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The brand new official Just The Gist podcast is right here (and we've had a glow up)! Rosie Waterland tells amazing stories about anything and everything, but with just enough detail to make you sound impressive at a dinner party. Let's get Gistening.... Subscribe now so we pop straight back into your feed the moment a new episode drops. Got a question, suggistion, or burning hot take? Get in touch: hello@justthegist.com.au Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 5 DAYS AGO

    Just The Gist of... The Jonestown Massacre

    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. . We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions. Watch Just The Gist episodes on YouTube @JustTheGistPodcast Follow Just The Gist on Instagram @JustTheGistPodcast and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcast Follow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterland Want to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at hello@justthegist.com.au Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: Pocket Don't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently! Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party. . 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 3m

  2. 6 DAYS AGO

    JTG MINI: Alysa Liu

    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. . We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions. Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcast Follow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcast Follow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterland Want to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at hello@justthegist.com.au  Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: Pocket Don't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently! Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party. . 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    56 min

  3. 18 FEB

    Just The Gist of... 'How Do I Live'. One song, two versions and a huge public battle.

    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. . We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions. Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcast Follow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcast Follow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterland Want to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at hello@justthegist.com.au  Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: Pocket Don't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently! Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party. . 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    52 min

  4. 17 FEB

    JTG MINI: Steven Bradbury

    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.  ..... We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions. Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcast Follow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcast Follow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterland Want to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at hello@justthegist.com.au  Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: Pocket Don't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently! Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party. .......... 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    43 min

  5. 11 FEB

    Just The Gist of… Tyra Banks (and her history of bizarre business failures).

    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).  . We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions. Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcast Follow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcast Follow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterland Want to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at hello@justthegist.com.au  Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: Pocket Don't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently! Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party. . 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  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 19m

  6. 10 FEB

    JTG MINI: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s Newsnight Interview

    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.) … Breakin’ Nooz eps are bonus content for Gistener Club members - join via the JTG Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions! Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: Pocket Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcast Follow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcast Follow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterland Want to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at hello@justthegist.com.au Don’t forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!  Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party. … 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 … If this episode was difficult for you, please contact (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) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    59 min

  7. 4 FEB

    Just The Gist of: Biosphere 2

    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. . We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions. Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcast Follow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcast Follow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterland Want to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at hello@justthegist.com.au  Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: Pocket Don't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently! Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party. . 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   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 16m

  8. 3 FEB

    JTG MIN-EDIUM... John Allen Chau

    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. . We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions. Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcast Follow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcast Follow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterland Want to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at hello@justthegist.com.au  Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producer: Kate Leaver | Additional production support: Hayley Staveley | Acast Legends: Guy Scott-Wilson and Simon McDermott | Production Assistant: Pocket Don't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently! Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party. . 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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 1m
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The brand new official Just The Gist podcast is right here (and we've had a glow up)! Rosie Waterland tells amazing stories about anything and everything, but with just enough detail to make you sound impressive at a dinner party. Let's get Gistening.... Subscribe now so we pop straight back into your feed the moment a new episode drops. Got a question, suggistion, or burning hot take? Get in touch: hello@justthegist.com.au Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    Just The Network
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    86
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