Book reviews from science fiction to horror to nonfiction, all with a modern pop-culture aesthetic.
Episodes
Jul 21, 2022
Jul 21, 2022
34 min
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Jul 8, 2022
Jul 8, 2022
36 min
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Jun 30, 2022
Jun 30, 2022
30 min
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Jun 23, 2022
Jun 23, 2022
34 min
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May 5, 2022
May 5, 2022
54 min
JK Rowling collaborates with a pair of theater veterans to tell her eighth Hogwarts adventure Harry Potter and the Cursed Child as a stage play. And while Brock, Stuart, and Arnie couldn’t score tickets, they are ready to review the published script. What happens when Harry’s son goes Slytherin, and travels back in time to change the outcome of the Triwizard Tournament? Listen to find out if fans throw the author into a Goblet of Fire for messing with a classic tale.
Mar 31, 2022
Mar 31, 2022
43 min
This week Brock, Stuart, and Arnie graduate from Hogwarts as they complete JK Rowling’s seventh and final Harry Potter novel, The Deathly Hallows. Is the boy wizard ready to lead the fight against a Ministry of Magic overtaken by Death Eaters? Where exactly has Dark Lord Voldemort hidden the last piece of his soul? And what is the real reason Professor Snape hates Harry so much? Find out if your predictions for the conclusion come true. Listen Now!
Mar 17, 2022
Mar 17, 2022
38 min
Harry Potter was “the Chosen One” for readers around the world even before his sixth adventure became a global best-seller in summer 2005. Now the skeptics rally around the boy wizard too, in the hopes he’ll be able to stop the return of dreaded sorcerer Voldemort. Did a mysterious Half-Blood Prince provide answers for defeating evil in the margins of Harry’s potions book? Brock, Stuart, and Arnie piece this Tom Riddle together on the latest podcast.
Mar 10, 2022
Mar 10, 2022
50 min
Readers around the globe celebrated the 2003 release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. So why are so many terrible things being printed in newspapers about the boy wizard on his fifteenth birthday? Is it all in Harry’s head that Voldemort has infiltrated the Ministry of Magic, and changed Hogwarts curriculum so that students are left defenseless against his rise? Listen now as Brock, Stuart, and Arnie remember what it was like to be an angry teenager.
Mar 3, 2022
Mar 3, 2022
38 min
Brock, Stuart, and Arnie are cheering in the stands for Harry Potter as he finally gets into the ring with nemesis Voldemort for his massive fourth novel The Goblet of Fire. Can Dumbledore and gruff new Defense Against Dark Arts professor Mad Eye Moody prepare the boy wizard for the fight of his life? And will the hormonal teenager have a harder time finding a date for the Yule Ball than competing in the Triwizard Tournament? Find out when you Listen Now!
Feb 24, 2022
Feb 24, 2022
38 min
Wizard studies might be going well for Harry Potter in third adventure Prisoner of Azkaban, but what he really needs is a law degree so he can keep homicidal maniac Sirius Black locked in jail. Will the man responsible for making the wizard boy an orphan return to Hogwarts and finish off the family tree? And can Harry negotiate a stay of execution for Hagrid’s pet hippogriff after it bites Draco Malfoy? The time for Brock, Stuart, and Arnie to put the next book on trial is now!