This is MuggleCast, the Harry Potter podcast discussing everything about JK Rowling's

Wizarding World. Welcome to MuggleCast Episode 362, I'm Andrew, and unfortunately Mike

and Eric both weren't able to make it this week. Eric is celebrating Easter, something

I'm not doing. Micah was supposed to be on the show, but then he fell ill before recording

he's still kind of recovering from something. However, we are still joined by actually a

longtime listener of the show who also currently writes for Hypeable and this seem, welcome

to the show Nassim. Hi, thank you. It's great to be here. Yeah, so you've been writing

for Hypeable for a couple of years, but you've been listening to MuggleCast for ever?

So this is really sweet actually because I started listening to MuggleCast when I was about

11 years old and I lived in Paralympic and at the time I didn't know a single person who

knew what Harry Potter was, who had any Harry Potter books, I don't think they were even

for sale in my TV and Spanish at the time. So I had no friends who knew what my passion

was. Yeah. MuggleCast was like my mom's way of like helping me not feel lonely, so I kind

of grew up with you guys. That's interesting. Wait, so like your mom found the podcast?

I think she did. I mean, I think like I remember my dad fell Muggle Knight for me and without

intending to like got me obsessed with like fandom, so maybe he regrets it now. Yeah.

Look a little mad dad. But yeah, I think like I don't really know, I think it's my mom because

I remember listening to it with my mom and I remember she was like, oh, what upstanding

young gentleman. So we went to like, interviews and like, for you guys and I'm like,

ah, this is the closest I'll ever be. Oh, that's so cute. Yeah, you and I haven't met

in the hype a bull year right now, but one day, one day. Yeah, what's great to

you? At least we're in the same gym, right? Yeah, closer, closer. You're in the northeast,

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