Just The Gist

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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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  1. 21h ago

    Just The Gist of... The Execution of The Romanovs (and the search for Anastasia)

    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). . 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 | Producers: Kate Leaver, Hayley Staveley & Sammy Petersen | Acast Legend: Guy Scott-Wilson | 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 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) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  2. 3d ago • Subscribers Only

    BREAKIN' NOOZ: Punch the monkey is dead to us. ALL HAIL JIMOTHY.

    It's not news, it's NOOZ! Rosie Waterland gives just the gist of the week's most important nonsense. Episodes drop every Tuesday (along with a bunch of other bonus episodes!) for members of The Gistener Club, which you can access via the Just The Gist Patreon right here or through Apple Premium Subscriptions! This week! We finally found someone who hates James! Stella and Filip from MAFS have broken up. Love is dead. And so is the 12-month window they had to do brand partnerships before being immediately forgotten after next year's MAFS. I'm your official diamond correspondent now, bringing you crucial diamonds-are-a-scam updates as they hit my desk, and Big Diamond has INFILTRATED THE GOVERNMENT MY FRIENDS. Natalie Portman was apparently working with a writer friend of hers while that friend was writing her autobiography. But then that friend found her so insufferable and annoying that she gave up on the autobiography and wrote a fiction book about a writer struggling to write an autobiography about her insufferable and annoying movie star friend. JUICY. Life Of M by Rachel Cusk is available for pre-order here. Read 'A novelist’s dark portrait of Natalie Portman: Rachel Cusk’s new book mines the actress’s life' by Valerie Stivers here. Punch can get lost - IT'S ALL ABOUT JIMOTHY NOW. Taylor Frankie Paul's season of The Bachelorette was apparently going to air but... this is Taylor Frankie Paul we're dealing with. Britney chat! Other things! . BREAKIN' NOOZ! eps are bonus content for Gistener Club members - join via the JTG 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 Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer: James Joseph | Producers: Kate Leaver, Hayley Staveley and Sammy Petersen | Assistant Podcast Producer: 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.

    BREAKIN' NOOZ: Punch the monkey is dead to us. ALL HAIL JIMOTHY.

  3. 6d ago

    Just The Gist of... Tania Head, The Fake 9/11 Survivor

    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? . 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 | Producers: Kate Leaver, Hayley Staveley & Sammy Petersen | Acast Legend: Guy Scott-Wilson | 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 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) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  4. Jul 14

    JTG MINI: Phia, Phoebe Gates and the 'cookie stuffing' scandal

    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. . 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 | Producers: Kate Leaver, Hayley Staveley & Sammy Petersen | Acast Legend: Guy Scott-Wilson | 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. . 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) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  5. Jul 13 • Subscribers Only

    BREAKIN' NOOZ: Voice Memo Guy, Love Trapped and WHY ARE MEN.

    It's not news, it's NOOZ! Rosie Waterland gives just the gist of the week's most important nonsense. Episodes drop every Tuesday (along with a bunch of other bonus episodes!) for members of The Gistener Club, which you can access via the Just The Gist Patreon right here or through Apple Premium Subscriptions! This week! If I ever write another memoir, it will officially be called 'From My Eyeballs To My Anus - Musings on life, love and medical misadventures' by Rosie Waterland. Emmy nominations are in, and Ariana Madix officially won the game of Vanderpump Rules. She reigns victorious, while the rest of them are fighting over 'friend of' spots on The Valley. PLUS - Brittany Allen has been nominated for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series - after she submitted herself for consideration when she was told HBO wouldn’t be including her with the actors they were putting up for awards. How does that even work?!? We go into it. LOVE TRAPPED OMG LOVE TRAPPED YOU SIMPLY MUST LISTEN TO THE PODCAST CALLED LOVE TRAPPED. Something weird is going on with that messy doctor who dobbed in Erin Patterson and then loved all the press attention surrounding the mushroom trial. But did we expect anything more from a man in his 40s with a mullet and Homer Simpson jumper? Read Sentinel Times articles 'Lifesaving medication held hostage in records standoff' here and 'Leongatha patients still locked out of medical records' here. Read Daily Mail's 'He blew the whistle on evil mushroom killer Erin Patterson - but now the hero doc is unemployed and flat broke after branding her a 'crazy b***h'' here. Everyone is talking about 'Voice Memo Guy' - we play the voice memo (and I nearly break up with James). Listen to the voice memo here. Apparently the most popular Millennial girls names are now considered 'old lady names' by Gen Z. If you're an elder millennial, think of the names that made up 95% of the girls in your primary school class - Jessica, Ashley, Sarah, Michelle, Amy, Melissa, Amanda, Caitlin, Lauren, Rebecca, Stephanie... Gen Z looks at your name and sees it the same way we saw names like Karen, Deborah, Sharon and Susan. Other sutff! RECCOS! James: London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth by Patrick Radden Keefe Rosie: Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan ... BREAKIN' NOOZ! eps are bonus content for Gistener Club members - join via the JTG 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 Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer: James Joseph | Senior Editor: Sammy Petersen | Producers: Kate Leaver, Hayley Staveley and Sammy Petersen | Assistant Podcast Producer: 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.

    BREAKIN' NOOZ: Voice Memo Guy, Love Trapped and WHY ARE MEN.

  6. Jul 8

    Just The Gist of... Bernie Madoff

    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. . 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 | Producers: Kate Leaver, Hayley Staveley & Sammy Petersen | Acast Legend: Guy Scott-Wilson | 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. . 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) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  7. Jul 7

    JTG MINI: How Pop Mart lost billions on the rise and fall of Labubus.

    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. . 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 | Producers: Kate Leaver, Hayley Staveley & Sammy Petersen | Acast Legend: Guy Scott-Wilson | 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. . 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) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  8. Jul 6 • Subscribers Only

    BREAKIN' NOOZ: Literally everyone on earth was invited to Taylor Swift's wedding except Blake Lively (and Brooklyn Beckham's hot sauce).

    It's not news, it's NOOZ! Rosie Waterland gives just the gist of the week's most important nonsense. Episodes drop every Tuesday (along with a bunch of other bonus episodes!) for members of The Gistener Club, which you can access via the Just The Gist Patreon right here or through Apple Premium Subscriptions! This week: James was very, very excited to hear about the Taylor and Travis wedding. One of Rosie's nieces is possibly a genius psychopath. Brooklyn Beckham's hot sauce company, 'Cloud 23', is - shockingly - not doing well. It's been dropped from most of the bougie supermarkets it was stocked in and isn't even available on its own website anymore. Lucky we got a box for our ironic nonsense collection in Just The Studio. James was also very excited to hear more news about the Ashley Tisdale 'Toxic Mom Group' drama. Airing of Taylor Frankie Paul's season of The Bachelorette is reportedly going AHEAD and will drop in August. We ask the two most important questions: Should I watch it? vs Will I watch it? A guy accused his Alexa of listening to him without his permission because it knew stuff about him it shouldn't, and the Alexa GOT MAD AND SNAPPED AT HIM. We are all doomed. An absolutely 'NO THANK YOU' fact about Tom Felton. Important fart information (about the silent but deadly ones). . BREAKIN' NOOZ! eps are bonus content for Gistener Club members - join via the JTG 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 Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer: James Joseph | Senior Editor: Sammy Petersen | Producers: Kate Leaver and 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.

    BREAKIN' NOOZ: Literally everyone on earth was invited to Taylor Swift's wedding except Blake Lively (and Brooklyn Beckham's hot sauce).
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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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  • Creator
    Just The Network
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    140
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Rosie Waterland
  • Show Website
    Just The Gist
  • Provider
    Always Look Up Pty Ltd

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