IT'S THE FIRST EPISODE OF YEAR 02 OF FANPALS!

This episode is brought to you by Laurens, because our guest is the Lauren that made our logo, which means the entire front end of our show is done by Laurens. We love Laurens. Guest Lauren shared with us her deep and abiding love for music fandoms (especially boy bands, if you couldn't already tell by the title) and her current obsession with podcasts.

Rough time stamps for topic changes (though these don't account for each and every tangent, that would be impossible):

0:45 - Guest intro

1:05 - The Dayton area tornadoes

4:10 - Costco food

8:05 - Early fandoms aka falling hard for Leo DiCaprio

22:20 - NSync

29:25 - Lauren is SUCH a Justin girl

41:45 - How Schitt's Creek fandom is like Twilight fandom

48:25 - Bandom

56:10 - One Direction fic tangent

59:45 - Podcast fandoms

1:06:00 - JoCo Cruise

1:11:20 - What Lauren is into now, and how she shares her fandom

Also, Mel drops a YELLOWCARD reference, because why not.

If you want to be a guest on the show - and honestly, why wouldn't you? - you should email [email protected] or tweet @fanpalspodcast. You should also subscribe, rate, and review. Please and thank you! <3, Mel, Liz, and Lauren