Kelsey McKinney
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607 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Feb 2025
Kelsey McKinney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Kelsey, how do you feel? I feel emotional, more emotional than I expected. But really, I mean, doing this has been one of the highlights of my career. It's an honor to bring these insane stories 20 weeks a year to the people. Like, I'm so, so grateful to everyone who listens and tells their friends to listen, who sent in gossip and who loves our work. And like,
As of right now, Rachel's in charge. I'm fucking thrilled. I'm so excited. Like I finally get to do what everyone else gets to do, which is listen to these stories like for the first time and freak out. Like I can't wait to do that. And as your first benevolent act, I get to be the guest today on your first episode, which is so exciting for me. Rachel, are you ready? I think I am.
Take it away, babe.
Oh, my God. Okay. To be honest, I'm, like, a little nervous. Like, I probably should have done this earlier because I'm, like, our poor guests, right? Like, I'm, like, I don't know what's coming. I don't know what you're going to say to me. Like, I had to pick a gossip story, and I was, like, oh, no. Yeah.
So when I started hosting the show, I do think our kind of relationship to gossip was a little different as a culture. We spent a lot of the first season trying to convince people that gossip was not evil. And that really isn't something you have to do as often anymore. Like, there's just one.
way more gossip in the world and way more positive feelings toward gossip, like a pendulum is kind of swinging. So I think when I started the show, my relationship with gossip was still like a little tentative. I kind of came into it as like, oh, you know, here's this thing that I love that people say is bad. Here's this way that I view it that I want other people to view it.
And that really has changed. I And I think now I think about gossip all the time. I've thought about it constantly for so long, right? Like I wrote a whole book about it and it's like the only thing I've been able to think about for years.
So I think my relationship with it now is much more professional, first off, but I'm also just inundated with gossip now because every single person who I ever meet is like, here's a little morsel. Would you like it? And so I am eating.
Yeah, I mean, I do think that that's probably true on some level. It is funny that now I feel like, I mean, don't read the comments, etc. But we do get criticism sometimes for people who are like, why are you talking about the importance that gossip has in the world? Everybody already knows this. And I'm like, well, all right, one, not everyone. Two, like, that wasn't true when we started.
And I think it's hard. It has been often hard for me to remember that like, The culture has changed and we were part of that change. And I'm happier for it because the stories are fucking better, right? Like people are going straight to Cam on TikTok with the craziest shit you've ever heard, which is mama mia, what a gift, you know?
Oh, my God. I do. Okay. So I know this girl, right? Well, I don't know her. A friend of a friend knows her. And she has this terrible boss, right? Like, he's the kind of guy who, like, never wears shoes in the office. Ew. Yeah. And, like, brings his dog in even though people on his staff are allergic. Rude. Yeah. And this is, like, gross tech company, right? So she, like, works all the time.
She's miserable. Yeah. And one day they're like, hey, we need you to run out and get champagne because it's your boss's birthday. And she's like, okay. So she goes to the grocery store. She's in this, like, huge rush. And the checkout clerk is, like, trying to gab with her, right? Like, he's like, you know, how's your day? How's it going? And she's, like, flustered.
And she's like, I'm so sorry, but, like, can you please hurry? Yeah.
And then he slows down. He's like taking the bottle really slowly off the conveyor belt. He's like, you know, trying to scan the bottle like halfheartedly. It's like not scanning. And she's like, I'm going to lose my fucking mind. Yeah. Then the bottle like kind of slips and it catches, you know, on the edge of that like scale thing. And it fucking shatters. I mean, glass everywhere.
Glass in his hair, glass in her hair, like sticky champagne fucking on the ceiling, right? Everywhere. Oh, my God. Help hazard. And this girl, because she is like so worked up about this terrible job that she has with this terrible boss, is like... Oh, my God. Like, I can't believe this. I'm in a rush. This is ridiculous.
You think that's a reasonable response here?
The other thing is that she's kind of raised her voice at him by being like, this is ridiculous. She has gotten a little sharp. And so she's embarrassed. She's like, I'm not really the kind of person who yells. I definitely don't want to be the kind of person who yells at a checkout guy at the grocery store. And so she's like, oh my God, I'm so sorry. It's an accident.
I did not mean to yell at you. And then she looks up and makes eye contact. And he is like, so, so, so hot Ugh. Keep going. Like, what kind of game do you have? What would you do here?
Yes, exactly. And our girl has like no game, but she is good at apologizing. So she's like, I'm so sorry. She's like swooning. Right. And he's like, what kind of person yells at a checkout guy? But there's a wink in his voice. So it's really more like, what kind of person yells at a checkout guy? I think I want to know that kind of person. And then she's like a bad person.
And he's like, hmm, I don't know about that. And then they went out for drinks after his shift was over and they got married. Yes!
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