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I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily.

If you have a sports team you're super devoted to, or a K-pop group, or Taylor Swift, you're

part of a fandom.

In her 2022 talk from Ted X Portland, writer Jordan Dinwitty unpacks all the joy, the creativity,

and community that comes from being part of a fandom after the break.

I'm Alex Schwartz.

I'm Naomi Fry.

I'm Vincent Cunningham, and this is Critics at LARDS, a New Yorker podcast for the Culturally

Curies.

Each week we're going to talk about a big idea that's showing up across the cultural landscape,

and we'll trace it through all the mediums we love, books, movies, television, music, art.

And I always want to talk about celebrity gossip too.

Of course.

We hope you'll join us for new episodes each Thursday.

Follow Critics at LARDS, today wherever you get podcasts.

And I'm sure when you all think of fandom, you all think nerds and cosplay, and fan fiction,

and neckbeards, and people in dark basements and stuff, and all that is true.

And yes, fandom is all of this stuff, but it is actually a community of people that share

a passion.

But like all things, there's a spectrum.

You have to casual fans, your fans, your hardcore fans, and then you have your fanatics.

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