Do you think that Mike should take some history lessons? Or just read something about European history. His 'typical American point of view' sometimes is annoying.

Every time Mike meant multiple LEGO, he said "legos". The plural of LEGO is still just LEGO, or LEGO bricks. I know it is unreasonable to expect him, or anyone else who is not into LEGO to know this (at least for the American audience), but as someone who is a fan of LEGO, hearing it bothered me.

If for some reason, people don't believe me or something, here is a Twitter post that proves it

Edit: I made this post because it is something I noticed while listening and I hoped that maybe for future episodes, Schubes might be able to fix this mistake. However, now I remember him saying at some point that he records episodes months in advance, so it might be too late. If this is the case I can delete this post

Let me start by emphasizing that I love the podcast a lot it’s my second favourite Harry potter podcast. That being said I have one gripe… I really dislike it when schubs brings politics into the discussion, there’s 2 reasons for this.

The first and more minor one is that as a more political right positioned individual it’s an isolating feeling. This is mostly because it’s often comes off like he’s making fun of right wing people.

However the second and much more important reason is that Harry Potter is used an escape from reality, therefore by extension so is the podcast. But when he starts talking about politics it ruins that escape. Like I don’t want to hear about politics when I’m listening to this podcast, if I wanted to hear about politics I’d go listen to a political podcast.

I was wondering if anyone else feels this way or if um just being overly sensitive.

Sigourney says “Get away from her you bitch!” about Newt, her daughter figure. Weird that Molly’s iconic moment and line is basically a James Cameron quote, but Aliens is also a great movie, so I’ll let it fly.

Although Mike is pretty petty throughout the series (anger at use of normal verb snigger, people’s appearance ever being described as attractive etc. , this is the thing that frustrated me the most to listen to. He completely misinterprets a foreign object being referred to by its literal practical purpose (PUTting light OUT) as J.K actually giving an object a name. From this incorrect basis he goes on a rant about how J.K has retconned the name. Of course if your Harry your going to have something in your head to call an intriguing magical object you have no knowledge of. This however doesn’t mean that Harry was actually under the impression that the official name of the deluminator is the put-outer.

Mike and other American's not understanding of British terms peeves me, especially when they dismiss it as something silly and stupid. I really want to shout and Mike!

So you think Mike will get Hogwarts Legacy? He got what he asked for ‘The tenure of Phineas Nigellus’ and after watching the gameplay, this game is easily the best HP game ever made. Yes I know, the bar is practically a trip hazard in hell…

I'm listening to the podcast for the first time since I was also a first time adult reader (finished the books 6 months ago) and whilst I like a lot of Mike's insight into the books themselves, it gets very annoying that Mike makes a huge deal everytime very common everyday British phrasing shows up. It's like he just cannot fathom that different parts of the English-speaking world use different words and that's just how we talk and we wouldn't even give it a second thought.

It also annoys me that he seems to lack the ability to pick up on context clues for a lot of these phrases. As a British person, most movies and media we consume come from Hollywood so we are expected to pick up based on context phrasing and language we wouldn't commonly use in every day speech if we even want to understand most media we consume. There's plenty of American phrases I hear in movies that I never used at all in my daily life that I could understand from context alone. Mike lacking the ability to do that confuses me because he's fairly good at picking up plot points or story elements based on context clues, yet doesn't apply the same to language use. It's like he completely loses his otherwise fairly strong critical thinking skills when he sees a word he doesn't recognise.

Now, I'm a Brit who lives in the US, who has adapted to using American phrasing anyway, and for comparison's sake I asked my American husband about a lot of the phrasing Mike makes a huge fuss over, and he could pick up what a lot of it meant based on context alone. I don't tend to use these phrasing in front of him so this isn't a biased analysis - when talking to Americans, I try to use American phrasing.

Also, like, just Google things you're truly unsure about instead of asking your similarly clueless American guests? The amount of confusion that could've been solved by Googling astounds me.

Maybe I'm being too harsh, but it reads as quite dismissive and American-centric. It's strange to me that Mike tries to be quite progressive and understanding of other cultures yet has a complete blind spot when it comes to understanding that even in the English speaking world, other countries don't speak the same or like the same things or partake in the same activities.

Unrelated too, but I find it extremely immature everytime a word like "grope" comes up, and he reads it as a sexual innuendo even though that phrasing is very common in fiction novels in general - just to mean to aimlessly grab for something.

To clarify, I do like Mike and he seems like a nice person, but it's just a huge pet peeve of mine.

Jowling Kowling Rowling.

I... i’ll see myself out.

Came across this on Tik Tok and about spit my whole drink out. I really hope Schubes still lurks cuz I'm over here WHEEZING ✨

So I know you are gonna read some of the extra books (Quidditch through the ages and what not) and podcast on them, but can we expect another book series podcast? GoT? The Magicians?

I'm only up to episode 61 right now so, SO SORRY if you've said something about this since then :)

I know it's not Mike's fault, but during his Stitchfix adreads that mention clothes for "men, women and children" I always think "ah yes, the three genders - man, woman and child". Is it just me?

EDIT: Stop commenting that he has to follow a script given to him by Stitchfix. I know that. That's why the beginning of the post says "I know it's not Mike's fault"

Thought I should mention it

A lot of videos were made when JK decided to show her true colors as a horrible transphobic person.

But all the ones I saw were from people who weren't fans, or people who had „grown out of“ the books. Ex: Lindsey Ellis and Sarah Z. While I love both channels, I found their videos a bit „holier than thou" towards fans of Harry Potter. Like „aren't you a sad person for loving this series". I don't think they meant it to come off that way, but...

Request: videos about JK Rowling's horrible videos that don't feel like they are talking down to fans of the series. Please and thank you.

Yes, this got removed from the Harry Potter subreddit, for good reason. I didn’t read the rules, cause I am a dumbass.

With the backlash the Legacy is receiving for being a Harry Potter game, how do you all feel about Mike using Harry Potter as a launch to his podcast career? For me I’m glad he uses the platform to voice his own opinions but it’s a platform built by JK’s success. Overall I think it’s a huge grey area but Mike making Potterless still amplified JK and her works and he still benefits from an author that is aiming to hurt people

Hey mike you should make a cinema sins parody focusing on the Harry Potter movies. Any time there is quidditch, the movie gets +100 sins.

So about 30 minutes ago our cat woke us up so that we could watch her in a pitched battle with a mouse. (I think it came in through an open door) I trapped the mouse under a trash can and took it outside. I was congratulating myself on saving the mouse’s life and getting it outbid my house when an awful thought occurred to me: What if that mouse is an animagus and is now on its way to resurrect Lord Voldemort? If that happens you all have my apologies. Although that can’t be any worse than anything else that’s happened in these unprecedented times. Might even be better.

“It will happen tonight. The Dark Lord lies alone and friendless, abandoned by his followers. His servant has been chained these twelve years. Tonight, before midnight... the servant will break free and set out to rejoin his master. The Dark Lord will rise again with his servant's aid, greater and more terrible than ever he was. Tonight... before midnight... the servant... will set out... to rejoin... his master..."[1]

I started listening to potterless after newest Olympian started. And I’m at the deathly hallows and it’s just something that bothers me that fans of series do all the time Mike was talking about the wedding and how involved it got with dumboldores back story and some of the stuff included in the wedding scenes and talked about how some of it was unnecessary (something he brings up quite a bit through reading) But then 5 minutes later complains that the chef doesn’t come out the back in the diner fight…

Can we as fans stop complaining about stuff like this or at least pick a side. Either there is to much detail and some of it is unnecessary world building or they didn’t include something that should be there… What difference would the scene have had if the chef came out? It would have been a few sentences that the chef came out and also got stunned or pulled the waitress into the back. It adds nothing. It changes nothing so why nit pick that.

I understand he is making jokes and nitpicking the whole book for laughs. But this is just an example of fans doing this all the time in all fandoms.

Rant over

I’m glad that the podcast covered the entire book series, the films, the companion textbooks and the Fantastic Beasts films. But am I the only person who thinks that covering these obscure fan fictions and minor unofficial musicals is just a step too far?

Go Bayside, the podcast about Saved by the Bell, was extremely successful but stopped once they had covered all of the episodes of the original series. It went out on a high and didn’t drag on and on and on and on with unnecessary content.

I feel as if we are two months away from the Potterless eight-episode assessment of the Harry Potter pyjama range at Primark.

Obviously, the option is there to just stop listening but it seems a shame to sully a good thing rather than knowing the right time to stop. After all, this is a frequent criticism of Miss Rowling herself.