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Stuff Mom Never Told You

Fictional Attraction

Stuff Mom Never Told You

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.24.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2014

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Where do celebrity crushes, affections for fictional characters and hero worship come from? Cristen and Caroline shed light on the fascinating spectrum of parasocial relationships we develop with people in books, television and tabloids.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Debbie Brown, host of the Deeply Well Podcast, where we hold conscious conversations

0:06.9

with leaders and radical healers and wellness around topics that are meant to expand and support

0:12.4

you on your well-being journey. Deeply well is your soft place to land, to work on yourself

0:17.9

without judgment, to heal, to learn, to grow, to become who you deserve to be. Deeply

0:24.0

well with Debbie Brown is available now on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever

0:29.9

you listen to podcasts. Namaste.

0:32.6

I'm Dylan Marin and I have 30 seconds to convince you to listen to my new podcast about

0:38.4

Jar Jar Binks. Yep, Jar Jar Binks. So Jar Jar was actually played by an actor named

0:43.6

on Ned Best, and he became the subject of one of the internet's very first hate campaigns.

0:48.5

We made a podcast all about the early internet Star Wars cultural backlash Jar Jar and what

0:52.9

happens when internet hate gets too real. Okay, listen to the redemption of Jar Jar Binks

0:58.8

on the iHeartRadio app on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:03.8

Hello, hello, Mountain Global here. This year on Revisionist History, we're tackling

1:08.3

more ambitious stories than ever. From how to fix education to what Americans get

1:14.0

completely wrong about guns, we're debating with teenagers handing out awards and hunting

1:19.5

for the perfect medical. Raccoon. This is, after all, a podcast about the overlooked and

1:25.7

misunderstood. Find Revisionist History on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever

1:31.6

you get your podcasts.

1:34.0

Welcome to Stuff Mom Never Told You from Howstupworks.com.

1:41.0

Hello, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Caroline, and I'm Justin. Today is a listener request.

1:54.7

We got a letter suggesting that we look into shipping and one-true pairing, and of course

2:00.4

I immediately was like, I don't know what that, like shipping, like transporting things.

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