Fortune, 2025)

The Charlie Javice Verdict: A Wake-Up Call for Fintechs and Banking (Forbes, 2025)

JPMorgan Is Paying Charlie Javice’s Enormous Legal Bills (The New York Times, 2025)

Charlie Javice and the Rise and Fall of FRANK (Mary Betsy / Guzzle Blog, 2024)

Charlie Javice: Fake It ’Til You Make It (Apple Podcasts, 2025)

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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 plane landed in Reno, he was gone — along with $200,000 in cash and, apparently, any trace of his existence. No body. No parachute. No fingerprints. Nothing. The FBI investigated for decades and officially closed the case in 2016 — never solving it. It remains the only unsolved plane hijacking in US history. This is Just The Gist of DB Cooper: the 1971 Northwest Orient hijacking, the $200,000 ransom, the parachute jump, and the mystery that has never been solved.

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DB Cooper and Tina Mucklow: The Untold Story (Rolling Stone, 2019)

DB Cooper Case Files (FBI Vault)

DB Cooper Confessions and Evidence (Popular Mechanics, 2025)

DB Cooper: New FBI Files and Suspects (ABC News, July 2025)

The Disappearance of DB Cooper (YouTube, 2024)

D.B. Cooper Wikipedia

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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 Ugandan warlord named Joseph Kony so famous that the world would have to stop him. It became the fastest viral video in history. But in less than two weeks, the whole thing completely collapsed, ending with the man behind it, Invisible Children founder Jason Russell, having a very public naked breakdown on a street in San Diego. 

This is Just The Gist (MINI) of KONY 2012: the viral video, Jason Russell and Invisible Children, the slacktivism scandal, the Lord's Resistance Army, and the spectacular public meltdown that ended it all.

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Kony 2012 Full Video (YouTube, Invisible Children, 2012)

Kony 2012, Ten Years On (The Guardian, April 2022)

Why I Couldn't Stop Thinking About Kony (Narratively, 2022)

'We're in Bad Times' Invisible Children super cool music video (YouTube, 2012)

Kony 2012 and Interventionism (Jacobin, March 2025)

Jason Russell on His Public Breakdown (Oprah.com, 2012)

Kony 2012 (Wikipedia)

Invisible Children Website

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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 hadn’t quit the royal family. Less than 12 months into his reign, King Edward VIII abdicated the throne so he could marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson. Even though she never wanted to marry Edward, Wallis was publicly blamed for the royal crisis, which resulted in the newly named ‘Duke and Duchess of Windsor’ being exiled from England for the rest of their lives. And Edward - so used to being treated like a King - found the downgrade to ‘regular citizen’ so difficult, that he and Wallis befriended Hitler and the Nazis, hoping to find a way back onto the world stage.

This is just the gist of Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII.

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Traitor King — Andrew Lownie

King Edward VIII Abdication Speech (1936)

Edward & Wallis: The Full Story

The Abdication Crisis Documentary

People: Wallis Simpson, Convenient Scapegoat for King Edward VIII's Abdication

The National Archives: Abdication of Edward VIII

BBC Culture: The Shocking Moment King Edward VIII Announced His Abdication

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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, but they don't know that in real life, Mehran Karimi Nasseri wasn't stuck at the airport for 9 months. He ended up living there for 18 YEARS. He entered the international terminal of Charles de Gaulle Airport in 1988, and didn't leave until 2006, all because he didn't have a valid passport.

Getting by with gifts from airline staff and travellers, 'Sir Alfred' used two benches as a bed, washed in the airport toilets and ate McDonalds for every meal. This is Just The Gist (MINI) of Mehran Karimi Nasseri; the stateless man who lived in Terminal One at Charles de Gaulle Airport for almost 20 years, the bureaucratic nightmare that put him there, and the far sadder truth about why he stayed.

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The 15-Year Layover — Michael Paterniti, GQ (via Longform)

AP News: Mehran Karimi Nasseri, 'The Terminal' man, dies in Paris airport

The Guardian: 'Terminal Man' lived in Paris airport for 18 years — I'll never forget my weeks with him

All That's Interesting: Mehran Karimi Nasseri

New York Times Magazine: Waiting For Spielberg

The Guardian: The man The Terminal left behind

Here To Where (2002 film, available on Vimeo)

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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 had actually cheated, with help from someone on the inside. That someone was Jerome ‘Jerry’ Jacobson, Head of Security for the company in charge of making and distributing the McDonald’s Monopoly pieces. But when McDonalds found out that nobody was legitimately winning the major prizes, they still let the public spend their money trying to win in one last competition, because the FBI needed to go undercover to catch the Monopoly cheaters in a massive McSting. And when Jerry Jacobson finally revealed how he had pulled the whole thing off, it literally came down to one accidental fluke. 

This is Just The Gist of the McDonald’s Monopoly Fraud. 

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McMillion$ — Official Trailer (HBO)

The Daily Beast "How An Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald's Monopoly Game and Stole Millions" by Jeff Maysh

The Guardian "McMillion$: the bizarre story of how one man stole $24m from McDonald's"

Vanity Fair "The True Crime Story Behind McMillion$"

The New York Times "McMillion$ on HBO, Explained"

CNBC "How the McMillions Scammers Rigged the McDonald's Monopoly Game and Stole $24 Million"

NPR "How the Ex-Cop Who Scammed McDonald's Monopoly Got Caught"

Adweek "McDonald's Revives Monopoly With a Wink at Its Scandalous Past"

Wikipedia: McDonald's Monopoly (the promotion)

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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 what Gypsy-Rose Blanchard did this week, and since her story is part of JTG lore, we thought it was time to check in: two years after being released from prison, what exactly is going on with Gypsy-Rose Blanchard? 

Gisten to our original episode on Gypsy-Rose and Dee Dee Blanchard right here.

Gisten to our bonus book club episodes on Gypsy-Rose’s memoir My Time To Stand:

Part 1

Part 2 

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Gypsy-Rose Blanchard Instagram

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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, confusion spread through the Dolby Theatre, and La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz grabbed the microphone and said: "There's a mistake. Moonlight, you guys won Best Picture. This is not a joke."

It was the most chaotic two minutes and twenty-three seconds in Oscars history — and it all happened because one accountant couldn't put his phone down.

This is Just The Gist Mini of the La La Land/Moonlight Oscars mix-up: the story of Brian Cullinan, the PricewaterhouseCoopers partner who was so busy tweeting celebrity selfies backstage that he handed Warren Beatty the wrong envelope — and then stood in the corner mouthing "shit" while someone else cleaned up his mess.

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"They Got the Wrong Envelope": An Oral History of Oscar's Epic Best Picture Fiasco — The Hollywood Reporter, 2018

How the Wrong Envelope Triggered a Best Picture Fiasco — The Hollywood Reporter, 2017

PwC Takes Full Responsibility for Oscars Best Picture Error — CNN, 2017

PricewaterhouseCoopers' Brian Cullinan Wanted to Perform at Oscars — Variety, 2017

Oscars Stage Manager Details PwC Accountants' Incompetence — The Wrap, 2017

New Photos Show PwC Accountant Tweeting, Mixing Envelopes Backstage — Variety, 2017

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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 ceremony was so bad that Disney sued, seventeen of Hollywood's biggest stars penned an open letter saying they were ashamed, and producer Allan Carr never worked again. Today Rosie breaks down the 61st Academy Awards — widely considered the worst Oscars in history. This is Just The Gist of the 1989 Oscars disaster.

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'I Was Rob Lowe's Snow White': The Untold Story of Oscar's Nightmare Opening (The Hollywood Reporter, 2014)

The Worst Oscars Ever — the behind-the-scenes story of Allan Carr (Los Angeles Magazine, 2010)

The Oscars' 1989 Snow White Opening Was a Disaster — director Jeff Margolis reflects (IndieWire, 2024)

Let's Revisit the Train Wreck That Was the 1989 Academy Awards (AV Club, 2020)

61st Academy Awards (Wikipedia)

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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 live cockroaches, spiders and even a pig carcass mailed to their home, explicit magazine subscriptions addressed to them but delivered to their neighbours, their house posted online as the location of a swingers party, trackers placed on their cars and a funeral wreath couriered to their front door. But why did the CEO of a Fortune 500 company care so much about a nerdy couple living in the suburbs? David and Ina Steiner are journalists who ran a niche website called EcommerceBytes, writing about issues affecting people who sell things online. And when Ina wrote some stories about Ebay that CEO Devin Wenig didn't like, he gave his team the orders: "TAKE HER DOWN." . This is Just The Gist (MINI) of the eBay stalking scandal — the true story of the eBay harassment campaign that sent seven people to prison.

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Whatever It Takes: Inside the eBay Scandal (2024), dir. Jenny Carchman — available on ABC iview and Prime Video

Two newsletter publishers say eBay executives orchestrated a years-long harassment campaign against them — New York Times, 2020

DOJ Press Release: Six Former eBay Employees Charged with Aggressive Cyberstalking Campaign Targeting Newsletter Editors, 2020

eBay's Bizarre Stalking Scandal — 60 Minutes, CBS, 2023

EcommerceBytes — Ina and David Steiner's newsletter, still publishing

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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 Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive, dated half of Hollywood, and was widely expected to follow his father into the White House. When he married Calvin Klein PR powerhouse Carolyn Bessette in a secret ceremony on a remote Georgia island, they became without question the most famous couple in the world. But less than three years later, John and Carolyn were dead - with their bodies, and the body of Carolyn’s sister Lauren, found strapped to their seats in JFK Jr.'s private plane on the ocean floor off Martha's Vineyard. This is Just The Gist of JFK Jr., Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, the Kennedy Curse, and the plane crash that ended Camelot.

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Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Public and Private Life of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy by Elizabeth Beller

Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan

The Kennedy Curse by Edward Klein

JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy wedding footage

JFK Jr. Newsnight interview footage

The West Wing S04E04 'The Red Mass' — graveyard spiral scene (39:45)

JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy paparazzi footage

Candace Bushnell's 'Spoiled in the City' column featuring CBK (1998)

'Settlement reported in JFK Jr. crash lawsuit' — Cape Cod Times (2001)

'A mother grieves in private' — Cape Cod Times (2000)

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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 even postponed surgery until she knew the outcome. Eighteen-month-old Jessica McClure had fallen down an old well and was wedged almost ten metres underground for 60 hours. Every news channel that existed had cameras in that tiny backyard in Texas, while the world watched - live - and waited in suspense to see if she’d come out alive. 

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CW: This episode contains a brief mention of suicide. If you need, please contact (Australia):

Lifeline (24 hours: 13 11 14)

13YARN - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Crisis Support (24 hours: 13 92 76)

Blue Knot Helpline (1300 657 380)

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‘Baby Jessica on the 30-year anniversary of her rescue from a well: Her life as a wife and mom’ (People Magazine 2017):  https://people.com/human-interest/baby-jessica-on-the-30-year-anniversary-of-her-rescue-from-a-well-her-life-as-a-wife-and-mom/ 

‘Baby Jessica’s Rescue From a Well Capped Off a Terrifying Week in US History’ (Time Magazine 2017): https://time.com/4980689/baby-jessica-30th-anniversary/?amp=true 

1987 archive footage of Jessica McClure being rescued (Film Archives NYC2012):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afSChsWNcbQ 

‘Baby Jessica rescued from a well as the world watches’ (History 2011, updated 2025): https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/October-16/baby-jessica-rescued-from-a-well-as-the-world-watches 

‘Helping to pull little Jessica McClure from a Texas well made firefighter Robert O’Donnell a star. But the limelight soon turned to darkness.’ (Los Angeles Times 1995): https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-05-24-mn-5474-story.html 

‘Death on the CNN Curve’ (The New York Times Magazine 1995): https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/23/magazine/death-on-the-cnn-curve.html 

Baby Jessica (Jessica McClure) wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_of_Jessica_McClure

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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 car swerving off the road and plummeting off the side of a cliff.Two separate car explosions. Over the course of his life, Frane Selak survived every single one of these accidents. "You could look at it two ways," Selak said in an interview. "I was either the unluckiest man in the world, or the luckiest. I preferred to believe the latter." This is Just The Gist (MINI) of the unluckiest, luckiest man to ever live (so he says...) Frano 'Frane' Selak.

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'The Seven Unbelievable Survival Stories of Frane Selak' (All That's Interesting 2024): https://allthatsinteresting.com/frane-selak

'Luckiest or Unluckiest Man in the World?' (Ripley's 2018): https://web.archive.org/web/20211205143729/https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/unluckiest-man/

'#BBCtrending: Is the 'world's luckiest man' being exploited?' (BBC News 2014): https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-27414609

'Frano Selak, world's luckiest man' gives away his lottery fortune' (The Telegraph2010): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7721985/Frano-Selak-worlds-luckiest-man-gives-away-his-lottery-fortune.html

'Doritos googles up unlikely spokesperson' (Ad Age 2004) https://adage.com/article/the-world-ad-age-global-news-data/doritos-googles-spokesman/99131/

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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 history, and it remained the greatest single loss of American civilian life in a deliberate act until 9/11.

But was it really a mass suicide, or mass murder?

Jonestown was founded by Jim Jones, leader of the Peoples Temple, a racially integrated American church that preached equality, socialism, and community care. By the time the world learned its name, 909 men, women, and children had consumed a cyanide-laced drink in a remote settlement in Guyana — while armed guards stood watch.

Some believed. Some resisted. Many were too young to choose. But all became part of what the world now shorthand calls “drinking the Kool-Aid.”

This is just the gist of The Jonestown Massacre.

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Doco: ‘Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown’ (2025)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYIUjavwqVo

Doco: ‘Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple’ (2006)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S_d1eVv0E8

TV Movie:‘Jonestown: Paradise Lost’ (2007)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLh7W5r4zS8

Book:‘Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown’(1982) by David Chidester

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/835279.Salvation_and_Suicide

Book: ‘The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple’(2018) by Jeff Guinn

https://www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/The-Road-to-Jonestown/Jeff-Guinn/9781476763835

Casefile Podcast:‘Jonestown’ (Three-Part Series)

https://casefilepodcast.com/case-60-jonestown-part-1/

Wikipedia: Jim Jones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones

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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 competitive skating forever. But just four years earlier, she had quit the sport entirely - and was thrilled at the thought of never skating again. So how does someone go from Olympic retirement at 16… to gold at the Milan Winter Olympics?

Alysa Liu started skating at five, was a prodigy by ten, and was winning national titles before she was tall enough to climb onto the podium. Then, at 16, she shocked the figure skating world by saying: I’m done. She didn’t want her whole life to be medals, pressure and expectations anymore.

Two years later though, she decided to make a comeback - but only on her terms. No chasing quadruple jumps for points. No extreme dieting. No giving up college or friends. She picked her own music, her own choreography, her own identity on the ice. She wasn’t chasing gold. She was chasing joy.

And she skated better than ever.

This is a story about Olympic pressure, burnout, retirement and comeback, mental health, and what it means to insist on being yourself in a sport built on control. It’s also about how a 20-year-old seems to understand life, boundaries and happiness better than most of us.

This is Just The Gist of US figure skater Alysa Liu.

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https://www.nbcsports.com/olympics/news/alysa-liu-figure-skating-comeback 

https://www.nbcsports.com/olympics/news/alysa-liu-retires-figure-skating 

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/alysa-liu-hair-style-medal-olympics?_sp=faec963a-590f-48a4-9136-550d5ff5111e.1771905534964 

https://www.nbcolympics.com/news/alysa-liu-champion-who-cant-stop-smiling

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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 along with it, called ‘How Do I Live’. But there were actually TWO versions of ‘How Do I Live’ released at the same time. Singers Trisha Yearwood and LeAnn Rimes both released their own version of exactly the same song, on exactly the same day, but only one was officially part of the movie Con Air, and most people, to this day, don’t realise which version they were listening to back in 1997. In fact, most people don’t realise that both versions of the song were nominated for a Grammy, but only one took out the prize. And only one went down in history as a record-breaking phenomenon.

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https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/diane-warren-leann-rimes-how-do-i-live-billboard-moment-8528199/ 

https://medium.com/@cherriebalictar/how-do-i-live-leann-rimes-vs-trisha-yearwood-what-really-happened-64550eed6508 

https://americansongwriter.com/on-this-day-in-1997-leann-rimes-and-trisha-yearwood-simultaneously-release-different-versions-of-the-same-song/ 

https://americansongwriter.com/leann-rimes-reflects-on-having-her-song-rejected-by-hollywood-at-15-years-old-and-how-it-still-made-history/ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbwuRKpfmCA 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Do_I_Live 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/flashback-leann-rimes-trisha-yearwood-make-awkward-grammy-history-167853/ 

https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.chicagotribune.com/1997/09/05/yearwoods-on-the-rise-after-winning-song-war-with-leann-rimes/ 

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dFeYsl8Dsr0 

https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/live-long-and-prosper-1044103/ 

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/90s/1997/Billboard-1997-06-07.pdf

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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 - Steven Bradbury - was not considered a medal-contender. He spent most of the race in last place - far behind the four other skaters duking it out for the gold, silver and bronze. But then, with just 50 metres of the race to go, the four skaters in the lead all crashed out on the very last bend, and Steven Bradbury was so far behind them that he was able to avoid the pile-up and sail past them and across the finish line, to be awarded Australia’s first ever gold medal at a Winter Olympic Games, and bringing the term ‘doing a Bradbury’ - meaning being extremely lucky to unexpectedly come from behind and win because of someone else’s mistake - into everyday vernacular. BUT, what a lot of people don’t know, is that Steven Bradbury’s race wasn’t just about luck - he actually had a strategy that paid off in the end. This is Just The Gist MINI of Steven Bradbury. 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIEtSAwKIkw 

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/jan/22/australia-greatest-sporting-moments-steven-bradbury-salt-lake-city-winter-olympics-2002-1000m-speed-skating 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Bradbury 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX2BlOlRzG0 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEIny4zg81c 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jagh3l5lMvY

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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 herself: Tyra Banks. 

You know her as the creator and host of America’s Next Top Model. You know her as a Victoria’s Secret Model. You know her as the woman who yelled, “WE WERE ROOTING FOR YOU. WE WERE ALL ROOTING FOR YOU!”

But do you know Tyra Banks as the boss of several (failed) businesses? A Twilight-style Young Adult novel/movie/product empire called ‘Modelland’ that was cancelled after one book. A beauty line called ‘Tyra Beauty’ that was actually an MLM and folded in less than two years. A theme park based on… ‘models’ that she said was too hard to describe but was essentially just a place to get $1500 glamour shots (also no longer in business). And now, of course, we have Tyra’s ‘Hot Ice Cream’ at her ‘Smize and Dream’ ice cream store (which has already had some food regulation dramas). 

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Podcast: ‘Curse of America’s Next Top Model’

‘You Wanna Be On Top? A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation and Not Becoming America’s Next Top Model’ by Sarah Hartshorne

Episode of ‘The Big Flop’ podcast: ‘Tyra Banks - America’s Next Top Business Woman?’

Netflix doco ‘Reality Check: America’s Next Top Model’ trailer

ABC article by Casey Briggs:Tyra Banks' 'Hot Ice Cream' went viral. Don't expect to see it called that anymore (2026)

‘Shake Ya Body’ music video 

ModelLand ‘sizzle reel’ from an ANTM episode

The Cut article ‘I made a whopping $27.75 selling Tyra Banks beauty products’ by Kathleen Schaefer (2016)

Tyra Banks Wikipedia 

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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 during a Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis. Convinced the interview would be his chance to get rid of those pesky Jeffrey Epstein rumours once and for all, it became clear within minutes - to everyone but him - that things were not going to end up the way he planned. 

By the time the 49-minute interview was over, all Andrew had proven to the world was that the only thing he lacked more than self-awareness was empathy, and the only thing he seemed to have in abundance was an astonishing sense of entitlement, that gave him an uncanny ability to prove that the Dunning Kruger effect very much exists.

Today I am giving you Just The Gist of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s Newsnight Interview with Emily Maitlis.

GISTEN to our episode ‘Just The Gist of… Andrew and Fergie’ right here. (Apple)

GISTEN to our episode ‘Just The Gist of… Andrew and Fergie’ right here. (Spotify)

(CW: While this episode focuses more on Andrew Mounbatten-Windsor’s Newsnight Interview rather than any specifics of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and Andrew’s alleged involvement in them, those crimes are obviously part of this story so they are mentioned, without detail, at some points. Take care when listening.)

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Newsnight interview between Emily Maitlis and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

Watch the trailer for Netflix movie 'Scoop'

Watch the trailer for Prime TV series 'A Very Royal Scandal'

BBC article 'Maitlis says Andrew lost respect after interview' (2024) - where she mentions King Charles being 'not unhappy' with the interview

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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 be built on other planets. Years was spent building Biosphere 2 in the USA, and inside was an ocean with actual tides and waves, a rainforest, a desert, vast wetlands, a farm with crops, animals, housing and laboratories. ‘Rain’ could even be switched on and off. Eight Humans lived inside it for TWO YEARS. So why has hardly anybody heard of it? Because it was a disaster, none of it worked, and they nearly died. Turns out, despite sounding impressive, this experiment wasn’t run by NASA or even scientists, it was run by a bunch of hippies from a cult-like experimental theatre group who had no clue what they were doing, but had duped a billionaire into giving them a lot of money.

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The documentary Spaceship Earth (in Aus you can rent or buy it on YouTube or Amazon Prime): https://youtu.be/ySQU8kzmZBo 

The current Biosphere 2 website (run by the University of Arizona): https://biosphere2.org/

NY Times article - ‘The Lost History of One of the World’s Strangest Science Experiments’ (2019):

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/sunday-review/biosphere-2-climate-change.html 

Guardian article:‘Eight Go Mad In Arizona: How a lockdown experiment went horribly wrong’(2020)

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jul/13/spaceship-earth-arizona-biosphere-2-lockdownhttps://www.history.com/.amp/news/biosphere-2-spaceship-earth

Awesome footage from inside: https://www.pbs.org/video/good-stuff-nature-biosphere/https://youtu.be/eZcLeF4XM1I

You can visit! https://news.arizona.edu/biosphere-2  

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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 1956 they have been protected by laws that prohibit anyone approaching their home on North Sentinel Island. But the laws are also in place to protect any outsiders who try to go there, as the Sentinelese tribe have pretty much tried to to kill anyone who goes near them. 

Despite this, in 2018, a 26-year-old evangelical Christian missionary named John Allen Chau decided that the Sentinelese people, who had been living peacefully on North Sentinel Island for thousands of years, were actually part of Satan’s Last Stronghold on earth, because they had not yet accepted Jesus into their hearts by being converted to Christianity. John Allen Chau decided to change that. John Allen Chau is now dead. This is just the gist of John Allen Chau.

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National Geographic doco ‘The Mission To Contact’ (2023): 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F0KU_A1Xn0 

Guardian article ‘The Life and Death of John Allen Chau, the Man Who Tried to Convert His Killers (2019):

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/03/john-chau-christian-missionary-death-sentinelese 

Forbes article ‘Everything we know about the isolated people of North Sentinel Island’ (2018): 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2018/11/30/everything-we-know-about-the-isolated-sentinelese-people-of-north-sentinel-island/ 

John Allen Chau’s wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Allen_Chau 

North Sentinel Island wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island 

All Nations website:

https://allnations.international/

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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 pretended to be insane, got committed to an insane asylum and then wrote about the horrific treatment she endured and as a patient. Bly’s reporting on her time at the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island was turned into a bestselling book called ‘Ten Days In A Madhouse’, launching her career and opening the door for other women to do serious journalism.

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‘Ten Days in a Mad House’ by Nellie Bly: 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1642216.Ten_Days_in_a_Mad_House 

‘Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist’ by Brooke Kroeger: 

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/311625.Nellie_Bly 

Medium Article: ‘What Nellie Bly Exposed At Blackwell’s Asylum, And Why It’s Still Important’ (2016):

https://medium.com/legendary-women/what-nellie-bly-exposed-at-blackwells-asylum-and-why-it-s-still-important-4591203b9dc7 

TimeOut article: ‘A New Monument Honoring Journalist Nellie Bly Is Now On Roosevelt Island (2021)

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/a-new-monument-honoring-journalist-nellie-bly-is-now-on-roosevelt-island-121621

Nellie Bly’s Wikipedia: 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly

Some info on the Women’s Lunatic Asylum at Blackwell’s Island (now Roosevelt Island): https://www.nps.gov/places/blackwell-s-island-new-york-city.htm 

Trailer for the Lifetime movie starring Christina Ricci ‘Escaping The Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story’ (2019):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFjttOo4FLo 

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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 he made a major misstep in a recent interview, in which he declared that audiences shouldn’t take his work for granted, as he’s been delivering ‘some top level shit’ for years. Cut to an industry-wide eyeroll and the line ‘some top level shit’ immediately becoming an embarrassing meme. So did he ruin his Oscar chances? Timothée’s team has always marketed him as an earnestly ambitious wunderkind - his brand is taking himself and his art REALLY SERIOUSLY, but in a charming way. When he won a SAG award in 2025 and said in his speech that he wanted to be ‘one of the greats’, people called it ‘refreshing’. But when some people in the room looked visibly annoyed when he recently won at the Golden Globes, whispers started that he may have tipped the scales from ‘refreshingly ambitious’ into, well, thinking he’s ‘some top level shit’. 

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The ‘some top level shit’ interview (2025):

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/timothee-chalamet-defends-marty-supreme-press-tour-backlash-1236613045/ 

Variety article: ‘Timothee Chalamet defends Marty Supreme press tour backlash’ (2025):

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/timothee-chalamet-defends-marty-supreme-press-tour-backlash-1236613045/ 

Humble Pie Golden Globes speech (2026):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Por5AWQB9_M 

Screen Actors Guild ‘I wanna be one of the greats’ speech (2025):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wdPKn4ZwxxA 

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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 for literally taking spoilt Nepo Babies? 

Over $25million in bribes exchanged hands. Almost every major elite university in the USA was involved. And at the end of the day, the whole thing came down to dodgy photoshop and old-school cheating on tests.. Rick Singer made a fortune when he realised that rich, entitled parents would do anything to get their kids into the best US colleges. But when Rick Singer was busted by the FBI, he quickly flipped and told authorities everything about his 'side door' entry system, leading to a worldwide news frenzy when a lot of very privileged, high profile parents were arrested AND ACTUALLY SENT TO PRISON. The craziest part of this story? What Rick Singer is doing now. 

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Watch 'Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal' (on Netflix): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFHj8e7mU_I

Listen to the 'Gangster Capitalism' podcast episodes on the scandal:

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/introducing-…

Good rundown of the 'side door' admission scheme:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/12/co…

The Wiki gives a good summary on what each parent paid for and what punishment they received: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_college_admissi…

One of the only pieces about what happened to the kids involved: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/us/college-admi…

A breakdown of the Full House episode where aka Lori Loughlin’s villain origin story: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jenniferabidor/i-rewatched-the-full-house-episode-where-becky-and-jesse 

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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 announcing that he is OUT of the Beckham family and going all in with his in-laws - the billionaire Peltz dynasty. So is Brooklyn just a spoilt Nepo baby who found a richer family, or are the Beckhams actually as toxic as he says? Is his wife Nicola Peltz a real-life Veruca Salt, or is Victoria Beckham a nightmare ‘Boy Mum’? Or is it all true? Gisten in as Rosie gives Just The Gist of the Beckham family DRAMAAAAH.

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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. But surgery for an anal fistula didn't actually exist yet. In fact, surgery in general didn’t really exist at all. 

Enter Charles-François Felix, a 'Barber Surgeon' willing to take on the task. King Louis let Felix spend 6 months ‘practicing’ on inmates from the city’s prison, until he had perfected the procedure (or at least managed to perform it once without killing the guy). Once Charles-François Felix was ready to go, all ‘The Sun King’ had to do next was close his eyes, clench his fists, and stay completely still through a three hour anal surgery, the results of which changed the entire course of modern medicine. 

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A quick, visual (don't worry - animated!) explanation of how anal fistulas work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAOwqcoel_g  

Some articles:

https://tidsskriftet.no/2016/08/sun-kings-anal-fistula  

https://medium.com/omgfacts/when-anal-fistulas-were-all-the-rage-281aclfd2d52 

https://www.iflscience.com/that-time-the-kings-anus-changed-surgery-forever-65310 

https://hekint.org/2019/10/31/it-is-good-to-be-the-king-the-french-surgical-revolution/ 

https://historycollection.com/seven-worst-surgeries-modern-times/4/

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[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 respected Forbes magazine. Why? Thanks to her cosmetics company, Kylie was (apparently, according to financial 'proof' provided by the Jenners) about to become the world's 'youngest self-made billionaire'. The cover was a massive coup not just for Kylie, but for Kris Jenner herself and the entire Kardashian/Jenner empire she'd created. Kylie wore a POWER SUIT. Her arms were CROSSED. She was a SERIOUS BUSINESS LADY. And printed next to her (never quite smiling) face were the words: 'Welcome to the era of extreme fame leverage' - legitimising the Kardashian/Jenner business model once and for all. At least... until a year later, when Forbes retracted the Kylie billionaire story and published another article: 'INSIDE KYLIE JENNER'S WEB OF LIES'. We've said it before and we'll say it again: the devil works hard but Kris Jenner works harder.

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Thanks for gistening to our JTG summer programming while the Just The Network takes a break over Christmas: regular episodes every Thursday, before we're back to regular programming on Jan 20 with Tuesday Breakin' Nooz (for Gistener Club members), Wednesday JTG MINIs and Thursday JTG Regulars!

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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 GISTED.

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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 Diddy Situation’ back in 2024 for Patreon members. We were travelling around the country and still calling Breakin’ Nooz ‘From The Van’! There’s obviously been a couple of updates in the case since then, but it’s a good breakdown of Sean ‘Puff Daddy’ Combs and the history that ended with him as such an awful criminal. NOTE: We literally recorded this in the Aussie Outback, so the sound isn’t the best! 

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CW: While we don’t go into any detail, this episode obviously does deal with the crimes of abuse that Sean Combs has been convicted of. Please take care listening, and reach out if you need (Australia):

Lifeline(24 hours: 13 11 14)

1800RESPECT(24 hours: 1800 737 732)

13YARN - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Crisis Support(24 hours: 13 92 76)

Blue Knot Helpline(1300 657 380)

Bravehearts(1800 272 831)

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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 driver Ed, escaped from a hole underground with a terrifying story about being taken by three masked men. Soon, three very wealthy young men, from some of the most well-off families in town, were found with a piece of paper with the word ‘PLAN’ written at the top, followed by a list of the children's names. This is Just The Gist of the Chowchilla Bus Kidnapping - an eyerolling example of ‘Why Are Men’, but also an event that forever changed the way we look at the ongoing effects of childhood trauma. 

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Watch CBS 2023 doco ‘48 Hours: Remembering the Chowchilla Kidnapping’: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chowchilla-bus-kidnapping-survivor-never-before-seen-interview/ 

Watch CNN 2024 doco ‘Chowchilla’: (On HBO Max): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O5c-qATo-I 

‘How a 1976 mass kidnapping changed how the world sees childhood trauma’ (CNN 2023): https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/02/health/chowchilla-childhood-trauma 

Notorious Chowchilla bus kidnapper ran a goldmine from prison (CBS 2022): https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chowchilla-bus-kidnapping-frederick-woods-ran-a-gold-mine-and-christmas-tree-farm-from-prison/ 

‘Little Heroes of Medicine Teach Experts How To Treat Childhood Trauma’ (CBS 2002): https://www.cbsnews.com/news/little-heroes-of-medicine-teach-experts-to-treat-childhood-trauma/ 

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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 show audience a brand new Ponitac G6 Sedan. But, while the rest of us ended up with possibly the greatest meme in internet history, the audience members each ended up with a bill for thousands of dollars, because their brand new ‘free’ car wasn’t actually free at all.

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Making Oprah (now part of WBEZ’s ‘Making’ podcast series): https://www.npr.org/podcasts/500692140/making 

https://time.com/collections/100-best-podcasts/7303092/making-oprah/ 

THE MOMENT: https://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/oprahs-entire-audience-are-surprised-with-new-cars-video 

Forbes:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2016/09/13/a-look-back-at-oprahs-ultimate-car-giveaway/?sh=5a3c326d60ff 

Gayle King interview: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/gayle-king-oprah-winfrey-show-car-giveaway-1235083395/ 

Business Insider:

https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktoker-recaps-oprah-car-giveaway-taxes-advice-2023-5

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DIVORCED, BEHEADED, DIED, DIVORCED, BEHEADED, SURVIVED. Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr (yes - there were that many Catherines). It’s Henry VIII’s wives bébé! But the way you wish it had been told in history class.

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Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wives_of_Henry_VIII 

Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-VIII-king-of-England 

‘SIX THE MUSICAL: Live!’ coming to Aussie cinemas (hahaha again I promise this isn’t sponsored I just really love SIX): https://www.universalpictures.com.au/micro/six-the-musical

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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, night vision goggles and a pair of Gucci Loafers. He also had a duffel bag filled with 35kg of cocaine. But Thornton originally had 75kg of cocaine, and it wasn’t until two months later, when a North American Black Bear was found to have had a very, VERY fun time in the nearby woods, that the police were able to figure out what happened to the rest of Andrew’s stash. Cocaine Bear became a Kentucky legend, and its taxidermied body went on a decades-long journey that was almost as eventful as his two-week bender. This is Just The Gist of Cocaine Bear.

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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 into their brain. The whole thing took less than five minutes and was considered as unremarkable as getting a flu shot. Called the ‘lobotomy’, Dr Walter Freeman had invented the procedure as a ‘miracle cure’ for any and all mental illness - he figured by cutting up the part of the brain that controlled emotion, he could stop people being so… emotional. Men would bring in their wives with post-natal depression. Parents would bring in children who occasionally misbehaved. America was officially dazzled by Dr Freeman’s lobotomy technique. But most patients who received lobotomies ended up severely brain damaged (because, you know, they had an ICE PICK shoved into their brain), with many needing 24-hour care for the rest of their lives, if they survived at all.

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BBC: ‘The strange and curious history of the Lobotomy’ (2011) - https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15629160 

PBS documentary: ‘The Lobotomist’ (2008) - https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/lobotomist/ 

Howard Dully’s story on NPR (2005) - https://storycorps.org/podcast/special-remembering-howard-dully-of-my-lobotomy/ 

PBS interview with Howard Dully (2005) - https://www.pbs.org/video/american-experience-original-interview-howard-dully/ 

The Guardian: ‘He was so bad, they put an ice pick in his brain’ (2008) - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/jan/13/neuroscience.medicalscience

Howard Dully wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dully#cite_note-8 

Dr. Walter Freeman wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Jackson_Freeman_II 

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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 romance with the guy who made ‘BDE’ a thing: comedian Pete Davidson. Within two months, they met, got matching tattoos, moved in together, got more matching tattoos, got a pet piglet, got more matching tattoos, got engaged and… got more matching tattoos. We were inundated with paparazzi pics of the two of them holding hands, Ariana looking up at Pete like she wished the lollipop she was sucking on was… something else. And then, barely 6 months later, it all ended as quickly as it began. Pete Davidson was soon branding himself with Kim Kardashian’s name, and Ariana Grande was marrying a dude who looked just like her brother (and don’t even get us started on Wicked co-star Ethan Slater).

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E News (2025): https://www.eonline.com/news/1413523/pete-davidson-ariana-grande-where-they-stand-after-breakup 

People Magazine (2022):

https://people.com/music/pete-davidson-ariana-grande-relationship-timeline/ 

Business Insider (2018):

https://www.businessinsider.com/ariana-grande-pete-davidson-relationship-timeline-2018-6 

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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 Ford Coppola. It was directed by Oscar winner Walter Murch and starred a 9-year-old Fairuza Balk (who later went on to star in The Craft) as Dorothy. With that pedigree, you’d think an ‘Oz’ sequel would be a slam dunk, but this film did not have the celebrated reaction we later saw with ‘Wicked’. When the movie was released, parents stormed out of cinemas with their kids, saying it was more like a horror movie than something for children. It bombed at the time, but has since become a cult classic, this is just the gist of the 1985 sequel to The Wizard of Oz that Disney considers a complete disaster they would rather forget - Return To Oz. 

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Return To Oz trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBPKgAXA-28 

Guardian article ‘Hear Me Out: Why Return To Oz Isn’t A Bad Movie’ (2021): https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/feb/11/hear-me-out-why-return-to-oz-isnt-a-bad-movie

The Hollywood Reporter article: How George Lucas Saved Return To Oz (2024): https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/how-george-lucas-saved-return-to-oz-1235866485/ 

BBB article ‘How Return To Oz became one of the darkest children’s films ever made’ (2025)

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250616-the-darkest-childrens-film-ever-made

Interview with Walter Murch on the ‘It Happened In Hollywood’ podcast (2024): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/walter-murch-return-to-oz/id1437795866?i=1000651291941 

‘Remembering Return To Oz’ documentary (2021): 

https://www.rememberingreturntooz.com/ 

The Siskel and Ebert review (1985):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24kiDP1WRr4

Return To Oz wikipedia: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_Oz

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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 spot. He thought he might spend the rest of his life with it just swinging there, but in 2022, Britain’s Channel 4 made a documentary about Malcolm called ‘The Man With a Penis on His Arm’. It detailed the infection that led to the loss of his penis in the first place, and the struggles he had endured waiting for the surgery to finally put his new appendage in the right place. A (Rosie’s Version) of a JTG classic.

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Channel 4 documentary ‘The Man With The Penis On His Arm’:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLqb-FNxh4M

Guardian article (2022): https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/may/03/the-man-with-a-penis-on-his-arm-review-tv-that-makes-you-proud-to-be-british 

Daily Mail article (2022): http://dailymail.co.uk/lifestyle/article-10779775/The-Man-Penis-Arm-Man-47-lived-six-years-penis-attached-ARM.html 

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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 experts in to give us Just The Gist on what they happen to be experts in. 

This week: Oshie’s Hair (and the man beneath it - iconic TV host Osher Günsberg) tells us all the things about The Bachelor Universe! From what goes on behind the scenes - like what happened when the Honey Badger picked nobody - to his thoughts on The Golden Bachelor.

Listen to Osher’s podcast Better Than Yesterday right here:

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/better-than-yesterday-with-osher-g%C3%BCnsberg/id711028488

Get his memoir ‘Back, After The Break’: https://www.harpercollins.com.au/9781460759028/back-after-the-break-a-memoir-from-one-of-australias-most-loved-celebrities-about-life-love-and-living-with-mental-illness-powerful-dark-f/ 

Get his new book ‘So What, Now What’:

https://www.penguin.com.au/books/so-what-now-what-9781761352300 

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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 become the first regular civilian NASA would ever take to space. Satellites had been sent to schools around the country so children could watch the shuttle launch live from their classrooms. But just 73 seconds after launch, the Challenger exploded mid-air, resulting in millions of children witnessing the moment that Christa McAuliffe and 6 other Challenger crew members were tragically killed. The Challenger disaster turned what was supposed to be NASA's triumphant return to relevance through the "Teacher in Space" program into one of the most traumatic moments in US history, broadcast live into classrooms across the country.

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Netflix doco series 'Challenger: The Final Flight' trailer (2020):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILAeVAgqFV4

National Geographic doco 'Space Shuttle Challenger - 30 Years On' (2016):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DMmkp_F25Y

You're Wrong About 'Challenger Disaster' podcast episode (2019):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qUAhcBKu8

Trusty old wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster

Britannica page: https://www.britannica.com/event/Challenger-disaster 

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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’ was brilliantly written by David Gauvey Herbert, and tells the story of MaryBeth Lewis; a woman who has been having babies via IVF since her mid-forties and doesn’t want to stop - no matter what she has to do to make it happen. 

This episode started out as a segment in Breakin’ Nooz, then it turned into a JTG MINI, then it turned into a Medium, then it pretty much turned into a regular-length episode BECAUSE THIS STORY IS NUTS. Rosie gives Just The Gist of one of the most gripping and ridiculously good articles she’s read in a long time. Read it right here in The New York Times Magazine.

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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 still referred to as ‘Sarah, Duchess of York’. It was huge news in October 2025 when King Charles finally released a statement from Buckingham Palace, officially stripping Andrew of all his official titles and kicking him (and ol’ Fergie) out of the 30-room mansion ‘Royal Lodge’. But HOW did they end up this way? What is just the gist of Andrew and Fergie? How did they meet? How did they both end up such entitled, self-serving people (or were they always that way)? We’ve all seen the headlines about Andrew and Fergie’s enduring, years-long friendship with Jeffrey Epstein (and their continued lies about it), but what is it about them and their history together that led to this royal couple both being so… awful? Rosie gives just the gist of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and Sarah Ferguson. 

(CW: While this episode focuses more on the history and lives of Andrew and Fergie rather than the specifics of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and Andrew’s alleged involvement in them, those crimes are obviously part of this story so they are mentioned, without detail, at some points. Take care when listening.)

We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there’s this:

SO MUCH of the info for this episode came from the incredible book ‘Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York’ by Andrew Lownie (2025)

Interview with Andrew Lownie on an episode of ‘Throwing The Book At Them’ (2025)

Andrew Lownie giving a presentation about his book at the University of Cambridge (2025)

‘The Turbulent Life of Sarah Ferguson’ by Isaac Bickerstaff for Tatler Magazine (2025)

‘Fergie and Andrew: Duke and Duchess of Disaster’ documentary (2020)

‘Downfall of a Duchess’ documentary (1997)

Andrew’s now infamous Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis 

‘Nobody’s Girl’ by Virgina Roberts Giuffre (2025) 

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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 did 6-7 come from? WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Rosie did some research to get to the bottom of it all, including getting the scoop from Official JTG Kidz Correspondents: her 12-year-old nephew Malekai and 6-year-old twin nieces Layla and Layelle. (And yes, she mixes them up during the interview.)

We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there’s this:

Forbes article trying desperately to understand the KidZ and their six-seven nonsense

Dictionary.com trying to explain themselves

Music video of ‘Doot Doot (6 7)’ by Skrilla

Video of the original 6 7 kid ‘doing’ 6 7 at a basketball game

Video of the entire restaurant cheering when order ‘67’ is called at an In-N-Out Burger

South Park clip from the recent ‘6-7’ episode (this explains it better than anything tbh)

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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 Goldberg had signed on to star in a gritty, sci-fi drama, but the final script had turned it into a buddy cop film in which she starred opposite a talking dinosaur puppet wearing Converse sneakers and a backwards cap. Whoopi tired to back out, the producers sued, and she ended being forced to film Theodore Rex against her will (she is so unhappy to be there you can literally see her sighing on screen in some scenes in the movie). With a budget of $33.5million, Theodore Rex was never released in cinemas, making it the most expensive direct-to-video movie ever made (and the biggest regret of Whoopi Goldberg’s career).

We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's this:

Theodore Rex Wikipedia page - Complete film history and production details

/Film - "How Did This Get Made? Theodore Rex (An Oral History)" - Interviews with producers, director, and crew (2015)

Ranker - "The Story of Theodore Rex, The Bizarre Whoopi Goldberg Dinosaur Film" - Behind-the-scenes breakdown

A.V. Club - "An oral history of how a bomb like Theodore Rex is made" (2015)

YouTube - Theodore Rex Theatrical Trailer

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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. They casually parked a basket lift truck out the front of the building, rode it to the first floor balcony and stepped right inside the Apollo Gallery - home to what’s left of France’s ‘Crown Jewels’. One glass cutter and a couple of minutes later, they rode away on Yamaha scooters with 9 precious items (well, 8 - they dropped a diamond-encrusted tiara that once belonged to Napoleon’s wife). Two men have been arrested, but no jewels have been found, and even George Clooney said he’s proud of the thieves for pulling it off. But why was it so easy to do? Who was the mysterious DAPPER MAN photographed at the scene of the crime? And will they even be able to sell what they stole?

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This is Rosie’s absolute favourite thing she has read about The Louvre Heist: The Atlantic - "The Louvre Heist Is Terrific" (2025)  by Caity Weaver

TIME Magazine - "Louvre Robbery: How Thieves Carried Out An Audacious Heist of 'Priceless' Napoleonic Jewels" (2025)

The Guardian - "French police arrest two men over €88m Louvre jewel heist" (2025)

AP News - "Thieves use basket lift in daring Louvre robbery, steal priceless jewels" (2025)

AP News - "A timeline of the jewel heist at the Louvre in Paris" (2025)

Daily Mail - "Two arrested over Louvre 'heist of the century' after raid of France's £76million crown jewels" (2025)

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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 darkness. While his 11 crewmates drowned, Harrison found himself in a tiny air pocket, listening to their final screams before silence fell. For 60 hours, he survived on a can of Coke and sardines, fighting off crayfish that fed on his body, praying and singing hymns while the freezing water slowly rose around him. When South African divers finally found him during what they thought was a body recovery mission, they couldn't believe he was alive - making Harrison one of the most miraculous survival stories ever recorded.

We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's this:

The Guardian's original report - "Nigerian sailor 'a phenomenon' for surviving in air pocket for 60 hours" (2013)

The Guardian's 10-year follow-up - "I survived three days in a capsized boat on the ocean floor – praying in my air bubble" (2023)

Rescue footage on YouTube - Harrison Okene: Moment divers find man alive in sunken ship

Harrison's interview - Man Rescued From Sunken Boat Talks About Ordeal

Harrison's Instagram - Follow Harrison's current life as a professional diver

Jascon-4 incident Wikipedia page - Complete details of the tugboat disaster

BBC News coverage - "Nigerian cook 'survived 60 hours' in sunken ship air bubble" (2013)

CNN interview transcript - Harrison Okene on Larry King Live (2013)

National Geographic feature - "How One Man Survived 60 Hours Trapped Underwater" (2013)

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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 celebrity trials of the 2000s. The '90s indie queen claimed her director told her to shoplift for a role, but the jury convicted her of felony grand theft anyway. From the iconic "Free Winona" t-shirt movement to Marc Jacobs making her their campaign face after she stole their designs, this is the scandal that made Winona disappear from Hollywood for a decade—until her Stranger Things comeback proved we should've freed her all along.

We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's this:

Vogue UK - "A grass roots campaign to 'free' Winona Ryder" (2002)

Recordnet - "Ryder's try at humor not defusing scandal" (2002)

W Magazine - "Winona Ryder: Ryder on the Storm" (2002)

Interview Magazine - "Winona Ryder" (2013)

YouTube - "free winona: the winona ryder shoplifting scandal" (2024)

Disgraceland Podcast - "Winona Ryder: Drowning, Designer Theft, and a Deadly Kidnapping" (2025)

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In 1999, The Blair Witch Project became a cultural phenomenon when audiences believed they were watching real found footage of three film students who disappeared in the Maryland woods. But film directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez had actually just created one of the most successful marketing hoaxes in movie history, using fake missing person posters, a fake Sci-Fi Channel documentary, and the early internet to convince the world the Blair Witch was real. Made for just $60,000 with handheld cameras and improvising actors, it terrified audiences worldwide and earned nearly $250 million. But those actors - Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard and Michael Williams - were barely paid, and as of 2025, are still trying to be fairly credited for their work.

We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's this:

The Blair Witch Project Wikipedia page - Complete film history and box office success

The New York Times retrospective - "How 'The Blair Witch Project' Changed Movies Forever" (2019)

The original Blair Witch website - The groundbreaking 1999 viral marketing site

Variety investigation - "'Blair Witch Project' Cast Says They Were 'Robbed' of Financial Success" (2024)

The Guardian coverage - Cast's fight for fair payment and residuals (2024)

The Hollywood Reporter - Cast demands retroactive residuals and consultation on future projects (2024)

Blair Witch official websites archive - Collection of original marketing websites

Ben Rock's articles - Behind-the-scenes insights from the film's production designer

Rewind podcast episode - "Believing in the Blair Witch" deep dive

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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 example of what might be the most perfect - yet unfortunate - timing ever, there just happened to be an open-air sightseeing tour boat passing directly under the bridge at the exact same time… 

Dave Matthews Band tried to deny being involved, but after being soaked in what was described as a "rust-coloured waterfall” the 120 passengers who were aboard ‘Chicago’s Little Lady’, and soon the entire city of Chicago, were demanding answers. 

We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's this:

Dave Matthews Band bus incident Wikipedia page - Complete incident details and aftermath

WBEZ 20-year anniversary coverage - "20 years after that disgusting Dave Matthews Band incident, victims now can laugh about it" (2024)

CBS Chicago retrospective - "Remembering the disgusting Dave Matthews Band bus incident 20 years later" (2024)

Chicago Tribune vintage coverage - "Vintage Chicago Tribune: Remembering the Dave Matthews Band bus incident, 20 years later" (2024)

The Crappening documentary - Filmmaker seeking witnesses for documentary about the incident (2024)

CBS Chicago vault footage - Original 2004 news coverage

Chicago mascots tribute video - Benny the Bull, Staley Da Bear, and Tommy Hawk pay respects on anniversary (2024)

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In 2014, Elizabeth Holmes was hailed as the youngest female billionaire in America, promising to revolutionize healthcare with her blood-testing company Theranos. With just a drop of blood from a fingerprick, she claimed her Edison machines could run hundreds of tests faster and cheaper than traditional labs. But behind the black turtlenecks, deep voice, and Steve Jobs comparisons was one of the biggest frauds in Silicon Valley history. The technology never worked, patients received dangerous false results, and investors lost over $900 million. Holmes and her business partner Sunny Balwani were both convicted of fraud, with Holmes sentenced to over 11 years in prison, where she remains today still claiming her innocence.

We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's this:

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou - The definitive book on the Theranos scandal (2018)

Elizabeth Holmes Wikipedia page - Complete biography and timeline

United States v. Elizabeth A. Holmes Wikipedia page - Full trial details and verdict

Sunny Balwani Wikipedia page - Holmes' co-defendant and former partner

BBC News coverage - "Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes loses fraud appeal" (2025)

People Magazine prison interview - Elizabeth Holmes breaks her silence from prison (2025)

People Magazine current status - "Where Is Elizabeth Holmes Now?" (2024)

The Dropout Hulu series - Amanda Seyfried's Emmy-winning portrayal (2022)

The Inventor HBO documentary - "Out for Blood in Silicon Valley" trailer (2019)

ABC News documentary series - "The Story of Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos" complete coverage

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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 found a boy matching Bobby's description in Mississippi with traveling handyman William Walters, the Dunbar family claimed him as their son. But another woman, Julia Anderson, recognised the boy's picture in the paper and insisted he was actually her son Bruce. After a sensational trial, the court awarded the child to the Dunbars, and he lived his entire life as Bobby Dunbar. But nearly a century later, DNA testing revealed the shocking truth.

We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's this:

Disappearance of Bobby Dunbar Wikipedia page - Complete case details and DNA revelation

This American Life episode - "The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar" comprehensive investigation (2008)

This American Life transcript - Full episode transcript with all details

Medium retrospective - "The Disappearance of Bobby Dunbar: The story of the missing boy who was replaced with another" (2020)

Newspapers.com clipping - "But where is Bobby?" vintage newspaper coverage (2019)

A Case for Solomon book - Tal McThenia and Margaret Dunbar Cutright's definitive account (2012)

BuzzFeed Unsolved episode - "The Bizarre Disappearance of Bobby Dunbar" (2018)

History by Day analysis - "Who Was Bobby Dunbar? A Century-Old Case Finally Solved"

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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 Tate/LaBianca murders. But it tends to be one of those topics everybody assumes they know everything about, until they hear the bizarre details. Did you know that Manson didn't actually kill movie star Sharon Tate himself, or any of the victims that 'The Manson Family' are most known for slaughtering? Or that Charles Manson was good friends with The Beach Boys, to the point where one of his songs even ended up on one of their albums? Or that the public were so fascinated with him that he was put on the cover of Rolling Stone?

It's a famous story that's been told a gazillion times, but there's way more crazy 'impress your friends at a dinner party' details in this one than you think.

We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's this:

The AMAZING 'Charles Manson's Hollywood' series of the 'You Must Remember This' podcast by Karina Longworth: http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes…

This bestselling book considered one of the definitive texts about it all:

'Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson' by Jeff Guinn: https://www.amazon.com.au/Manson-Life-Times-Charle…

'Helter Skelter' by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry - probably the most famous book about Manson, written by the lawyer who prosecuted him:

https://www.amazon.com/Helter-Skelter-Story-Manson…

The Rolling Stone cover story from 1970 'Charles Manson: The Incredible Story of the Most Dangerous Man Alive': https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/…

Charles Manson's first televised prison interview:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbW0agGFv88

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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 Dreamworks) and Meg Whitman (former CEO of Ebay), Quibi was expected to end up bigger than Netflix and Youtube combined. It had two billion dollars invested in it and the biggest talent in the world - everyone from Reese Witherspoon to Steven Spielberg - was making shows for it. Yet just six months after launching, the streamer shut down, becoming the second biggest start-up failure in history - behind only Theranos. So what the hell happened to Quibi - the biggest streaming service you’ve never heard of?

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Quibi Wikipedia page - Complete company history and timeline

The Wall Street Journal investigation - "Quibi Was Supposed to Revolutionize Hollywood. Here's Why It Failed" (2020)

The Verge's comprehensive breakdown - "11 reasons why Quibi crashed and burned in less than a year" (2020)

Deadline's exclusive shutdown interview - Jeffrey Katzenberg & Meg Whitman detail decision to shut down (2020)

Forbes analysis - "The Fatal Miscalculation That Doomed Katzenberg And Whitman's Streamer" (2020)

NBC News post-mortem - "A look at why Quibi failed so soon after launching" (2020)

BBC behind-the-scenes report - "Quibi: Why did the video app go so wrong?" (2020)

The Guardian's cautionary tale - "They built it, but people did not come: the cautionary tale of Quibi" (2020)

Entrepreneur's marketing analysis - "What Can Marketers Learn From Quibi's Failure?" (2020)

The Media Moment's post-mortems - "What Went Wrong For Quibi: The Post-Mortems" (2020)

Quibi Super Bowl commercial - The expensive ad that confused everyone (2020)

Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Produced and hosted by Rosie Waterland. Produced and edited by James Joseph. Additional production support by Kate Leaver and Hayley Staveley, along with Acast legends Guy Scott Wilson and Simon McDermott. Production Assistant: Pocket

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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 'Go-Go Juice' and brilliant catchphrases like "A dollar makes me HOLLAR (Honey Boo Boo Child)!" What started as an appearance on TLC's Toddlers & Tiaras turned into the phenomenon reality show Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, following Alana's entire family in rural Georgia - including Mama June Shannon, Sugar Bear, Chickadee, Chubbs and Pumpkin. But behind the viral memes and record-breaking ratings was a dark story of family dysfunction, drug addiction, and financial abuse. The show was abruptly canceled in 2014 amid major family scandals that shocked America. Now in her twenties, Alana Thompson has narrated a revealing 2025 Lifetime movie called 'I Was Honey Boo Boo', exposing the disturbing truth about what really happened behind the cameras - and where everyone in the infamous Honey Boo Boo family has ended up today.

CW: This episode includes some brief discussion (without any detail) of sexual abuse. 

We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's this:

This article from The Hollywood Reporter

Here Comes Honey Boo Boo review from The A.V. Club

This article from Los Angeles Times

Here Comes Honey Boo Boo Wikipedia page

Shannon family Wikipedia page

Ask Dr. Drew podcast

Alana's recent interview on Barely Famous Podcast

Alana's TikTok

Lifetime's 2025 biopic

Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Produced and hosted by Rosie Waterland. Produced and edited by James Joseph. Additional production support by Kate Leaver and Hayley Staveley, along with Acast legends Guy Scott Wilson and Simon McDermott. Production Assistant: Pocket

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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 Falcon Heene allegedly trapped inside. The "Balloon Boy" saga captivated millions for hours until the balloon landed empty and Falcon was found hiding in his family's attic. But when little Falcon told CNN "we did this for the show," the story took a dramatic turn. What followed was a media frenzy, criminal charges, and years of debate about whether the Heenes staged the whole thing as a publicity stunt or if it was a genuine accident that spiraled out of control.

We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's this:

Balloon boy hoax Wikipedia page - Complete timeline and investigation details

Netflix's Trainwreck: Balloon Boy documentary - The family tells their side of the story (2025)

The Hollywood Reporter interview - "But What if 'Balloon Boy' Wasn't a Hoax?" (2025)

People Magazine update - "Where Is the Balloon Boy Now? All About His Life After the 2009 Hoax" (2025)

TIME Magazine analysis - "The True Story Behind 'Trainwreck: Balloon Boy'" (2025)

ABC News 10-year retrospective - "'Balloon Boy's' family discusses life 10 years after incident" (2019)

Medium retrospective - "Let's Revisit Balloon Boy. A hoax we'd no longer believe" (2021)

Netflix trailer - Official Trainwreck: Balloon Boy trailer (2025)

Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Produced and hosted by Rosie Waterland. Produced and edited by James Joseph. Additional production support by Kate Leaver and Hayley Staveley, along with Acast legends Guy Scott Wilson and Simon McDermott.

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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 interspecies communication research quickly turned into something much more controversial when Margaret moved into a flooded house to live with Peter 24/7 for six months. As Peter reached sexual maturity, their relationship crossed boundaries in ways that would overshadow the entire experiment and become one of the most shocking animal research scandals in scientific history.

We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's this:

The Guardian's comprehensive investigation - "The dolphin who loved me: the Nasa-funded project that went wrong" (2014)

The Atlantic's detailed report - "How A Science Experiment Led to Sexual Encounters Between a Woman and a Dolphin" (2014)

BBC documentary - "The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins" (2014)

BBC documentary clip - "Teaching a dolphin to speak English" footage

Margaret Howe Lovatt Wikipedia page - Complete biography and experiment details

John C. Lilly's book - "Man and Dolphin" - The original research that started it all (1961)

Medium article analysis - "The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins: Watch this documentary if you are into space" (2021)

News18 retrospective - "When The Love Story Of A Dolphin And Woman Made News In The 60s" (2023)

Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Produced and hosted by Rosie Waterland. Produced and edited by James Joseph. Additional production support by Kate Leaver and Hayley Staveley, along with Acast legends Guy Scott Wilson and Simon McDermott. Production Assistant: Pocket

Looking for Breakin’ Nooz? It drops on every Tuesday, along with a whole lot of other bonus audio, video and behind the scenes content, which you can access for just a couple of bucks via theJust The Gist Patreonor Apple Subscriptions. 

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