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🗓️ 12 September 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Really love a TV show; a boyband; a sci fi movie; or a celebrity? We're often too embarrassed to admit adoring some things for fear that we'll be seen as frivolous or childish - but we may be missing out on the happiness benefits that geeking out can bring.
Dr Laurie Santos explores the joy of fandom with Benedict Cumberbatch obsessive Tabitha Carvan, YA author Jennifer Lynn Barnes and Star Trek actor (and geek-vangelist) Wil Wheaton.
For Further Reading:
Tabitha Carvan - This Is Not A Book About Benedict Cumberbatch
Wil Wheaton - Still Just a Geek
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0:00.0 | Here in the last archive, I've been trying to figure out what happened to Truth. |
0:03.6 | I've been telling stories about how we know what we know, |
0:06.4 | and why it seems sometimes lately is if we don't know anything at all. |
0:10.6 | But I am done with the problems of Truth. I want solutions. |
0:14.8 | The season of the last archive is all about common knowledge. |
0:18.8 | Is that kind of knowledge still possible? I tried to find out. |
0:22.4 | Coming soon. |
0:24.7 | Listen to the last archive on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, |
0:28.4 | or wherever you get your podcasts. |
0:59.0 | Pushkin. |
1:14.5 | I blush when I think about this because it's like, oh, it's like remembering. |
1:20.8 | Love it for a site. |
1:22.4 | This is author, Tabitha Carvin. She's telling me how she fell for the man of her dreams. |
1:26.6 | I was getting a takeaway coffee in a cafe, which was a novel experience to me because I had been |
1:33.7 | breastfeeding and pregnant for so long. Like, I just felt like I hadn't drunk coffee in a thousand years. |
1:39.0 | Before Motherhood, Tabitha enjoyed an active career and lots of interest in hobbies. |
1:43.5 | But after Motherhood, Tabitha's two kids became the focus of her entire world. |
1:48.0 | She had no time for herself or her own emotional needs. |
1:51.2 | I wasn't depressed. I wasn't unwell. I was just preoccupied. |
1:58.0 | I just, I realized I just didn't know who I was anymore. |
2:00.8 | I couldn't hold on to any of the pieces that used to be there. |
2:04.2 | They were completely gone. |
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