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JTG MINI: Charlie Javice, the Girl Boss Scammer Who Tricked JPMorgan Into Buying $175 Million Worth of Fake Emails
Season 1 Episode 65
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? Pre…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Just The Gist of.... D.B Cooper: The Only Person to Successfully Hijack a Plane
Season 1 Episode 64
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 …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
JTG MINI: KONY 2012
Season 1 Episode 63
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. Beyon…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Just The Gist of… Wallis Simpson and the royal abdication.
Season 1 Episode 62
Did you know King Charles was never actually supposed to be King? Charles and Diana, William and Harry - they all would have just been random side-r…
3 months ago
JTG MINI: The Man Who Lived In An Airport For 18 Years | Mehran Karimi Nasseri
Season 1 Episode 61
In the movie The Terminal, Tom Hanks plays a man who is forced to live in an airport for 9 months after his passport is declared invalid. Most people…
3 months ago
Just The Gist of… the McDonald’s Monopoly Fraud
Season 1 Episode 60
For more than a decade, the entire McDonalds Monopoly game in the US was completely rigged. From 1989 to 2001, anybody who won a major prize in the c…
3 months ago
JTG MINI: WTF is going on with Gypsy-Rose Blanchard?
Season 1 Episode 59
If you go to prison for having your mother murdered, it’s probably best not to joke about it in an effort to grow your TikTok following, no? That’s e…
3 months, 1 week ago
JTG MINI — The La La Land / Moonlight Oscars Mix-Up
Season 1 Episode 58
At the 2017 Oscars, La La Land was announced as Best Picture. The producers rushed the stage. The speeches started. And then a panicked staffer ran o…
3 months, 1 week ago
Just The Gist of… The 1989 Oscars, aka The Worst Oscars in History
Season 1 Episode 57
In 1989, the Oscars opened with Snow White going on a date with Rob Lowe, giant cardboard stars with human legs, and (for some reason) dancing tables…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
JTG MINI: The eBay Stalking Scandal
Season 1 Episode 56
In 2019, the CEO of eBay was caught up in a bizarre scandal that involved harassing a random married couple called David and Ina Steiner. David and I…
3 months, 2 weeks ago