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Hi and welcome to normal gossip. In each episode of this podcast, we're going to bring you an anonymous

worsel of gossip from the real world. I'm your host, Kelsey McKinney and this is the second of the 10

episode season four. Before we get into the gossip business first, I am thrilled to announce that we

are going to be going on tour this summer. We're going to be going to eight US cities. Let's count them. New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle.

Wow, beautiful cities. You can find venues and tickets at normal gossip live.com and we'll have that link in the show notes and in our Instagram and everything.

It's going to be a lot of fun. You know, there are glow sticks involved. We tell a brand new story. There are special guests.

Lala general on sale for tickets is Thursday, April 12 at 10 a.m. So that is tomorrow. If you are listening to this podcast, the day it came out.

If you are thinking to yourself, oh my god, tomorrow, that's 500 million years away. I can't wait that long. Well, do I have news for you?

One of the benefits of being a subscriber at the friend level or a friend of a friend level is that all of our subscribers found out on Tuesday about the tour and got access to the

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Other benefits of being the subscriber is that you get monthly bonus episodes and discounts on merch. We dropped a really cool new shirt last week designed by Tara Jacoby that has a bunch of Easter eggs from our episodes and

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So that's really fun. You can get a subscription. It's a port normal gossip.com. But as always, just listening to the show is a form of support and we really appreciate you for doing it.

Okay, let's get into the show. Let's do some gossip. Let's get into it. I am so thrilled to have here with me today.

Blithe Robertson. She's a comedian, a humor writer and the author of How to Date Man When You Hate Men. She's written for the New Yorker, New York Magazine, Esquire, and for the NPR quiz show, wait, wait, don't tell me.

Her new book, America the Beautiful, comes out on April 18th. Blithe, welcome to the show. Kelsey, thank you for having me. I am so excited that you're here.

Oh my god, me too. I cannot wait to hear some gossip. Oh my god. Yeah, I can't wait to tell you some gossip. How are you today? Let's just start, you know, basics. What do you do?

I am great. God, what have I done today? I have been waking up earlier and earlier because I'm getting so old. So I just have been doing so much work.

I've been researching things. I'm like, deciding when I'm packing for my trip to Florida tomorrow. Oh wow. I love that for you. Do you want to start off with our classic first question and tell me what your relationship to gossip is?

Yes, I love gossip. Wouldn't it be crazy if I was like, I think people who gossip are sinners? No, I love gossip. I have been waiting. Like, I think one day someone is going to con their way through the pre interview and get here and be like, I actually think you're the spawn of Satan.

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