Big Fan: Two Friends, 82,490 Miles, and the Wild, Wonderful Sports We Love – Michael Schur and Joe Posnanski

Two friends and podcast partners travel the globe to find out the meaning behind fandom.  What do we as a species get from investing our time and hearts into things that bring us immense joy and bitter upset.  Whether it is baseball, basketball, chess, darts, football, soccer, pickleball, the WWE, Taylor Swift, or Star Wars, they bring us to the very heart of what it means to love something so much it hurts.

Big Fan: Two Friends, 82,490 Miles, and the Wild, Wonderful Sports We Love, by television comedy writer Michael Schur and sportswriter Joe Posnanski, looks at all of the things we love and tries to dig into why we love them.  Along the way, the experience new sports, music, and people, gaining a greater appreciation for what it means to be a fan and of the things for which we are fans.