Se'era Spragley Ricks

You can follow me on all social media at heydenae, H-E-Y-Y-D-N-A-E. This podcast was produced by Sarah Spragley-Ritz and Jay Tolviera. Thank you to Samantha Gacic, our audio engineer, and thank you to Danielle Hewitt for your additional production help this season. The co-creators and dowager queens of Normal Gossip are Alex Dujong-Loughlin and Kelsey McKinney.

You can follow me on all social media at heydenae, H-E-Y-Y-D-N-A-E. This podcast was produced by Sarah Spragley-Ritz and Jay Tolviera. Thank you to Samantha Gacic, our audio engineer, and thank you to Danielle Hewitt for your additional production help this season. The co-creators and dowager queens of Normal Gossip are Alex Dujong-Loughlin and Kelsey McKinney.

Justin Ellis is Defector's projects editor. Jasper Wang and Sean Coon are Defector's business guys. Alex Dujang-Loughlin is Defector's supervising producer. Tom Lay is our editor-in-chief. Dan McQuaid runs our merch store, which you can find at normalgossip.store. Tara Jacoby designed our show art.

Justin Ellis is Defector's projects editor. Jasper Wang and Sean Coon are Defector's business guys. Alex Dujang-Loughlin is Defector's supervising producer. Tom Lay is our editor-in-chief. Dan McQuaid runs our merch store, which you can find at normalgossip.store. Tara Jacoby designed our show art.

Thank you to Catherine Chu, Brandi Jensen, Louise Pérez-Pumar, Chris Thompson, Jasper Wang, Sabrina Embler, Dave McKenna, Patrick Redford, and Ray Rado for all your help on this season. Thank you to the rest of the Defector staff. Defector Media is a collectively owned subscriber-based media company. Normal Gossip is a proud member of Radiotopia. I'm your host, Rachel Hampton.

Thank you to Catherine Chu, Brandi Jensen, Louise Pérez-Pumar, Chris Thompson, Jasper Wang, Sabrina Embler, Dave McKenna, Patrick Redford, and Ray Rado for all your help on this season. Thank you to the rest of the Defector staff. Defector Media is a collectively owned subscriber-based media company. Normal Gossip is a proud member of Radiotopia. I'm your host, Rachel Hampton.

And remember, you didn't hear this from me.

And remember, you didn't hear this from me.

Jonquiline, hello. Hello. Thank you. It's so good to be hanging out with you. You know I love a good hang.

Jonquiline, hello. Hello. Thank you. It's so good to be hanging out with you. You know I love a good hang.

OK, I've been thinking about this question a lot because gossip is actually quite important to my life for a variety of reasons. The first reason, you know, I grew up in church, black church. People have like people have said here on here before. Gossip is like currency. And in particular, I'm AME, grew up AME and my father's a pastor.

OK, I've been thinking about this question a lot because gossip is actually quite important to my life for a variety of reasons. The first reason, you know, I grew up in church, black church. People have like people have said here on here before. Gossip is like currency. And in particular, I'm AME, grew up AME and my father's a pastor.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which, wow, could be its own podcast. Truly, truly. But in that tradition, they're itinerant elders, so they get moved from church to church. Hmm. And, you know, there are people that move them from church to church. And so you have to kind of keep your ear to the streets to be like, oh, did that church open up? Did you hear anything about this?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which, wow, could be its own podcast. Truly, truly. But in that tradition, they're itinerant elders, so they get moved from church to church. Hmm. And, you know, there are people that move them from church to church. And so you have to kind of keep your ear to the streets to be like, oh, did that church open up? Did you hear anything about this?

Rumor has it that they're going to send so and so to such and such. And so that was sort of always in the background, because even though my parents were like, get out, grown folks business. Yeah. So much of being an only child is if you're quiet enough, people don't notice you and you can remain and grow in folks business without them even realizing it.

Rumor has it that they're going to send so and so to such and such. And so that was sort of always in the background, because even though my parents were like, get out, grown folks business. Yeah. So much of being an only child is if you're quiet enough, people don't notice you and you can remain and grow in folks business without them even realizing it.

So that's when I was like, oh, yeah, this interests me. I just like it because I'm a little bit messy. I love a little, hey, did you hear about blah, blah, blah? And saying no. And then, you know, sitting down and having a little chat.

So that's when I was like, oh, yeah, this interests me. I just like it because I'm a little bit messy. I love a little, hey, did you hear about blah, blah, blah? And saying no. And then, you know, sitting down and having a little chat.

Yes. Okay. So I had the great fortune of getting my eyebrows threaded at a new place not too long ago and And, you know, just making conversation with the lady as we're doing this. And she says, have you ever heard of the show Normal Gossip? And I thought, have I heard of Normal Gossip? I'm alive. I breathe air. I drink water. Of course I've heard of Normal Gossip.

Yes. Okay. So I had the great fortune of getting my eyebrows threaded at a new place not too long ago and And, you know, just making conversation with the lady as we're doing this. And she says, have you ever heard of the show Normal Gossip? And I thought, have I heard of Normal Gossip? I'm alive. I breathe air. I drink water. Of course I've heard of Normal Gossip.