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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 D Dilly to pull my five favorite

episodes from the archive to release again so you can check them out.

Ryan, 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 is 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 over?

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 Landau Calaisian, from the Star Wars Wars series with my mom, which is a wonderful memory.

The show is about a lot more than just being like a Star Wars or Star Trek, as we talk about in this 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 kind to ourselves by being open to some of the goofiness that comes from

fandom. 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 because it's like, oh, it's like remembering this.

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