The Cult of Harry Potter

Sounds Like A Cult

Studio71

Comedy, Education, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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A missive has arrived in your mailbox, dear cultie! What’s this? An invitation to an exclusive, mystical, and splendidly nerdy episode of Sounds Like A Cult that’s only a short ride from King’s Cross station away! YES, your most British, nostalgia-packed dreams have been realized because this week Amanda and Reese are hopping aboard the Hogwarts Express to every 90s baby’s starter cult, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter! Joined by the hilarious and wise podcasters Sequoia of Fanatical Fics and Where to Find Them and Mike of Potterless, Reese and Amanda are drinking the butterbeer and covering everything from Hogwarts houses to Snapewives. Follow us as we attempt to dissect the undeniably world-shifting franchise, fandom, and capitalist dreamscape that might have more mommy issues than Harry Potter himself… Subscribe to Sounds Like A Cult on Youtube! Follow us on IG @soundslikeacultpod, @amanda_montell, @reesaronii, @chelseaxcharles. Thank you to our sponsors! Embrace your ritual with extraordinary hydration from Liquid I.V. Get 20% off your first order of Liquid I.V. when you go to https://LIQUIDIV.COM and use code CULT at checkout. Visit https://BetterHelp.com/CULT today to get 10% off your first month. Please consider donating to those affected by the Los Angeles Fires. Some organizations that Team SLAC are donating to are: https://mutualaidla.org/ https://give.pasadenahumane.org/give/654134/#!/donation/checkout https://shorturl.at/SGW9w Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The views expressed on this episode, as with all episodes of Sounds Like a Cult, are solely host opinions and quoted allegations.
0:06.0	The content here should not be taken as indisputable fact. This podcast is for entertainment purposes only.
0:12.1	I don't know a Snapewife. I'll put that out there first. I've never met a Snapewife. I have not interrogated a Snapewife.
0:19.1	But the Snapewives are a group of people who feel that they are spiritually bonded to Severus Snape.
0:26.6	What?
0:27.2	That is culty in a sort of like fanatical, ritualistic, and borderline delusional way.
0:34.3	This is Sounds Like a Cults, a show about the modern day cults we all follow.
0:39.1	I'm your host Amanda Montel, author of the books cultish and The Age of Magical Overthinking.
0:44.0	And I'm Reese Oliver, Sounds Like a Colts coordinator, and today's co-host.
0:48.6	Every week on this show, you're going to hear about a different zeitgeisty group that puts the cult in culture.
0:53.6	From astrology apps to cruise ships to try and answer the big question.
0:58.4	This group sounds like a cult, but is it really?
1:08.9	And if so, which of our cult categories does it fall into?
1:11.6	A live your life, a watcher back, or a get the fuck out.
1:14.6	After all, cultish influence falls on a spectrum.
1:19.6	There is so much cultiness out there these days in the 21st century America,
1:24.6	whether you're talking about your celebrity fandoms or your fictional novel
1:29.1	fandoms or when corporate offices describe their employees as a family.
1:34.1	But the thing is, not all cultishness is equally bad.
1:37.9	This show is here to poke a little bit of fun at human beings search for meaning these days
1:43.9	in the digital age, but also to
1:46.0	critically scrutinize which culty-seeming groups out there are kind of harmless or even net
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