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A Florida Judge Finds a New Job: Defending an Inmate - The New York Times

At first, Judge Scott Cupp was a resolute, hard-core, you-gotta-be-joking skeptic. During his years as a defense lawyer, he had heard from dozens of inmates who swore they had been wrongly convicted, and he never believed a single one. So in 2002, when he learned about a guy named Leo Schofield, who by then had already served 13 years of a life sentence for murdering his wife, he didn’t need to hear the details.

“I thought if this guy’s innocent, I’m the Queen of Sheba,” he said in a recent interview.

For the record, Judge Cupp looks nothing like any depictions of the Queen of Sheba. At 66, he has gray hair and a fluffy gray beard that gives him the appearance of a trimmed-down Santa Claus, and when agitated he lets fly curse words not found in the Bible. (“I can get a little saucy, so you can edit some of this, right?”)

But today it is not enough to say Judge Cupp merely believes Leo Schofield is innocent; he considers Mr. Schofield’s imprisonment a grotesque mistake. Anyone wondering how Judge Cupp made the journey from total doubter to ardent crusader should seek out “Bone Valley,” a nine-part podcast released last year, which recounts Mr. Schofield’s story in harrowing, infuriating detail. The show is part of the true-crime podcast bonanza, fueled by the very human urge for stories in which sanity and justice ultimately prevail.

Here comes a spoiler: “Bone Valley” is not that kind of story. Mr. Schofield is still in prison. Which so irritates Judge Cupp that freeing him will soon become his full-time and unpaid job. In a move that is certain to confound more than a few colleagues, Judge Cupp will resign his seat on the 20th Judicial Circuit Court in Charlotte County, Fla. — he has been a judge since 2014 — and dedicate all of his working days to springing Mr. Schofield from behind bars.

“I’m leaving money on the table,” he said in a 90-minute video interview, noting that he could have remained in his current role for nine more years. But he doesn’t have any debt, his children are grown and he lives comfortably on 26 acres with plenty of woods and a pond.

“In a way, what I’m about to do is selfish,” he went on, “because it’s for my own psyche. I need to do this. I have to do this.”

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“Bone Valley” has been a triumph for Lava for Good, a production company that focuses on social justice issues. It has been downloaded 4.5 million times, reaching No. 7 on Apple’s podcast chart and turning up on best-of-the-year lists.

Lava for Good has not released financial figures, so it’s hard to know if “Bone Valley” went beyond winning hearts and minds and turned a profit, a feat that has only gotten harder as the podcast market has grown more crowded. The company’s co-founders, Jason Flom and Jeff Kempler, who initially created Lava Records, signing artists like Lorde and Kid Rock, say they are primarily interested in different kinds of results.

“For us the most important measure of success is in outcomes,” Mr. Kempler wrote in an email, “in specific cases we cover, in laws and policies, in the election of fair and progressive prosecutors.”

“Bone Valley” is reported and narrated by Gilbert King, the author of the book “Devil in the Grove,” the nonfiction account of four Black men falsely accused of raping a white woman in central Florida in 1949, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2013. Mr. King, who lives in Brooklyn, thought he was done with the Sunshine State until he visited Naples in 2018 to give a speech to the Florida Conference of Circuit Judges.

Judge Cupp attended by mistake, thinking Gilbert Gottfried, the now-deceased stand-up comic, was doing a set to add levity to the program. He quickly abandoned his plan to exit early and had a very different thought: This is the guy.

For more than a decade, he had been searching for a writer to dig into the case that preoccupied him. When Mr. King was done speaking, Judge Cupp approached and handed over his business card. On the back he had jotted down Mr. Schofield’s name and Florida Department of Corrections number.

“Not just wrongfully convicted,” he had added in a scrawl. “He’s an innocent man.”

A few days later, Mr. King called. Judge Cupp explained that during his defense lawyer days, he had overcome his initial doubts about Mr. Schofield and represented him in 2005, based on new evidence. He still failed to persuade prosecutors that they had imprisoned the wrong man. Soon after, he became a prosecutor himself and later joined the bench. But he never forgot this case.

“God help us if we can’t get this right,” he told Mr. King on the phone. Just read the trial transcripts, the judge suggested.

“I saw problems with the state’s case right away,” Mr. King recalled. Under the government’s theory, the murder occurred in the Schofield home, a single-wide trailer. “But multiple crime units did not find a single drop of blood in the place. How is that possible?”

The case dated to 1987, when the body of 18-year-old Michelle Schofield was discovered in a drainage canal in Lakeland, Fla., with 26 stab wounds. Suspicion quickly fell on her husband of just six months, a house painter who also played lead guitar in a bar band.

At the trial, prosecutors tarred Mr. Schofield as a violent hothead — he had struck Ms. Schofield on several occasions, the acts of an overly possessive husband, he said — and a neighbor said she had seen him on the night of the murder, moving a large object from his home that could have been a body. Mr. Schofield was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.

“Honestly, I think I was numb,” Mr. Schofield says in a face-to-face interview for the podcast conducted in the prison, describing his reaction to the verdict. “I was so numb and beat down and disgusted I don’t think sadness was the reaction for me. For me, I was incredulous that this could even be taking place.”

Notably missing from the government’s case was any physical evidence linking Mr. Schofield to the crime. But fingerprints had been found in his wife’s car. Figuring out whom they belonged to became a fixation for Crissie Carter, a social worker who had met Mr. Schofield in prison when he assisted her in life skill classes she taught to inmates. In 1995, the two married, a turn of events that Ms. Carter, who now goes by Carter-Schofield, could scarcely believe herself.

“I didn’t know how to talk about it for years,” she said in a phone interview. “And the very few people I did share this with didn’t want to talk to me, because they thought there was something wrong with me.”

One of those former friends was a police officer, Synda Maynard, who was then married to Scott Cupp. In 2004, Ms. Carter-Schofield spent months begging, pleading and whining to persuade a very skeptical Officer Maynard to seek a match for the fingerprints recovered in Ms. Schofield’s car.

A few weeks later, Officer Maynard called with startling news. The prints belonged to Jeremy Scott, a deeply troubled, mentally diminished and violent man who, it turned out, had regularly taken a former girlfriend to the very secluded place where Ms. Schofield’s body was found. He was serving a life sentence for robbing and beating a man to death with a grape juice bottle.

When Mr. Cupp learned about the prints, he agreed to become Mr. Schofield’s lawyer, expecting that the prosecution would soon produce a face-saving plea deal and bring the life sentence to a swift end.

“I thought the case had unraveled for the state and Leo’s going to get out,” he said. “Wrong, wrong, wrong.”

Mr. Schofield stayed put, even after Mr. Scott took the stand at an evidentiary hearing in 2017 and confessed under oath.

Mr. Schofield has since earned a bachelor’s degree from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and leads a prison ministry attended by 150 inmates every Sunday. He has never had a private moment with his wife of nearly 30 years, let alone a conjugal visit. The daughter the couple adopted in 2000 now has two children of her own. His disciplinary record is as close to spotless as it gets for someone who has spent decades in penitentiaries.

But on three occasions, lawyers for the state attorney’s office have shown up at parole board hearings to argue that Mr. Schofield is a remorseless killer who should die in prison. And someone from that office will apparently attend hearing No. 4, scheduled for sometime in March or April.

“If we thought that Leo Schofield, or any other inmate, was innocent, we would take immediate action to right that injustice,” said Jacob S. Orr, chief assistant state attorney for Florida’s 10th Judicial Circuit. “However, the state cannot ignore the overwhelming amount of evidence that has proven Leo Schofield guilty.”

Mr. Orr attached a two-page document of detailed talking points. “It seems this is an attempt to promote a podcast,” reads one sentence.

That’s a line that Judge Cupp has heard before.

“I hope to God somebody says that in my presence,” he said during the interview, talking about the upcoming parole hearing. “Yeah, we’re just rolling in dough here.”

He and Mr. Schofield have become friends, bonded by the latter’s struggle and their shared Christian faith. In a bonus episode released last week, Judge Cupp visits Mr. Schofield at Hardee Correctional Institution to ask permission to represent him again. In a subsequent interview with Mr. King, Mr. Schofield says he’s happy to have his superhero back.

It might take superheroics to free Mr. Schofield. Or maybe the state will be daunted by the media spectacle the next parole hearing is sure to be and skip the proceeding. Prosecutors are under no obligation to attend.

Either way, Judge Cupp is ready. Asked why he had left behind a comfortable career and a steady paycheck, and why he would succeed where previous lawyers had failed, he paused for a moment, as though contemplating a barbell he was eager to bench press.

“I am done sitting idly by and letting the state assault this man,” he said. “And that’s what they’ve done. They’ve lied about him. They’ve assaulted his character. And I’m not taking it any more, on his behalf.”

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Divorce lawyer William Beslow sued for malpractice by former client

Famed matrimonial lawyer William Beslow is being sued for malpractice in New York Supreme Court by Wendy Flom, after winning her a multimillion dollar award in her divorce from music mogul Jason Flom.

Jason founded Lava Records and made a fortune, working with Lorde and Jessie J.

The couple, who have a 23-year-old daughter and an 18-year-old son, had a 15-day divorce trial in 2014, but Wendy is appealing the outcome. Her complaint against Beslow and his colleagues alleges: “Beslow’s arrogant behavior of ignoring every court order, filing late, appearing late for every court appearance and angering the court” prejudiced her case in the divorce. Wendy claims that Beslow’s negligence “caused her millions of dollars in monetary losses and damages.”

Beslow specializes in combating billionaires on behalf of scorned women. He repped Demi Moore versus Ashton Kutcher, Linda Evangelista versus French fashion mogul François-Henri Pinault, Marla Maples versus Donald Trump, and Patricia Duff versus Ronald Perelman.

But Beslow is known for his hot temper. As alleged in Flom’s complaint, he apologized to the judge in a post-trial brief for failing to “uniformly demonstrate equanimity” during the trial.

“It was too late,” said one insider.

Beslow told me, “Mrs. Flom’s allegations against me, my firm and its attorneys lack merit. All of the substantive allegations have been denied and are being actively and vigorously defended.”

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Perry briefly had vocal lessons with Agatha Danoff at facilities rented from the Music Academy of the West.

Her singing caught the attention of rock artists Steve Thomas and Jennifer Knapp from Nashville, Tennessee, who brought her there to improve her writing skills.

In Nashville, she started recording demos and learned how to write songs and play guitar.

Perry signed with Red Hill Records and recorded her debut album, a contemporary Christian record titled Katy Hudson, which was released on March 6, 2001.

She toured that year as part of Phil Joel's Strangely Normal Tour and embarked on other performances in the United States.

Katy Hudson received mixed reviews from critics and was commercially unsuccessful, selling an estimated 200 copies before the label ceased operations in December.

Transitioning from gospel music to secular music, Perry started working with producer Glen Ballard and moved to Los Angeles at age 17.

She opted to work with Ballard due to his past work with Alanis Morissette, one of her major inspirations.

In 2003, she briefly performed as Katheryn Perry to avoid confusion with actress Kate Hudson and later adopted the stage name "Katy Perry", using her mother's maiden name.

In 2010, she recalled that "Thinking of You" was one of the first songs she wrote after moving to Los Angeles.

Perry would also perform at the Hotel Café, performing new music while she was between record labels.

In 2004, she signed to Ballard's label, Java Records, affiliated with The Island Def Jam Music Group. Perry began work on a solo record due for release in March 2005, but it was shelved after Java was dropped.

Ballard introduced her to Tim Devine, an A&R executive at Columbia Records, and she was signed as a solo artist.

By November 2006, Perry had finished writing and recording material for her Columbia debut titled Fingerprints (with some material later appearing on One of the Boys), planned for release in 2007.

Some songs from Fingerprints that did not make it onto One of the Boys were given to other artists, such as "I Do Not Hook Up" and "Long Shot" to Kelly Clarkson, and "Rock God" to Selena Gomez & the Scene.

Perry worked with songwriters including Desmond Child, Greg Wells, Butch Walker, Scott Cutler, Anne Preven, the Matrix, Kara DioGuardi, Max Martin, and Dr. Luke.

After Devine suggested that songwriting team the Matrix become a "real group", she recorded an album, The Matrix, with them.

The Matrix was planned for release in 2004 but was cancelled due to creative differences and was released in 2009 after One of the Boys.

Perry was dropped from Columbia in 2006 as Fingerprints neared completion.

After being dropped, she worked at an independent A&R company, Taxi Music.

Perry had minor success prior to her breakthrough. One of the songs she recorded with Ballard, "Simple", was featured on the soundtrack to the 2005 film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

Perry provided backing vocals on Mick Jagger's song "Old Habits Die Hard", included on the soundtrack to the 2004 film Alfie.

In September 2004, Blender named her "The Next Big Thing".

She recorded background vocals on P.O.D.'s single "Goodbye for Now", featured at the end of its music video in 2006, and performed it with them on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

In 2006, Perry appeared in the music video for "Learn to Fly" by Carbon Leaf, and played the love interest of her then-boyfriend, Gym Class Heroes lead singer Travie McCoy, in the band's music video for "Cupid's Chokehold".

2007–2009: Breakthrough with One of the Boys

After Columbia dropped Perry, Angelica Cob-Baehler, then a publicity executive at the label, brought Perry's demos to Virgin Records chairman Jason Flom. Convinced she could be a breakthrough star, she was signed to Capitol Records in April 2007.

The label arranged for her to work with Dr. Luke to add an "undeniable smash" to her existing material.

Perry and Dr. Luke co-wrote the songs "I Kissed a Girl" and "Hot n Cold" for her second album One of the Boys.

A campaign started with the November 2007 release of the video to "Ur So Gay", a song aimed at introducing her to the music market.

A digital EP of the same name was also released that month.

Madonna helped publicize the song by praising it on the JohnJay & Rich radio show in April 2008, stating "Ur So Gay" was her "favorite song" at the time.

In March 2008, Perry made a cameo appearance as a club singer in the Wildfire episode "Life's Too Short" and appeared as herself during a photo shoot that June on The Young and the Restless for the show's magazine Restless Style.

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Wrongful Conviction - #444 Jason Flom with Rafael Martinez:

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Launching GOODBIDS

Launching GOODBIDS https://seths.blog/2024/04/launching-goodbids/ Over the next few days, I’m going to feature a new project we launched today. A small and mighty team has been working on this for a year. I want to share the highlights along with some of the critical design choices we made along the way Each year, charities in the US raise about a billion dollars a day from individuals. That money goes to great use–for the arts, for healthcare, for education, for countless projects that benefit our communities. Because our society hasn’t built in a passive way for these organizations to get funded, they need to actively fundraise. It’s exhausting and frankly, a grind. No one particularly wants to take risks or spend extra time being creative, since it’s a required chore, not the point. In creating GOODBIDS, we set out to create a new way for worthy causes to raise money, something that would be fun, remarkable and generative. The core of the idea is the Positive Auction. While it seems a bit like an eBay auction, there are actually some extraordinary and game-changing twists. The key is this: Every bid is a donation. Today, we launched three auctions, with more to come all week: A brand new Apple Watch (benefitting WalkGoodLA) Have music executive Jason Flom critique your song (benefitting the Innocence Project) Your name as a character in John Grisham’s next bestseller (also for the Innocence Project) The bidding starts at $10. It goes up in $10 increments and you can’t skip a step. So, $10, $20, $30, etc. Each bid is actually a non-refundable donation. That means that if you bid $10 and someone outbids you at $20, your donation still goes to the charity. You get an email confirmation of your donation and peace of mind. Someone else is going to get the reward–unless you choose to bid again. The last donation gets the reward. The magic of a Positive Auction is in the math. If the bidding for the session with Jason goes to $1500 (far less than its value), the nonprofit will get up to $112,000 in donations. We’re going to be launching a range of extraordinary auctions this week, all with donated prizes. I hope you’ll check them out and be sure to tune in tomorrow if you’re a Dead fan. And here’s a sneak peek…

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“he's wearing a 🌈 shirt?” The shirt is a political jab at Fla. governor and Presidential hopeful Ron Desantis who, among other incredibly ignorant things such as banning classic books and preventing the discussion of female menses in health classes and offering water to those in voting lines at poling places (in Florida), he has made it illegal for teachers to use the word “gay” in class. An advocate for those wrongly treated by the legal system, Flom is deeply committed to righting wrongs and has a podcast to that end. The shirt is nothing but a political statement and not a gay pride sign. By the way, Jason has been dating Kaliyah Ali, a very intelligent and beautiful WOMAN for the last 11 months or so. And yeah, sometimes he wears pink suits. Does that mean he is gay, supporting breast cancer or has flamboyant taste in clothes? You can travel to every corner of the earth and think you know the world and the people in it. But until you see it all with your head, heart and eyes, you don’t know a thing and you haven’t accomplished anything. You have a looong way to go baby. A long way.

Again, literally no one here said he was gay. 😂

That 🌈 was REFERENCE TO HIM AND HIS SHIRT cos guess what?

Not a single normal person knows (or cares 😴) who the fucking fuck that guy next to JL was. 🙄

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Wrongful Conviction #podcast - Jason Flom with John Jerome White

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silver--storms · 5 years

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Where is the lie?

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#the accuracy #jason flom #better get his shit together #greta van fleet #gvf #josh kiszka #jake kiszka #sammy kiszka #danny Wagner

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rockrevoltmagazine · 4 years

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SOUTH OF EDEN UNLEASH DEBUT SINGLE & MUSIC VIDEO, “DANCING WITH FIRE”

Columbus, OH based Rock band SOUTH OF EDEN (formerly BLACK COFFEE) has released their debut single and music video, “Dancing With Fire.” The song’s official music video follows the band through months on the road including the band’s first label performance (look out for a cameo by LAVA’s own Jason Flom). It includes footage from South of Eden HQ in Columbus, OH and shows the band in their natural habitat.

“We wanted this to be a personality piece, and with all of us in quarantine we knew the best way to do that was to show what we have accomplished leading up to this release. John Payne, our media man, has been following us around for the last two years! The best thing to show with raw music is raw footage.” – SOUTH OF EDEN

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Rip-roaring riffs abound on this incendiary and irresistible anthem. Helmed by GRAMMY® Award-winning producer GREG WELLS (ADELE,TWENTY ONE PILOTS, DEFTONES], hyper-charged guitars, and thunderous percussion collide with towering falsetto as the refrain soars to the heavens and back. Emerging with a scorching sound of their own, the boys siphon grunge melody into classic rock-style virtuosity with unapologetic attitude and a whole lot of grit.

“We knew we wanted our first release to showcase our personalities, both in the music and visual. ‘Dancing With Fire’ is just that; personality. It’s a song about conflict, and to us that conflict is being a bunch of twenty-two-year-olds attempting to make it as a rock band in unprecedented times. We’re excited to see how people interpret the song into their own lives.” – SOUTH OF EDEN

Click HERE to Download / Stream “Dancing With Fire” Online!

“We’re a band that writes, records, and plays like the pioneers of rock before us. We aren’t looking to bring anything back, but instead to remind people what rock n roll means. No rules. This music represents what we believe is real, raw music. No click tracks and triggers or copy and paste bullshit. Just a bunch of hippies in a room.”

South of Eden (formerly Black Coffee) are: Ehab Omran [lead vocals, acoustic guitar], Justin Young [lead guitar, vocals], Tom McCullough [drums], and Nick Frantianne [bass]. The Columbus, OH quartet have already performed alongside everyone from the Foo Fighters to System Of A Down, and invite you to join them on their journey of looking at rock ‘n’ roll through a modern lens.

“We want to open up the doors for rock in the modern era,” exclaims Ehab. “We want to sound the way we hear rock in our heads—vintage with a sprinkle of today. We try to give listeners the feeling of discovering the genre for the first time. We think now is the moment to be a rock band.”

The band has already paid their dues to reach this point. Growing up in Columbus, OH the band formed by combining their passions and uniting over their love of music. Originally from the country of Jordan, Ehab primarily listened to the Arabic music his parents would play, in addition to superstars like Michael Jackson, Phil Collins, and James Brown. After coming to America, he was introduced to a wider range of music that inspired him: eighties and nineties rock including Guns N’ Roses and notably Queen. Just like Freddie Mercury’s parents, Ehab’s parents didn’t agree that a life in rock ‘n’ roll was the best thing for their son. However, as he met the rest of the band, his dream became a life affirming reality.

Ehab and Nick performed together in various bands (channeling Iron Maiden, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Alice In Chains) and eventually joined Justin and Tom who had been working on their own band (influenced by Van Halen and Black Sabbath). Justin, who was at the time attending Berklee College of Music, describes first writing with Ehab and noted “The first jam was crazy. He came over with Tom and just listened for a while. We had the riffs to songs, and he just immediately started singing. Here I had gone to music college to find people I could mesh with stylistically, only to come back home and find that my best friend and a singer that I had already known about were all I needed!”

This newfound discovery lead to a fast-paced evolution. As Tom noted, “We didn’t have a bass player, bass amp or a bass! Ehab wrote most of the bass lines on guitar and we grooved so well. We were a band for like a week before we had booked our first show two weeks out. We ended up borrowing equipment and we became a band.” As they continued to tour, they crossed paths and shared bills with Puddle of Mudd, Red Sun Rising and recently graced the main stage of Sonic Temple and Epicenter in 2019. That very same year Jason Flom caught wind of the band and signed them to Lava Records.

When it came to recording, they honor the methods of those who come before them and “tape in a vintage way, with no click track, pitch correction, copy-paste, or any of that nonsense.”

The musicians headed to Los Angeles to record with legendary GRAMMY® Award-winning producer Greg Wells [Adele Twenty One Pilots, Deftones]. “When I first heard the band, it had its own original identity,” explains Greg. “That was something I had waited years to find. I emailed them back saying, ‘I want to be your Mutt Lang’.”

Ehab notes “It’s a mixture of a lot of things. We’re ‘classically rock’ influenced, but listen to so many different genres and eras that there are a lot of different feelings in our music.”

On the lead single Ehab describes “We knew we wanted our first release to showcase our personalities, both in the music and the visual. “‘Dancing With Fire’ is just that; personality. It’s a song about conflict, and to us that conflict is being a bunch of twenty-two-year-olds attempting to make it as a rock band in unprecedented times. We’re excited to see how people interpret the song into their own lives.”

“When you hear us, I want you to walk away thinking, ‘That was honest and different’,” Ehab leaves off. “We’re just doing what we do. We’re proof you can do anything you want and shouldn’t compromise your dreams.”

Connect with SOUTH OF EDEN: Official Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

SOUTH OF EDEN UNLEASH DEBUT SINGLE & MUSIC VIDEO, “DANCING WITH FIRE” was originally published on RockRevolt Mag

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🎥: Jason Flom

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Hey what witchy podcasts would you recommend? I’m sorry if it’s been asked before!

Ohh, thank you for asking!

Hmm, my top choices would be the following, but there are tons that I've never listened to, so I'm not saying they wouldn't be good choices too:

Witchful Thinking - This one is probably my favourite, but it's often more current events and commentary than, like. A teaching resource podcasts. They do talk witchy topics, too, though! Most episodes are at least an hour. (Please note that there's an earlier episode where they give some misinformation on hoodoo, if I recall correctly (or it may have been a joke with poor conotations?), but overall it's a pretty socially conscious show. It's hosted by two women, one who is black and (I think) bi or otherwise queer, they talk about feminism and women's rights and abortion rights, are very pro-Black Lives Matter, and are very vocally anti-Trump. They have a good series on both Fathering Yourself/Healing the Father Wound and Mothering Yourself/Healing the Mother Wound. They also have ones on Inner Child Work and on the Law of Attraction, but I haven't listened to them yet.

Witch Wednesdays - This one is a really great resource. They have a variety of episodes lengths and talk about all kinds of different parts of the craft. They do great episodes for each quarter and cross-quarter day, have a series on elemental magic, have convered different kinds of divination, diety work, fae work, etc. This one is very easy to binge.

Season of the Witch - Rowan is just such a good host?? Like, damn. Also, I enjoy his accent greatly. And the queerness. The shows tagline is "the show where we spill some tea in the occult and read the leaves to filth," and it is delightfully indicative of Rowan's personality.

Round the Cauldron - This is one I'm just starting to listen to more/catch up on, but it's pretty good.

I haven't listened to as much of it, but The New Witches is another one.

Another one I've only listened to a few episodes of so far is Moonstone Witchery.

I haven't checked it out yet, but The Comfy Cozy Witch co-hosted on SotW, and I enjoyed it. She focuses on home and hearth magic (and kitchen witchery? I think?)

If you're interested in Norse Paganism, I also generally enjoy The Folk Podcast. I was weary at first, because I know Odinism is getting a bad reputation (fuck you, nazi scum) and the main host is an Odin follower, but I've been overall pleasantly surprised with the content.

I will reblog this with links shortly! I listen on Spotify, but my understanding is that most, if not all, are available on other platforms, too.

(This one is not witchy, but I am obligated at all times to recommend it because it's a cause that is really important to me: check out the Wrongful Convictions podcast by Jason Flom)

#podcasts #resouces #witchblr #witchy podcasts #magic podcasts

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