Just The Gist

In the 1960s, Margaret Howe Lovatt became part of a NASA-funded experiment to teach a dolphin named Peter to speak English. What started as groundbreaking interspecies communication research quickly turned into something much more controversial when Margaret moved into a flooded house to live with Peter 24/7 for six months. As Peter reached sexual maturity, their relationship crossed boundaries in ways that would overshadow the entire experiment and become one of the most shocking animal research scandals in scientific history.

We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's this:
The Guardian's comprehensive investigation - "The dolphin who loved me: the Nasa-funded project that went wrong" (2014)
The Atlantic's detailed report - "How A Science Experiment Led to Sexual Encounters Between a Woman and a Dolphin" (2014)
BBC documentary - "The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins" (2014)
BBC documentary clip - "Teaching a dolphin to speak English" footage
Margaret Howe Lovatt Wikipedia page - Complete biography and experiment details
John C. Lilly's book - "Man and Dolphin" - The original research that started it all (1961)
Medium article analysis - "The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins: Watch this documentary if you are into space" (2021)
News18 retrospective - "When The Love Story Of A Dolphin And Woman Made News In The 60s" (2023)

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(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).
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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
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"My eyesight is not so good darling, I didn't want to miss." The line that finally convinced her own daughters she'd done it, after 17 years of prison visits.
In 1995, Maurizio Gucci walked into his office building in Milan and was shot four times. His ex-wife Patrizia Reggiani was convicted of arranging the hit, and their two daughters - Alessandra and Allegra Gucci - spent nearly two decades visiting her in prison, certain she was innocent. Because the list of people who may have wanted Maurizio dead was long: he had ousted every other Gucci from the family company, cut off the licensing deals making his cousins rich, and sent his own 81-year-old uncle to prison for tax evasion. Then he lost Gucci anyway.
This is Just The Gist of the murder of Maurizio Gucci: the true story behind the 2021 Ridley Scott film 'House of Gucci' starring Lady Gaga, the family feud that cost the Guccis their own brand, and Patrizia Reggiani, the ex-wife who now spends her days luxury shopping with a parrot on her shoulder.
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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 | Producers: Kate Leaver, Hayley Staveley & Sammy Petersen | Acast Legend: Guy Scott-Wilson | Production Assistant: Pocket
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The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed by Sara Gay Forden (2000)
Allegra Gucci Speaks to Vanity Fair About Her Mother, Her New Book, and What She Thinks of 'House of Gucci' (Vanity Fair, 2022)
Allegra Gucci breaks lifelong silence on father's murder (New York Post, 2022)
Killing Gucci: People Magazine Investigates (Investigation Discovery, 2021)
The Outrageous True Story Behind the 'House of Gucci' Movie (Time, 2021)
Trailer for Assassination of Maurizio Gucci, People Magazine Investigates: Crimes of Fashion (Facebook, 2018)
The Gucci wife and the hitman: fashion's darkest tale (The Guardian, 2016)
Crime of Fashion (Power, Privilege and Justice on YouTube, 2005)

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"There’s a reason being hung upside down was once used as a form of torture."

It’s the horror story cavers tell each other as a warning. In 2009, 26-year-old medical student John Jones went spelunking with his brother and nine friends in Utah’s Nutty Putty Cave - a system of tunnels so tight you literally have to breathe out to fit through them. John was aiming to squeeze through the famous tunnel called ‘The Birth Canal’. But... he picked the wrong tunnel. This is Just The Gist (MINI) of the Nutty Putty Cave: John Edward Jones, the dead-end tunnel called ‘Ed’s Push’, the 137 rescuers who spent 27 hours trying to reach him, and the reason the cave has been sealed shut with concrete ever since.
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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
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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 | Producers: Kate Leaver, Hayley Staveley & Sammy Petersen | Acast Legend: Guy Scott-Wilson | Production Assistant: Pocket
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Nutty Putty: ‘I really, really want to get out’ (The Salt Lake Tribune, 2018)
Nutty Putty: ‘We’re going to get you out’ (The Salt Lake Tribune, 2018)
Man trapped in Utah County’s Nutty Putty cave dies (Deseret News, 2009)
Nutty Putty Cave accident victim’s widow: ‘I know there is life after death’ (Deseret News, 2016)
Nutty Putty Cave Was A Hotspot For Underground Explorers, Until One Spelunker Got Trapped Inside (All That’s Interesting, 2023)
Nutty Putty Cave Accident (Cave Haven, 2023)
The Last Descent Official Trailer (Rotten Tomatoes Indie on YouTube, 2016)
Buried Alive: the Nutty Putty Cave Incident (ABSTRACT on YouTube, 2021)
John Jones, Caver Dies While Exploring Cave with Family in Utah (Horror Stories on YouTube, 2023)

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One day they were the most powerful and wealthy royal family in the world, their ancestors having been in charge of Russia for more than 300 years. NEK MINIT... Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alix and their five children (including the legendary Anastasia) are taken down to a basement in the middle of the night and killed, in a VERY botched and violent execution. For years, Russia refused to acknowledge what really happened that night, which led to much speculation about their fate. Thanks to DNA testing, the bodies of Nicholas, Alix and four of their children were finally identified and given a royal burial in 1998.
But the skeletal remains of the other two Romanov children are still, to this day, sitting in a Russian archive, because the Russian Orthodox Church refuses to acknowledge them as authentic Romanovs, despite DNA proof. So... does the church know something we don’t know? Did all of the Romanovs actually die that night? Or did 16-year-old Anastasia escape and move to Florida, eventually retire and become one of the Golden Girls?

This is Just The Gist of the execution of the Romanov Family (and the ongoing speculation about Anastasia).
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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 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 | Producers: Kate Leaver, Hayley Staveley & Sammy Petersen | Acast Legend: Guy Scott-Wilson | Production Assistant: Pocket
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The Last Czars (Netflix, 2019)
Russia’s Lost Princesses (BBC, 2014)
Why the Romanov Family’s Fate Was a Secret Until the Fall of the Soviet Union (History, 2018)
DNA Analysis Confirms Authenticity of Romanovs’ Remains (Smithsonian Magazine, 2018)
Anna Anderson (TIME, 2009)
Putting the Romanovs to rest (Meduza, 2025)
Episode 310: Rasputin Part I (Last Podcast on the Left, 2018)
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