Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Diz, Vy, and Ali try to stump one another in trivia questions. It’s all fair game as they play a quick game of trivia. This sparks a conversation about celebrity, fame, and what we put value you in as a society. We talk about the function of celebrity, cults of personality, and why we put value in some people and some things over other. Why is knowledge of celebrity more common than knowledge of others subjects? We discuss the power of fandoms and how they play an important function in society and for individual identity but how they can also become dangerous sites of delusion and fantasy exacerbated by modern social media.
