Everybody recognises her picture. 3-year-old Maddie McCann was on holiday with her British parents in Portugal when she disappeared from her bed one night, never to be seen again. Despite international media attention and millions in donations, investigations raised more questions than answers. Who was the man spotted carrying a sleeping child the night Maddie disappeared? Did cadaver dogs really find evidence of bodily fluids in a rental car? Why did Madeleine's parents, Gerry and Kate...

And! The Oscar winners who did - and DIDN'T - deserve it (of course we disagree). With! Rosie realising her birth certificate has a major, life-changing error. Plus! Caleb suffered a tragic moment worse than the missing petunias. Also! Justin Bieber has realised the crazy single white female is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE - Rosie has wasted a lot of time breaking down the evidence. Links: You can watch Rosie interviewing Jennette McCurdy for the next 30 days:...

A private jet for every guest, who then walked down a red carpet and got into a custom built limousine, which took them to an opulent bungalow, where they would find an intricate tapestry portrait of themselves on the wall. And that was just the first half hour. In 1971, the Shah of Iran decided to celebrate 2500 years of the Persian Empire by throwing the most expensive 3-day party the world had ever seen. Over a year in the making, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi had an entire city built from...

Plus! Rosie convinces Jacob that a Selena Gomez/Hailey Beiber conspiracy theory is real! And! Astronauts pooping in space! Also! Special appearance by Astro Bachie Dr Matt Agnew (not to do the astronaut pooping, unfortunately)! And finally...the British government nearly exterminated every cat in the country? In 2020?!? Links: Rosie's Selena Gomez/Hailey Beiber TikTok starter...

It was the 30 minute 'documentary' that had an absolute grip on the world. Kony 2012 was the first Youtube video to reach 100 million views in less than a week. Everybody on the planet seemed swept up in the attempt to 'Make Kony Famous'. We shared the video along with the #Kony2012 hashtag. We donated. We agreed to 'COVER THE NIGHT'. Even Oprah was excited. Then, less than two weeks later, it all came crashing down (and the term 'slacktivism' was born). So what was Kony 2012 all about? What...

Also! Lady Gaga has to pay her dog's kidnapper half a million bucks? And! Elton John is a Diana stan and wants no part in Camilla becoming 'Queen'. Plus! Would you cancel your wedding with minutes to spare if you saw your spouse-to-be doing... this? And! Rosie & Caleb had a big fight: whose side are you on? (Rosie's, OBVIOUSLY.) Rosie is interviewing Jennette McCurdy at All About Women. Book tickets to the live stream here:...

Locked cells, surrounded by an impenetrable concrete fortress, surrounded by high barbed wire fences, surrounded by water, on an island in San Francisco Bay. Alcatraz was considered the most 'inescapable' prison in the world. The worst of the worst were sent there. So how, in 1962, did four ragtag criminals manage to escape? Using paper maché and a piano accordion? Frank Morris, John and Clarence Anglin and Allen West went down in history for achieving the impossible: escaping from Alcatraz....

Plus! Rosie vs. Jacob: who has the most one-star rider ratings on Uber? Also! Monks on meth! Chatbots are turning into the terminator so that's cool and totally fine! And! Everybody has erectile tissue in this unexpected body part... Follow us on Insta: @justthegistpodcast Send us your suGISTions for stories and guests: [email protected] See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Totally awake. No pain relief. Just straight up raw-dogging surgery. In 1686, King Louis XIV’s anal fistula got so bad that he needed to go under the knife. But surgery for an anal fistula didn’t actually exist yet. Enter Charles-François Felix, a ‘Barber Surgeon’ willing to take on the task, as long as he could practice on as many people as he needed to get it right… All The Sun King had to do next was bite down and get through a three hour anal fistula surgery, the results of which changed...

Plus: Madonna's face! Pamela Anderson! What the hell is ChatGPT and why does it think Rosie and Jacob are in love? And, in a SHOCKING turn of events, there's a big fight over the correct time to stand up after the plane lands. Links:  Watch John Mulaney in 'New In Town': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRD2lTD8J-s And 'The Comeback Kid': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-xUD7pmh5I Listen to Rosie on It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield: https://link.chtbl.com/IALrosie  Howard Stern on Conan:...

How many boxes of hair dye does it take to change the colour of an entire race horse? One night in 1984, some very drunk Aussie criminals found out. John Gillespie and Hayden Haitana thought they had a sure fire way to win a lot of cash in horse racing - take a slow horse that nobody expects to win, and secretly swap it with an identical, but faster horse. A genius horse racing ring-in! The only problem? The fast 'Bold Personality' looks nothing like the slow 'Fine Cotton'. So Gillespie and...

Plus: Harry’s book Spare! Elizabeth Holmes doing a runner! Mormon crabs! Reccos! And a whole lot more… Links: Sarah on Conan: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sarah-silverman-returns/id1438054347?i=1000598170981 Fiona Cox tickets: https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/going-coastal  Follow us on Insta: @justthegistpodcast Send us your suGISTions for stories and guests: [email protected] See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rosie is back! And she's giving us just the gist on her favourite reason to say "why are men": ELON MUSK. We all have a bit of a sense of him - he invented Tesla, right? Also PayPal? He designs rockets for SpaceX? He's the richest man in the world and he bought Twitter? Nobody seems to know much more than the big headlines. But where did Elon Musk actually come from? How did he get rich? And did he really build himself up from nothing to become "the real life Tony Stark" just by being a...

Who on earth would CHOOSE to run 217km through the desert in the middle of summer in temperatures of up to 50 degrees Celsius in under 48 hours? In 1987 someone did just that and now it’s become one of the most popular and exclusive ultramarathons in the world. The first person to put themselves through this ordeal BY CHOICE was Al Arnold. He was almost 50 years old when he set himself the seemingly impossible challenge of running from the lowest point in North America at Badwater Basin, to...

Just a few short years ago a bunch of elite athletes started wearing silicone wristbands with shiny bits of holographic plastic on them (yes, like on a Pokemon card). Why? They claimed the shiny plastic bangles made them faster & stronger & even helped improve their sense of balance. How did they work? Nobody seemed to know… but that didn’t seem to matter. Millions of people around the world were willing to buy a Power Balance Band to see what it could do to enhance their own...

In April 1994, two groups of holiday makers on the Zambezi River were ambushed by Africa's most deadly mammal - the hippo. The attacks happened 2 days apart and 200km away from each other. But they ended up being connected to each other in a very surprising way… Each group’s stories is incredible, involving not just hippos but crocodiles, buffalo, lions, hyenas & bloodthirsty ants. But the fact that they were connected by fate/coincidence makes it extra wild.  Enjoy! Skip straight to...

It’s the Dollysode! This is one of our most frequently requested topics, and it’s our pleasure to finally serve up the gist of Miss Dolly Rebecca Parton’s rise from rags to rhinestones.  They call her the Backwoods Barbie, the Smoky Mountain Songbird, the Dolly Llama. She's probably the #1 most beloved & respected person on the planet, and by the time you’ve finished gistening to this one, we hope you’ll appreciate her even more than you already do. Yeehaw, y’all.  Skip straight to the...

So, we didn’t know this, but apparently there’s this special spear that makes any army that wields it totally invincible. Yeah. It’s called the Spear of Destiny and it's believed it was first used to kill Jesus Christ, then various different emperors & kings took turns owning it, and then Hitler got his hands on it. Over the centuries, every man (of course it was only men) who owned the spear was victorious in almost all his battles… until he inevitably lost or dropped the magic stick...

New year, new you? To celebrate the start of a new year we invited friend-of-the-pod Adam Densten to relive and recap the classic 2001 rom-com Bridget Jones’ Diary. It’s an iconic film we all know and love (especially Jacob): Renée Zellweger plays Bridget, an allegedly overweight “spinster” in her early thirties who smokes like a chimney, drinks like a fish and is desperate to find a man. Will she choose the cheeky sex god, Daniel Cleaver, or the stuffy, pompous Mark Darcy? We chat about...

It's a Breakin' Nooz recap and recco bonanza! Elizabeth Holmes is going to prison (probably), Elon Musk got booed at Dave Chappelle's comedy show, the man with the penis on his arm is doing fine, and Rosie is still waiting for one of you to steal Caleb's plinth from their backyard. This is what we think you should be watching, reading & listening to over the holidays: TV The White Lotus The Dropout Fisk Peacemaker Caleb Hammer on TikTok or YouTube PODCASTS You’re Wrong About –...

Merry Gistmas to all! We forced our pal Symon Lovett to sit through all 90 excruciating minutes of the 1989 slapstick “comedy” National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, then we brought him into the studio to relive and recap it scene-by-scene. Whether you’ve seen the movie recently, long ago, or never at all, we hope you can all appreciate the disdain we feel for it. Join us as we discuss Chevy Chase's mantrums, the film’s side-boob quota, and the blatant nationalistic propaganda. We promise...

You didn't think we'd end the year without a Rosie update, did you? This is just the gist on where Rosie's been this year and what "looking after her health" has looked like. We talk about suicidal ideation and self-harm briefly from 18:10 - 24:45. If you're not up to listening to this, please skip ahead. If you need support with this, Lifeline is available 24 hours a day on 13 11 14. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In 1987 the Royal Family needed to win back the hearts & minds of the commoners who were starting to revere the monarchy less than they had previously. Prince Edward, the youngest of Queen Elizabeth’s kids, came up with what he thought was the perfect solution: have the Windsors dress up in silly costumes & play wacky, slapstick games with celebrities on a TV special that would be broadcast around the world.  The end result was a bizarre fever dream in which famous faces like John...

It could’ve been the start of a strong friendship between two of history’s most brilliant authors. It wasn’t. When Hans Christian Andersen invited himself to stay at Charles Dickens’ house, Dickens was too polite to say no, and besides, maybe it’d be pleasant having him around the house for a few weeks. It wasn’t. Andersen wore out his welcome the same day he arrived, made everyone he encountered uncomfortable, extended his stay, ruined a marriage, and destroyed his relationship with...

It's the American Dream: open a nightclub, transform it into a strip club, become Hugh Hefner, and have anyone who stands in your way assassinated.  It's the true story of Somen Banerjeet, the creator of Chippendales Male Review, and the ruthless lengths he went to as he built his empire. This wild story has just been adapted into a TV series called 'Welcome To Chippendales' and we're obsessed. So to celebrate, we're re-releasing our episode about the Chippendales Murders from December...