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July 23, 2015 Trae Dorn Bruce Harwood, Dean Haglund, FOX, The Lone Gunmen, The X-Files, Tom Braidwood

The Lone Gunmen Returning in ‘The X-Files’ Revival… Somehow?

Three of the most popular supporting characters on The X-Files were The Lone Gunmen, played by Dean Haglund, Tom Braidwood

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July 22, 2015 Trae Dorn Arrow, CW, DC, Ra's Al Ghul

Why The CW’s Arrow is Inconsistent With Pronouncing Ra’s Al Ghul’s Name

One of our pet peeves here at Nerd & Tie is when people mispronounce DC Comics Villain Ra’s Al Ghul’s

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July 21, 2015 Trae Dorn Lucy Lawless, NBC, Rob Tapert, Sam Raimi, Xena

Lucy Lawless Says ‘Xena’ Reboot Just a Rumor

So THR has been reporting that NBC Universal has been trying to develop a reboot of Xena: Warrior Princess with

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July 20, 2015 Trae Dorn Ghostbusters, Paul Feig, Sony

The New Ghostbusters Names Revealed

So Paul Feig seems determined to slowly leak out every detail he can about his forthcoming Ghostbusters reboot it seems

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July 17, 2015 Trae Dorn Bones, FOX, Sleepy Hollow

Fox is planning a Crossover Between ‘Sleepy Hollow’ and ‘Bones’ For… Reasons?

If you’ve ever thought to yourself “What is the weirdest TV crossover I can think of,” you might have come

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July 16, 2015 Trae Dorn Jonathan Betuel, Surreal.tv, The Last Starfighter

A ‘Last Starfighter’ VR TV Series? What?

1984’s The Last Starfighter is one of the few nostalgic properties of my childhood which hasn’t gotten a reboot, remake

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July 16, 2015 Trae Dorn Arrow, constantine, CW, DC

‘Arrow’ Producers Really Want a Constantine Appearance

Look, Constantine got cancelled, and that sucks. We were pretty fond of that show here at Nerd & Tie, and

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July 15, 2015 Trae Dorn

Shout! Factory Running a 24-Hour Kaiju Marathon Saturday

Shout! Factory and Famous Monsters are teaming up to do a live streaming marathon of kaiju movies this Saturday. So

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July 14, 2015 Trae Dorn AMC, Into the Badlands, trailer

I’m Not Really Sure What To Make of the Trailer For AMC’s “Into The Badlands”

AMC put out trailers for a bunch of their shows during SDCC, but we didn’t bother reporting on a lot

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91. “Ancient” Practices
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There’s an annoying thing in the witchcraft community where every new idea or trend gets cast as an “ancient” practice even if it’s just a few years old. Time and time again, we see people constructing false narratives about the supposed historicity of ideas, spells, and rituals in witchcraft spaces, and all of it is bad for us. Why do people feel the need to lie? Why does something being a new idea make it less credible in people’s eyes? Why have we been doing this as a community from the start?

So I thought about calling this “Older Doesn’t Mean Better Part 2” or “Older Doesn’t Mean Better Redux” since this is some of the same territory we covered back in episode 17, but I think I’ve gotten more surly on the topic over the last six years, and wanted to talk about it again. Also, I kind of forgot I’d recorded an episode on this when I was prepping the episode, but I like this version better.

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