A Different Kind of Finale ft Se’era Spragley Ricks
Normal Gossip
Normal Gossip
4.6 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Rachelle and Se'era discuss what's been going on behind the scenes at Normal Gossip. We do a little gossip too, because we all deserve that. See you later this year for season 10!
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Normal Gossip is hosted by Rachelle Hampton (@heyydnae) and produced by Se'era Spragley Ricks (@seera_sharae) and Jae Towle Vieira (@jaetowlevieira). Alex Sujong Laughlin (@alexlaughs) is our Supervising Producer. Justin Ellis is Defector's projects editor. Show art by Tara Jacoby.
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| 0:00.0 | Ever wondered why some trends are just suddenly everywhere? |
| 0:05.1 | Newsflash, nothing gets popular by accident. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Brittany Luce, and on the It's Been a Minute podcast, I take the things you and I are both obsessing over |
| 0:14.3 | and show you the invisible forces behind the scenes that make us love it or hate it. |
| 0:19.8 | Be smarter about what you're consuming. Listen to the |
| 0:22.8 | It's Been a Minute podcast today. |
| 0:34.1 | Hello and welcome to normal gossip. I'm your host, Rachel Hampton, and in each episode of this podcast, we're going to bring you an anonymous morsel of gossip from the real world. And as some of you might have guessed from the title of today's episode, today's episode is going to be a little bit different. I will not be telling a gossip story to a guest for reasons that I will be explaining in just a minute, |
| 0:58.6 | but I know that a substantial amount of y'all will probably be tuning out right now. |
| 1:03.5 | Hopefully we will see you back here for season 10, which will be airing sometime over the summer of 2026, |
| 1:09.6 | and which will feature some old favorites, some new |
| 1:13.5 | and phenomenal guests, and as per usual, some unforgettable gossip. All right, here is where I get |
| 1:20.8 | personal. I don't really think there is a non-dramatic way to tell this story. So thank you in advance for sticking around. |
| 1:29.3 | The weekend after Christmas, I had to go to the ER because I was experiencing some symptoms |
| 1:36.1 | of a stroke. Luckily, as you can maybe tell by the fact that I am recording now and not on, like, |
| 1:43.8 | medical leave, I did not have a stroke. But I do want to take a |
| 1:48.3 | minute to talk about something I learned in the ER, which is the acronym B-FAST. The letters stand for |
| 1:54.3 | balance, eyes, face, arms, speech, and time to get help. Basically, if you notice symptoms in yourself or someone that include trouble with balance, |
| 2:05.4 | blurred or double vision, drooping in the face or arm, and trouble with speech, then go to an ER immediately. |
| 2:11.9 | Time is definitely the essence in the event of a stroke, which those are all symptoms of. |
| 2:17.1 | What I ended up getting diagnosed with is something called Bell's Palsy, which is inflammation |
| 2:22.3 | of the facial nerve whose symptoms can mimic a stroke. |
| 2:25.9 | Luckily, my case was fairly mild. |
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