Rachelle Hampton

famously a lucky number and i feel especially lucky today because my guest is one of my dearest friends allegra frank allegra and i go way back we used to work at slate together and for a while she was an editor on my old show i see why am i where some of y'all might have heard us chop it up together currently allegra is a culture editor for the atlantic but she has written and edited for vox polygon the daily beast and the new york times allegra hello thank you so much for joining me

Hi, Rachel.

I'm so excited.

What a dream.

We have not recorded together in a hot minute.

I feel like I'm coming home.

It's like a hot hour, girl.

Hot hour, hot year, hot month.

Same.

Even though we haven't recorded in a while, we do talk, I would say, pretty regularly, which means that I know that you are a champion of gossip.

Every time I see you, I feel like you tell me something that I think about for a month.

So I'm so excited to know the answer to this question, which is what is your relationship to gossip?

Have you always been this way?

Unfortunately or fortunately, yes.

to tell the world and yes i love a little mess but those are the best stories it's really just in service of the plot of my life you're right this is actually a professional development thing that we're doing right now yes this is how we got these jobs girl from our gossip days speaking of gossip a little birdie told me that you have some gossip for me and again i know you're a champion gossip smith so i'm ready

Yeah, no, I was like, oh, so you're Lady Whistledown of your eighth grade class.

I got to stop.

You said, okay, fool me once, shame on me.

Fool me twice, shame on you.

I won't be fooling anyone three times.