Normal Gossip - A little announcement 🐥

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Starting point is 00:00:30 on the theory of everything podcast with weekly episodes. Find it wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome back to Normal Gossip. I'm Kelsey McKinney and in each episode of this show, we usually bring you a gossip story from the real world. But today, we are here with a very fun announcement. Alex, say hello. Hi, I'm here.

Starting point is 00:00:55 Alex, are you excited about our announcement? Oh, I am so excited. Do you want to tell our friends what our secret is, what our big announcement is? Oh my gosh, I've been dying to share because people have been asking. Many have been asking. They are asking.

Starting point is 00:01:14 Are you going on tour again? Are you doing more live shows? The answer is yes. Yes, we are. We are going on a little mini tour. Baby tour. Baby tour because we had such a great time on our tour last summer and there are so many cities in the US.

Starting point is 00:01:34 So many big country. Let me tell you. So many more than the eight that we visited last summer. So we picked four more cities. Four more cities. four more cities. Four more cities to visit. And I think that, you know, we, we love telling this story. It's the exact same story, exact same show that we did this summer. So if you saw it this summer, you are welcome to come back again. But it will be the same story because we love

Starting point is 00:01:59 it so much. We're going to go on tour in March because Alex and I thought, you know, March is a terrible month. What if we did something fun instead of just sitting in our apartment and crying? So we will be in Dallas on March 6th at the Majestic Theater in Atlanta, Georgia on March 8th at Symphony Hall in Durham, North Carolina on March 11th at the Carolina Theater and in Washington, DC on March 13th at the Warner Theater. The normal gossip tour of the Southeast. Hell yeah, it's time for us to visit the South. It's time for us to go to Waffle House. It's time for us to get pub subs.

Starting point is 00:02:36 It's time for us to go to Zaxxese. I'm so excited. She's losing it. She hasn't even said go dogs yet, but I can feel it inside her blood. No. Oh, dogs, sick losing it. She hasn't even said go dogs yet, but I can feel it inside her blood. Oh, no. Oh, dogs. Sick of it. Oh, Jesus.

Starting point is 00:02:50 Alex, can you tell the people what they can expect from our live show? Yes, so it's fun, I think, and I went to all of them, so I would know. Wow. Go off. Stop bragging. We have wonderful guests. We have some great fan favorites and new friends lined up for these shows. And let's see, we have glow sticks.

Starting point is 00:03:16 Everyone loves glow sticks. Very exciting. Everybody gets to make noises at certain controlled times. Alex, you wear a squirrel hat, which is very exciting. It's really fun. My biggest endorsement for the show is that it is one of my favorite stories that we've ever told.

Starting point is 00:03:38 It is so fun. It is so ridiculous. I last night was freaking out as one does and was like, oh, shit, do I even remember this story at all? But then turns out I remember all of it because it's great. I love it so much. I have never thought of camping the same way again. Or horses.

Starting point is 00:03:57 Or Oakleys. Oakleys. Yeah, so come to the Normal Gossip Live show. You too can have all of your associations with Horses Oakley in camping changed. Yes. Tickets are on sale now at normalgossiplive.com. Normal gossiplive.com. Ooh, see you there.

Starting point is 00:04:18 Yeah, see you there. Can't wait. For the second portion of this episode, we're just going to answer a few questions that are commonly asked. I know we have a lot of new friends here. Hello everybody. So these are questions that we get a lot and we just thought it'd be great to do a little refresher. Kelsey, what is our first question that we are answering? Why are you coming to my city? Please, please sir, can I have some gossip? Oh, you mister, are you my dad? Like please help me.

Starting point is 00:05:07 Oh, come to my city. We have fish and chips. Yeah, Alex, why aren't we going to every city in the world? Because I'm just a sleepy girl. And so sleepy. We're so sleepy. The thing is, we wish we could go to every city, but going on tour is very logistically

Starting point is 00:05:26 difficult. We love our friends at Mills Entertainment who do most of our logistics for us. But it's still logistically difficult, and we do still have a podcast that we want to produce for you. So we're just doing a few cities. Maybe we'll do a few more cities in the future. Who's to say? If you want us to come to your city, there's a form that you can fill out that is in our

Starting point is 00:05:46 Instagram links and we'll also put that link in the show notes if you are desperate for us to come to one of your Your cities. I'm sorry to the Midwest. We do love you. We do It's a very scientific process, which is it's a Google form where we ask you to give us your zip code Yeah, and we do fancy data analysis to figure out where the most normal gossip listeners live. Yeah. So if you really want us to come to your city, simply get all of your friends who live in Detroit

Starting point is 00:06:16 to fill out our form. And then we'll be like, well, we have to go. All these people want us to come to Detroit. So consider that. OK. Next question. How do I get my story on the show? How many details should I include?

Starting point is 00:06:28 How long should it be? Oh, great question. Okay. So you can email that to us at normal gossip at defector.com. If you don't want to type, you could record a voice memo and email the voice memo to normal gossip at defector.com. Or we have a really beautiful phone number that you can call at any time. I get alerts from it to my cell phone. So that's exciting.

Starting point is 00:06:50 You can do that in 2679 gossip and we will listen to them in terms of how many details you should include. You don't have to write some people do write out the whole story and we love that because we get to hear like every little bit and piece of it. We do email the people whose stories we choose. So we will ask you follow up questions if we are intrigued by the premise. We will ask you about the anonymization that we're planning to do. Like, so what I would do is I would tell the story the way that you would tell it to your friend at a bar. And then we will ask questions if we need more. Yes, exactly. And just a little tip. We love a wacky object or a funny nickname.

Starting point is 00:07:27 Oh, yeah. We love a wacky object or a funny nickname. Everybody loves that. Really catches our attention. There's another question that we get a lot of that people have been asking me in person every time that I've read it to them, which is, when do you come back? When new episodes?

Starting point is 00:07:44 Please help me win more gossips. When new podcasts. Well, we will have new episodes in April, a new season coming up. April Fool's. April, April, not April Fool's. Not April Fool's. Mid-April probably.

Starting point is 00:08:02 In the meantime, you have this bonus episode. We may be releasing another exciting episode in between now and then that we've been working on. And also, you can always become a friend or friend of a friend level subscriber and get monthly bonus episodes on our secret podcast feed. How do they do that? How do you do that? You go to supportnormalgossip.com and sign up for a membership. And by the way, we are also working on a super secret new project that involves written words, email.

Starting point is 00:08:39 The link to that is in the show notes for this episode and also on our Instagram. Yeah. So we will see some of you in March at the live shows. I can't wait to see your big happy faces. Just a reminder, you can get those tickets at normalgossiplive.com. And we'll see the rest of you in April on the feed. Woo, can't wait to see you.

Starting point is 00:09:02 Bye. Bye. Woo! Can't wait to see you! Bye! Thank you for listening to Normal Gossip. If you have a gossip story to share with us, email us at normalgossip at defector.com or you can leave us a voicemail at 2679gossip. If you love this podcast and want us to keep making it, become a friend or a friend of a friend at supportnormalgossip.com. You can follow the show on Instagram and TikTok at Normal Gossip. And you can follow Kelsey on all social media at McKinney Kelsey. This podcast was produced by me, Alex Hujang Loughlin. Justin Ellis is Defectors Project Editor. Jasper Wang and Sean Koon are

Starting point is 00:09:43 Defectors Business Guys. Tom Lei is our editor-in-chief. J. Tolviara is our associate producer. Abigail Siegel is our intern. Dan McQuade runs our merch store which you can find at normalgossip.store. Tara Jacoby designed our show art thanks to the rest of the defector staff. Defector Media is a collectively owned subscriber-based media company and Normal Gossip is a proud member of Radio Topia. I'm Alex Sujong Laughlin and remember you did not hear this from me. Hi it's Kelsey B. Kitti and Alex Sujong Laughlin from Normal Gossip. Oh from the Normal Gossip podcast. That's not your line, babe. Ah, yes. There we go. There we go. Hey, it's Alex, Sejal, Losslin and Kelsey McKinney from the normal

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Normal Gossip - A little announcement 🐥

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