Introducing: Hot & Bothered
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Our new podcast, Hot & Bothered, officially launched today. We’re so proud to share our first episode with you: Justice for Dragons. This is the only episode of Hot & Bothered we’ll drop in this feed, so please go subscribe wherever you find your podcasts!
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Vanessa Zoltan thinks that happy endings are the best part of romance novels. Bryce Gilfillian is writing his first romance novel and refuses to write a happy ending.
On our very first episode of Hot & Bothered, we explore the trope of “Updated Fairytale.” Bryce sets out to write the gay fairytale he never had growing up. Meanwhile, Vanessa wrestles with her own princes, witches, and dragons.
Along the way we get a little help from Professor of Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University, Maria Tatar, and receive our first writing assignment from our own fairy godmother, #1 New York Times best-selling author, Julia Quinn.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, hello, Ariana. |
| 0:02.0 | Hi, Vanessa. |
| 0:03.0 | It's funny to find you here, given that technically we have this week off from Harry Potter and the Sacred Text. |
| 0:09.0 | We do have it off from Harry Potter and the Sacred Text. |
| 0:12.0 | However, it is our first week of our new podcast, Hot and Bothered. |
| 0:18.0 | And it is a podcast about romance novels. |
| 0:21.0 | We were going to have blood prints and thinking this is so romantic. |
| 0:26.0 | This is really when Ron and Lavender are going to fall in love. |
| 0:31.0 | Exactly. |
| 0:32.0 | So we started this whole other podcast. |
| 0:34.0 | So the very first episode of Hot and Bothered will be dropped into your feed here. |
| 0:38.0 | If you like what you hear, go and subscribe to Hot and Bothered because this is the only episode of it |
| 0:43.0 | that we will drop into the Harry Potter and the Sacred Text feed. |
| 0:46.0 | And review it on iTunes and give it five stars and email me and tell me I'm pretty. |
| 0:51.0 | Tell your friends about it. Tell your mom about it. |
| 0:54.0 | Your mom's on this first episode. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah, and your mom is on the third episode. |
| 0:59.0 | While you're busy subscribing to other podcast feeds, don't forget to subscribe to the Women of Harry Potter feed also. |
| 1:05.0 | Yes, because yesterday we released an episode about murder. |
| 1:08.0 | And regardless, we will talk to you next week with our first episode of Season 6. |
| 1:13.0 | And now I'm going to do my cast for impression. |
| 1:16.0 | T. |
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