Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to science verses.

This is the show that pits facts against flapping our gums.

A little birdie told us that today's show is all about gossip.

Today, our very special guest, Tuck Woodstock,

the host of the very wonderful podcast, Gender Reveal.

Hello, thank you so much for inviting me to this gossip sash.

How did you feel about that?

So, you know, we've done done this season we've looked at breathing and

seed oils and UFOs but we were doing an episode on gossip and we're like

let's freak tuck in. How did you how did you feel about the invite? No, I feel great about it.

It's just so funny because in the lead up to us recording this,

there was a lot of being like,

do you have any gossip from high school that you could share?

And I was like, oh, I don't have any memories. memories I know it happened but I don't remember it I probably blocked it all out

It's so funny because I was like oh I've got to bring some gossip for. So I have an older sister and she was in uni or whatever. I don't think she'll care about me sharing this story.

She was with a group of friends and they would sometimes like smoke bongs.

And I like joined them once and I was in year 9 or 9th grade and I didn't know how to smoke a bong.

And so I think I actually sucked it from the wrong end and like everyone in the wrong end and like everyone in the circle was so high at that point that they just like looked at me like whoa

I just have this very like no no one really, they were just like different, not correct.

And I just like, I just passed it along and like said nothing more.

And then when I was at school the next day, I think I was like recounting this to a friend.

And then all of a sudden, words spread around the school that I was a druggie and I was like smoking bongs.

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