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Before I begin today's episode of Potterless, just a few quick announcements. First,

about a month ago, I guest hosted an episode of Spirits podcast with Eric Silver,

who is today's guest star and Eric Schneider, the producer and editor of Spirits.

The entire episode was about NBA conspiracy theories, which are basically myths.

So if you've ever wanted to hear me talk about basketball at full length,

rather than just ranting that basketball is better than

Quidditch, and they should have played that at Hogwarts instead, you can go check out that

episode of Spirits Podcast.

Second, thanks to everyone who came out and said hello to me at PodCon.

You guys are all amazing, and I loved having conversations about podcasts or Harry Potter or

just life in general, so thank you.

Another exciting announcement, we're on Spotify now, which is great, which also means I will probably slowly migrate us off of SoundCloud because why would you use SoundCloud instead of Spotify? So you can check us out there, just search for Potterless. And finally, it's the holiday season. You might be seeing lots of friends and family. So if there is someone in your life that is a Harry Potter or not think would just really like Potterless, why don't you take a few moments just to tell them about it? Word of mouth is easily the best way to spread news of a podcast because there's so many podcasts out there. So when someone takes the time to come up to you and say, hey, there's this podcast that I think you specifically would like, it is so effective. I've heard more and more people say that they started listening to Pados because a friend told them explicitly, hey, there's this podcast you would really like, and then they did. So if you guys could just take a few minutes out of your holiday season to tell someone that you think would like the podcast about the podcast, that would be great, and it would be the best Christmas gift that you could give me. Speaking of Christmas gifts, we have new Patreon members to welcome to the team. So shout out to Tom Revy, Mads Fysander, Tanya, Ellen Hilbig, and Sophie, and huge shout out to our new producer-level patrons, Rebecca Atamek and Maria Arroyo. They joined the ranks of

Leanne Davis. Leanne, I'm so sorry for forgetting you in a couple episodes. Andreas, Vicky, Aaron, Erica, Calvin, Michael, Sadie, Emily, Chandra, Jesse, Maggie, Natalie, Debra, Daisy, Clow, Michael, Sean, and Alexander, who never get coal in their stockings. If you want to be like one of these awesome people and get great bonus content, just head on over to patreon.com

slash potterless. But without further ado, let's get into it. colon their stockings. If you want to be like one of these awesome people and get great bonus content,

just head on over to patreon.com slash potterless. But without further ado, let's get into episode 31 of

Potterless, starring Eric Silver of Join the Party podcast covering chapters 23 through 24 of Harry Potter

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