Forbidden Feline Fanfiction with Ashley Reese

Normal Gossip

Comedy

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Welcome to season SEVEN of Normal Gossip! We're starting off the season strong with Ashley Reese and a story about a smutty fanfiction community. Check out Ashley on Twitter and Instagram.

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0:00.0	Hello, it's Kelsey McKinney. If you're a longtime listener of Radiotopia, you may know that we had a
0:06.4	podcast that ran from 2016 to 2020, discussing every episode of the show The West Wing.
0:11.6	I am so excited to tell you the West Wing Weekly is
0:14.7	back. Joshua Valina, who started the West Wing as Will Bailey and Riesche Kesh
0:19.2	Hereway, creator and host of Song Exploder, have reunited this election season for the West Wing Weekly political film fest
0:26.0	because watching and discussing art about politics can be a way to get perspective
0:30.0	on what's happening in the world right now
0:32.0	and sometimes you just have to turn off the news and turn to fiction,
0:35.0	while sharpening your mind on the wetstone of political conversation.
0:39.0	Each week Josh and Rishi talk about a different political film
0:42.0	with the same mix of
0:43.6	analysis and humor that made the West Wing Weekly a hit. The slate
0:47.2	ranges from classics to modern day masterpieces like Dr Strangelove,
0:51.2	Network, and Judas and the Black Messiah.
0:53.7	They're starting with the American President, the film written by Aaron Sorkin that would eventually
0:57.6	lead to the creation of the West Wing.
0:59.4	Join the conversation and the Political Film Fest by subscribing to the West Wing Weekly wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome to the season premiere of normal gossip. We are so happy to be
1:20.4	back. I am Kelsey McKinney and in each episode of this
1:23.8	podcast we're going to bring you an anonymous morsel of gossip from the real world.
1:27.6	I'm so excited to have with me today Ashley Reese. I'm going to read your
1:31.7	bio now. Ashley Reese is'm going to read your bio now.
1:33.4	Ashley Reese is a Los Angeles-born New York-based writer
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