When trying to create a season of normal gossip, we know a few things are certain to happen. We’ll be overwhelmed by the fear of repercussions that we’ll never be able to top the previous season, and we’ll be overwhelmed with the fear of a repercussion that will never be able to top the previous season, and we’ll have to wait until the show’s inboxes are filled with crazy, likely news that will hopefully negate the first. I know how to create treasures that don’t exist.
With each new episode, we like to think: normal gossip It reveals an important truth about humanity, and perhaps it’s true. Perhaps we’ve been following the archetypes of Joseph Campbell: the hero, the trickster, the keeper of the threshold. Or as is the case with the most recent episode, “The Familiar Stranger.”
Before embarking on your Season 6 Premiere journey, it’s important to ask yourself some steady questions. Ask yourself how far you would go for a chance at love with a familiar stranger – an unknown but familiar person who happens to pass your field of vision every day and arouses impure feelings.
Does your reckless, unchecked sexual desire drive you to an act of public service? What do you do when faced with the dissociative shame hole that erupts when your unrequited love becomes PowerPoint material?
This week’s guest is Ronald Young Jr.! Ronald is an audio producer and host of an acclaimed podcast. weight for itselected by new york times Voted as the best podcast of 2023. More importantly, Ronald is our play cousin through Radiotopia! You may know him best from his appearances on NPR. pop culture happy houror as a TV and movie podcast host. Exit the theater.
Ronald came to talk about how growing up in the church affected his relationship with Gossip, and to share stories about love and betrayal in a Muay Thai gym. Kelsey then told her story of the week about how her friend’s friend Callie unexpectedly went to church and found out that her imaginary boyfriend was actually real.
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