why we love-hate gossiping (w/ shannon of fluentlyforward)

📥 sign up for my newsletter: https://cecexie.substack.com/ 🫶 support my work: https://www.patreon.com/cecexie 🎙️ SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Wkb44PEYlsB9AGEbeedx5 🎙️ APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/currently-workshopping/id1648555789 🎙️ FLUENTLYFORWARD: https://open.spotify.com/show/0B1RGr4ywF4Wn2wbNNYt2l [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://www.theringer.com/2018/12/13/18138512/blind-item-revealed-how-a-scorned-form-of-gossip-changed-hollywood 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 🖥️ join my discord: https://discord.gg/vFTnphbrzA 🚨 share your biglaw horror and non-horror stories with me: https://cecexie.com/your-biglaw-story ✍️ submit a question to ask cece: https://cecexie.com/ask-cece 💕 f o l l o w m e 💞 @cecexie everywhere instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cecexie/ tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cecexie twitter: https://twitter.com/cecexie website: https://www.cecexie.com ❓ F A Q s ❓ how old are you? 31 ('91 baby) which schools did you go to? yale (undergrad) and harvard (law school) what did you major in? economics what was your gpa and lsat score? 3.86/176 what sign/MBTI/enneagram are you? aries, ENFJ, 3w4 are you sure you're not a virgo? no part of my star chart is virgo or an earth sign, i swear