Hello and welcome to wrong turns.

This is the podcast where dignity goes firmly to die, where we tell our saddest or funniest

and most ridiculous stories where there is no silver lining.

There's no great lesson learned,

no wisdom gained. And I always invite my favorite funny people on to tell me their tales of woe.

And this week, I have quite the trio. All guests today are co-hosts of the podcast Podcrush,

and they are the authors of the brand new book, Crushmore essays on love, loss and coming of age. Joining me, we have an award-winning actor, musician, and producer known for Gossip Girl EZA and you. It's Penn Fucking Badgley. Hello! I want to know what awards. That's what I was going to ask. That's chat GPT. All right, so that's... Surely it's something to do with being very sexy.

Probably like a teen choice award or something.

Yeah, exactly.

Best sound for Gossip Girl season three teen choice award.

We all got one.

There should be a great mustache award, surely.

This is very good to what you're rocking right now.

Is this a visual podcast? Are people going to see this? A little bit.

All right. Great. I keep not shaving it off and there it is.

We're also thrilled to welcome an illustrative video creator and community organizer. It's Sophie Ansari. Yay.

I love that none of you. Thanks join in. You you. I know. I put that in one bio and now everybody introduces me as that. And I'm like, oh, shoot. It sounds a little pretentious. I think I should take it out. You're through one party. The Nobel Prize winning activist. And we have writer, producer, director and and an award-winning documentary filmmaker. She was previously a researcher and writer for the United Nations. It's Nava fucking Kavan. Hello. Yay. Did you do any of that as well? Yes, all of that. My documentary did win awards. That's true. No, I did know that. I did know that. Yeah. You said that you went and I'm like, okay, I have to shut up. Everyone's bumholes just went, clasped together. That is too dignified. We need to make a wrong turn. Don't worry. My story is going to, any dignity that we've started with, it'll evaporate by the end of this episode. I can't wait. Do you guys tend to take disaster in your stride or does it cripple you for months and months a month?

I'm not sure, but I think I might take it in stride because I really struggled to think of a story here, to be honest.

I really wasn't like, oh, I've got this, oh, this is mortifying, oh, I'm, hang it.

Because the things that for me are mortifying, I'm like, I'm not telling that one. I'm not, I'm not like a true mortification. Like, I'm saying the things that I lay awake at night thinking about, like, you'll never hear me talk about those things anywhere. It's not just here. Thanks for coming on, Penn. That's great. I'll see you. I have some great stories that you will never hear.

What about you, Sophie?

Yeah, I mean, I'm constantly putting my... I have some great stories that you will never hear. What about you, Sophie?

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