Rachelle Hampton won’t admit how long she spent charting the use of ‘murmur’ in Twilight
The Verge·November 15, 2026
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 an …
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