BS-Free Witchcraft

Bullshit-Free Witchcraft is a monthly podcast on the Modern Witchcraft movement, minus any extraneous, well, bullshit. Look, aesthetics are great, and none of us would be here if we didn’t love the mystery — but there’s a lot of misinformation floating around, and this podcast aims to dispell it.

It’s a show designed to cater to all ranges of experience — from those who have been witches for decades to those just starting out. We hope there’s something here for everyone.

New episodes come out the last Saturday of the month.

BS-Free Witchcraft

September 28, 2019 Nerd & Tie Neopaganism, Witchcraft

15. Witchcraft vs Paganism

On this episode of the podcast we’re digging into the differences between “Paganism” and “Witchcraft.” While there is clearly a

BS-Free Witchcraft

August 31, 2019 Nerd & Tie gender, gender identity, Neopagan, new age, nonbinary, Paganism, Wicca, Witchcraft, yin yang

14. Gender and Witchcraft

There are a lot of regressive ideas built into some forms of witchcraft when it comes to gender, and it’s

BS-Free Witchcraft

July 27, 2019 Nerd & Tie Neopaganism, Paganism, pantheism, Wicca, Witchcraft

13. Feedback/Q&A Special

On this episode of the podcast I’m answering questions sent in from listeners like you! I’m also doing it from

BS-Free Witchcraft

June 29, 2019 Nerd & Tie sephora witch kit, Witch, witchblr, Witchcraft, witchcraft kit

12. Store Bought Is Fine

Last year one of the biggest hub bubs in the Witch community was Pinrose introducing a “Starter Witch Set” which

BS-Free Witchcraft

May 25, 2019 Nerd & Tie Wicca, Witch, Witchcraft

11. A Witch Phase (Not the Moon Kind)

It’s generally accepted that witchcraft is “just a phase” for some people — that they’ll dabble a bit and then

BS-Free Witchcraft

April 27, 2019 Nerd & Tie Evangelical Christianity, Neopaganism, Paganism, pentacle, Pentagram, Satanic Panic, Wicca, Witchcraft

10. The Satanic Panic

The Satanic Panic of the 70s, 80s, and 90s shaped the Modern Witchcraft Movement in a lot of unexpected ways.

BS-Free Witchcraft

March 30, 2019 Nerd & Tie British Traditional Wicca, British Traditional Witchcraft, Gerald Gardner, Religious Witchcraft, Wicca, Wiccan Rede, Witch, witchblr, Witchcraft

9. The Wiccan Rede

The Wiccan Rede is the foundational moral principle of Wicca. As it’s one of the larger forms of Witchcraft practiced

BS-Free Witchcraft

February 28, 2019 Nerd & Tie Technopagan, Technopaganism, Technowitch, Technowitchcraft, Witchcraft

8. Technopaganism

On this eighth episode of the podcast, we’re talking about good old Technopaganism. Well, “Technowitchcraft” is probably the better term,

BS-Free Witchcraft

January 26, 2019 Nerd & Tie Gatekeeping, Sense of Play, Witchcraft

7. Be Ridiculous

On this episode of the podcast, the topic is the importance of accepting that we’re all ridiculous human beings and

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We make a bunch of podcasts at Nerd & Tie, we know it’s hard to keep up with all of them. So, with that in mind, we’ve decided to make a feed of all of them (well minus two)!

Quick, put on your secret black leather uniform and prepare yourself for moral dubiousness as we prepare ourselves for the upcoming film- ‘Star Trek: Section 31.’ With the film debuting in just a few days after this episode drops, Miles and Charlie prepare themselves by choosing three episodes tangentially related to the forthcoming film. In ‘Inquisition,’ we and Julian Bashir meet Section 31 and all Bashir wants are Scone and Jams, then in ‘Yesterday’s Enterprise,’ we slip into an alternate universe/Tasha Yar fixfic and meet Captain Rachel Garrett (who will apparently be in this movie) and encounter that most deadly Star Trek threat… WALL ROCKS. Finally, in ‘Saints of Imperfection’ Captain Pike meets the worst kind of secret operatives, catty drama kids who can’t shut up about how secret they all are.

Will any of this actually relate to the film? We don’t know, but we’ve assembled a team of our own to talk about it in this episode!

Timecodes:
0:11:52 DS9: Inquisition
0:46:00 TNG: Yesterday’s Enterprise
1:16:08 DIS: Saints of Imperfection

Talking Points: Favourite Spy TV Shows, Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, A whostrobot, Charlie is trying to play every Super Mario Brothers and he’s just wrong inside, Section 31 just feels like a 15 year old’s attempt at edgy, we talk realpolitik for a second, The Prisoner, Jam and Scones, a surprise Jeffrey Combs appearance, William Sadler also being Death in Bill and Ted, the subtle differences with the alternate Enterprise characters, this is a Tasha Yar fixfic, wall rocks are useful… maybe, Picard being a bit more like his ‘ST:Picard’ counterpart here, bloody bloody deaths, the mysterious ‘Arratia,’ Section 31 is run like Starbucks’. Tech differences in Discovery, how Mirror Phillipe gets tedious really quickly, Miles talks Blake’s 7, Miles and Charlie LOVE Death Stranding, EastEnders, Tilly being earnestly hopepunk (I hate that term), Spock is a kleptomaniac.

Pedants Corner: Roj Blake is played by GARETH Thomas, not GARTH Thomas.

[ Additional Show Notes ]

Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn. Read Miles’s blog or Charlie’s blog.

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