SMNTY Classics: SMNTY Ships It
Stuff Mom Never Told You
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🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Shipping has gone from a derided part of fandom to a mainstream component, and with that has come good and bad. We talk about the history and psychology of shipping, and why shipping should be included in our conversations about the beauties and toxicities of fandom in this classic episode.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:09.2 | Hey, this is Annie. |
| 0:10.5 | And Samantha. |
| 0:11.5 | Welcome to Stuff I Never Told You, production of I-Hart Radio. |
| 0:31.3 | And welcome to a classic one that has been on my mind as of late as you will know if you listened to our recent tapy hour as this comes out how how about queer mating? |
| 0:43.6 | And it's about shipping and how that can look and how the ups and downs, the highs and lows of shipping. |
| 0:45.6 | I do have to say it's pretty funny when you start looking at it. |
| 0:51.2 | Because me and my best friend were like, you know, if we were on TV, they probably |
| 0:55.7 | would ship us just because you start looking at things differently, like, wait a minute. |
| 1:01.8 | Oh, okay, which is a very fun. It was a fun exercise, and we got to go down. |
| 1:06.5 | Don't you have fan fiction of you and Lauren? There is fan fiction of me. |
| 1:11.3 | I don't know if anybody ever published the ones with me and Lauren. |
| 1:14.3 | There was one of me and Bridget, too. |
| 1:16.2 | Oh. |
| 1:18.0 | I haven't looked. |
| 1:19.4 | And they were super cute. |
| 1:21.2 | I found them very sweet. |
| 1:22.9 | And it was very funny because they immediately pegged me as the shy one. |
| 1:26.9 | And Lauren and Bridget as the more |
| 1:28.6 | forward ones. It was interesting because it was like reading a version of yourself that people |
| 1:34.4 | hear or see in a digital space, but they don't actually know you. So I didn't, I was not weirded |
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