Just The Gist

By Just The Network

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 wi

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Number 1: Just The Gist of... The Billionaire Boys Club
"Tape mouth. Handcuff. Explain situation." When police finally searched missing conman Ron Levin's Beverly Hills mansion in 1984, they found a seven-page murder to-do list, left behind on the killer's own personalised letterhead, signature doodled all over it. The killer was Joe Hunt, the 24-year-old leader of the Billionaire Boys Club, an LA investment group made up of the rich, bored, freshly graduated sons of men they could never hope to impress. Hunt promised them a genius trading formula that couldn't fail. What he actually built was a Ponzi scheme, a pseudo-intellectual bro cult, and eventually two murders in which almost nobody involved had any actual money. This is the story of the scammer who got scammed, and possibly the only murderer in history to bring a to-do list. This is Just The Gist of the Billionaire Boys Club: Joe Hunt, the murder of Ron Levin, the fake $5 million trading account, the 1987 Judd Nelson miniseries, and the Kevin Spacey movie that made $618 on its opening weekend. . 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] 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 True Story of the Billionaire Boys Club (Esquire, 1986, republished 2021) Founder of Billionaire Boys Club makes case for parole (Los Angeles Times, 2018) Billionaire Boys Club, Marcia Clark Investigates The First 48 podcast (Apple Podcasts, 2018) Billionaire Boys Club, Murder Made Me Famous (2016) Dirty Rotten Kids (The Washington Post, 1990) Billionaire Boys Club 1987 miniseries starring Judd Nelson (YouTube, 1987) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
August 26, 20261h 10min
Number 2: JTG MINI: The weird process of buying a Birkin Bag (AKA 'The Hermès Game')
You can walk into an Hermès store with 20 grand in cash, ask for a Birkin bag, and they will say no. Because Hermès doesn't sell you the world's most coveted handbag, Hermès decides if you DESERVE one. Hopeful customers spend years (and tens of thousands of dollars) buying scarves, blankets and homewares first, stuff Hermès clients literally call 'garbage', all in the hope of one day being invited to spend another 15 grand on a bag. It's called The Hermès Game, and thousands of people are playing it right now. This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of The Hermès Game: Jane Birkin and the sketch on an Air France sick bag, quota bags and the pre-spend, the 10.1 million dollar original Birkin, and the sales associates who insist there are no bags in the back (there are bags in the back). . 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] 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. ... Hermès and the success of the coveted Birkin bag (60 Minutes, 2024) The Birkin Is Losing Value. Owners Refuse to Believe It. (Back Row, 2026) Birkin Buyer Confessions, Part I (Back Row, 2025) Birkin Buyer Confessions, Part II (Back Row, 2025) Inside the Hermès Game: Who Actually Gets a Birkin? (The Backrow Podcast, 2026) The Weight of a Handbag (Edie Lou Studio, 2025) How customers 'play the Hermès game' to secure a coveted luxury handbag (ABC News, 2025) How The Hermes Game Started (From A Former Hermes SA) (YouTube, 2024) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
August 19, 202654min
Number 3: JTG MINI: There’s a new ‘luxury’ bag on the market - made of T-Rex leather.
“Move over Birkin. Watch out Chanel. There’s a new apex predator.” OF LUXURY GOODS. A luxury bag made of T-rex leather was unveiled earlier this year at Amsterdam Art Zoo Museum. The leather was made by taking some collagen remnants found in a 68-million-year-old T-Rex femur bone, and smooshing them with some cells to grow T-Rex skin. That skin was then turned into leather, dyed a bluish-grey and ‘crafted’ into a luxury handbag. Experts are predicting it will sell for the amount of ‘ten Birkin Bags’. But complex science had to be part of making this happen, so was any of this (at all… even a little) for scientific benefit? Or medical research and development? Lol no. IT’S ALL ABOUT CAPITALISM BÉBÉ. The luxury industry is apparently freaking out that billionaires aren’t as interested in the usual ‘luxury goods’ anymore, because they hate that the normies (AKA the poors AKA you and me) can access the same stuff. (See last week’s JTG MINI on the Hermes Birkin.) And what’s the point of buying a thing if all the plebs can buy it too? That kind of consumption is not special enough for billionaires. Enter: Dinosaur Leather. We have officially reached the kind of dystopian future where rich ladies are sick of Birkin and are looking for the kind of exclusivity that can only come from buying the resurrected skin of a dinosaur. Try and buy a fake version of THAT in Bali you bogans! 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] 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. . World's first lab-grown T-Rex leather handbag unveiled in Amsterdam could fetch €575,000 (NL Times, 2026) T-Rex Leather case study (VML, 2026) The next killer fashion item? A handbag made from T-rex leather (The Times, 2025) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
August 25, 202629min
Number 4: BONUS BREAKIN' NOOZ: Logies and AI Gae Guys and psychotic Harry Potter fans oh my!
Surprise! Free for everyone this week! It's not news, it's NOOZ! In these JTG BONUS eps, Rosie Waterland gives just the gist of the week's most important nonsense. Episodes drop every Tuesday (along with a bunch of other bonus stuff!) 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! What do you get when you mix just the right amount of bogan nostalgia and sequinned glam? THE LOGIES. Australia's night of nights, hosted this year by national treasure Robert Irwin, who is never not smiling or reading an autocue. Protect him at all costs.The Jake Schroeder (@frostedjake) and Sam Altman saga has finally come to an end, and Rosie refuses to accept that it was fake. THIS GOES ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP.There are updates in the whole Phia scandal (gisten to our recent episode JTG MINI: What is going on with Phia? here) and things don't look good for billionaire offspring Phoebe Gates, with messages seeming to prove she and co-founder Sophia Kianni knew they're little app was doing dodgy stuff. Looks like that, 'Don't ask me, I'm just a girl!' isn't gonna cut it.A journalist for WIRED requested the data McDonalds had collected on him and they sent him over 500 PAGES specifically about him. And if you've ever eaten at Maccas, they probably have a similar file on you.A multi-million dollar powerline connecting the UK to Ireland came dangerously close to some Bronze Age remains, because (psychotic, insufferable, get it together you freaks) Harry Potter fans demanded its original planned location be moved because it 'desecrated the grave' of Dobby. A fictional character. From a fictional book.... 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 [email protected] 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
August 17, 20261h 27min
Number 5: JTG MINI: The eBay Stalking Scandal story just had a major update.
(ENCORE!) We spoke on JTG’s bonus Breakin’ Nooz this week about eBay agreeing to pay $56 million to Ina and David Steiner - the unassuming, nerdy married couple that eBay executives terrorised with live cockroaches and spiders, a bloody pig mask and a funeral wreath - all because Ina wrote about negatively about eBay on her nerdy industry blog ‘ECommerceBytes’. When we first released this episode, eBay had been found guilty, the CEO had lost his job and the Steiners had sued the company for compensation, but not yet agreed on an amount. It turns out Ina and David kept turning eBay’s offers down, until eBay agreed to give them every last thing they wanted - and they had some very specific demands. (BECAUSE THEY DESERVE IT! The CEO literally had spiders sent to their home!) Listen to this crazy story again, or hear it for the first time and marvel that the company whose motto is 'People are basically good' did any of this. This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of the eBay stalking scandal: former CEO Devin Wenig, the 'take her down' email, Jim's Angels, the pig mask from 'Saw', and David and Ina Steiner, who to this day are still cheerfully writing about eBay's seller fees (but, you know, a whole lot richer). . 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] 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. . eBay Saved Search Feature Disappoints Savvy Seller (EcommerceBytes, 2026) eBay agrees $56m settlement with bloggers over harassment case (BBC News, 2026) Whatever It Takes: Inside the eBay Scandal (ABC iview, 2024) Inside the eBay stalking scandal: How a couple became the target of harassment (60 Minutes on YouTube, 2023) Six Former eBay Employees Charged with Aggressive Cyberstalking Campaign Targeting Natick Couple (US Department of Justice, 2020) EcommerceBytes, Ina and David Steiner's e-commerce news website Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
August 04, 202650min