Episodes

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...

Well, we've finally crossed the finish line of the little play that tried real hard- Cursed Child. For a play that has overall recieved a lukewarm-at-best reaction from The Wilsons, the final scenes had us feeling all warm an...

Put on your best Scottish tartan and join us in celebrating MOTHER (Minerva McGonagall). We all agree she's awesome but this week we're digging into the reasons why, including her effect on Dumbledore's puppet-master ways, he...

While this week admittedly gets off to a very silly start, we promise we're bringing you some actual discussion about the next great HP chapter on the Barnes and Noble list- Goblet of Fire's “The Parting of the Ways”. Kev is ...

It's time for more Cursed Child this week, and things are getting SPICY. Is it the Halloween spirit? A full moon? A lunar eclipse? Bad writing? The Wilsons are duking it out over the finer points of this portion of the (long, slow) march towards the end of the (not canon) opus.  Support the show…

Our second round of headcanons is not to be missed- listeners have sent us everything from Dumbledore-Subconscious-Series-Reframing to missing Marauder moments (Mall-rauders, anyone?) and ya'll. It's an emotional roller coaster.  Support the show Support FFH on Patreon: patreon.com/thefoxandt…

The Barnes and Noble list has been located again and our progress through the 15 best Harry Potter chapters is undeterred! This week, we're discussing number 9 on the list- Half-Blood Prince’s “After the Burial”. What makes this chapter, which may not be the most obvious choice, one of the greats? …

We're making more progress in Cursed Child, we've reached the inevitable Voldemort Sex conversations, and somehow this is not the strangest thing we'll discuss this episode.

This week we're flinging open the ol' mailbag to discuss everything from the Buddhist perspective on duality, novel-writing, headcanons, and American culture. Plus- the sixteenth chapel, ice cream, and eating crow.

We've officially cracked the top ten of the Barnes and Noble list of the 15 best chapter in Harry Potter, and this one is…uncomfy. It's time for Snape’s Worst Memory, and we hope you'll join us for this thoroughly unpleasant journey to the land of horrifying bullying. Plus- wizard boomers, the pens…

This week we are joined by a very special guest- Ghosts on Vacay founder and haikuist Craig Kittner! Craig guides us through what haiku is, what it's not, and lays the groundwork for drawing haiku inspiration from the pages of Harry Potter.

Cursed Child has taken a darker and more murder-y turn this week as we cover Scenes 14-19 of Act III. Now that Delphi has shown her true colors, has Kev's interest in Cursed Child been renewed? Plus- Craig Bowker Jr. impressions (RIP), true Ron moments, and the parallels between Cursed Child and...…

Snuggle up kids, it's storytime. This week, we're digging deep into the Tale of the Three Brothers- both the canon-confirmed context and the (far more interesting in our opinion) fan theory about who the three brothers represent. Plus- a weird amount of talk about the Bible, boygenius, and The Barr…

It's time for the last entry on the Barnes and Noble list of best Harry Potter chapters before we enter the top ten, and up to bat this week is Book 3's incredible offering, The Servant of Lord Voldemort. What is it about these action-packed 10ish pages that solidifies its place as one of the best …

As we continue with Cursed Child we're getting all up in the weeds of double-back time-travel and facing the important questions. Questions like: “is the Scorpius/Snape scene in fact wonderful or terrible?”, “does Kinko's still exist?”, and “didn't this happen in the Lion King?”. Plus, Kevin misund…