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For years, Gypsy Rose Blanchard was the poster child for childhood illness - confined to a wheelchair, battling leukemia, muscular dystrophy, and countless other conditions. Her devoted mother Dee Dee cared for her around the clock, and the community rallied to support them with charity and free trips to Disney World. But in 2015, Dee Dee was found stabbed to death in her bedroom.

What police discovered next shocked everyone: Gy...

In 2017, Billy McFarland promised the world's most exclusive music festival on a private island once owned by Pablo Escobar. Supermodels, private jets, gourmet food, and the biggest artists - all for just $1200 a ticket. What festival-goers got instead was the influencer version of The Lord Of The Flies.

This is the story of how a 26-year-old scammer with a gift for nonsense convinced thousands of people to pay for a party that ...

This has been called one the ‘worst shark attack stories of all time’. After their yacht, ‘The Trashman’, sank in a major storm, five crew members were stranded in the middle of the ocean in a tiny inflatable dinghy. Sharks soon started circling them, taking the crew one by one, but not before starvation and thirst caused them to mentally unravel and turn on each other (seriously - one crew member got so delirious they started acti...

Possibly one of JTG’s most requested topics EVER, the show had to come back just to do this episode. In 2023, Erin Patterson invited her husband Simon and his family over for her lunch at her Leongatha home. In a move that would save his life, Simon refused the invitation, but his parents Don and Gail and Aunt and Uncle Ian Heather and Ian fell gravely ill not long after eating the beef wellington meal. Ian Wilkinson was the...

Back in 2015, she was the ‘wellness influencer’ who had ‘healed’ her terminal brain cancer by ‘eating clean’ and sticking coffee enemas up her butt. Belle Gibson launched a wellness app that Apple wanted to put on the very first Apple Watch. She published a cookbook called The Whole Pantry, won awards and selflessly donated almost everything she made to charity. Except… lol no she didn’t. She didn’t do any of it. She didn’t have ca...

Taylor Swift made headlines in 2025 when news broke that she had finally succeeded in purchasing the master recordings of all her past albums. But… Why didn’t she own them in the first place? And what’s with all the re-recordings and ‘(Taylor’s Version)’ stuff? How are Kim Kardashian and Kanye West connected to all this? And what, or who, is a ‘Scooter Braun’? Gisten in as Rosie gives you Just The Gist of the whole situation.

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IT’S FINALLY TIME! TOMORROW - Thursday Aug 14 - IS THE DAY! Just The Gist is BACK and will be dropping episodes every Thursday from now on! But first, here’s a little explainer on the new JTG. (No, Rosie does not sing, but she does cry. JUST A LITTLE.)

Here’s a link to last week’s Breakin’ Nooz (From The Van) episode on Patreon that Rosie mentioned, if you want to listen.

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BREAKIN' NOOZ! Just The Gist is BACK BÉBÉ!!!!

Make sure you follow/subscribe/tell every Gistener you ever met that your fave podcast is returning soon - with a brand new look and podcast feed, but the same old stories that you know and love. Stay tuned...

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