Episodes

Amanda is back to full health, but Kev is not- it’s time for a sniffly, sneezy journey through chapters 25-28 of ‘All The Young Dudes’. We’re talking Remus’s complicated feelings about Sirius and David Bowie, some youthful st...

We’re back, and this week we’re bringing you a little bit of everything- an extra jumbo-sized Golden Egg full of hits, some new character creation, and news about Cursed Child and the new Universal Park! Plus: Amanda may have...

This week, we’re continuing our journey through the excellent “All the Young Dudes” and covering chapters 20-24. We’ve had our first good cry over this brilliant fanfic, we’re talking David Bowie and other musicians who are ...

In a continuing effort to welcome hospitably the impending takeover of our AI overlords, we are once again letting ChatGPT selecty a random chapter for us to revisit and this time it’s Book 7’s titular “The Half-Blood Prince”...

It’s Dreamcasting Week! This week we’re running down our favorite (and in many cases, thoroughly random) casting choices for various parts in the HP series’s next on-screen adaptation. When you hear our ideas you’ll cheer, yo...

This week we’re continuing our fanfiction journey with Chapters 16-19 of ‘All The Young Dudes’, and it seems like some emotions are really starting to simmer among our beloved Marauders. Plus, we interview our 8 year-old niec...

Our AI overlords (ChatGPT) bequeathed us another random chapter to revisit and this time it’s Book 1’s ‘The Forbidden Forest’. It’s all of the whimsey of the first book with a nice jolt of terrifying shit deep in the heart of...

Buckle up kids, it’s time for another Dark Dive and this one’s a doozy- we’re wading through our deep and very thick hatred and dissecting the character of Dolores Umbridge. Is there room for compassion for her (don’t hold yo...

We’re making our way further into the seminal fanfiction ‘All The Young Dudes’ and things are getting HEAVY (and we don’t just mean the rain cloud) with young Remus. Stories from our youth, a shocking amount of bad singing, a...

This week, we let ChatGPT suggest a random chapter to revisit and ended up with ‘The Unbreakable Vow’ from Book 6- a chapter that both of the Wilsons thought was an entirely different chapter! Kev misremembers the names of ma...

The Wilsons are exploring a new frontier- fanfiction! And we’re starting this journey with the first 10 chapters of the beloved ‘All The Young Dudes’ by MsKingBean89, a Marauders-Era Opus that focuses on a young Remus Lupin. ...

Welcome back Foxies!! It’s Season 10 and we’re coming out the gate evilly with our very first Dark Dive- an examination of Tommy “Daddy Issues” Riddle. We’re talking about Voldy’s integrity as a villain, our own complicated p...

It’s our Season 9 finale and we’re topping this baby off with the #1 entry on Barnes and Noble’s list of the 15 Best Harry Potter Chapters- Book 7’s eternally devastating and tragically beautiful “The Forest Again”, which cou...

Season 9’s penultimate episode has arrived and appropriately we’re tackling the penultimate chapter on Barnes and Noble’s list of the 15 Best Chapters of Harry Potter- Book 7’s ‘The Prince’s Tale’. We’re talking about the Hal...

Our trek through Barnes and Noble’s 15 Best Harry Potter Chapters is on the emotionally devastating home stretch as we crack the top three, and this week we’re swimming through a very strong current of our own tears and revis...

This week, we’re being brave little toasters and talking all things Dahk Ahts (and defense against them). What’s the difference between a jinx, a hex, and a curse? Is James Potter a de facto Dark Wizard? What even defines dar...

We’ve reached #4 on Barnes and Noble’s ’15 Best Chapters of Harry Potter’ and this one is the one that started it all- Book 1’s “The Boy Who Lived”. What makes it a great chapter and is it in fact one of the best opening chap...

You can’t have gold without silver (or maybe you can- we’re not metal experts) and this week we’re deep-diving The Silver Trio of Neville, Luna, and Ginny. Is this trio actually better than their Golden counterparts? What are...

We’ve cracked the top five in Barnes and Noble’s best Harry Potter chapters, and this one will hit you right in the emotional balls- Book 7’s epic and brutal ‘The Battle of Hogwarts’. We’re covering everything from McGonogall...

Mooncalves and dragons and nifflers- oh my! This week, we're talking about the non-human side of the Wizarding World. What are the ethics of eating magical animals among witches and wizards? What exactly makes a magical creat...

After a longer-than-expected break, we are back-ish! While our promised 'Beasts of the Magical World’ episode is pushed to next week and The Wilson household is still somewhat cattywampus (look it up), we simply love you all ...

We're up to number 6 on the Barnes and Noble list of the 15 best chapters of Harry Potter, and this week we're going aaaaaall the way back to Chapter 5 of Book 1: Diagon Alley. What makes this a great chapter? Masterful world...

This week, we're looking deeply into the soul of everyone's favorite angsty blonde- Draco Malfoy. We're talking about the ‘importance of being ordinary’, all the ways in which Draco’s personality was doomed from the start, an...

We've reached #7 on the Barnes and Noble list of the 15 best Harry Potter chapters- Order of the Phoenix's ‘Career Advice’. Some McGonagall GOLD, a classic Maurauder heart-to-heart, and a couple of Weasleys giving the proverb...