Top 5: Throw Yourself into Fandom

This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human. Pushkin. This fall marks the fifth birthday of the Happiness Lab. Since 2019, we've put out hundreds of episodes, but for our anniversary season, I've asked my producer Ryan Dilly to pull my five favorite episodes from the archive to release again, so you can check them out.

Brian. What's our number four episode? This one's called Nerd out the happiness of being a fan. Oh right, I love this one. This is an entire episode about the happiness benefits of being a fan. Something, Ryan, that as my friend, you know, I spend a lot of time doing. That's true. So tell the audience other than psychology, what do you nerd out? Well, one thing as you know is that I nerd out a lot about Star Wars. In fact At the most recent comic con in my city, I got to meet Billy D. Williams, the Brandon Calicean from the Star Wars series, with my mom, which is a wonderful memory. But the show is about a lot more than just being like a Star Wars or Star Trek, as we talk about in this uh episode fan. It's really more about the psychological benefits that you can get from certain kinds of relationships that we have with celebrities and fictional characters and so on.

It also talks a lot about the kinds of ways that we can be kinder to ourselves by being open to some of the goofiness that comes from Bandum. And it also includes one of my favorite celebrity guests. So here it is, nerd out, the happiness of being a fan. I blush when I think about this'cause it's like oh it's like remembering It's Love at first sight.

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