AKA The White Mouse, AKA total badass. Nancy Wake was a Kiwi Australian nurse and journalist during WWII, which would've been heroic enough, but Nancy wanted to do more. So, she joined the French Resistance, learned how to kill Nazis with her bare hands in one-on-one combat, and spent the rest of the war smuggling Jewish people out of Nazi-occupied territory while gathering intelligence as a Special Operations Executive (AKA JAMES BOND LEVEL SHIT). Thought to be one of the inspirations behind Qu...
Mar 18, 2022•1 hr 28 min
Coming to you LIVE from Adelaide, with TWO WHOLE STORIES! Skip straight to the stories: approx 18:26 We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's this: Balloon Boy: ABC News story ten years on (including footage of THAT interview with Richard Heene and Falcon Heene): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6Gc38ib1qo Some articles: https://www.5280.com/2019/09/the-balloon-boy-hoax-solved/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/24/couple-behind-2009-balloon-boy-hoax-in-us-granted-pardo...
Mar 11, 2022•1 hr 4 min
It’s our Canberra LIVE show, which means TWO stories in one ep! Skip straight to the stories: approx 16:00 We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there’s this: Milli Vanilli: Watch the infamous press conference Rob & Fab held, trying to defend themselves (the one where they were pressured to sing & rap live): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX7UzIrGGlA Watch a lengthy interview with Fab, covering the whole saga from his point of view: https://www.youtub...
Mar 04, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Put ten super hot people on a tiny raft. Take it out to the middle of the ocean and leave it there. Wait for the orgies to begin… That’s what anthropologist Santiago Genoves thought would happen when he stuck a bunch of attractive people in a small space they couldn’t escape - lots of sex, and lots of fighting. But how things actually turned out shocked both him and the world, resulting in the Acali and its crew becoming internationally famous (or maybe that should be infamous...
Feb 25, 2022•59 min
It ended up with famous actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin being sent to prison. 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 cheating on a test. Rick Singer made a fortune when he realised that rich, entitled parents would do anything to get their kids into the best US colleges (seriously - anything. It's wild). But when Rick was busted by the FBI, he ...
Feb 18, 2022•1 hr 14 min
Imagine if two stars as big as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were kidnapped, forced to remarry, and given no choice but to start making movies together for a crazy dictator. In 1978, that actually happened. Choi Eun-hee was the most famous movie star in South Korea. Shin Sang-ok was the most famous director. They had a 'Brangelina' level marriage, with millions of people invested in their famous relationship and the movies they made as a mega-famous couple. But when they got divo...
Feb 15, 2022•1 hr 53 min
One of our most requested topics ever, we give you just the gist of O.J. Simpson, the murder of his wife wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, the Bronco chase, the crazy trial (including THAT glove), and where exactly Simpson ended up. This is a big story people, so we've broken it down for you the way only Just The Gist can. (Content Warning - this episode features talk about domestic violence. Some support resources are listed below.) We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, ther...
Feb 04, 2022•1 hr 11 min
We've been on break for a month, which meant so much Breakin' Nooz it needed its own whole episode! From Elizabeth Holmes to Ghilaine Maxwell to that glass of water the woman from Madison Avenue danced around at the Arias in the year 2000. Strap in Gisteners, there is much to discuss. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 04, 2022•54 min
Well… a wrap-up of Breakin’ Nooz, so… basically a wrap-up of what Rosie convinced Jacob was important this year. (If you’re coming to us for actual news, have we even met?) Follow us on Insta! @JustTheGistPodcast @RosieWaterland @JacobWillimStanley Email us your suGISTions! [email protected] See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jan 01, 2022•1 hr 28 min
Merry Happy! Ignore your anti-vaxxer relatives by taking a walk and revisiting Jacob’s just the gist on Santa Claus from last year. Follow us on Insta! @JustTheGistPodcast @RosieWaterland @JacobWillimStanley Email us your suGISTions! [email protected] See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 25, 2021•1 hr 14 min
HOT, SWEATY MEN. GYRATING HIPS. HUNDREDS OF TURNED ON, SCREAMING HOUSEWIVES. And… murder? The inspiration for eventual hit film Magic Mike, the infamous Chippendales show became a household name in the 80s for being THE place for women to be entertained by male strippers. What most people don’t remember though, is the string of brutal murders linked to the Chippendales dancers and the bitter rivalry between the company’s owners, Steve Banerjee and Nick De Noia. Keep an ear out...
Dec 24, 2021•1 hr 31 min
When Dorothy Stratten arrived in Hollywood as a shy, naive 18-year-old, she had never even been on a plane before. By 19, she had been named Playboy Magazine's 1980 Playmate of the Year, and started booking acting jobs in film and TV, with many believing she would be the first Playmate to achieve 'mainstream' success. But by 20, less than two years after she arrived in LA, Dorothy Stratten was dead. (Content Warning - this episode features talk about domestic violence. Some support resourc...
Dec 17, 2021•1 hr 15 min
We love us some rich idiots! And lady scammers! It was considered one of the most exclusive, snooty art galleries in the world. If you were a gazillionaire, and you wanted to buy a Picasso or a Pollock for a ridiculous amount of money, you went to the Knoedler Gallery and spoke to Ann Freedman. But everything fell apart when someone had their artwork valued at by an expert, and was informed they had spent $17 million on a FAKE. And they weren’t the only one - turns out Ann Freedman h...
Dec 10, 2021•1 hr 30 min
Currently depicted in the new film 'House of Gucci', the story of the Gucci family is almost too outrageous to be real. After Guccio Gucci created the iconic fashion brand in 1921, his children and grandchildren spent decades plotting and scheming against each other for ultimate control of the company, all of which culminated in the shocking murder of Maurizio Gucci in 1995. Skip straight to the story: approx 22:21 We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's this: The book the movie...
Dec 03, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Welcome back for another episode of Just Jazz with Rosie Waterland and Jacob Stanley. This week’s episode is all about Christmas, wreaths, trees and the man who can’t wait to put up a Christmas tree. We’re joined by the host to find out what Christmas is like for the hosts and their family, and what they’ve learned from it so far. In today's news headlines: “Tree-Killer Caleb’S Christmas wish list”. “Did you know that the first place a lot of people put their Christmas decorations is in the fron...
Nov 26, 2021•1 hr 17 min
Nellie Bly was just 21 years old when she went ‘undercover’ as a patient at an insane asylum in 1887, shocking the world with her vivid reporting on the horrors she witnessed inside. Many consider Bly’s work, ‘Ten Days In A Madhouse’, the very first example of investigative journalism - no small feat at a time when women were not permitted to be journalists in the first place (unless they agreed to only write about ‘fashion, society and gardening’&hellip...
Nov 19, 2021•57 min
FKN WOOPS. Two mothers give birth to twins on the same night at the same hospital. They take those twins home, and each raise what they assume are their non-identical twin boys. But 25 years later, through total chance, the young men discover there is someone who looks exactly like each of them living in the same city. Yep - two sets of twins had been mixed up at the hospital when they were born, and it turns out they had been identical all along, it's just that they were sent home with the wron...
Nov 12, 2021•1 hr 38 min
Gisteners / Glisteners, the trailer for Tiger King 2 dropped last week, & oh my CATNESS it has caused a commotion. We're serving the gist of what you need to know about the lawsuit Carole Baskin (friend of the podcast) immediately filed against Netflix to try to stop the release of the new series, & also serving the gist of the most important docos you NEED to watch before Tiger King 2 lands. Consider it your homework for the next two weeks 🙂 And you'll successfully complete...
Nov 05, 2021•1 hr 14 min
Do you like scary movies? This week, we're talking about the next chapter in the Blair Witch saga and the next phases of its evolution (the witch is back!) But before we go into the lasting impact of the 1999 film and its marketing strategy, we want to share some of the LEAST successful movie marketing stunts of all time with you. The original Blair Witch episode starts at around 15:12 and ends at roughly 72:54 Have a BOO-tiful HAlloween, Gisteners! Links: Visit the archi...
Oct 29, 2021•1 hr 19 min
This week we're walking you through a series of recent updates on some of our favourite characters from episodes past, including Agafia Lykov, Belle Gibson, Imelda Marcos and a bunch more. Then we're revisiting the Great Emu War of 1932, a Gistorically Significant event in Australian history which is approaching its 89th anniversary, and after that we're getting in to the Great Emu Escape of 2021. The original Emu War episode starts at around 25:20 and ends at roughly 1:01:25 If you want t...
Oct 22, 2021•1 hr 6 min
This week, we're revisiting the very first story we ever Gistified on JtG, the Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton scandal. We're catching you up on the important work that Monica's been doing in the last 2 years since our episode originally dropped, and giving you the Gist of the documentary and TV show she produced. The original story starts around 5:00 Jacob's update starts around 37:49 We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there’s this: Listen to Monica's interview on Kar...
Oct 15, 2021•52 min
We’ve got a special little treat for you, Gisteners! Jacob’s having a chat with our hero, Stuart Semple, about some of the hijinks he’s been up to in the last 18 months since we released our episode about his feud with Anish Kapoor. Revisit the original ep with us before the interview (from 4:07) or skip straight to the chat with Stuart at around 37:42 to hear us chat about his latest creations and projects, and of course, how he’s continued to punk Bean Boy. Here are the...
Oct 08, 2021•1 hr 18 min
This week Jacob's kicking things off with a quick run-down on the massive week of Britney news before he prances into the archives and gets into the bizarre case of Gypsy Rose and Deedee Blanchard. This was one of our earliest episodes, and is still in our top five most outrageous stories. A mother poisoning her daughter - did she have Munchausen syndrome by proxy? Or was her daughter's illness part of a grift? The daughter orchestrating her mother's murder - was that self defence? Or revenge? S...
Oct 01, 2021•1 hr 14 min
Introducing: “Stories of Gistorical Significance” or “Gists You Might Have Missed”. Rosie’s taking a little break at “The Spa” for a few weeks, and while she’s away Jacob's revisiting a few of our older episodes and sharing some new information that’s recently come to light, starting with the mystery of JonBenét Ramsey’s murder. We're coming up on the 25th anniversary of JonBenét's death, and a new documentary ...
Sep 24, 2021•59 min
An extreme anti-abortion law was passed in Texas this month. A woman who seeks an abortion after six weeks can be arrested, along with anybody who aids her in seeking that abortion. $10,000 bounties are being offered to the public to ‘dob’ women in. Considering most women don’t even realise they are pregnant at that early stage, this law effectively bans more than 90% of abortions in the state. Clinics are already turning women away for fear of punishment. Every woman sho...
Sep 10, 2021•1 hr 18 min
Aliens? Supernatural forces? Or just two guys called Doug and Dave ‘aving a laff? Crop Circles - huge, intricate, geometric patterns in the ground that many insist cannot possibly be made by humans - have been appearing in random fields throughout history. But where exactly do they come from, and are they proof of extraterrestrial life? DO YOU BELIEVE? Skip straight to the story - approx 26:45 We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there’s this: Watch this fairly balanced 2...
Aug 27, 2021•1 hr 50 min
Widely considered the greatest literary hoax of modern times, the story of JT Leroy seems almost impossible to believe. Bursting onto the scene in 2001 with a bestselling book and heartbreaking life story, JT Leroy was a 20-year-old writing prodigy who quickly became the celebrity of the hour. He was photographed at A-List parties. Profiled in magazines. Gus Van Sant wanted to make a movie about him. Winona Ryder cried while giving a speech about him. The Smashing Pumpkins welcomed him backstage...
Aug 20, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Jacob lives out his dream and gives us just the gist of Cher. No further description necessary. Skip to the story! Approx 18:04 We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there’s this: Here’s a nice, succinct doco about Cher’s life up to 1998 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGWrxldROLw Here’s another doco from 2003, worth a view https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8zY9JnGl0U Listen to Cher’s interview with Andrew Denton in 2018 (in...
Aug 13, 2021•1 hr 36 min
If you’re claustrophobic you’re going to struggle with this one… A lot of you requested this story after our Baby Jessica episode, so you know it’s going to be INTENSE. In 2009, there was a massive 27-hour rescue operation to save John Edward Jones, a man who got stuck in the Nutty Putty Cave - 31 metres underground, in a rock crevice so small and tight that he couldn’t even expand his chest fully to take a proper breath. And… he was completely UPSIDE DOWN. ...
Aug 09, 2021•47 min
We’ve all seen the horrific damage caused by tsunamis - buildings flattened, whole towns destroyed. But what if a tsunami wasn’t made of water? What if it was made of… molasses? As crazy as it sounds, that’s exactly what happened in Boston in 1919. A tsunami of what is basically maple syrup flooded the city, and this sticky wave destroyed everything - and killed everyone - that it came across. We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there’s this: Read Dark...
Jul 30, 2021•1 hr 3 min
