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

December 28, 2019 Nerd & Tie Candles, Practical Spellcraft, Wicca, Witchcraft

18. Fricking Candles.

On this episode of the podcast we are talking about something this show rarely covers — actual practical spellcraft advice.

BS-Free Witchcraft

November 30, 2019 Nerd & Tie Bree NicGarran, British Traditional Wicca, British Traditional Witchcraft, Doreen Valiente, Gatekeeping, Gerald Gardner, Wicca, Witch, Witchcraft

17. Older Doesn’t Mean Better

I got a question in my inbox from a listener asking if whether or not knowing a lot of Wicca

BS-Free Witchcraft

October 26, 2019 Nerd & Tie Bree NicGarran, Ghost, Ghosts, Halloween, Hauntings, Poltergeist, Samhain, Spooky, Witch, Witchcraft

16. Let’s Get Spooky (Again)! ft. Bree NicGarran

It’s that spooky time of year again. With Halloween and Samhain coming up in a few days, it’s time to

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.

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Strum your sitar and prepare to launch all Eagles as Miles and Charlie once more become the Space Scamps as they make a second trip to the moon for three more episodes of Gerry Anderson’s ‘Event Horizon meets Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace’ show Space 1999. Miles is now worried he has created a monster by showing Charlie this show, and in doing so they get to talk about psychedelic trippiness and Kano’s obsession with Computer in ‘Black Sun,’ Christopher Lee (although he’s totally phoning it in) and the dispatch of a weaselly middle manager in ‘Earthbound,’ and then with ‘The Troubled Spirit’ Halloween comes a little early and it’s probably more spooky than whatever we’ll end up doing for our Halloween episode…

EPISODES DISCUSSED:
00:11:32 Black Sun
00:34:20 Earthbound
00:58:40 The Troubled Spirit

Talking Points Include: More Space 1999, Death Stranding, a trip to Scotland, the science is impossible, Moon Base Alpha’s limited resources, British Pessimism vs. American Gung-Ho, Gene Roddenberry would never, Hard SF has a tendency to go full magic weirdness, Bohemian Rhapsody deserves it’s rep, Christopher Lee is phoning it in, Simmons is the David Brent in Space, cowardly heroes, our brave explorers enjoying shouting MMMMUUUUUUUUTAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNT like in ‘Mission of the Darians,’ Charlie repeats a Johnny Byrne joke from the last episode, awesome sitar music this is the most Halloween episode we’ve done for the show, a wicked burn from Charlie’s old teacher Mr. Jafferji, is Moonbase Alpha a liminal space? M. Night Shyamalan films and surprisingly… some Star Trek.

[ Additional Show Notes ]

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

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