How To Gossip for Good
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Psssst. You didn't hear this from me, but gossiping—can be good for you! Our series on embracing your inner antihero wraps—for now—with a guilty pleasure: gossiping. Normal Gossip host (and beloved former Slatester) Rachelle Hampton sits down with How To!'s Carvell Wallace to dish on the right way to gossip, the link between whisper networks and safety, and the importance of leaving no receipts.
This conversation concludes—for now!—our miniseries on embracing your inner antihero. Check out our episodes on How To Get Sweet, Sweet Revenge and How To Be an Ethical Hater.
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The show is produced by Rosemary Belson, with Kevin Bendis. Our technical director is Merritt Jacob and our supervising producer is Joel Meyer. This episode was produced by Sophie Summergrad.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, I'm Susie Weiss, and I've noticed there's just simply not enough podcasts in the world. So I'm launching my own. Let's go. Let's go, baby. Second Thought is a weekly show about pop culture. The stuff everyone's been binging, arguing about, obsessing over. Here's the thing about heated rivalry. I mean, even the most devoted swifties, I think we can agree, not our best work. We'll be hosting thoughtful conversations with culture's most important figures. Talk about genius. |
| 0:22.6 | Talk about generational talent. |
| 0:23.7 | Coming to headphones near you on April 17th with a first guest you won't want to miss. Available wherever you get your podcasts. Have you ever had someone get mad at you for sharing a piece of gossip? Has it ever gotten back to you that it came from you? I've had my mom get mad at me for sharing a piece of gossip. |
| 0:39.1 | Yes. Yeah, there it is. |
| 0:41.3 | My parents also are always telling me, they're like, |
| 0:44.1 | Rachel can't hold water, like don't tell her anything. |
| 0:47.0 | And they tell me everything anyway. |
| 0:49.1 | Yeah, right. |
| 0:50.5 | Because they're gossip. |
| 0:51.8 | See, this is what people are understand. |
| 0:52.9 | They want to hear what I have to say about it. |
| 0:57.7 | Welcome to how to. |
| 0:59.2 | I'm Carveau Wallace. |
| 1:00.7 | You know, there's this one piece of incredibly juicy Hollywood gossip that I've held |
| 1:06.5 | onto for years, maybe even a decade. |
| 1:09.2 | I'm talking super juicy. It involves mega A-list celebrities, |
| 1:13.9 | illicit sexual encounters, a cult or two secret agents. It's like pure drama, scalding hot tea. |
| 1:21.5 | And I love that piece of gossip. It's like having money in the bank. It's like a verbal 401k. |
| 1:35.3 | It's like a delicious frozen homemade lasagna that I can heat up for comfort when the weather is cold and I'm too tired to cook. But the thing is, I've never shared it publicly. |
| 1:38.3 | I've never written about it or even tweeted about it, even when I had a somewhat bigish following on Twitter. |
| 1:43.3 | In fact, I've maybe told |
| 1:45.6 | like 10 people about this in total. That's because to me it's not just a juicy story to be |
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