Potter Nonsense

By Fi and Rae

Fi and Rae are two friends for whom Harry Potter began their love of reading. Now they're taking their questions about the Wizarding World to a more public forum.... more

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The podcast currently has 25 episodes available.

Potter Nonsense episodes:

March 04, 2020 Episode 23: Les Mis but with Magic
We talk societies bucking against the Statute of Secrecy, and sex education at Hogwarts.

Mentioned:
Conservatives love to advocate for mass hysteria
Wizard Oneida
Bettina Arndt? Weirdly?
The Snape Voice
South Park and its associated works
A Transition
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53min
February 17, 2020 Episode 22: 14 and Edgy AF
Fi and Rae discuss the faults of the house system, and somehow talk a whole lot about Astrology?
Mentioned:
How radicalisation works
Myers Briggs
England hasn’t really changed culturally for 1000 years
Downton Downunder
Damsels in Disney
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1h 1min
January 27, 2020 Episode 21: The Snapening
Part 2 of 2. Alice has some stuff to say about Count Olaf, Fi reveals her most hated popular canon-bending fanon, and we discuss the worst spell in the series. We ended up with 12 distinct terrible Snape things but we may have miscounted.
Mentioned:
Invasive species in Australia
Schoolies
No ethical consumption under capitalism
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1h 7min
January 20, 2020 Episode 20: The Snapisode
The moment everyone was waiting for, part 1 of the dedicated Severus Snape episode, with Alice returning as our guest. We begin with Snape's decision to bully children as a man in his 30s.
Spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker begin at 29:20 and end at 30:05.
Mentioned:
Littlefinger and Sansa
Listening to your own podcasts
Kylo Ren is Space Snape
Explanations ≠ Excuses
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51min
January 13, 2020 Episode 19: Say You Wear Bonds Underwear
Fashion in the wizarding world! What do wizards wear under their robes? Why does Molly Weasley even make jumpers? Tattoos???
Mentioned:
We want self altering clothing
The 30 year fashion cycle
Emma 2020
Much Ado About Nothing 1993
Nick Kyrgios' getting fired from bonds
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1h 5min
December 20, 2019 Rejecting the Devil, but not all her works.
An apology and a reaction.
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9min
December 16, 2019 Episode 18: If you can catch a hippo, you deserve to eat it
We talk veganism in the wizarding world with Alice, Special Guest Vegan and Sword-Distributing Watery Bint.
Mentioned:
How bees work
Escaped animal stories
Making stuff taste like salmon
Malfoy family nonsense
Dumbledore, Yoda and Professor X have a tea party
West Ham United vs Sumos
Sneaking dogs into Hogwarts
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1h 26min
December 09, 2019 Episode 17: Baby's First Feminism
The Many Missions of Hermione Granger: rights for sapient creatures, education, maybe ending the International Statute of Secrecy? All the establishment-frustrating stuff that would prevent her from becoming Minister for Magic.
Featuring:
Two white Australians awkwardly discussing slavery again
More Tudor Era discourse
Witch and werewolf hunts, vampire panics
Rae missed her calling as a contortionist
A neurological explanation for why this podcast is the way that it is
Fanfiction corner
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58min
November 25, 2019Episode 16: Splinch the Baby
Lily Potter deserved better from the books, the movies, and honestly from this episode where Rae and Fi went on the most tangents we've ever been on.
Mentioned:
The Munchverse

This picture of the Slug Club

Henry Cavill, Keanu Reeves and Christian Bale, for some reason

The Underworld series

Open Plan Housing

Hatpin Stabbings

All the other mums failed by fiction

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1h 7min
November 18, 2019Episode 15: Spelunking?
Fi and Rae speculate on what happens in the classes we don't get to see at Hogwarts. Detours include: Creatures who are reproductively compatible with humans, our own fun ancestry, a brief trip to the Renaissance, and the fact that Professor Binns should be fired.
Content warning for references to real world slavery.
Mentioned:
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor's unfortunate Habsburg Chin

Podcast rec: Tudor I Hardly Know Her
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1h 19min

FAQs about Potter Nonsense:

How many episodes does Potter Nonsense have?

The podcast currently has 25 episodes available.