Just The Gist

In 2010, NBC tried to hand The Tonight Show, the 60-year-old crown jewel of American late night, to two different comedians. The five-year succession plan they spent years building collapsed in seven months, took down the entire network's primetime line-up with it, and ended with $45 million in severance, one million people in "I'm With Coco" t-shirts, and one of the great public-image collapses in TV history. Sixteen years later, Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno have still never spoken. This is Just The Gist of the Tonight Show battle between Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno.......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 [email protected] 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: PocketDon'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:The War for Late Night by Bill Carter (Goodreads, 2010)The Late Shift by Bill Carter (Goodreads, 1994)2010 Tonight Show conflict (Wikipedia)Conan O'Brien's 2011 Dartmouth Commencement Speech (YouTube, 2011)Conan O'Brien Can't Stop documentary (YouTube, 2011)O'Donnell to Leno: Hand over Tonight (CBS News, 2010)Jay Leno and the Tonight Show Controversy (Oprah.com, 2010) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Inside an average bee hive, 80,000 bees are running a 99% female matriarchy. The queen is the only one allowed to have sex, baby queens are made not born, and male drones get kicked out to starve in winter when they stop being useful. Throw in a mid-air sex club, royal jelly, and a waggle dance, and it might just be the most ruthlessly efficient society on earth. This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of a day in the life of a bee..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 @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] 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: PocketDon'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..A Day in the Life of a Worker Bee (Nate's Hives, 2022)Tasks and Duties Throughout the Life Cycle of a Worker Honey Bee (University of Florida IFAS, 2022)A Day in the Life of a Honey Bee (Save the Bee, 2023)Queen bee (Wikipedia, 2025)Honey bee life cycle (Wikipedia, 2025)A Day in the Life of Honey Bees (Harvest Lane Honey Australia, 2023)Who's Who in the Bee Colony Fact Sheet (Australian Honey Bee Industry Council, 2022)Bee Information (Mid-Bucks Beekeepers Association, n.d.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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 [email protected] 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: PocketDon'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)Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (Wikipedia)ABC's Extreme Exploitation (The Smoking Gun, 2006)Things About Extreme Makeover: Home Edition That Don't Add Up (Ranker, 2024)Extreme Makeover Home Edition Producers Defend Show Against Families' Horror Stories (Entertainment Weekly, 2024)The Untold Truth Of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (The List, 2017)IAmA Request: Someone Who Had Their House Redone By Extreme Makeover (Reddit, 2011)What Happened To Ty Pennington From Extreme Makeover (Yahoo, 2026) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] 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: PocketDon'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)Inside the Many Conspiracy Theories Surrounding Amelia Earhart's Disappearance (TIME, 2019)Bulletin 46: The Crab Experiment (TIGHAR, 2007)The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR, 2025)Coconut crabs: bird-eating giants on tropical islands (Natural History Museum, 2021)Review: The Aviator and the Showman by Laurie Gwen Shapiro (The New York Times, 2025)The Aviator and the Showman by Laurie Gwen Shapiro (Goodreads, 2025)The Truth About Amelia Earhart (The Atlantic, 2025) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 or Apple Premium Subscriptions.Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcastFollow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterlandWant to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at [email protected] 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: PocketDon'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)Inside the Many Conspiracy Theories Surrounding Amelia Earhart's Disappearance (TIME, 2019)Bulletin 46: The Crab Experiment (TIGHAR, 2007)The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR, 2025)Coconut crabs: bird-eating giants on tropical islands (Natural History Museum, 2021)Review: The Aviator and the Showman by Laurie Gwen Shapiro (The New York Times, 2025)The Aviator and the Showman by Laurie Gwen Shapiro (Goodreads, 2025)The Truth About Amelia Earhart (The Atlantic, 2025) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.