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

<figure> <img alt="Rachelle Hampton against a textured gray backdrop." data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/11/hampton-headshot-2.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Rachelle Hampton is a writer and co-owner at <em>Defector Media</em>, and the host of <em><a href="https://defector.com/normal-gossip-podcast">Normal Gossip</a></em>, 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. </p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">After years as one of the co-hosts of <em>Slate's In Case You Missed It</em>, 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 …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/1033895/rachelle-hampton-normal-gossip-interview">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>