Hello Halloween nerds! Are you ready for an EXTRA long episode?? Heather, Stacy and Chelsea (The Amazing One) have created a super-sized episode covering 125 years of witches! Join us as we walk The Witches Road (hee hee!) and examine the witches of Oz, from the original Frank Baum books to the various shades of Wicked. Wonder with us at silent witch films of the early 1900s and cackle over a cauldron of 1990s witches, like Sabrina, the Charmed sisters, Tara/Willow and The Craft. But wait, there’s more! We HAVE to talk about Black Phillip (yes, the goat) in The Witch, Wandavision and Agatha All Along. Plus, of course, the psychological and social constructs of women, witchcraft and power. Can’t get enough? Good! There might even be some outtakes at the end. Listen through those closing credits and see what happens…

Witches from Oz to Agatha

Stacy Watnick and Heather Berberet with Chelsea Hackman

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Hello fellow nerds! Welcome to our 19th Episode. Join Heather and Stacy as we debrief two big conventions: San Diego Comic Con and World Con. We chat panels, artists, authors and all the things about fandom conventions that bring the squee. Want to hear about the upcoming Vampire Lestat season from AMC’s Immortal Universe, a BBC Doctor Who activation, or the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art? It’s all here. Then, it’s time to talk Demon Hunters…the K-Pop kind. Hang out with us for an episode where fans interact with creators, media brings joy, and fandom really can seal the Honmoon!

SDCC, World Con, and KPop Demon Hunters

Stacy Watnick and Heather Berberet

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Hey fellow nerds!! Welcome to Episode 18, our summer episode! We dish on what is real (or not!) in reality tv (think: The Ultimatum, The World’s Toughest Race, Naked Attraction) and talk about all the things we’re excited about for summertime! Comic Con, anyone?? Head to the Drive-In with Heather, take a dip in our TBR pool (on your seating of choice!), and chat Bechdel, Eames and Moms Who Write. Check out our Instagram at free_the_squee_podcast for more content and join The Incomparable Membership program to chat with us on Discord! Happy summer, nerds!

Reality TV, Summer and Comic-Con

Stacy Watnick and Heather Berberet

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Welcome to Episode 17, fellow nerds! Stacy broke her ankle, so we’re talking about injuries and how to help…or not! Heather and Stacy have a May The Fourth chat, discuss a list of books that are impossible to describe, and share all the feels of watching Bluey. If you’d like to self-reflect, pick up a new book, parent or be reparented, this is the episode for you!

Bluey, Broken Ankles, Andor and Indescribable Books

Stacy Watnick and Heather Berberet

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It’s Squee time again! Join us for an episode jam packed with joy. We’ll walk you through our adventures at the 35th Gallifrey One Convention, including our interviews with classic Who companions Frazier Hines, Wendy Padbury and Katy Manning! We get into some personal Dune history for Heather (you won’t believe how close Heather got to Muad’Dib!) and a very brief referendum on Tom Bombadil. There’s a splash of psychology too, listeners, so if you’ve ever wondered what to call it when you word-ramble into the wilderness, take a listen!

Frazier, Wendy, Katy, Tom and Muad'Dib (oh my!)

Stacy Watnick and Heather Berberet

Purveyors of teas, herbs and other glorious stuff!

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Get ready, fellow nerds! We’re gearing up for Gallifrey One with a mini-episode! Heather and Stacy are brimming with Squee for this year’s convention. We’ll be interviewing companions, bringing valentines and stickers…and Stacy is SO READY for ribbons! Hear all the details in our pre-Gally episode!

Gallifrey One-Here We Come!

Stacy Watnick and Heather Berberet

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FTS offers another “first”- this time a live unboxing version of Tell and Tell. It might be bigger on the inside…We tempt and tease each other with our current favorite TV (Bad Sisters and Silo), and take a trip into Tangent Town to discuss our culturage heritage when we’re supposed to be discussing nerd food. Please note: The wildly divergent content of this episode and our inability to stay on topic in no way reflects how our brains work.

Nerd Swag, Nerd Food, Nerd Shows (Bad Sisters and Silo)

Stacy Watnick and Heather Berberet

Which may or may not have been one of Youngest Spawn’s Hanukkah gifts.

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Welcome to our 13th episode! We dish about how we got here (from podcast engagement to podcast marriage) and thank some folks who helped us along the way. We had a celebrity sighting and perhaps a bit too much familiarity with ALIEN: Romulus swag from the Comic Con 2024 panel. Heather brings a serious and timely topic to the pod - how to use your senses to stay grounded when things feel really big and scary. Join us for some solid squee and some solid psychology.

FTS backstory, face hugging aliens, and staying grounded

Stacy Watnick and Heather Berberet

The site of our podcast marriage!

The podcast masters

The home of Sasappis (aka Román Zaragoza)

Here be the actual face huggers

Connecting to the world through your senses

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It’s our 1st anniversary, the spawn have launched and the Squee is back! We packed so much into this episode! Stacy and Heather talk all things X-Men, from the 90s animated show to the films to voice talent in the new X-Men 97 series. Heather loves on and laughs at Jesse Martin’s new show, The Irrational, and we Squee our way through the highlights of Comic Con 2024. But wait, there’s more! Our Books on Tape Segment is back, with trans teens and gothic horror (we talk WITCHES friends), and a Middle Eastern pirate mom! There’s so much to love in media right now, come find your Squee with us!

X-Men, The Irrational, and Comic-Con 2024

Stacy Watnick and Heather Berberet

BBC podcast Doctor Who at Comic Con where Heather asks a question!

The hosts of Ghostface’s Killer Trivia have a podcast!

Mayfair Witches, Vampires and (coming soon) The Talamasca

A fan site about all things Hazbin Hotel

Heather’s fav bookstore

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Get ready Squee Fans, we’ve got a lot of happy ground to cover! Heather and Stacy get into Bridgerton (sex and costumes!), queer women’s voices, like Billie Eilish and Chappell Roan, and then bring it all together for our favorite episode of Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor thus far…ROGUE! In fact, we’ve got a wee timey-wimey adventure of our own right in the episode. There is so much squee, we recommend listening alllll the way to the end of the episode. ;)

Bridgerton, Billie Eilish & Doctor Who, Oh My!

Stacy Watnick and Heather Berberet

Corrections/other notes: we have some sound variation in this ep, as we recorded across time and relative dimensions in space, and Francesca of Bridgerton fame does not have that love-struck response to John Stirling’s sister, but rather, to his cousin Michaela.

Stacy comes up with our episode titles and it hurts to only pick one…so we’ve decided to give you ALL our titles, just for fun!

Alternative Titles

Hit Me Hard and Soft, Indeed!,

The event that started it all!

Billie’s new album

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