Welcome to Fandom Shmandom, the fandom podcast
that covers everything you love and more. I'm
Sierra Obermark. And I'm Sam Williams. Today's
episode, we will explain what is all this? Who
are we? What is the point of life? What are you
going to do today? Should you brush your teeth
tonight? The answer is yes. It's our introduction
episode into who the heck we even are, which
I believe, Sierra, you have the answers. Yes,
I have that answer. Sam and I are totally entrenched
in fandoms of all sorts. We discovered our mutual
nerdiness back in college. We've been friends
for officially way too long, everyone. Way too
long. It is official. We have been orbiting around
this idea for years, and finally here we are.
So we're a couple of fun -loving, silly, performing
arts, writer, artist goofballs, and we think...
We're really hilarious. And so hopefully you
think we're just a small amount of funny compared
to the amount of funny we think that we are.
Because we're going to have a good time making
this podcast. So hopefully everybody has a great
time listening to us make this podcast. If you
think we're just as funny as even an ounce that
we think we're funny, you'll have a good time.
Exactly. It's well worth it. somewhat promise.
Listen, together, we have had this idea for this
podcast after so much time spent yelling at each
other, caps locks texting, whether we're in college
or video chatting or whatever. And, you know,
we've been talking about what Spider -Man suits
are the best in the video games, who to romance
in Dragon Age, why Hermione and Ron should or
should not have ended up together, and what forms
of media is the best for Star Wars. That's just
to name a few. There's a lot of fandoms we love.
The list is endless yes we love all things nerd
geek book film show game etc etc and most of
all we love to talk about it and fight about
it with people who also care about all these
things yes yes indeed so here's how it's gonna
work uh for our season one um so drum roll please
so glad you didn't captain holt me on that that
that's a fandom shout out to brooklyn nine nine
for all you plebeians out there go watch go watch
that clip on youtube i'm sure it's there captain
it's so good anyways yes um we're gonna be doing
stranger things which is coming up very quick
uh next month During Thanksgiving time and then
during Christmas and then during New Year's because
they decided the holidays are ours. So that's
what we're going to be doing. Now, here's the
deal. We're going to be releasing seasons of
this podcast and mini seasons of this podcast.
So this first season is going to be Stranger
Things. We'll cover... Stranger Things, and then
we'll have another season. But it's not necessarily
a week -to -week thing. It will be in lead -up
to something big coming up in the fandom. Obviously,
Stranger Things Season 5 is a huge deal. We were
actually working on something completely different
when we saw the announcement of when Stranger
Things is going to come out, Season 5, and realized
we had the time to prep for it. So here we are,
existing now. There's going to be two iterations
of what a season could look like. So a season
might look like a prep pod, or a season might
look like a deep dive. Stranger Things is going
to be a prep pod. So we'll focus on the medium
at hand for a prep pod, in this case, a TV show.
So we're going to be going over everything to
do with the TV show elements of Stranger Things,
which is the main bulk. of what we know and love.
And we're going to build our podcast season with
the idea of prepping you, preparing you for season
five. So we'll focus here on the core material
presented to us in the main medium. Again, in
this case, TV shows. And when we do deep dive
pods, pod seasons, it'll be a little bit different.
So we'll still be leading up to something, a
big release in the fandom. something exciting
that's happening, but there's going to be a lot
more content within these types of, the other
types of seasons. We'll do main material in the
main medium, but also everything else. So if
we're doing a movie fandom like Star Wars, we'll
go over the movies, of course, but then we'll
also get TV episodes, some books, some comics,
individual podcast episodes on characters or
time periods or whatever the case may be. So
just a lot more information that'll be packed
into a season. Just honestly, purely because
there's so much out there for some types of fandoms.
There's just way too much not to try to cover
bits and pieces of all of the different media.
Yeah, absolutely. So again, For Stranger Things,
we'll be doing a prep pod, so we'll be focusing
on the TV show. We'll be bringing in some extra
stuff, but it won't be like dedicated episodes.
Like we aren't doing a straight 11 episodes.
Like in Star Wars, if we were doing that, we
would do something like a straight Qui -Gon Jinn
episode or Obi -Wan episode, something like that,
if we were doing a deep dive for that. So the
prep pod will be like this for Stranger Things.
Each season of Stranger Things, so they've done
four, will be... Covered in three episodes. So
we're going to have 12 episodes total on the
four seasons. And then a 13th one. Lucky number
13 for a horror themed sci -fi fantasy type show.
Like Stranger Things. That 13th episode we'll
be covering like, hey, what do we think is going
to happen for season five? So season one, three
episodes. Season two, three episodes, et cetera,
et cetera. We should also note here, Stranger
Things is rated 14 and up. And we'll be discussing
everything that happens on the show. So please
keep that under advisement if you're letting
your kids listen to this podcast. Yes. Also,
please take into consideration that we will be
spoiling everything that happens in all of Stranger
Things. So we'll be talking about season four
of Stranger Things, even in our season one episodes,
callbacks, things that are already dropped, whatever
the case may be. So please don't listen yet if
you haven't finished. But please do come back
when you're done, because it will be great. It
will be. It will be fantastic. That also goes
for books and comics and even plays. We won't
be doing a specific episode on the extracurricular
stuff, but I've read a bunch of the books. Our
expert, who we'll introduce in the first episode
of Stranger Things for our podcast, will be talking
about the books. Comics, I've read most of the
comics at this point. I've seen the play. in
london um so we'll definitely be talking about
that because it's hugely implicated importance
for season five um though we'll do our absolute
best to let you know when some of the extra stuff
is coming up yeah and that's it that's that's
what we're doing that's what we're here for it's
very exciting today's public service announcement
is keep your nerd friends close you never know
when a great creative project may be around the
corner I like this. This is a great public service
announcement. Thank you. Thank you, listener
schmissiners, for listening to this intro to
Fandom Schmandom. We hope you'll join us this
season and all the seasons hereafter for fantastic
fandom content. If you're excited to hear from
us, please hit us up on our social media channels.
You can find us on TikTok and Instagram at fandomschmandompod
and on X at fandom underscore schmandom. And
with that, we're out, y 'all. Don't forget to
tip your waiters. Fairly well. Fandom Shmandum
was created by Sam Williams and Ciara Obermark.
The show is produced by Aurelia Lieb. The editor
is Brittany Fisher. The music is by Jeremiah
Alves. I just hit my microphone, so I'm going
to restart that whole sentence. Sorry, Brittany.
You'd think we'd be better at this after I've
been podcasting for five years, but no. No.