A stained chair. A disgusting stew. A girls’ trip where someone buys a dumb lamp. You may not think you need to hear the backstory of such innocuous things, but if it’s told to you in lurid detail by Rachelle Hampton on the hit podcast Normal Gossip, you will change your mind.

The premise of the podcast is simple: A listener submits an anonymous story from the regular world, which the host anonymizes to protect the (sometimes) innocent. Then the host salaciously tells the tale to a guest, who stands in for the audience by gasping, giggling, and yelling at these people to make better choices. (Spoiler: They won’t.)

Listening to the show feels like finishing a second glass of wine with one of your funner friends who then leans over conspiratorially, asking: “You wanna hear something fuckin

See Full Page