We're doing something a little different this week! This episode, I'm joined by Shannon of FluentlyForward to talk about all things celebrity gossip and blind items. We talk about how blind items have exploded in the past few years, how we think their rising popularity is related to societal distrust of mainstream media (and whether that's a good thing), and ponder why we as humans love talking about other people so damn much. We share our own pieces of fave celeb gossip and how we feel about occasionally being in the crosshairs of online gossip ourselves--and how we would respectively dispose of a dead body, if we had to (strictly a hypothetical, we swear!).

[timestamps]

intro - 0:00

what is a blind item? - 3:38

mainstream media - 6:20

the rise of blinds during the pandemic - 9:40

blinds vs. conspiracy theories - 15:35

selena and lindsay - 21:57

researching blinds - 26:30

the risk of defamation lawsuits - 28:02

what we can learn from blinds - 34:35

too big to be trusted - 37:38

gossip is the weapon of the powerless - 45:28

when the perceivers become the perceived - 51:01

[references]

https://centennialbeauty.com/deuxmoi-anonymous-user-submitted-gossip/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/style/deuxmoi-gossip.html

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/anon-pls-review-new-novel-by-celebrity-gossip-blogger-deuxmoi-is-as-bad-as-her-posts

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