Accio Politics

G'day mate! Adri and Helene are headed to Australia as they talk about Our Lips Are Sealed (1999), starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Join them for an episode of reminiscing about the Kneel Diamond, Emil Hatchew (bless you!), and our favorite outfits in the Dualstar universe yet! Pass us a note in class. Type up your notes in the computer lab (or record a voice memo) and send them to us at gummy...

Helene and Adri continue their nostalgia-filled Olsen twin journey with yet another Dualstar Entertainment production, Switching Goals (1999). Not known for our knowledge, or (frankly) passion, for sports, this episode is full of non-sporting observations with the occasional bone thrown at those of you who actually like sports.  Find the show. https://linktr.ee/gummypod Pass us a note in class.  T...

Growing Up Millennial is out now! We are available on all major podcast platforms! In this inaugural episode of the podcast, hosts Adri and Helene talk about how they grew up, how media impacted their lives, their hopes for season one of the podcast, and what the show will cover in the future. Pass us a note in class. Type up your notes in the computer lab (or record a voice memo) and send them to...

Get your passports ready, we're headed to Paris! Well, more like Parisian streets with a heavy dose of California interior and exterior shots, but you get the picture. Join Helene and Adri as they dish all about the 1999 Dualstar Entertainment / Tapestry Films classic that made us want crossbody backpacks, Passport to Paris (1999). This movie was produced by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (executive p...

Season one of Growing Up Millennial holds a really special place in our hearts: the direct-to-video (that's VHS to you, dear listeners) movies made by the Olsen Twins in the '90s and early aughts. These films were a staple of our combined childhood (even with our seven-year age difference), and Adri and Helene are here to dissect, discuss, and reminisce about all of them. We go through the plot, t...

Mark your calendars with glitter gel pens! Growing Up Millennial is launching on November 1, 2023. We're a podcast about all things nostalgia from the 90s to the early aughts. Remember that feeling you got when you'd rush home after school, wearing those butterfly clips and/or chain wallets, to watch your favorite TV shows and movies? Do you remember that thrill you'd feel at talking all about you...

Well, here it is... [wait for dramatic pause] We've arrived at the final episode of Accio Politics. If you've just joined us or if you've found us somewhere along the way, thanks for listening and being with us until the very end.  While this is the end of this venture, keep your eyes and ears trained on this feed because we'll be posting the first few episodes of our newest project in this feed....

Here we are, nineteen years later (or so it feels after re-reading the entire series week by week). In the series' epilogue, we see the Golden Trio with some familial additions. We talk about how families are structured in the wizarding world, as well as the power names carry in the series. 

Hold on to your wands, this is one of the last episodes in our show's history! We talk about the penultimate chapter of DH (or if you don't count Epilogues as strictly chapters, this is the LAST chapter of the seventh book). Your hosts talk about the politics of confidence and bravery, how these intersect and how they diverge, and they also manage to speak on Emily Henry once again.

This is the one where we talk about the structure of the afterlife in the series, Dumbledore wisdom, and much more.    We want to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail: 915.996.1699 or email an mp3 recording to info@acciopolitics.com OR acciopolitics@gmail.com   Do you prefer the written word? Send us an owl: acciopolitics@gmail.com , info@acciopolitics.com or leave us a message through our site .  ...

TW: Discussions of suicide. Please take care of yourself and skip this episode if you need to take care of yourself. We're here to talk about chapter 34 of DH, where Harry faces death head-on and sacrifices himself for what he believes to be the greater good. We want to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail: 915.996.1699 or email an mp3 recording to info@acciopolitics.com OR acciopolitics@gmail.com...

We talk about how Snape's redemption arc wasn't very convincing and/or satisfying through the lens of Obsessive Love Disorder and Incel Culture.    We want to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail: 915.996.1699 or email an mp3 recording to info@acciopolitics.com OR acciopolitics@gmail.com   Do you prefer the written word? Send us an owl: acciopolitics@gmail.com , info@acciopolitics.com or leave us a...

  Your hosts talk about chapter 32 through the lens of singlemindedness and collateral damage. If you stay with us until the end, you get to listen to our discussion of our current favorite writer: Emily Henry. We want to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail: 915.996.1699 or email an mp3 recording to info@acciopolitics.com OR acciopolitics@gmail.com   Do you prefer the written word? Send us an owl:...

This is the one where Voldemort gives everyone at Hogwarts the choice to deliver Harry to him before midnight otherwise the Death Eaters will attack the school. Only Pansy Parkinson seems to think this is a good idea so everyone braces to fight while Harry still struggles to determine where to find Ravenclaw's Diadem. With Ron and Hermione nowhere to be found, he tracks down the hiding place but r...

This is the one where, after alerting Voldemort to Harry's presence, Luna stuns Alecto Carrow only for her brother Amycus to show up along with McGonagall. Harry ends up casting the Cruciatus curse on Amycus after he spits in McGonagall's face, and after subduing them both Harry gets the chance to tell McGonagall what's going on. She has a run-in with Snape which ends with him jumping out of the w...

This is the one where the trio follow Neville through the passageway back to Hogwarts and they are regaled with harrowing stories about what has become of the school since their absence. They are told of students being tortured as the fascist regime of Death Eaters gain power over Hogwarts. Once they arrive in the Room of Requirement, they are met with a large group of former Dumbledore's Army mem...

In this chapter, the trio land in Hogsmeade and Adri and Helene discuss the politics of perspectives and curfews.    We want to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail: 915.996.1699 or email an mp3 recording to info@acciopolitics.com OR acciopolitics@gmail.com   Do you prefer the written word? Send us an owl: acciopolitics@gmail.com , info@acciopolitics.com or leave us a message through our site .   F...

On this chapter, the trio are now out of Gringotts and Harry has a glimpse into Voldemort's thoughts. We talk about how this chapter compares to the iconic film scene, and also about how this chapter falls in the politics of communication and espionage. At the end of the episode, Adri briefly covers the Scandoval of it all.    We want to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail: 915.996.1699 or email a...

This week, we go to Gringotts with the trio and talk about the politics of trauma and desperation. Can the multiplying and scorching treasure be a metaphor for trauma? Adri does her best to find a link. Is the dragon caged in the basement the personification of desperation? Find out as we discuss.    For some reason, we thought this chapter was going to be more action-packed than it actually ended...

In this episode, we talk about the intricacies of Goblin Culture: where do Goblins actually learn their version of history? Do they have a school to learn trade? Are Goblins as portrayed in the wizarding world anti-semitic tropes?    We want to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail: 915.996.1699 or email an mp3 recording to info@acciopolitics.com OR acciopolitics@gmail.com   Do you prefer the writte...

Listeners, thank you for your patience as Adri recovered from COVID. On this episode, we talk about the politics of oppression as we learn more about the Wizarding World from the perspective of the goblins.   We want to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail: 915.996.1699 or email an mp3 recording to info@acciopolitics.com OR acciopolitics@gmail.com   Do you prefer the written word? Send us an owl: a...

This is one of those chapters that's very important to the series, but it's SUCH A BUMMER. Helene and Adri discuss the politics of Interrogation and of Civil War. We want to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail: 915.996.1699 or email an mp3 recording to info@acciopolitics.com OR acciopolitics@gmail.com   Do you prefer the written word? Send us an owl: acciopolitics@gmail.com , info@acciopolitics.co...

This episode, we talk about the chapter with the same name as the title of the book, the original podcaster (Lee Jordan), and how we see this chapter impact the rest of the book.   We want to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail: 915.996.1699 or email an mp3 recording to info@acciopolitics.com OR acciopolitics@gmail.com   Do you prefer the written word? Send us an owl: acciopolitics@gmail.com , inf...

This is it! The chapter with the same name as the book is here: The Deathly Hallows. Helene and Adri talk about how vivid this chapter is in their minds thanks to the Deathly Hallows film adaptation, chat about what they were doing over the Holiday break, and consider how blind faith intersects with imagery/iconography to make up the politics in this chapter. Also, did you know that Cadbury Creme...

As the trio gear up to pay an unexpected visit to Xeno Lovegood, we talk about how it is that Ron is doing the most to get back into Hermione's good graces and how Luna's dad has an ulterior motive for keeping the trio at his house.   We want to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail: 915.996.1699 or email an mp3 recording to info@acciopolitics.com OR acciopolitics@gmail.com   Do you prefer the writt...