The Most Ominous Bird with Alanna Bennett

Normal Gossip

Comedy

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Alanna Bennett joins us to explore what happens to you—physically and metaphysically—when you get into a fight with a magician.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. Recently, my friend Junklin Hill joined me on normal gossip to hear the tale of a
0:06.4	roommate prank gone wrong. If you enjoyed her episode, I know I did. I think you will love her
0:13.1	podcasted box called Explain It to Me. Each week, listeners call in with a question on anything
0:18.8	from personal finance to relationships to politics to health.
0:22.9	Then, John Colin takes us on a journey to find answers.
0:26.1	Is a house still a good investment?
0:28.3	Why does dating suck for guys?
0:31.1	You'll get the answers you were looking for and sometimes ones you didn't expect.
0:36.0	New episodes have explained it to me to drop every Sunday
0:38.5	wherever you get your podcast.
0:46.8	Hello and welcome to normal gossip. I'm your host Rachel Hampton and in each episode of this
0:51.9	podcast, we're going to bring you an anonymous morsel of gossip from the real world. Welcome to episode four y'all. Today I am so, so excited to be joined by Alana Bennett. Alana is a screenwriter and culture writer who has written for film and television, including shows like Exo Kitty and Roswell.
1:15.4	Alana's writing has appeared in The New York Times, Teen Vogue, The Cut, and every other important publication.
1:16.9	Her first novel, The Education of Kia Greer, comes out May 13th.
1:22.2	Alana, welcome.
1:23.6	Thank you so much for joining me.
1:25.8	I am so, so happy to be here.
1:27.7	Hello.
1:28.6	I'm so excited.
1:29.9	You're here.
1:31.0	My first question is, do you consider yourself a gossip?
1:35.9	I do consider myself a gossip.
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