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The Fan and the Foe

The Fan and the Foe

By: Hopewell Valley Student Podcasting Network 2026
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The Fan and the Foe is a student-run podcast that reviews, explores, and critiques different fandoms such as Taylor Swift, professional sports, Harry Potter, and more. The two co-hosts will clash over one’s love for the fandom and the other’s skepticism, as they do a deep dive into what drives people crazy about certain things.Copyright 2026 Hopewell Valley Student Podcasting Network 2026 Art Entertainment & Performing Arts
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  • Wrapping it Up!
    Jan 30 2026

    Hopewell Valley Student Podcasting Network

    Show Name:Fan & the Foe

    Episode Title: Wrapping it up

    Gabbi: You are listening to the fan and the foe podcast with your host(s) Gabbi and Louisa.

    Louisa: In this episode of the fan and the foe, we will be bringing it all together with our season finale trivia.

    Segment 1: Title of Segment

    Gabbi: So if you dont know already, this is the final episode of the Fan and the Foe- at least for now.

    Louisa: thats so sad to think about. Do you remember when we were just trying to fin a topic for our podcast and could not think of anything. This show was actually gabbis idea, and we have had a blast recording it so kudos to you i guess

    Gabbi: wow look how much youve grown complimenting me on a regular basis now does this mean you love me enough to let me rap.

    Louisa: you know what, go for it

    Louisa: yea so anyways I hope you enjoyed gabbis rap shes been BEGGING me to do for the past two days, but moving on, … As a summary of the past season, we figured it would be fun to do a little game show where we go around our school and see if people could answer trivia questions about the fandoms we have covered.

    Gabbi: so enjoy the next montage of people who clearly havent listened to our podcast, and or have been living under a rock for the past 20 years.

    *transition to questions

    Segment 2: Mini mic game show

    Questions:

    Which popular boy band’s fans have been known to know the blood types of the band's members?

    4. Name one Hogwarts house discussed in the episode.

    Answer: Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, or Hufflepuff.

    5. Which actor’s experiences with intense fan attention are mentioned?

    Answer: Daniel Radcliffe.

    6. How many districts send tributes to the Hunger Games each year?

    Answer: Twelve districts.

    7. Name one character from The Hunger Games discussed in the episode.

    Answer: Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, or Gale Hawthorne.

    9. What tabletop role-playing game is frequently referenced in Stranger Things?

    Answer: Dungeons & Dragons.

    13. What reality competition show helped launch One Direction?

    Answer: The X Factor.

    14. Which member left the band before their hiatus?

    Answer: Zayn Malik.

    17. What debate do the hosts have in this episode?

    Answer: Whether being a “Disney adult” is fun, excessive, or misunderstood.

    What baseball team has won the most world series, and is also the focus of our MLB episode?

    Answer: the yankees

    How many albums does taylor swift have?

    Answer: 12 studio and 4 rerecorded

    What episode did we interview a guest on?

    Answer: the taylor swift one.

    Segment 3: The end

    Gabbi: Thank you all so much for tuning in over these past few months. We hope you have enjoyed it because we surely have!! And dont forget to stay nerdy!

    Louisa: Or don’t

    Music Credits:

    Introduction

    Website where you got the song from: Youtube Audio Library

    Song Title: F16

    Artist:The Grey Room/ Golden Palms

    Licensing: Youtube Audio Library Liscense

    Outro Song Title: Merry Go Round

    Artist: Telecasted

    Licensing: YouTube Audio Library

    Transition 1

    Website where you got the song from: YouTube Audio Library

    Song Title: Cooked

    Artist: The Grey Room/ Golden Palms

    Licensing: YouTube Audio Library...

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    9 mins
  • Swiftie Superfans: Super Stories
    Jan 30 2026

    Hopewell Valley Student Podcasting Network

    Show Name: Fan & the Foe

    Episode Title: Taylor Swift

    Gabbi: You are listening to The Fan and the Foe with your host(s) Gabbi and Louisa.

    Louisa: In this episode of the Fan and the foe the Podcast we discuss: all things Taylor Swift, and even brought a special guest with us today

    Segment 1: Intro and Trivia

    Gabbi: Yes!! We have brought one of our good friends, and Taylor Swift superfan, Seamus with us today.

    Seamus: Heyy

    Louisa: Seamus will be joining us to talk about his encounters with the Swiftie Fandom, and what its like to be part of it.

    Gabbi: Are you NOT part of it Louisa…

    Louisa: I mean I would not consider myself a Swiftie, but I really really like her as a person. I am not as big of a hater as CHAT GPT

    Gabbi: Don;t get me started on chat gpt– today I was trying to generate a quick list of all the Taylor albums and it tried to claim that the life of a show girl was NOT an actual album but a fan theory… like WHAT.

    Anyways the reason I was getting this list is I thought that it would be fun to have you, Seamus, rank all of the albums so we are gonna do some rapid fire questioning ready

    Seamus: lets do it

    Louisa: okay do you prefer ( go down line to find winner)

    1. Debut
    2. Fearless
    3. Speak now
    4. Red
    5. 1989
    6. Reputation
    7. Lover
    8. Folklore
    9. Evermore
    10. Midnights
    11. The tortured poets departments
    12. The life of a show girl

    Gabbi: okay I like that ranking

    Louisa: yes I agree, but now we can ask the fun questions to get the true life of a Swiftie. Seamus are you Ready

    Seamus:

    Segment 2: Questions for Seamus
    1. What is the craziest thing you have done for something taylor swift related??
    2. How much Taylor Swift merch do you own
    3. What is your favorite thing about Taylor Swift?
    4. If TS was to walk in right now, what would you say her her??
    5. Whats your favorite Era?
    6. What is the craziest theory youve heard or had yourself?

    Segment 3: Crazy Fan encounter

    Louisa: I think the stories we’ve heard here today are enough to be considered crazy, so we won’t spend any extra time with those today.

    Gabbi: We hope you enjoyed this week's episode, and dont forget to stay nerdy

    Louisa: or dont.

    usic Credits:

    Introduction

    Website where you got the song from: YouTube Audio Library

    Song Title: F16

    Artist: The Grey Room/ Golden Palms

    Licensing: YouTube Audio Library...

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    16 mins
  • The Summer I Turned into a Pretty Huge Superfan
    Jan 30 2026

    Hopewell Valley Student Podcasting Network

    Show Name: The Fan and The Foe

    Episode Title: The Summer I Turned [into a] pretty [huge superfan]

    You are listening to The Fan and the Foe with your host(s) Gabbi and Louisa.

    In this episode of The Fan and the Foe we discuss the summer I turned Pretty and its EXTREMELY dedicated fans

    Segment 1: Talking About TSITP

    Louisa: okay before we get into things i want to clarify that we have both watched this right

    Gabbi: yes I ve watched all the seasons

    Louisa: Okay good me too, but for the listeners that don’t know, do you want to explain what TSIPT is??

    Gabbi: Of course. So basically The Summer I turned pretty is a wildly popular YA romance show that is based off of the book trilogy by Jenny Han. You might be thinking to yourself hmm. I totally know that name from somewhere? It's because she is also the author of the equally famous To all the Boys I’ve Loved Before book and movie series. TSITP follows Isabel or Belly who spends every summer at her family friend's beach house on Cousins Beach. Belly has always been seen as a younger sister to everyone, especially her moms best friends two sons Conrad and Jeremiah, who are BOTH the love interests of this series at one point or another. But of course Belly goes for the older and emotionally unavailable one who she's been DOWN bad for since childhood.

    Louisa: Oh obviously why would you go for the more reasonable option when there's a much more difficult and treacherous path to go down in the form of his older brother. But I am still team Conrad, jeres just there for the plet

    Gabbi: trust me Louisa everyone whose ever seen the show shakes their head at every single decision belly makes.. This fanbase is you guessed it like that of most other teenaged romances– teenage girls who are desparately hope for their moms best friends son who also looks like chris briney to fall in love with them!

    Louisa: Hey- don’t hate on my guy chris briney. He is the best actor in the entire series. And I think some people hope for their moms best friends son also looks like jeremiah

    Gabbi: Okay okay your probably right. Anyways One of the biggest controversies of this show is the heated rivalry between the two brothers over Belly, and very polarly you either have to be Team Jeremiah or Team Conrad. There is a right answer and it is obviously Team Conrad

    Louisa: How is that obvious? I feel like they both have some pretty apparent flaws and differences. But im not going against my word because as I said its def connie for the win. BUT my sister is team jeremiah because she says he is the one that has been there and the one that high as she says climbed up that ladder.

    Gabbi: I mean they definitely both have their drawbacks and emotional trauma but at least Conrad didn’t cheat on belly and then fix it by proposing to her???

    Louisa: Mind you with the SMALLEST ring known to mankind. But at least Jeremiah actually cared about her and didn’t try to covertly steal his brothers FIANCE. But Conrad is more stable and much more mature and caring. So like i guess I know where my sister was coming from we we actually got in a fight about it haha

    Gabbi: a FIGHT??

    Louisa: like basically yes haha. We were watching the finale together and SPOILER ALERT when they looked back at the house in cousins after belly and conrad were together she said smth a long the lines of “that shouldve been jere” so I was like what the heck are you talking about its always been conrad and so she was like no its been jere for like 7 years and I said sure but shes always thought about conrad and their infinity necklace and she like stormed off because she was so mad but we resolved it and mow were chillin even though we joke about that fight now

    Gabbi: omg tahts insane haha, maybe your part of the crazy fandom.

    Louisa: I mean were def not the ones reading the books and making...

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    11 mins
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