Just The Gist

Just The Gist of… Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

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!  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 [https://www.patreon.com/justthegist] or Apple Premium Subscriptions. Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcast [https://www.youtube.com/@JustTheGistPodcast] Follow Just The Gist on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/justthegistpodcast] and TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@justthegistpodcast] @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. ... Ruining People's Lives… By Giving Them a House (VICE TV, 2024) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cHkfUURmy4] Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (Wikipedia) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Makeover:_Home_Edition] ABC's Extreme Exploitation (The Smoking Gun, 2006) [https://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/abcs-extreme-exploitation] Things About Extreme Makeover: Home Edition That Don't Add Up (Ranker, 2024) [https://www.ranker.com/list/extreme-makeover-home-edition-fake/cheryl-adams-richkoff] Extreme Makeover Home Edition Producers Defend Show Against Families' Horror Stories (Entertainment Weekly, 2024) [https://ew.com/extreme-makeover-home-edition-producers-defend-show-against-families-horror-stories-8726880] The Untold Truth Of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (The List, 2017) [https://www.thelist.com/35201/untold-truth-extreme-makeover-home-edition/] IAmA Request: Someone Who Had Their House Redone By Extreme Makeover (Reddit, 2011) [https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/lwanl/iama_request_someone_who_had_their_house_redone/] What Happened To Ty Pennington From Extreme Makeover (Yahoo, 2026) [https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/happened-ty-pennington-extreme-makeover-194241153.html] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Just The Gist of… Amelia Earhart

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. . 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 [https://www.patreon.com/justthegist] or Apple Premium Subscriptions. Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcast [https://www.youtube.com/@JustTheGistPodcast] Follow Just The Gist on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/justthegistpodcast] and TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@justthegistpodcast] @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. . Amelia Earhart Official Website (Amelia Earhart Official Site, 2025) [https://www.ameliaearhart.com/] Inside the Many Conspiracy Theories Surrounding Amelia Earhart's Disappearance (TIME, 2019) [https://time.com/5486999/amelia-earhart-disappearance-theories/] Bulletin 46: The Crab Experiment (TIGHAR, 2007) [https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/Bulletins/46_Crabexperiment/46_crabexp.html] The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR, 2025) [https://tighar.org/] Coconut crabs: bird-eating giants on tropical islands (Natural History Museum, 2021) [https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/coconut-crabs-bird-eating-giants-on-tropical-islands.html] Review: The Aviator and the Showman by Laurie Gwen Shapiro (The New York Times, 2025) [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/books/review/the-aviator-and-the-showman-laurie-gwen-shapiro.html] The Aviator and the Showman by Laurie Gwen Shapiro (Goodreads, 2025) [https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/218460292-the-aviator-and-the-showman] The Truth About Amelia Earhart (The Atlantic, 2025) [https://archive.is/20251002150015/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/amelia-earhart-truth-conspiracy/684430/] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

JTG MINI: What the hell is going on with the Hantavirus outbreak?

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. . 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 [https://www.patreon.com/justthegist] or Apple Premium Subscriptions. Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcast [https://www.youtube.com/@JustTheGistPodcast] Follow Just The Gist on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/justthegistpodcast] and TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@justthegistpodcast] @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. . Resources: CDC Provides Update on Hantavirus Outbreak Linked to M/V Hondius Cruise Ship (CDC, 2026) [https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2026/2026-cdc-provides-update-on-hantavirus-outbreak-linked-to-m-v-hondius-cruise-ship.html] Passengers leave hantavirus-hit cruise ship in Tenerife as WHO says outbreak 'not another COVID' (UN News, 2026) [https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/05/1167477] MV Hondius docks in Tenerife, Canary Islands; passengers disembark ship hit by hantavirus (CNN, 2026) [https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/10/health/live-news/hantavirus-cruise-outbreak] Military conducts daring parachute drop to deliver critical medical support to Tristan da Cunha (GOV.UK, 2026) [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/military-conducts-daring-parachute-drop-to-deliver-critical-medical-support-to-tristan-da-cunha] 'He was deceased on the ship for several days': Irishwoman describes hantavirus outbreak (The Irish Times, 2026) [https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2026/05/04/he-was-deceased-on-the-ship-for-several-days-irishwoman-describes-hantavirus-outbreak/] YouTuber Catches Heat After Attending Wedding Amid Hantavirus Outbreak (TMZ, 2026) [https://www.tmz.com/2026/05/09/ruhi-cenet-hantavirus-turkey/] What doctors know about how the Andes hantavirus spreads (CNN, 2026) [https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/health/andes-strain-hantavirus-explained] "Super-Spreaders" and Person-to-Person Transmission of Andes Virus in Argentina (New England Journal of Medicine, 2020) [https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2009040] Gene Hackman's cause of death was heart disease, wife died of hantavirus days earlier, officials say (CBS News, 2025) [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gene-hackman-death-investigation-update-new-mexico/] Australia's isolation plan 'one of the stronger responses' to hantavirus globally, Butler says (SBS News, 2026) [https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/australians-to-be-among-final-passengers-evacuated-from-hantavirus-hit-cruise-ship/l9vlehhiw] MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak (Wikipedia, 2026) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Hondius_hantavirus_outbreak] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

ENCORE: Just The Gist of... Here Comes Honey Boo Boo

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JTG MINI: The Lorde/Jack Antonoff PowerPoint

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. 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 [https://www.patreon.com/justthegist] or Apple Premium Subscriptions. Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcast [https://www.youtube.com/@JustTheGistPodcast] Follow Just The Gist on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/justthegistpodcast] and TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@justthegistpodcast] @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 original Lorde and Jack Antonoff PowerPoint by @Buzzkillery (Twitter, 2018) [https://dfta.show/files/Lorde%20and%20Jack%20Antonoff%20-.pptx%20(2).pdf] https://www.thecut.com/article/lena-dunham-famesick-jack-antonoff-lorde-powerpoint.html Lena Dunham's Famesick Memoir and the Lorde/Jack Antonoff PowerPoint (The Cut, 2026) [https://www.thecut.com/article/lena-dunham-famesick-jack-antonoff-lorde-powerpoint.html] Someone Update The Lena Dunham/Jack Antonoff/Lorde PowerPoint (Good Soup Substack, 2026) [https://goodsoup.substack.com/p/someone-update-the-lena-dunhamjack] Throwback To The Lorde and Jack Antonoff PowerPoint (r/Fauxmoi Reddit, 2026) [https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1klkxx7/throwback_to_the_lorde_and_jack_antonoff/] ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.