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    JTG MINI: The Alex Cooper vs. Alix Earle feud EXPLAINED

    21/04/2026 | 1h 2 mins.
    Get in losers - two identical blonde ladies with the same name are fighting online. But WHY are the Call Her Daddy mogul and TikTok's 12-million-follower It Girl beefing with each other? Alex Cooper signed Alix Earle and her new podcast ‘Hot Mess’ to the Unwell Network in 2023. Two years later, Alix Earle skipped an Unwell Super Bowl party (GASP!) and got dropped from the Unwell network. Last week, she reposted a Tiktok calling Alex Cooper the grim reaper. Alex Cooper replied with a video telling Alix Earle to cut the passive-aggressive reposting nonsense and just say what she wants to say. None of this matters, but everyone seems to be talking about it, so Rosie sacrificed herself at the altar of the internet to figure out what the hell is going on (and damn it, it’s juicy - even James ended up invested). This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of the Alex Cooper vs Alix Earle feud.
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    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
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    The Alex Cooper vs Alix Earle Feud, Explained (Teen Vogue, 2026)
    Alix Earle Shuts Down Rumors Surrounding Alex Cooper Feud (Us Weekly, 2026)
    Alix Earle Responds to Alex Cooper (AOL, 2026)
    Alix Earle Supported by Carl's Jr Amid Alex Cooper Drama (TMZ, 2026)
    Alex Cooper Profile (Vogue, 2025)
    Alix Earle TikTok Interview (Elle, 2023)
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    Just The Gist of... The O.J. Simpson Trial

    15/04/2026 | 1h 14 mins.
    Domestic violence that nobody took seriously, a racist police force with no accountability, a car chase watched by the entire world and… Kim Kardashian’s childhood bedroom. After the brutal murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, the trial of O.J. Simpson turned into a media circus - and was the perfect storm of events and timing that O.J. needed to be found not guilty. This is Just The Gist of the O.J. Simpson trial: ‘if it doesn’t fit, you must acquit’, Marcia Clark, the bloody glove, a jury locked up for eight months and an 85-year-old Fred Goldman refusing to stop hounding O.J. - even after his death.
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    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.
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    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 | 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.
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    O.J.: Made in America Trailer (ESPN 30 for 30, YouTube, 2016)
    You’re Wrong About: OJ Simpson Episodes (Spotify)
    The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin (Random House, 1996)
    O. J. Simpson (Wikipedia)
    OJ Simpson’s Estate Accepts $58M Claim From Father of Ron Goldman (The Guardian, 2025)
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    JTG MINI: Charlie Javice, the Girl Boss Scammer Who Tricked JPMorgan Into Buying $175 Million Worth of Fake Emails

    14/04/2026 | 59 mins.
    How does a 29-year-old with big blue eyes and a killer pitch deck walk into one of the biggest banks in the world and walk out with $175 million? Pretty easily, it turns out.

    Charlie Javice was a millennial wunderkind, Forbes 30 Under 30 darling, and the founder of FRANK - a student finance start-up helping underprivileged kids get into college (and apparently making millions doing it). After just one meeting with Charlie, JPMorgan Chase wanted in, and they offered her $175 million to buy FRANK. One tiny problem though - Charlie Javice was way better at optics and PR than she was at actually running a business… but she wasn’t going to let that be a reason to turn down $175 mil.

    What Charlie did next involved a bunch of fake emails and crossing her fingers that JPMorgan Chase wouldn’t bother to check (hint: the dudn't). This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of Charlie Javice, FRANK, a major bank ignoring basic due diligence and the court battle that has already cost more in legal fees than the whole deal did to begin with.
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    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 | 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.
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    How Charlie Javice Went From Forbes 30 Under 30 to Federal Fraud Charges (Business Insider, 2023)
    Charlie Javice Sentenced to 7 Years for JPMorgan Frank Fraud (Fortune, 2025)
    The Charlie Javice Verdict: A Wake-Up Call for Fintechs and Banking (Forbes, 2025)
    JPMorgan Is Paying Charlie Javice’s Enormous Legal Bills (The New York Times, 2025)
    Charlie Javice and the Rise and Fall of FRANK (Mary Betsy / Guzzle Blog, 2024)
    Charlie Javice: Fake It ’Til You Make It (Apple Podcasts, 2025)
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    Just The Gist of.... D.B Cooper: The Only Person to Successfully Hijack a Plane

    08/04/2026 | 48 mins.
    In 1971, a man in a business suit and a beige raincoat bought a one-way ticket to Seattle, ordered a bourbon and soda, and handed a flight attendant a note. It said he had a bomb. By the time the plane landed in Reno, he was gone — along with $200,000 in cash and, apparently, any trace of his existence. No body. No parachute. No fingerprints. Nothing. The FBI investigated for decades and officially closed the case in 2016 — never solving it. It remains the only unsolved plane hijacking in US history. This is Just The Gist of DB Cooper: the 1971 Northwest Orient hijacking, the $200,000 ransom, the parachute jump, and the mystery that has never been solved.
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    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 | 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.
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    DB Cooper and Tina Mucklow: The Untold Story (Rolling Stone, 2019)
    DB Cooper Case Files (FBI Vault)
    DB Cooper Confessions and Evidence (Popular Mechanics, 2025)
    DB Cooper: New FBI Files and Suspects (ABC News, July 2025)
    The Disappearance of DB Cooper (YouTube, 2024)
    D.B. Cooper Wikipedia

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    JTG MINI: KONY 2012

    07/04/2026 | 53 mins.
    On March 5th, 2012, a 27-minute YouTube video dropped and within six days, 100 million people had watched it. Every celebrity shared it. Oprah. Beyonce. Everyone. The premise was simple: make a Ugandan warlord named Joseph Kony so famous that the world would have to stop him. It became the fastest viral video in history. But in less than two weeks, the whole thing completely collapsed, ending with the man behind it, Invisible Children founder Jason Russell, having a very public naked breakdown on a street in San Diego.

    This is Just The Gist (MINI) of KONY 2012: the viral video, Jason Russell and Invisible Children, the slacktivism scandal, the Lord's Resistance Army, and the spectacular public meltdown that ended it all.
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    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 | 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.
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    Kony 2012 Full Video (YouTube, Invisible Children, 2012)
    Kony 2012, Ten Years On (The Guardian, April 2022)
    Why I Couldn't Stop Thinking About Kony (Narratively, 2022)
    'We're in Bad Times' Invisible Children super cool music video (YouTube, 2012)
    Kony 2012 and Interventionism (Jacobin, March 2025)
    Jason Russell on His Public Breakdown (Oprah.com, 2012)
    Kony 2012 (Wikipedia)
    Invisible Children Website

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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 with just enough detail to make you sound impressive at a dinner party. Let's get Gistening....Subscribe now so we pop straight back into your feed the moment a new episode drops. Got a question, suggistion, or burning hot take? Get in touch: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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