S1 Ep1: Gossiptonin with Virgie Tovar

Normal Gossip

Comedy

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Author, activist, and podcast host Virgie Tovar joins us for our first ever gossip story! Join us as we revel in a messy grad school cohort and go on a camping trip with a dog named Pancake.

Check out Virgie’s podcast Rebel Eater’s Club and pre-order her new book, The Body Positive Journal.

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0:00.0	It's like in the buffet of things that are pleasurable in our culture.
0:04.8	Like gossip is on the table with like, snickers and stuff, you know?
0:08.3	Hi and welcome to Normal Gossip.
0:14.7	I'm Kelsey McKinney.
0:16.1	In each episode of this podcast, we're going to bring you an anonymous morsel of gossip
0:20.1	from the real world.
0:21.9	This week we have the amazing Virgi Tovar on.
0:25.4	She's the host of the podcast Rebel Eaters Club and author of several books, including
0:30.7	one coming out this year called the Body Positive Journal.
0:33.8	Thank you so much for coming on.
0:35.4	What have you been up to?
0:36.4	How are you?
0:37.4	Thank you for having me.
0:38.4	Hello.
0:39.4	Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm noticing that a lot of my friends and I fared really well
0:46.6	in sort of the first wave early pandemic and now we're sort of all falling apart.
0:52.1	And we have a theory that it's trauma.
0:55.0	And I'm like, right, like in the depths of your team trauma, which I am and many of my
0:58.6	friends are, you cannot fall apart as the thing that is going to traumatize you is unfolding.
1:04.5	You have to hold it all in.
1:06.2	And then when the coast is sort of sort of declared, then you can utterly fall apart.
1:10.4	Yeah, I'm laughing just because this is a conversation I feel like I'm also having.
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