Rachelle Hampton won’t admit how long she spent charting the use of ‘murmur’ in Twilight

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Rachelle Hampton is a writer and co-owner at Defector Media, and the host of Normal Gossip, a podcast of anonymous listener-submitted stories about everyday drama. Whether that’s lies about luxury wool in a literal knitting circle, the impeachment of a hypocritical HOA president, or a COVID outbreak at a destination wedding with an absurd 25 bridesmaids, each story is unique in its absurdity, yet weirdly relatable.

After years as one of the co-hosts of Slate’s In Case You Missed It, a podcast that required her to be chronically online, Hampton is enjoying being a little more unplugged these days. And she has perhaps the most interesting answer we’ve ever received to the question “what’s worth splurging on?”

What is your most indispensable tool (analog or digital, app or hardware)?

I think it has to be the Notes app. My entire life is in there! My relationship to...

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