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Hello magical friends, and welcome to episode 128 of WZRD Radio! I’m your hostwitch Bess and I’m getting excited for what I consider the festive season, fall through winter. Harvest festivals, Halloween, and all the darkest-night parties are coming!
To get us started, here’s The Butterbeer Experience with “The Weasley Way.”
Continue reading “Episode 128: Remember the Good Times”Hello magical friends, with an extra-big hi to my wonderful patrons whose support makes these interviews possible.
Today’s interview is with the delightful Gringotts Grrls and I can’t wait to dive into our conversation, but we’ve got some awesome music to hear first, starting with The Misuse of Muggle Artifacts and their “Lovegood.”
Continue reading “Episode 127: The Gringotts Grrls”Hello magical friends and welcome to episode 124 of WZRD Radio! I’m your hostwitch and I’m delighted to inform you all that it’s my birthday month, so prepare your celebrations accordingly. There should be cake.
Quick! Go get started on that!
To speed you on your way, here’s “Dumbledore’s Army” by The Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office.
Continue reading “Episode 124: Voices In My Head”Hello magical friends, and welcome to episode 120 of WZRD Radio! I’m your hostwitch Bess and I hope you’re all hard at work on your Summer! Of! Fun! The sun is shining, the air is warm, and it’s time to have fun with friends.
Speaking of fun with friends congratulations to Celia, who was the first one to guess episode 118’s theme of “bathrooms.” That was a particularly silly one and I’m glad you figured it out.
Let’s get into this month’s music! First up we have the Department of Mystery and “Avada Kedavra.”
Continue reading “Episode 120: The Battle of Hogwarts”Hello magical friends, and welcome to episode 95 of WZRD Radio! I’m your hostwitch Bess, and convention season is coming! I hope you’re getting ready. Cosplay? Wrock show? Fan art? Whatever it is, time to get hopping!
While you find your glue gun and guitar pick, here’s some music.
First up is the Butterbeer Experience and “The Weasley Way.”
Continue reading “Episode 95: The Year Harry Went Emo”Hello magical friends, and welcome to episode 93 of WZRD Radio! I’m your hostwitch Bess and it’s well and truly spring here. I hope you listen to this while enjoying your own beautiful weather.
As always, we’ve got a lot of fun stuff going on this month, so let’s get to it!
Here’s “I Have Red Hair” by Ginny and the Heartbreakers.
Continue reading “Episode 93: Oh Pink Lady”Hello magical friends, and welcome to episode 80 of WZRD Radio! I’m your Hostwitch Bess, and September is here! Normally I’d say that means fall has arrived but, well, I live in Florida.
I hope you all have sufficient air conditioning where you are!
Anyway, here’s our first set of music. This is “One Last Summer,” by Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls.
Continue reading “Episode 80: Dumbledore’s Vacation Song”Hello magical friends, and welcome to episode 61 of WZRD Radio! I’m your hostwitch Bess and I hope you’re all ready for harvest festivals! They’re my favorite.
Before we get to the music, I’d like to share a project from some dear podcast friends:
Goblet of Wine lost a member of their community last year, and are running a fundraiser for Mermaids in their memory. I’m including a link in the transcript, and the show notes, and I hope you donate if you can. It’s so important, as part of the Harry Potter fandom, to be acutely aware of what damage giving any money to the franchise does, and to fight transphobia at every turn. [link]
While you’re checking out that link, here’s “Bubble Gum Wrappers” by The House of Black.
Continue reading “Episode 61: Pick Up Your Wands”Hello magical friends, and welcome to episode 51 of WZRD Radio! I’m your hostwitch Bess, and I’ve been keeping about a third of St. Mungo’s specialists busy since we last spoke, but don’t worry! I’m back on my feet and the spattergroit scars should vanish any day now.
It’s starting to get truly hot here, so let’s welcome the new season with a block party. Grab your friends, your firewhiskey, and turn up the tunes.
Here’s “Amortentia” by Solitary Snape.
Continue reading “Episode 51: Lucky Tonight”Hello magical friends, and welcome to Episode 49 of WZRD Radio! I’m your hostwitch Bess, and this is your semi-regular reminder that if you’re not comfortable being part of the Harry Potter fandom, that’s fine. You can step away. JKR is making any association with her incredibly toxic. Even your hostwitch is moving her Harry Potter décor out of the more public parts of her home.
If you’re part of this community for life, let me point you to the Gayly Prophet’s “Guide to Firing JKR while keeping Harry Potter,” WZRD’s own Pinkie Promise to boycott the franchise and support trans rights, and the Trans Wrock Comp that features some of our queer and trans wrockers and allies.
I know it’s uncomfortable to talk about this subject and examine our feelings on it, but I think that’s part of what keeps us different from JKR; that we keep doing the hard work and examining our impact on other people.
To help as we process how we’re feeling, here’s some music! First up is “Knight Bus” by Knight Bus.
Continue reading “Episode 49: Expecto Patronum”
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