Introducing: The Real Question
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
We're reaching the end of Casper's tenure here on Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, but never fear! You can still get your Casper and Vanessa fix over on our new show, The Real Question. Our first episode is out today, and Casper and Vanessa discuss all things Tooth Fairy.
After playing the Tooth Fairy for her two step-daughters, Vanessa is having doubts about the appropriateness of this supposedly silly childhood ritual. Drawing up a recent article about the Marquis de Sade and the song Super Trouper from Mamma Mia, Vanessa and Casper try to wade through the fears that a parent can have for their kids.
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The Real Question is a weekly podcast exploring life’s questions through a surprising mix of pop culture and academic insight. Vanessa Zoltan and Casper ter Kuile learned in divinity school about the art of paying attention. By paying attention to very specific things in our lives, we can begin to see something true about big, universal questions. In this podcast, they turn that attention to a variety of everyday scenarios in their own lives to see what’s really at stake. Questions about the tooth fairy can really be about the fear we have for our children. Questions about driving can really be about what it means to be a good partner. Each week, Vanessa and Casper walk each other through the process of figuring out what their ‘real’ questions are in conversations with texts ranging from movie musicals to theological treatises. In this intimate, thoughtful podcast we explore how friendship can be a tool for living a more intentional life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, we are so excited. |
| 0:01.9 | You are about to listen to our first episode of The Real Question. |
| 0:06.0 | We've been so inspired by traveling with you through all seven Harry Potter books that we |
| 0:10.0 | wanted to continue talking about text, talking about meaning, and thinking about how we should live. |
| 0:15.2 | And so we're going to be drawing on two different texts as you hear Vanessa picks an amazing movie |
| 0:19.7 | musical, which may or may not be Marumia. And we really hope you join us. Come subscribe, |
| 0:24.8 | come join us in the feed. There's an amazing discord community already active thanks to all of our |
| 0:29.0 | fabulous patrons. We love you guys. Thank you so much for supporting on your show. |
| 0:32.8 | And if you like it, rate and review us on iTunes. And if you don't like it, lie. |
| 0:39.4 | Now I get to read two whole iTunes sections and everywhere else there are comments. |
| 0:43.6 | It's my best day ever. Dreams do come true. Enjoy the real question. |
| 0:48.8 | I'm Vanessa Zoltan and I'm Caspar Tech Guy. And this is the first episode of The Real Question. |
| 1:11.2 | Hi Vanessa and Caspar, it's Danny. I have a tooth fairy story for you, which is that I swallowed |
| 1:17.4 | the first two teeth that I lost. The first one happened when I was in kindergarten. And I remember |
| 1:24.0 | that when I realized the tooth was gone, the entire class stopped whatever we were doing. And we all |
| 1:29.0 | moved furniture out of the way and searched the whole classroom looking for my missing tooth. |
| 1:33.6 | It was never found. We then assumed that I had swallowed it and not realized it. So since I couldn't |
| 1:40.3 | leave my tooth under my pillow, I had to draw a picture and write a little note to the tooth fairy |
| 1:45.2 | explaining the situation so that she would give me money. I was a very practical, not very creative |
| 1:52.2 | child. So I drew a very quick pencil sketch and spent most of the paper just writing a detailed |
| 1:58.3 | note explaining the situation and how sorry I was to have deprived her of her necessary building |
| 2:05.4 | materials. And then I'm pretty sure I'll have to ask my mother to confirm this. I'm pretty sure I |
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