Complete Shrieking Shack Podcast in order

It actually isn't an exaggeration to compare the mainstream worldview to the virtual world depicted in The Matrix. The only difference is that instead of AI keeping us imprisoned, it's psychopathic oligarchs and secretive government agencies, and instead of code, it's narrative.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Awakening From The Narrative Matrix

Syria slips further, Mitt the Mighty, and Sir Fred is dead. Well, not dead, just Fred.

Bugle 181 - A Knight's Fail

Sorcerer's Stone Chapters 1 - 4. On the inaugural episode of The Shrieking Shack, Liz and Xeecee read the first four chapters of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and discuss legally questionable Halloween costumes, Dudley Dursley's gaming habits, and getting sent to the closet for letting the snake out.

Episode 1: Letting the Snake Out

Sorcerer's Stone Chapters 5 - 6. Liz & Xeecee pay respect to the powerful side characters of Harry Potter - like Bill's questionably aged girlfriend and the shapeshifter who dies off-screen - before diving into the extremely expository chapters left before Harry Potter reaches Hogwarts. Goblin discourse awaits!

Episode 2: International Witch's Day

Sorcerer's Stone Chapters 7-8. It's time for the Sorting Ceremony! But before that, Liz and Xeecee celebrate the release of the political prisoner ItsHarryPotter and get into the nitty-gritty discourse of the new Crimes of Grindlewald trailer, including the moral quandaries of whether or not to even see it.

Episode 3: The Sorting Extravaganza

Sorcerer's Stone Chapters 9-10. This week Liz and Xeecee have practically nothing but good things to say about their reading, so to balance things out they discuss not one but TWO awful documentaries about J.K Rowling. (Harry Potter & Me and JK Rowling: A Year in the Life) Find out everything you never wanted to know about her stance on Wicca (she's not a fan) Minecraft (HUGE fan) and what her pal Stephen Fry has to say about "other fantasy" (it's for the feeble-minded) in this jam-packed episode!

Episode 4: Minecraft Steve

Sorcerer's Stone Chapters 11-13. It's slime time! Liz and xeecee talk about weird toy commercials and lovable Youtube reviews before diving into some, you guessed it, politics. Albus Dumbledorf. As for the book itself, nobody is much of a Quidditch fan but there's plenty nice to say about The Mirror of Erised and what a touching chapter it is. Albus Dumbledorf. Even with an extra chapter, there's still time to learn everything about Professor McGonagall's weird backstory! Albus Dumbledorf. Albus Dumbledorf. Albus Dumbledorf.

Episode 5: Albus Dumbledorf

Prisoner of Azkaban chapters 3-4. The guy whose name rhymes with Bhonny Bepp is back in the news and WB has a movie to promote, so you know what that means: it's time for us to predict what brand of non-reaction the Harry Potter brand will have. Then we're off to the Knight Bus, where things are considerably better! We loved our reading so much this week, Liz had to come up with an extra cursed final segment: the confession booth.

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Episode 20: CGI Colin Farrell

Prisoner of Azkaban chapters 9-10. Happy birthday, Harry Potter! And a happy birthday to you too, JK Rowling--we hope you got a third treehouse or whatever. After we finish wishing our heroes a happy birthday, we travel to a very rainy Hogwarts to discuss the Marauder's Map, pub waitresses, reddit, and who would win in a fight between Sirius Black and John Wick.

Episode 23: Hit Wizards

Prisoner of Azkaban chapters 13-14. Knives out!! We've been enjoying this book so much we hadn't quite realized how hungry we were, and this chapter about how cool the Firebolt is just dumped a ton of blood into the water. We discuss the Firebolt's superb handling, pinpoint precision, and whatever the hell else it has along with Leakycon updates and our own American broom marketing plans!

Episode 25: Lee Harvey Grindelwald

Prisoner of Azkaban chapters 15-16. Liz conjures up the dark spirit of an ancient basic cable TV drama before we discuss Prisoner of Azkaban's tenth Quidditch match. Just like Harry, this book's specialty seems to be dives--does the rest of this reading pull up in time, or are we headed towards a crash of Norbert Chapter proportions?

Episode 26: Early Edition

Prisoner of Azkaban chapters 19-22. Our third reading adventure is over. After fifty Quidditch games and ten chapters of faffing around in the titular Shrieking Shack, we discuss the end of Prisoner of Azkaban in fine detail: including dog brains, House Elf Dementors, the ethics of taking a life, and fate vs. free will. That sounds like a joke, but it's not! Listen now and find out if the third Harry Potter book stuck the landing or takes a dive. (incidentally, Harry's really good at those)

Episode 28: Dog Brain

Goblet of Fire chapters 12-13. The last episode of Dark Arts Month 2018 is here, and we have Halloween costumes to discuss! But before that we have the news (cursed) and our reading (surprisingly, much less cursed? Mostly?) to attend to. We have a Triwizard Tournament to introduce, a slavery subplot to tug our collars over, and French accents to botch!

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Episode 35: Oui Oui

Well, we saw it. We did our waiting and saw the damn movie on opening night, and it sure was an experience. How many beasts were there, and just how fantastic were they? What were Grindelwald's crimes? Why couldn't this movie just be two hours of Newt hanging out with that adorable Zuwou?

HEADS UP: throwing a content warning here for some fairly heavy discussions of sexual violence, including in relation to slavery, which is a weirdly huge part of this Harry Potter movie!

Shrieking at the Movies: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Goblet of Fire chapter 18. Content warning for transphobia discussion, because this chapter has a part that sucks big time!!

The Crimes of Grindelwald (listen to the episode!) looms over us, but we still dutifully discuss our reading for the week. There's some... good? Character stuff? Sort of? And a lot of bad stuff too. Harry Potter is truly a land of contrasts.

Episode 38: The Wheighing of the Whands

Deathly Hallows chapter 30. We ring in the new year with, no joke, one of the weirdest chapters in the entire series. A few of you warned us about this one (or else gleefully mentioned that something was coming) but nothing could have prepared us for what awaits here: somehow, a chapter even stranger, funnier, and more out of character than any of the previous chapters we've said similar things about. You're not going to want to miss this one: plus, a crash course in... Sonic lore?

Episode 143: Uncle Chuck Fancam

Two lapsed Harry Potter fans on a journey back through the books they (used to) love so much. Updates every Friday!

Episode 20: CGI Colin Farrell

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