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October 30, 2026 Celeste Startwin 1408, Before and After

Before and After – 1408

Ren locks Cele in a scary hotel room and only John Cusack can make it make sense!

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We make a bunch of podcasts at Nerd & Tie, we know it’s hard to keep up with all of them. So, with that in mind, we’ve decided to make a feed of all of them (well minus two)!

On the show I’ve talked a lot about witchcraft in fiction over the years. But as I’m also an author of urban fantasy novels, I thought it might be interesting to talk about it from the creative end — how I think about writing witchcraft in fiction as a witch in real life. And since I thought it would be weird to just talk about it on my own, I’ve decided to make it double-weird by inviting author of Dionysus in Wisconsin and co-host of Ask a Medievalist E.H. Lupton onto the show to talk about it with me!

So on this one hundredth episode of the show, enjoy the chaos when two writers from Wisconsin talk about writing magic in fiction.

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Music: “The Man With One Eye,” “Untitled Nonsense” (Trae Dorn) / Random Loops (Apple Music Library)

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